[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1359]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                       HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

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                           HON. BRIAN HIGGINS

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 30, 2017

  Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, Friday we commemorate Holocaust 
Remembrance Day. A day that was established by the Israeli Parliament 
in 1951, to coincide with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto 
Uprising.
  This is a time we mourn the loss of more than 6 million Jews and the 
many other victims of the Holocaust. It serves as an annual reminder to 
Americans, and indeed to all humanity, that we must never forget the 
evil that mankind has visited upon itself.
  History must serve as a template to right the wrongs that humankind 
has committed. Famously said, those who do not learn from history are 
doomed to repeat it.
  This week we must reflect on grave consequences of which vilifying 
individuals, based on race, religion, ideology or sexual orientation, 
could yield.
  I encourage all those in Western New York and across the country to 
join in memorializing the victims of the Holocaust, in hope that a 
tragedy of this scale is never committed again.



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