SPONSOR:UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS BR 1601 A RESOLUTION recognizing January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Rep.WHEREAS, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 – six million Jews were murdered;

SpiegelmanRoma &(Gypsies), Rep.people with disabilities, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons;

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BEThe ITmembers RESOLVEDof by the Delaware House hereby recognize January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in memory of Representativesthe victims of the 150thHolocaust Generaland Assemblyin honor of the Statesurvivors ofas Delawarewell thatas Januarythe 27,rescuers 2019and isliberators, herebyand recognizedfurther proclaim that we, as Internationalcitizens Holocaustof Remembrancethe Day.Commonwealth of Kentucky, should work to promote human dignity and confront hate whenever and wherever it occurs.

SYNOPSISPage This2 resolutionof recognizes2 JanuaryXXXX 27,Jacketed 2019 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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