PRINTER'S NO. 1584
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
274
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY FRANKEL, KINSEY, HARKINS, TOEPEL, READSHAW,
DONATUCCI, DERMODY, RYAN, McCLINTON, BIZZARRO, KORTZ,
T. DAVIS, RAVENSTAHL, SAMUELSON, SONNEY, SHUSTERMAN,
BERNSTINE, STAATS, HILL-EVANS, ROTHMAN, ZABEL, SANCHEZ,
DiGIROLAMO, HARRIS, WILLIAMS, HOHENSTEIN, McCARTER,
SCHLOSSBERG, PASHINSKI, PICKETT, MENTZER, ULLMAN, MERSKI,
LONGIETTI, MACKENZIE, DRISCOLL, MILLARD, MEHAFFIE, BURNS,
SAINATO, O'MARA, SOLOMON, MARSHALL, HOWARD, RAPP, SCHMITT,
D. MILLER, JOHNSON-HARRELL, BROWN, MARKOSEK, McNEILL,
CALTAGIRONE, OBERLANDER, DeLUCA, DALEY, SAYLOR, B. MILLER,
SCHWEYER, FREEMAN, NEILSON, GOODMAN, HAHN, STURLA, HEFFLEY,
COMITTA, A. DAVIS, STEPHENS, BRIGGS, BOBACK, ISAACSON,
CARROLL, MALAGARI, RABB, KENYATTA, BOYLE, ROZZI, YOUNGBLOOD,
DEASY AND SCHLEGEL CULVER, APRIL 29, 2019
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 29, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Designating April 28 through May 5, 2019, as "Days of
Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust" and recognizing
May 2, 2019, 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
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