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| 2022 -- S 2888 Enacted 04/26/2022 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| COMMEMORATING "HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY" ON APRIL 28, 2022 |
Introduced By: Senators Bell, Miller, Kallman, and Zurier |
| Date Introduced: April 26, 2022 |
| WHEREAS, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), which begins at sunset on |
| the 27th day of the month of Nisan, 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. Seventy-seven years ago, Soviet forces and shortly thereafter, other Allied |
| forces, liberated Auschwitz and other concentration camps, liberating thousands of suffering and |
| starving prisoners; 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 Europe because they were perceived to be "racially inferior" and "life unworthy of |
| life"; and |
| WHEREAS, In the year 1933, nine million Jews lived in Europe, 500,000 of whom lived |
| in Germany, and were subjected to over 400 laws and regulations to strip them of their basic |
| human rights; and |
| WHEREAS, On November 9th and 10th, 1938, referred to as Kristallnacht, Nazis torched |
| synagogues, Jewish homes, schools, and killed Jewish residents, beginning systemic violence |
| against Jews in Germany; and |
| WHEREAS, This year marks the 79th Anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, |
| where Jews fought and refused to surrender to Nazi forces. 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, |
| so that the lessons of our past are never again repeated. The day is also a time to applaud all those |
| who endured and who bravely rebuilt lives that had been so cruelly shattered, and acknowledge, |
| with admiration, those heroes who risked and often lost their own lives in order to save others; |
| now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby recognizes the historic |
| significance of Holocaust Remembrance Day; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the United States Holocaust Museum, the |
| Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Memorial Education Center, the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode |
| Island, and Mr. Adam Greenman, President and CEO of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode |
| Island. |
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