[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[Senate]
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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     SENATE RESOLUTION 290--COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF 
            KRISTALLNACHT, OR THE NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS

  Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Mikulski, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Markey, Mrs. Hagan, and Mr. Schumer) submitted 
the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

                              S. Res. 290

       Whereas November 9, 2013, through November 10, 2013, marks 
     the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the 
     Night of Broken Glass;
       Whereas Kristallnacht began as a pogrom authorized by Nazi 
     party officials and carried out by members of the 
     Sturmabteilungen (SA), Schutzstaffel (SS), and Hitler Youth, 
     marking the Nazi party's first large-scale anti-Semitic 
     operation and a crucial turning point in Nazi anti-Semitic 
     policy;
       Whereas, during Kristallnacht, synagogues, homes, and 
     businesses in Jewish communities were attacked, resulting in 
     murders and arrests of Jewish people in Germany and in 
     Austrian and Czechoslovakian territories controlled by the 
     Nazis;
       Whereas the events of Kristallnacht resulted in the burning 
     and destruction of 267 synagogues, the looting of thousands 
     of businesses and homes, the desecration of Jewish 
     cemeteries, the murder of 91 Jews, and the arrest and 
     deportation of 30,000 Jewish men to concentration camps;
       Whereas the shards of broken glass from the windows of 
     synagogues, Jewish homes, and Jewish-owned businesses 
     ransacked during the violence that littered the streets gave 
     the pogrom its name: Kristallnacht, commonly translated as 
     the ``Night of Broken Glass'';
       Whereas Kristallnacht proved to be a crucial turning point 
     in the Holocaust, marking a shift from a policy of removing 
     Jews from Germany and German-occupied lands to murdering 
     millions of people, and was a tragic precursor to the Second 
     World War;
       Whereas, despite numerous global efforts to eradicate hate, 
     manifestations of anti-Semitism and other forms of 
     intolerance continue to harm our societies on a global scale; 
     and
       Whereas Kristallnacht teaches us how hate can proliferate 
     and erode our societies and serves as a reminder that we must 
     advance global efforts to ensure such barbarism and mass 
     murder never occur again: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) recognizes the 75th anniversary of 
     Kristallnacht;
       (2) pays tribute to the over 6,000,000 Jewish people killed 
     during the Holocaust and the families affected by the 
     tragedy;
       (3) continues to support United States efforts to address 
     the horrible legacy of the Holocaust and combat 
     manifestations of anti-Semitism domestically and globally;
       (4) will continue to raise awareness and act to eradicate 
     the continuing scourge of anti-Semitism at home and abroad, 
     including through work with international partners such as 
     the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's 
     Personal Representative on Combating Anti-Semitism and 
     Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit; and
       (5) requests that the Secretary of the Senate prepare an 
     enrolled version of this resolution for presentation to the 
     United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

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