[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 85 (Thursday, May 2, 2019)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Vol. 84

Thursday,

No. 85

May 2, 2019

Part III





The President





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Proclamation 9866--Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 
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                Proclamation 9866 of April 26, 2019

                
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 
                2019

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and during 
                this week of solemn remembrance, we honor the six 
                million Jewish men, women, and children who were 
                brutally murdered by the Nazi regime. We also remember 
                the Roma and Sinti, persons with disabilities, Poles 
                and Slavic ethnic groups, Soviet prisoners of war, 
                Jehovah's Witnesses, and persons who were targeted 
                based on their sexual orientation, all of whom were 
                targeted and killed by the Nazis and their 
                collaborators.

                The Holocaust will forever haunt the conscience of 
                humanity. Unchecked evil and hatred led to 
                unprecedented depravity and destruction. The Nazi 
                regime sought to exterminate entire populations of 
                those they deemed undesirable. Millions of Jewish 
                people were forced into ghettoes and slave-labor camps 
                in which starvation, widespread disease, and senseless 
                brutality took a devastating toll. Many of those who 
                survived were sent to concentration and death camps, in 
                which millions of Jews were murdered in gas chambers 
                and other facilities built for daily human massacre.

                In Hebrew, the day commemorating victims of the 
                Holocaust is called ``Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah,'' which 
                means the ``Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and 
                the Heroism.'' As we honor the victims of the 
                Holocaust, we also celebrate the survivors and daring 
                rescuers who overcame horrific injustices, endless 
                nights of darkness, and daunting odds. Survivors of the 
                Holocaust endured firsthand hatred and evil that sought 
                to extinguish human life, dignity, and freedom. When 
                the heroic American and Allied forces liberated them, 
                the survivors had every right to sorrow and bitterness, 
                but instead, they inspired all of humanity with their 
                unbreakable spirit and the prevailing power of hope and 
                forgiveness over horror and hatred.

                Simon Wiesenthal, a Jewish-Austrian Holocaust survivor 
                who endured five different labor and concentration 
                camps to live to the age of 96, spent his life showing 
                the world the depravity of the Nazis so that the 
                haunting truths of the Holocaust would never fade. In 
                his memoirs, he recounted being told by a Nazi guard 
                that it was worthless to tell the story of the 
                Holocaust because no one would ever believe such things 
                were possible.

                On Yom HaShoah, and during this week of remembrance, we 
                join Simon Wiesenthal in refuting his captor and 
                strongly reaffirm our everlasting commitment to honor 
                the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, who through 
                their courageous testimony, fulfill the righteous duty 
                never to forget. We vow never to remain silent or 
                indifferent in the face of evil. With absolute 
                devotion, we will continue to advance human rights, 
                combat anti-Semitism, and dispel all forms of hatred in 
                every part of the world.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the 
                United States of America, do hereby ask the people of 
                the United States to observe the Days of Remembrance of 
                Victims of the Holocaust, April 28 through May 5, 2019, 
                and the solemn anniversary of the liberation of Nazi 
                death camps, with appropriate study, prayers and 
                commemoration, and to honor the memory of the victims 
                of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution by remembering 
                the lessons of this atrocity so that it is never 
                repeated.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                third.
                
                
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