SPONSOR:State of Arkansas 92nd General Assembly Regular Session, 2019 HR 1009 5 By:

Rep.Representative Bentley 7 HOUSE RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY ON JANUARY 27, 2019.

SpiegelmanSubtitle &TO Rep.RECOGNIZE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY ON JANUARY 27, 2019.

HeffernanWHEREAS, onInternational behalfHolocaust ofRemembrance allDay Representativesis HOUSEan OFinternational REPRESENTATIVESmemorial 150thday GENERALcommemorating ASSEMBLYthe HOUSEtragedy RESOLUTIONof NO.the Holocaust that occurred during World War II;

and the day commemorates the genocide by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews, 5 RECOGNIZINGmillion JANUARYSlavs, 27,3 2019,million ASethnic THEPoles, ANNUAL200,000 INTERNATIONALRomani HOLOCAUSTpeople, REMEMBRANCE250,000 DAY.people with mental and physical disabilities, and 9,000 homosexual men;

and WHEREAS, inJanuary 200527 is the Unitedinternational Nationsmemorial passedday resolutionbecause 60/7,on designating January 27th27, as1945, InternationalAuschwitz-Birkenau, Holocaustthe Remembrancelargest Day;Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by Soviet forces;

and WHEREAS, thisit specificis date was chosen because of itsvital significanceimportance asthat thepeople anniversaryeverywhere ofhonor the Russianmemory liberation of theHolocaust Auschwitzvictims; concentration camp on January 27, 1945;

andencourage WHEREAS, the Auschwitzdevelopment concentrationof campeducational wasprograms theregarding largestHolocaust camphistory operatedto byhelp theprevent Nazisfuture duringacts theof holocaust;genocide;

andreject WHEREAS,any overdenial 10 million individuals, including close to 6 million people of Jewish faith, died during the Holocaust inas thesean camps;event;

andcondemn WHEREAS,all wemanifestations asof areligious societyintolerance, mustincitement, recognizeharassment, andor rememberviolence thisagainst horrificpersons occurrence,or incommunities orderbased toon ensureethnic thatorigin weor neverreligious allowbelief; it to reoccur;

NOW,and THEREFORE:call for actively preserving Holocaust sites that served as Nazi death camps, concentration camps, forced labor camps, and prisons;

BEand IT*KLC099* RESOLVED01/24/2019 by8:11:03 theAM DelawareKLC099 HouseHR1009 ofWHEREAS, Representativesthe lessons of the 150thHolocaust Generalneed Assemblyto ofbe remembered so that future generations may work to prevent hatred, bigotry, racism, and prejudice, as well as the Stateviolence, ofhuman Delawaresuffering, and death that Januarysuch 27,prejudice 2019can isengender, hereby6 recognizedNOW asTHEREFORE, InternationalBE HolocaustIT RemembranceRESOLVED Day.BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:

SYNOPSISTHAT Thisthe resolutionHouse recognizesof JanuaryRepresentatives 27,recognize 2019 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.Day on January 27, 2019.

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