[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 27, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H587]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
(Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to join my south Florida
colleague, Congressman Ted Deutch, in a resolution commemorating today,
the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of
the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz.
Today serves as a somber and grim reminder of the evil mankind is
capable of as over 1.3 million people were systematically murdered in
Auschwitz alone, including over 1.1 million Jews. As painful as it is
to speak about the horrors of Auschwitz, we have a moral obligation to
honor the memories of those who were murdered during modern humanity's
darkest period.
As anti-Semitism grows throughout Europe, we must take a solemn vow
that these deaths were not in vain and that we will never forget, that
we will never allow such atrocities to occur again.
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