PRINTER'S NO. 3300
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
823
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY FRANKEL, BERNSTINE, FREEMAN, KAUFER, SCHLOSSBERG,
SOLOMON, MADDEN, DONATUCCI, STAATS, SAMUELSON, METZGAR,
MUSTIO, NEILSON, PASHINSKI, SCHLEGEL CULVER, DAVIS, GREINER,
HENNESSEY, CHARLTON, SIMS, ROTHMAN, JAMES, MALONEY, MARSHALL,
HANNA, TOEPEL, VITALI, YOUNGBLOOD, KINSEY, STURLA, B. MILLER,
WARD, BOYLE, BURNS, LONGIETTI, R. BROWN, DEAN, DeLUCA,
BARBIN, READSHAW, HEFFLEY, QUIGLEY, J. McNEILL, RYAN,
ENGLISH, DRISCOLL, GROVE, McCLINTON, SAYLOR, A. HARRIS,
MARSICO, DiGIROLAMO, CONKLIN, CALTAGIRONE, MILLARD, V. BROWN,
SCHWEYER AND GOODMAN, APRIL 10, 2018
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 10, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Designating April 8 through 15, 2018, as "Days of Remembrance of
the Victims of the Holocaust" and recognizing April 12, 2018,
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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