[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1221]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           WE MUST REMAIN VIGILANT IN PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS

  (Ms. KELLY of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I rise today to commemorate 
International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the 
liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
  Seventy years ago, following the atrocities of the Holocaust--which 
left 6 million Jews, 1 million Roma, 250,000 mentally and physically 
disabled individuals, and 9,000 homosexuals brutally murdered simply 
because they were different--the world's democracies stood together and 
declared: ``Never again.''
  These two simple and powerful words greet visitors to the United 
States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a reminder that it is our 
collective responsibility to promote religious tolerance and stand up 
against persecution or totalitarianism in any form.
  The recent attacks at a kosher market and at the satirical magazine 
Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the kidnapping of 276 Christian schoolgirls by 
Boko Haram in Nigeria, and beheading by the Islamic State of 
journalists and of 13 teenage boys last week for the simple act of 
watching a soccer game underscore the unfortunate and troubling 
reminder that we must remain vigilant and undeterred in our fight to 
protect the most human rights.
  ``Never again'' must be more than an aspirational statement; it must 
be fact.

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