    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Proclamation 9724 of April 11, 2018

    Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 2018

    By the President of the United States of America

    A Proclamation

    On Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, and during this week of
    remembrance, we reflect on one of the darkest periods in the history of
    the world and honor the victims of Nazi persecution. This year marks the
    75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when the imprisoned
    Polish Jews mounted a courageous and extraordinary act of armed
    resistance against their Nazi guards.
    The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as ``Shoah,''; was the culmination of the
    Nazi regime's ``Final Solution to the Jewish Question,''; an attempt to
    eradicate the Jewish population in Europe. Although spearheaded by one
    individual, this undertaking could not have happened without the
    participation of many others who recruited, persuaded, and coerced in
    their efforts to incite the worst of human nature and carry out the
    ugliest of depravity. The abject brutality of the Nazi regime, coupled
    with the failure of Western leaders to confront the Nazis early on, cre

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    ated an environment that encouraged and enflamed anti-Semitic sentiment
    and drove people to engage in depraved, dehumanizing conduct.
    By the end, the Nazis and their conspirators had murdered 6 million men,
    women, and children, simply because they were Jews. They also persecuted
    and murdered millions of other Europeans, including Roma and Sinti
    Gypsies, persons with mental and physical disabilities, Slavs and other
    minorities, Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses, gays, and political
    dissidents.
    Let us continue to come together to remember all the innocent lives lost
    in the Holocaust, pay tribute to those intrepid individuals who resisted
    the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, and recall those selfless heroes who
    risked their lives in order to help or save those of their persecuted
    neighbors. Their bravery inspires us to embrace all that is good about
    hope and resilience; their altruism reminds us of the importance of
    maintaining peace and unity, and of our civic duty never to remain
    silent or indifferent in the face of evil. We have a responsibility to
    convey the lessons of the Holocaust to future generations, and together
    as Americans, we have a moral obligation to combat antisemitism,
    confront hate, and prevent genocide. We must ensure that the history of
    the Holocaust remains forever relevant and that no people suffer these
    tragedies ever again.
    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 12 through April
    19, 2018, 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 eleventh day of
    April, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
    second.
    DONALD J. TRUMP