09-R164
2009 -- S 0852
Enacted 04/21/09
S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N
COMMEMORATING
"HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY"
ON APRIL 21, 2009
Introduced By: Senators Miller, C Levesque, Perry, Raptakis, and Sosnowski
Date Introduced: April 21, 2009
WHEREAS, Holocaust
Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), is a solemn day of
remembrance honoring the victims of the Holocaust and those who
showed resistance and
amazing heroism during this horrendous period in our world
history. The
and
WHEREAS, Holocaust is
the term used to refer to the period in world history from 1933
to 1945, before and during World War II, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis systematically and
barbarically persecuted and murdered nearly six million Jews and
another five million non-Jews
throughout
life”; and
WHEREAS, The infamous and brutal killing grounds of Auschwitz,
barracks and rusting ovens, and stand as speechless memorials
to the six million Jews and eleven
million total victims who succumbed to the deliberate Nazi
program of genocide that was the
Holocaust; and
WHEREAS, This year marks the 66th Anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising
and 46th Anniversary of the dedication of the Memorial to
the Six Million. The citizens of Rhode
Island, having our own rich heritage of resistance and
intolerance for those who would trample
individual liberty and dignity, applaud the courageous efforts
of the ghetto residents for whom
day to day survival was a relentless struggle. Their
brave actions in April and May of 1943 stand
as testimony to a rare and indomitable human spirit and extraordinary
courage exhibited in the
darkest hours of man’s inhumanity; and
WHEREAS, Holocaust
Remembrance Day is a day to make a special effort to remember
–Zachor. It is a time to
applaud the men and women who endured and who bravely rebuilt lives
that had been so cruelly shattered. It is also a time to
acknowledge, with admiration, those heroes
who risked and often lost their own lives in order to
save others; and
WHEREAS, In the words of famed writer Elie Wiesel, “There may be times when we are
powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time
when we fail to protest.” Rhode
Islanders and people of all nations must take the time
to remember the millions of men, women
and children who were slaughtered simply because of their
beliefs and their heritage, or their
strengths or their frailties, and we must firmly avow that the atrocities
of the Holocaust will never
be repeated; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED,
That this Senate of the State of
hereby commemorates “Holocaust Remembrance Day” on April 21,
2009. We call upon our
fellow citizens to join us in remembering and honoring the
amazing courage and the enormous
sacrifices of all those killed during the Holocaust, and we
reaffirm our pledge to work to eradicate
bigotry, prejudice, brutality and injustice through education
and vigilance; and be it further
RESOLVED,
That the Secretary of State be and he hereby is
authorized and directed to
transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the
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