[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 24, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E88]
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                       HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

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                           HON. BRIAN HIGGINS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 24, 2017

  Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, Friday we commemorate Holocaust 
Remembrance Day. A day that was established by the Israeli Parliament 
in 1951, to coincide with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto 
Uprising.
  This is a time to mourn the millions of victims of the Holocaust. And 
it serves as an annual reminder to Americans, and indeed to all 
humanity, that we must never forget the evil that mankind has visited 
upon itself.
  History must serve as a template to right the wrongs that humankind 
has committed. Famously said, those who do not learn from history are 
doomed to repeat it.
  This week we must reflect on grave consequences of which vilifying 
individuals based on race, religion, ideology or sexual orientation 
could yield.
  I encourage all those in Western New York and across the country to 
join in memorializing the victims of the Holocaust, in hope that a 
tragedy of this scale is never committed again.

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