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Week Ending March 18, 2005

Senate Resolution 90 designating the week of May 1, 2005 as “Holocaust Commemoration Week”.

BRIEF

A big year for Holocaust survivors and sympathizers as it is the 60th anniversary of the end of that travesty. The memory of the Holocaust kept alive has "provided the peoples of the world with an object lesson in the importance of compassion, caring, and kindness; an awareness of the dangers inherent in bigotry, racism, intolerance, and prejudice; and an understanding of the importance of an appreciation of the sensitivity to diversity".

Sponsor: Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN)

Vote: Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent. (Mar. 17, 2005)

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

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S. Res. 90

Whereas the year 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, which was ruthlessly and tragically carried out by Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and his collaborators;

Whereas the Holocaust involved the murder of millions of innocent Jewish men, women, and children along with millions of others, and an enormity of suffering inflicted on the many survivors through mistreatment, brutalization, violence, torture, slave labor, involuntary medical experimentation, death marches, and numerous other acts of cruelty that have come to be known as ``genocide'' and ``crimes against humanity''; and

Whereas in the past 60 years, the Holocaust has provided the peoples of the world with an object lesson in the importance of compassion, caring, and kindness; an awareness of the dangers inherent in bigotry, racism, intolerance, and prejudice; and an understanding of the importance of an appreciation of the sensitivity to diversity: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Senate--

(1) designates the week of May 1, 2005, as ``Holocaust Commemoration Week'';

(2) commemorates the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of the concentration camps; and

(3) encourages all Americans to commemorate the occasion through reflection, acts of compassionate caring, and learning about the terrible consequences and lessons of the Holocaust.

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