    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 134, 116th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Proclamation 10013 of April 17, 2020
    Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 2020
    By the President of the United States of America
    A Proclamation
    Our Nation's annual observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance
    Day, calls on all Americans to pause and reflect on the horrific
    atrocities committed by the Nazi regime against minority groups and
    other ``undesirables''; in the years leading up to and during World War
    II. Among those murdered in the Holocaust were 6 million Jewish men,
    women, and children who became victims of the Third Reich's unthinkably
    evil ``Final Solution.''; As this year's Yom HaShoah commences, let us
    remember the millions of lives extinguished in the Holocaust, including
    those of Jewish, Polish, and Slavic ancestry, Roma and Sinti,
    individuals with mental and physical disabilities, gays, political
    dissidents, and dozens of other groups, and let us reaffirm our
    commitment to preserving and carrying forward their stories so that such
    repugnant acts of evil never occur again.
    This year's observance is particularly meaningful as earlier in the year
    we observed the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and
    other Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe. We must never forget
    the abhorrent anti-Semitism, racial hatred, and discrimination stoked by
    the Nazi regime and its accomplices and enablers that sent countless
    people to ghettos, concentration camps, killing fields, and death
    camps--a monstrous system that resulted in the murder of two out of
    three Jews in Europe and the imprisonment and torture of millions more.
    Tragically, far too many Americans of Jewish faith still face
    persecution. That is why I issued an Executive Order in December of 2019
    to further expand and strengthen my Administration's ongoing efforts to
    combat racist and anti-Semitic discrimination. We must always condemn
    and confront all forms of racial, religious, and ethnic prejudice,

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    discrimination, and hatred and strengthen the mutual bonds of respect
    that unite us all as Americans.
    During this time, as we mourn the millions of lives tragically lost
    during this dark stain on human history, we vow to ensure that future
    generations know the horrors of the Holocaust so that its crimes are
    never repeated. We also remember the powerful example that countless
    victims set through their remarkable determination, courage, and
    devotion. Together, let us resolve to build a society that always values
    the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every faith. In
    doing so, we will make certain that freedom and liberty always triumph
    over evil and oppression.
    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 19 through April
    26, 2020, 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.
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of
    April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
    fourth.
    DONALD J. TRUMP