[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 131, 115th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
Proclamation 9594 of April 24, 2017

Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 2017

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

On Yom HaShoah--the day of Holocaust Remembrance--and during this Week
of Remembrance, we honor the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi
persecution.
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and
attempted annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazi regime and its
collaborators. By the end of World War II, six million Jews had been
brutally slaughtered. The Nazis also targeted other groups for
persecution and murder, including Roma (Gypsies), persons with mental
and physical disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Slavs and other peoples of Europe, gays, and political opponents.
The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with the survivors of the
Holocaust, their families, and the descendants of those who were
murdered. We support the Jewish diaspora and the State of Israel as we
fulfill our duty to remember the victims, honor their memory and their
lives, and celebrate humanity's victory over tyranny and evil. Holocaust
survivors, despite scars from history's darkest days, continue to
inspire us to remember the past and learn from its lessons. By sharing
their experiences and wisdom, they continue to fuel our resolve to
advance human rights and to combat antisemitism and other forms of
hatred.
During this week in 1945, American and Allied forces liberated the
concentration camp at Dachau and other Nazi death camps, laying bare to
the world the unconscionable horror of the Holocaust. We must remain
vigilant against hateful ideologies and indifference. Every generation
must learn and apply the lessons of the Holocaust so that such horror,
atrocity, and genocide never again occur. It is our solemn obligation to
reaffirm our commitment to respecting the fundamental freedoms and
inherent dignity of every human being.
Let us join together to remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust
and Nazi persecution. We express our eternal gratitude to the liberators
who selflessly risked their lives to save those of others, and we pledge
to never be bystanders to evil.
We must never forget.

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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 23 through April
30, 2017, 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
internalizing the lessons of this atrocity so that it is never repeated.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fourth day
of April, in the year two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-first.
DONALD J. TRUMP