[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 88 (Monday, July 10, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1357-E1358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        A TRIBUTE TO ALAN SENITT

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                         HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 10, 2006

  Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of myself, Mr. Waxman, Mr. 
Lantos, Mr. Engel and Ms. Wasserman Schultz, I'd like to express our 
shock and horror at the death of Alan Senitt in Washington, DC, early 
yesterday morning.

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  Each of us came to know Alan as a staffer for Lord Greville Janner of 
Braunstone, United Kingdom. Lord Janner is a leader in European efforts 
to fight anti-Semitism and racism, and is the founding chairman of the 
International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, an organization of 
which we are all members. Alan played a critical role in helping to 
bring this organization into existence.
  Alan was a kind, dedicated and good person, a young man with enormous 
potential and great hopes for trying to build a better world. Alan 
devoted himself to a life in politics and intercommunal dialogue 
because he understood that it is only by effort and commitment that the 
wounds of our world can be knit up.
  In a life of only 27 years, Alan was a dynamic student leader, an 
energetic voice for British Jewry and pro-Israel advocacy, a talented 
leader in the campaign against racism and bigotry, and a candidate for 
public office. The future he was so brutally denied would surely have 
been no less full of struggle, achievement and success.
  His death is a tragic loss for each of us, the Jewish community in 
the United Kingdom, his wide circle of friends and, most of all, his 
family.
  Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Senitt family: his parents, 
Karen and Jack, and his siblings, James and Emma, who have been so 
cruelly robbed of their son and brother. Alan leaves behind a legacy of 
compassion, vitality, good works and a vast potential tragically 
curtailed. He will be deeply missed.

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