House Bill 9555

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9555

        By Representatives Lippman, Thrasher, Wasserman Schultz,
    Bloom, Tobin, Stafford, Effman, Gottlieb, Ritter, Fischer,
    Brennan, Rayson, Mackenzie, Horan, Ritchie, Jones, Chestnut,
    Silver, Meek, Wise, Sindler, Bitner and Safley



  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution encouraging the observance of the

  3         Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the

  4         Holocaust and Yom Hashoah.

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  6         WHEREAS, the year 1998 marks the fifty-third

  7  anniversary of the victories of the United States Armed Forces

  8  and the Allies over the German National Socialists regime,

  9  ending the war in Europe during World War II, and

10         WHEREAS, this great military victory brought the

11  liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the

12  Holocaust, during which Nazi Germany conducted the planned,

13  systematic annihilation of European Jews and other groups, and

14         WHEREAS, the war-hardened United States soldiers not

15  only liberated the Nazi concentration camps, but also extended

16  their tender compassion and generosity to those few survivors

17  of these camps, and

18         WHEREAS, Americans recognize that each individual

19  citizen is responsible for eternal vigilance against all

20  tyranny and for speaking out against such tyranny, and

21         WHEREAS, in 1994 the Florida Legislature mandated that

22  the history of the Holocaust be taught in public schools, in a

23  manner that leads to an investigation of human behavior, an

24  understanding of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and

25  stereotyping, and an examination of what it means to be a

26  responsible and respectful person, for the purposes of

27  encouraging tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic society

28  and nurturing and protecting democratic values and

29  institutions, and

30         WHEREAS, under federal law, the United States Holocaust

31  Memorial Museum designated April 19, 1998, through April 26,

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9555

    94-243-98






  1  1998, as the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the

  2  Holocaust and April 23, 1998, as the international Day of

  3  Remembrance, known as Yom Hashoah, NOW, THEREFORE,

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  5  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  6  Florida:

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  8         That the House of Representatives of the State of

  9  Florida hereby encourages the citizens of the state to observe

10  the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, and

11  Yom Hashoah, in memory of the victims and survivors of the

12  Holocaust, and their liberators.

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