[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 27, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09132]


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 The President

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                Proclamation 10373 of April 22, 2022

                
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 
                2022

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and 
                throughout this week of remembrance, we reflect on the 
                horrors of the Holocaust when the Nazi regime 
                systematically murdered 6 million Jews and millions of 
                other innocents, including Roma, Sinti, Slavs, persons 
                with disabilities, LGBTQI+ individuals, political 
                dissidents, and many others. We stand with Jewish 
                people in the United States, Israel, and around the 
                world in grieving one of the darkest chapters in 
                history. We honor the memories of the victims. We 
                embrace the survivors. We commit to keeping alive the 
                promise of ``never again.''

                The world must never forget the truth of what happened 
                across Europe during the Holocaust or forget the 
                horrific crimes and suffering the Nazi regime inflicted 
                on millions of innocent people. Entire families were 
                wiped out. Communities were shattered. Survivors were 
                left with agonizing memories and fading tattoos etched 
                into their skin by the Nazis, reducing them to numbers. 
                It is forever recorded into the history of mankind, and 
                it is the shared responsibility of us all to ensure 
                that the Shoah is never erased from our collective 
                memory--especially as fewer and fewer survivors remain. 
                The truth must always be known and shared with future 
                generations in perpetuity.

                I have taught my own children and grandchildren about 
                the horrors of the Holocaust, just as my father taught 
                me. I have taken my family to bear witness to the 
                darkness at the Dachau concentration camp so that they 
                could understand why we must always speak out against 
                antisemitism and hatred in all of its pernicious forms. 
                The legacy of the Holocaust must always remind us that 
                silence in the face of such bigotry is complicity.

                Remembrance is our eternal duty, but remembrance 
                without action risks becoming an empty ritual. As 
                individuals, we must never be indifferent to human 
                cruelty and human suffering. As nations, we must stand 
                together across the international community against 
                antisemitism, which is once again rearing its ugly head 
                around the world. We must combat other forms of hatred 
                and educate new generations about the Holocaust. We 
                must reject those who try to deny the Holocaust or to 
                distort its history for their own ends. We recognize 
                that, just as the Holocaust was an act of pure 
                antisemitism, so too Holocaust denial is a form of 
                antisemitism. We watch with dismay as the term ``Nazi'' 
                is deployed to make flawed historical parallels. 
                Efforts to minimize, distort, or blur who the Nazis 
                were and the genocide they perpetrated are a form of 
                Holocaust denial and, in addition to insulting both the 
                victims and survivors of the Holocaust, spread 
                antisemitism.

                My Administration has stepped up our efforts to counter 
                all the ugly forms antisemitism can take, including 
                Holocaust denial and distortion. We co-sponsored a 
                United Nations resolution that charged the 
                international community with combating Holocaust denial 
                through education. We are partnering with the German 
                government to improve Holocaust education and counter 
                Holocaust denial and distortion. A renowned scholar of 
                the Holocaust and

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                antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, was recently confirmed 
                as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.

                In addition to speaking out against the evils of 
                antisemitism, I signed--and my Administration continues 
                to implement--legislation that gives us more tools to 
                combat crimes that are based on a victim's actual or 
                perceived race, religion, national origin, sexual 
                orientation, gender, gender identity or disability. We 
                issued the first-ever National Strategy for Countering 
                Domestic Terrorism. My Administration has implemented 
                increased funding for a program that helps threatened 
                nonprofits--including houses of worship and other 
                religious affiliated entities--to improve their safety 
                and security. On International Holocaust Remembrance 
                Day, I met with Bronia Brandman and the Vice President 
                met with Ruth Cohen--both Auschwitz survivors--at the 
                White House so we could bear witness to their stories, 
                combat Holocaust denial and distortion, and give life 
                to the lessons of that most terrible period in human 
                history.

                Those like Bronia and Ruth who survived the Holocaust 
                and went on to build new lives inspire our Nation and 
                the world, and they are living testaments to the 
                enduring resilience of the human spirit. It is the 
                responsibility of all of us to recognize the pain that 
                they carry and to support them by ensuring that the 
                cruelty of the Holocaust is never forgotten. Today and 
                every day, we stand against antisemitism and all other 
                forms of hate and continue our work to ensure that 
                everyone can live in a world that safeguards the 
                fundamental human dignity of all people.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 24 
                through May 1, 2022, as a week of observance of the 
                Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, and 
                call upon the people of the United States to observe 
                this week and pause to remember victims and survivors 
                of the Holocaust.

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

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