PRINTER'S NO. 311
No. 32 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY L. I. COHEN, NAILOR, JOSEPHS, PERZEL, DENT, BARD,
HENNESSEY, DeWEESE, STEELMAN, RUBLEY, SCHULER, MUNDY, BAKER,
SATHER, McGILL, BROWNE, STABACK, VANCE, KING, McGEEHAN,
LEDERER, KELLER, BUTKOVITZ, YOUNGBLOOD, MANDERINO, THOMAS,
WASHINGTON, JAMES, MILLER, HARHART, NYCE, HERSHEY, ALLEN,
STERN AND ITKIN, JANUARY 26, 1995
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JANUARY 26, 1995
A RESOLUTION
1 Commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz fifty years ago today,
2 January 26.
3 WHEREAS, Fifty years ago today, January 26, 1945, Soviet
4 soldiers who were in the process of liberating Poland from Nazi
5 oppression stumbled upon a concentration camp in Birkenau,
6 Poland, called "Auschwitz"; and
7 WHEREAS, Aware of approaching Soviet soldiers, Nazi soldiers
8 and prison guards hastily gathered together the healthiest
9 inmates of Auschwitz and began a march back to Germany with
10 those 60,000 inmates; and
11 WHEREAS, When the Soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz, they
12 encountered 7,000 emaciated and sickly survivors, and a deathly
13 odor and grisly evidence of the execution and cremation of 1.5
14 million Poles and European Jews; and
15 WHEREAS, It is fitting indeed to reflect today on this
1 immense, senseless sacrifice of humanity and to vow "Never
2 Again"; therefore be it
3 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives pause in its
4 deliberations today to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz,
5 which occurred on this very day fifty years ago.
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