[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 21 (Monday, February 3, 2025)]
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Proclamation 10889 of January 27, 2025
National Day of Remembrance of the 80th
Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 2025
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camp in
Poland that stood at the center of the Holocaust and
focus for their systematic slaughter of the Jewish
people.
Between 1940 and 1945, more than one million Jews,
religious leaders, disabled persons, and other innocent
victims were viciously and mercilessly executed in
Auschwitz at the hands of the evil Nazi regime--
culminating in one of the darkest chapters in human
history. On this solemn day, America joins the Jewish
community, the people of Poland, and the entire world
in mourning the lives lost, the souls battered, the
heroes forgotten, and the countless men and women who
gave their lives for the cause of freedom.
Over those 5 gruesome years at Auschwitz, mothers and
fathers lost their children, daughters and sons lost
their parents, and wives and husbands lost their
soulmates to the deadly scourge of anti-Semitism--
leaving an unfillable void in their hearts. To those
who lost family members and loved ones, we pray that
Almighty God will grant you comfort and strength. To
those who survived the atrocities at Auschwitz, we
honor your courage, we salute your sacrifice, and we
offer you our enduring love and unceasing gratitude.
And to every person touched by the calamities of the
Holocaust, we give you our unwavering devotion and
eternal promise to never forget the evils that took
place during that dark time in history.
Sadly, despite decades of wisdom shared by survivors,
years of reflection on the depravities committed, and
decades of progress towards peace, the poison of anti-
Semitism still courses through the veins of cowards in
dark corners of the world. So today, we renew our
promise that anti-Semitism has no place in a civilized
society, no place in our foreign policy, and no place
in the United States of America.
In the years since the liberation of Auschwitz on this
day eight decades ago, the grave offenses that took
place during the Holocaust and the cries of the Jewish
people have echoed throughout the halls of history. In
the wake of the oppression, persecution, and injustice
committed at Auschwitz and elsewhere in Europe, the
Jewish people gallantly persevered to re-found their
homeland in the modern State of Israel--our mighty
friend. To this day, the Jewish people proudly
represent the peak of human tenacity and the pinnacle
of human triumph.
As we commemorate this somber occasion, we pay tribute
to the undying spirit of the Jewish community. We
reaffirm our commitment to educating our children and
every future generation about the horrors that took
place within the confines of Auschwitz and other
concentration and death camps. We renew our resolve to
end anti-Semitism and religious bigotry of all forms.
We proudly reassert our strong bonds of friendship with
the State of Israel. And we declare the timeless truth
that every human being is a child of God and inherently
worthy of dignity and respect.
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, 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 January 27, 2025, as
a National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary
of the Liberation of Auschwitz. On this day, I call
upon every American citizen to observe this day with
programs, ceremonies, and prayers commemorating the
victims of the Holocaust and honoring the sacrifices of
the men and women who helped liberate the victims of
the Nazis at Auschwitz.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
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