[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 13662]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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   SENATE RESOLUTION 227--TO COMMEMORATE THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
HEROIC RESCUE OF DANISH JEWS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR BY THE DANISH 
                                 PEOPLE

  Mr. MENENDEZ submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations:

                              S. Res. 227

       Whereas, in the fall of 1943, the Nazis occupied Denmark 
     and issued orders that the Danes deport all Danish Jews to 
     concentration camps where the Jews would eventually be 
     exterminated;
       Whereas the Danish people, as a result of the Nazi mandate, 
     refused to accept the prosecution of the Jews and began a 
     mission of mercy on October 1, 1943, smuggling Jews across 
     the Oresund Strait to neutral Sweden via small boats and 
     fishing cutters;
       Whereas the Danish rescuers unselfishly risked their own 
     lives, avoiding German patrols for weeks during the rescue 
     operations;
       Whereas approximately 90 percent of the Danish Jews were 
     saved from certain death at the hands of the Nazis by the 
     sheer courage and compassion demonstrated by the Danes; and
       Whereas it is imperative that future generations continue 
     to remember and understand what happened so that the horrors 
     of the Holocaust will never be repeated: Now, therefore, be 
     it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) recognizes and commemorates the bravery and valor of 
     those Danes who participated in the 1943 rescue operations 
     that saved the lives of 7,300 Jews who would otherwise have 
     perished in Nazi concentration camps; and
       (2) declares that the world owes a great debt to these 
     Danes who did not turn a blind eye on the dangers that faced 
     Jews under Nazi occupation and continue to serve as 
     inspiration to others in times of difficulties and 
     challenges.

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