PRINTER'S NO. 1482
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
267
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY FRANKEL, KAUFER, FREEMAN, SCHLOSSBERG, BERNSTINE,
SOLOMON, YOUNGBLOOD, MUSTIO, DEAN, DONATUCCI, DeLUCA, BRIGGS,
DiGIROLAMO, HENNESSEY, BAKER, MACKENZIE, DERMODY, RYAN,
SAINATO, SIMS, KINSEY, R. BROWN, O'NEILL, TOEPEL, PASHINSKI,
CHARLTON, BOBACK, GODSHALL, SNYDER, READSHAW, MATZIE,
MENTZER, LONGIETTI, McNEILL, WATSON, V. BROWN, NEILSON,
B. MILLER, HARKINS, MURT, CALTAGIRONE, MILLARD, WHITE,
DRISCOLL, O'BRIEN, A. HARRIS, GOODMAN, PHILLIPS-HILL AND
WARD, APRIL 19, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 19, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Designating April 23 through 30, 2017, as "Days of Remembrance
of the Victims of the Holocaust" and recognizing April 24,
2017, as "Holocaust Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The Holocaust, one of the darkest chapters in human
history, was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and
annihilation of the European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its
collaborators between 1933 and 1945; and
WHEREAS, During the Holocaust, 6 million Jews were murdered,
many by bullets from the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units)
or in the gas chambers of the concentration camps; and
WHEREAS, The word "Holocaust" is Greek in origin and means
"sacrifice by fire"; and
WHEREAS, The Nazi's suspension of basic civil rights occurred
within days of Hitler's accession to power in January 1933; and
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