[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1044 Engrossed in House (EH)]

H. Res. 1044

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                      February 3, 2010.
Whereas during the Holocaust, an estimated 6,000,000 Jews and other targeted 
        groups were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators;
Whereas, on January 27, 1945, Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration and extermination 
        camp, including Birkenau and other related camps, was liberated by the 
        Soviet Army;
Whereas Auschwitz, located in Poland, was the largest complex of the Nazi 
        concentration and extermination camps;
Whereas according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, between 1940 and 1945, the 
        Nazis deported at a minimum 1,300,000 people to Auschwitz, and of these, 
        murdered 1,100,000;
Whereas an estimated 960,000 Jews were systematically murdered in Auschwitz 
        during the Holocaust;
Whereas Auschwitz was also used to murder Poles, Roma, Soviet Prisoners of War, 
        those helping to hide Jews and others the Nazis deemed inferior or that 
        held different political views;
Whereas victims of Auschwitz were systematically murdered in gas chambers and 
        many were starved to death, tortured, and subjected to forced labor and 
        criminal medical experiments;
Whereas the complex of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp has 
        come to symbolize the mass murder and inhumanity committed during the 
        Holocaust;
Whereas the famous ``Arbeit Macht Frei'' (Work Will Make You Free) sign over the 
        entrance to Auschwitz was stolen on December 18, 2009, and later 
        recovered and the Polish police arrested the alleged culprits behind the 
        theft;
Whereas according to the Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism Report released by 
        the Department of State's Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and 
        Combat Anti-Semitism, ``[o]ver the last decade, United States embassies 
        and consulates have reported an upsurge in anti-Semitism * * * and that 
        [a]nti-Semitic crimes range from acts of violence, including terrorist 
        attacks against Jews, to the desecration and destruction of Jewish 
        property * * *''; and
Whereas in 2005, United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 established 
        January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, as 
        International Holocaust Remembrance Day for the world to honor the 
        victims of the Holocaust: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) commemorates the 65th anniversary of the liberation of 
        Auschwitz;
            (2) honors the victims of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration and 
        extermination camps, and all those who perished at the hands of the 
        Nazis;
            (3) expresses gratitude to the Allied soldiers, underground 
        fighters, and all those whose efforts helped defeat the Nazi regime and 
        liberate Auschwitz and other concentration and extermination camps 
        during World War II;
            (4) reaffirms its commitment to enhance Holocaust education at home 
        and abroad and to ensure that what happened in Auschwitz and other Nazi 
        concentration and extermination camps is never allowed to happen again; 
        and
            (5) urges all countries to enhance their efforts to combat bigotry, 
        racism, intolerance, and anti-Semitism.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.