[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 17 (Friday, January 27, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  ANNIVERSARY OF AUSCHWITZ LIBERATION
  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, 50 years ago tomorrow troops of the soviet 
red army marched into almost unimaginable horror in Auschwitz, Poland. 
In the 50 years since its liberation, Auschwitz has become a synonym 
for man's inhumanity to man. Roughly 1 million Jews were murdered at 
Auschwitz, part of Hitler's twisted final solution. Some 75,000 Poles 
and some 23,000 gypsies were killed. It is hard to envision the scope 
of this holocaust--the barbaric efficiency of the Nazi killing machine 
is typified by the Auschwitz camp.
  The importance of remembering Auschwitz should be clear to this and 
future generations--even today there are those who deny reality and 
distort history by claiming to doubt the reality of the Nazi Holocaust. 
Their lies only highlight the need to reflect on the meaning of the 
Holocaust on this important anniversary.
  In the last few days leading up to tomorrow's anniversary, newspapers 
and television have had powerful and moving accounts of life and death 
at Auschwitz. One has only to see the pictures and hear the anguished 
voices of the survivors to understand the phrase: ``never again.'' The 
horror of the death camps should lead each and every one of us to say 
``never again.'' Never again will the world tolerate mass murder as a 
tool of state policy. Never again will the world tolerate the organized 
government effort to eradicate one group of people based on their 
religion or ethnic origin.

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