[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H2010-H2011]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     COMMEMORATING REMEMBRANCE DAY

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to be able to take this 
opportunity to commemorate the more than 8 million people, 6 million of 
whom were Jewish, who a little more than half  a  century  ago  were  
brutally, deliberately and systematically exterminated in a state-
sponsored effort to annihilate their religious, cultural, and ethnic 
existence. All across the United States, Americans are commemorating 
Remembrance Day for those who were exterminated in the death camps of 
Nazi Germany.
  I unite with those from around the country, including my constituents 
of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rockford, IL, to recognize those 
who risked their lives and those who died trying to intervene and save 
those who were targets of systematic extermination.

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  The Jewish Federation of Greater Rockford is commemorating 
Remembrance Day by paying tribute to the ``Righteous Gentiles,'' those 
non-Jews who risked death to help save the lives of Jews and others 
from Hitler's killing machine. These courageous people acted out of a 
conviction that they simply could not stand by and witness so great a 
crime perpetrated against fellow human beings. We are privileged to 
have one of those surviving Righteous Gentiles, Irene Opdyke, 
addressing the Jewish Federation of Greater Rockford, IL.

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