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1 1 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO.
1 2 BY KRAMER
1 3 (COMPANION TO LSB 4425HH BY JACOBS)
1 4 A Concurrent Resolution designating the week of April 14
1 5 through April 21, 1996, as Days of Remembrance of the
1 6 Victims of the Holocaust.
1 7 WHEREAS, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored,
1 8 systematic persecution and annihilation of European
1 9 Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between
1 10 1933 and 1945; and
1 11 WHEREAS, the primary victims of the Holocaust were
1 12 6,000,000 Jews, another 5,000,000 victims included
1 13 Gypsies, Serbs, Poles, resistance fighters, German
1 14 opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses,
1 15 Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents,
1 16 habitual criminals, beggars, vagrants, and hawkers;
1 17 and
1 18 WHEREAS, 1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the
1 19 International Military Tribunal's trial at Nuremberg
1 20 of 22 major Nazi leaders, and the continuation of
1 21 subsequent military tribunals at Nuremberg, as well as
1 22 in other Allied-occupied sectors of Germany, to try
1 23 additional Nazi criminals; and
1 24 WHEREAS, the charter for the Nuremberg Trials
1 25 established, for the first time in international law,
1 26 that crimes against humanity, as well as crimes
1 27 against peace, and war crimes are punishable, thus
1 28 making the individuals who were responsible for
1 29 promulgating governmental policies that resulted in
1 30 aggressive war and genocide accountable for their
2 1 actions; and
2 2 WHEREAS, Americans recognize that in addition to
2 3 the need for international law to provide judicial
2 4 accountability for crimes against humanity, each
2 5 citizen is responsible for eternal vigilance against
2 6 all tyranny; and
2 7 WHEREAS, Tuesday, April 16, 1996, has been
2 8 designated, pursuant to an Act of Congress, as a Day
2 9 of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, known
2 10 internationally as Yom Hashoah; NOW THEREFORE,
2 11 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF
2 12 REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, That the week of April 14
2 13 through April 21, 1996, is designated as Days of
2 14 Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, in memory
2 15 of the victims.
2 16 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the General Assembly
2 17 encourage the citizens of Iowa to strive collectively
2 18 and individually to overcome bigotry, hatred, and
2 19 indifference through learning, tolerance, and
2 20 remembrance.
2 21 LSB 4425SS 76
2 22 kh/sc/14.1
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