Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

IV 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. RES. 813 Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 27, 2020 Ms. MENG (for herself, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. ZELDIN, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. ROSE of New York, Ms. NORTON, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. STEVENS, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. WILD, Ms. PORTER, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. LAR- SEN of Washington, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. COX of California, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. CISNEROS, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. GABBARD, Mr. NADLER, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. TRONE, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. DEAN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. TED LIEU of Cali- fornia, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. COSTA, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. OMAR, Miss RICE of New York, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. DELGADO, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. PAYNE, Mrs. MCBATH, Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, Ms. BONAMICI, Mrs. LEE of Nevada, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. SOTO, Mr. CUELLAR, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SIRES, Mr. KEATING, Mr. CASE, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mrs. AXNE, Mr. BRINDISI, Mr. HIMES, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. MALINOWSKI, Mr. CLAY, Ms. CRAIG, Ms. SCHA- KOWSKY, Mrs. TORRES of California, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. FRANKEL, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. PASCRELL, Mrs. LURIA, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. STANTON, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, and Ms. TLAIB) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Serv- ices, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subse- quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:15 Jan 28, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6652 E:\BILLS\HR813.IH HR813 2 •HRES 813 IH RESOLUTION Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Whereas, on January 27, 1945, Allied troops entered the Auschwitz complex concentration camp and liberated the more than 7,000 still-living prisoners; Whereas during World War II, the Nazi regime, its allies, and its collaborators systematically killed approximately 6,000,000 Jews, including 1,500,000 million Jewish chil- dren, as well as millions of others including Roma, men- tally or physically disabled people, gay men, political pris- oners and resistance members, Poles and other Slavs, and Soviet prisoners of war; Whereas two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of world Jewry were killed as a result of Nazi persecution during World War II; Whereas at least 1,300,000 people were deported to Ausch- witz between 1940 and 1945, approximately 1,100,000 of whom were murdered; Whereas thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz were selected by Josef Mengele and other Auschwitz physicians to be the victims of cruel and unethical medical experimen- tation; Whereas in the days leading up to the liberation of Ausch- witz, tens of thousands of prisoners were forced to par- ticipate in so-called ‘‘death marches’’ from Auschwitz; Whereas the Nazis murdered their victims in Auschwitz by systematically using such methods as gas chambers, mass executions, hanging, starvation, and torture, by sub- VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:15 Jan 28, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR813.IH HR813 3 •HRES 813 IH jecting them to forced labor, and by denying them even the most basic medical treatment for disease or infection; Whereas according to The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, there are over 80,000 Holo- caust survivors living in the United States and over a third live below the poverty line; Whereas there has been an increase in the number and inten- sity of antisemitic incidents around the world and in the United States, including the single deadliest attack against the Jewish community in the history of the United States at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pitts- burgh in 2018 and a series of attacks against Jews across the country, which has increased feelings of vul- nerability among Jewish communities; and Whereas antisemites in America and around the world con- tinue to invoke Nazi ideology and use symbols such as the swastika and other fascist imagery to vandalize syna- gogues and Jewish institutions; Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1 (1) honors the memory of the liberation of 2 Auschwitz; 3 (2) memorializes the 6,000,000 Jewish victims 4 of the Nazi regime, the millions of others who were 5 systematically killed by the Nazis and their collabo- 6 rators during World War II, and the over 1,000,000 7 victims at Auschwitz; 8 (3) expresses gratitude to the members of the 9 Allied forces who liberated Auschwitz and the U.S. 10 Armed Forces and the forces of Allied nations who 11 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:15 Jan 28, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR813.IH HR813 4 •HRES 813 IH risked their lives to liberate many other Nazi camps 1 and sites of incarceration; 2 (4) honors the survivors who have traveled 3 around the world to share their personal and painful 4 stories in order to ensure that the lessons of the 5 Holocaust serve as a warning to future generations; 6 (5) commemorates the role that Holocaust me- 7 morials like the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 8 play in implementing educational lessons about the 9 Holocaust, as well as the genocides that have come 10 after, and about ways to prevent future genocides 11 and other atrocities; 12 (6) encourages Federal and local social services 13 agencies to support Holocaust survivors who live in 14 poverty; 15 (7) reaffirms its support for educational efforts 16 that teach current and future generations about the 17 Holocaust; and 18 (8) urges all Federal agencies, and the Amer- 19 ican people, to commit to addressing unchecked in- 20 tolerance and prejudice, including racial, ethnic, or 21 religious biases in order to improve efforts to iden- 22 tify and combat antisemitism and other forms of 23 bigotry and intolerance. 24 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:15 Jan 28, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\HR813.IH HR813