SPONSOR:UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS BR 865 A RESOLUTION recognizing January 27, 2023, 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;

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NOW,and THEREFORE:WHEREAS, on November 1, 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7 to designate January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD) to correspond with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and it is meant Page 1 of 2 XXXX 12/20/2022 11:00 AM Jacketed UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS BR 865 to honor the victims of Nazism and to condemn all forms of "religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief" throughout the world;

BENOW, ITTHEREFORE, RESOLVEDBe it resolved by the Delaware House of Representatives of the 150th General Assembly of the StateCommonwealth of DelawareKentucky: that January 27, 2019 is hereby recognized as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

SYNOPSISSection This1. resolution recognizes January 27, 2019 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

HRThe :members of the House of Representatives hereby recognize January 27, 2023, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and in honor of the survivors as well as the rescuers and liberators, and further proclaim that we, as citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, should work to promote human dignity and confront hate whenever and wherever it occurs.

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