[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6336]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    NATIONAL DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE AND COMMEMORATION OF THE HOLOCAUST

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, this week of April 27 is our national Days 
of Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust. In communities 
across the country, we set aside this time to stand in solemn 
solidarity with millions of Jews worldwide to pledge never again to 
allow such evil to exist.
  In Israel, on Holocaust Remembrance Day a siren sounds for 2 minutes. 
Everybody stops what they are doing and stands silently in a powerful 
living memorial to those who were lost and a symbol rejecting the worst 
evil the world has ever known.
  As survivors perish each year, it becomes more important to 
internalize the lessons of the Holocaust and recall the 6 million Jews 
and other innocent victims who perished in the great shame of the 20th 
century.
  In western New York we are proud that one of our own, Supreme Court 
Justice Robert H. Jackson, was the chief prosecutor for the United 
States at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. His actions 
helped to inspire a deep commitment from our community to preserve and 
honor the story of the Holocaust for future generations.

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