[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 20, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2424-E2425]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 LEGISLATION DEPLORING HOLOCAUST DENIERS AND COMMENDING THE HOLOCAUST 
                  MEMORIAL MUSEUM HOUSE RESOLUTION 316

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                        HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 20, 1995

  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am today introducing a resolution, House 
Resolution 316, on behalf of myself and my House colleagues on the 
Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, Mr. Yates, Mr. LaTourette, Mr. 
Regula, and Mr. Lantos, which deplores the persistent, ongoing, and 
malicious efforts by some persons in this country and abroad to deny 
the historical reality of the Holocaust, and which commends the vital, 
ongoing work of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  Yesterday, the House adopted legislation that will facilitate the 
museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony in the Rotunda on April 
16, 1995. Yet, the work of the Holocaust Memorial Museum is conducted 
year-round, as evidenced by the larger than expected attendance at the 
museum, which is steadily increasing.
  One of the reasons for the museum's existence is to counter Holocaust 
deniers. Those who promote the denial of the Holocaust do so either out 
of profound ignorance or for furthering anti-Semitism and racism. The 
Holocaust Memorial Museum, through its permanent exhibitions, traveling 
programs, and educational outreach efforts, both memorialize the 
victims of the Holocaust, and counters these accusers through its 
honest and sensitive approach to one of the most ferociously heinous 
state acts the world has ever known.
  Accordingly, Mr. Speaker, I request that the full text of the 
legislation be printed at this 

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point in the Congressional Record for my colleagues' review, and urge 
all Members of the House of Representatives to express their support 
for the work of the Holocaust Memorial Museum by cosponsoring this 
legislation, House Resolution 316.

                              H. Res. 316

       Deploring individuals who deny the historical reality of 
     the Holocaust and commending the vital, ongoing work of the 
     United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
       Whereas the Holocaust is a basic fact of history, the 
     denial of which is no less absurd than the denial of the 
     occurrence of the Second World War;
       Whereas the Holocaust--the systematic, state-sponsored mass 
     murders by Nazi Germany of 6,000,000 Jews, alongside millions 
     of others, in the name of a perverse racial theory--stands as 
     one of the most ferociously heinous state acts the world has 
     ever known; and
       Whereas those who promote the denial of the Holocaust do so 
     out of profound ignorance or for the purpose of furthering 
     anti-Semitism and racism: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
       (1) deplores the persistent, ongoing and malicious efforts 
     by some persons in this country and abroad to deny the 
     historical reality of the Holocaust; and
       (2) commends the vital, ongoing work of the United States 
     Holocaust Memorial Museum, which memorializes the victims of 
     the Holocaust and teaches all who are willing to learn 
     profoundly compelling and universally resonant moral lessons.

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