[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 30, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H1287-H1288]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 RECOGNIZING HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, this past Sunday, the 
world joined together in honoring the memory of those who were murdered 
during the Holocaust.
  In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27 as International 
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
  The systematic, government-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 
million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators will always be a 
scar on humanity.
  We promise to always remember those who lost their lives, those who 
survived, and those who saved them, those who stood in the face of such 
evil and refused to turn a blind eye. We make this promise to ensure 
such blight on humanity will never happen again.

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  By remembering the events of the Holocaust, we can understand how 
important it is to defend those who are defenseless. We must eradicate 
hatred and never become indifferent to the suffering of others.
  Mr. Speaker, on the international day of remembrance, the most 
important thing to reflect upon is the humanity that exists in all of 
us.

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