[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E80-E81]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF 
                               AUSCHWITZ

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                            HON. GRACE MENG

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 27, 2020

  Ms. MENG. Madam Speaker, I rise today to announce the introduction of 
a resolution commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of 
Auschwitz.
  Today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marks the 75th 
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. On this day in 1945, Allied 
troops entered the Auschwitz concentration camp and liberated the more 
than 7,000 still-living prisoners.
  During World War II, the Nazi regime systematically killed 
approximately 6 million Jews, as well as millions of other minority 
populations. At least 1.3 million of these people were deported to 
Auschwitz, 1.1 million of whom were murdered.
  Today, we not only remember the Jewish lives cut short by the heinous 
crimes perpetrated by the Nazi regime, but we honor the

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nearly 80,000 Holocaust survivors still living in the United States and 
telling their stories to ensure that the adage ``never again'' is 
realized.
  Anti-Semites in America and around the world continue to invoke Nazi 
ideology and use symbols like the swastika to vandalize synagogues and 
Jewish institutions. This resolution emphasizes the importance of 
Holocaust education in schools, urges Federal agencies and the American 
people to commit to addressing unchecked intolerance and prejudice, and 
encourages Federal and local social services agencies to support 
Holocaust survivors so they may live their remaining years in dignity 
and comfort.
  I thank my colleagues, Congressmen Ted Deutch and Lee Zeldin, for 
leading this bipartisan resolution with me, to the 98 original 
cosponsors of the resolution, and to over a dozen American Jewish 
organizations who have endorsed it.
  I urge my colleagues to join with me and pass this important 
resolution.

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