[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5037]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, we commemorate Holocaust 
Remembrance Day.
  This day was established by the Israeli Parliament in 1951, and it 
coincides with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Later, 
Congress established annual Days of Remembrance, which we also 
celebrate this week. Memorial and educational activities will take 
place in schools, places of worship, and communities across this 
Nation.
  This is a time to mourn the millions of victims of the Holocaust, and 
it is an annual reminder to Americans--indeed, to all of humanity--that 
we must never forget the evil that man visited upon his fellow man.
  It was a Supreme Court Justice from western New York, Robert H. 
Jackson, who served as the lead American prosecutor of Nazi war 
criminals at the Nuremberg trials. In recognition of his work to expose 
the horrors of the Holocaust, we named the new Federal courthouse in 
Buffalo in Jackson's honor.
  Tomorrow, in western New York and across the country, Americans will 
memorialize the victims of the Holocaust, and we will pray for 
vigilance and for the resolve to stop such evil from ever happening 
again.

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