[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 289 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 289

Encouraging the people of the United States to reflect on and remember 
   the integrity and courage of the 6,135 Christian men and women of 
Poland who acted to save their Jewish countrymen and countrywomen from 
                     extermination by Nazi Germany.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 25, 2009

 Mr. Specter submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Encouraging the people of the United States to reflect on and remember 
   the integrity and courage of the 6,135 Christian men and women of 
Poland who acted to save their Jewish countrymen and countrywomen from 
                     extermination by Nazi Germany.

Whereas the year 2009 marks the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, a 
        war that should be remembered for introducing the world to the repulsive 
        and unprecedented barbarism and cruelty of Nazi Germany;
Whereas Poland was the first country attacked and enslaved by the government and 
        armed forces of Nazi Germany as part of the methodical extermination of 
        European Jewry by Nazi Germany;
Whereas 6,135 Christian men and women of Poland acted with great integrity and 
        courage, risking their lives and the lives of their families, to save 
        their Jewish countrymen and countrywomen from the barbarism and 
        extermination of the Nazis;
Whereas the 6,135 Christian men and women of Poland who acted to save their 
        Jewish countrymen and countrywomen did so in spite of the threat of 
        their immediate execution and the execution of their families, a threat 
        that people in no other country in Nazi-occupied Europe had to endure; 
        and
Whereas the 6,135 Christian men and women of Poland who acted to save their 
        Jewish countrymen and countrywomen represent approximately 27 percent of 
        the ``Righteous Among the Nations'' honored by Yad Vashem in the 
        Republic of Israel: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate encourages the people of the United 
States to reflect on and remember the integrity and courage of the 
6,135 Christian men and women of Poland who acted to save their Jewish 
countrymen and countrywomen from extermination by Nazi Germany.
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