House Bill 9059

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HR 9059

        By Representatives Levine, Ritter, Frankel, Jacobs,
    Effman, Greenstein, Sobel, Gottlieb, Wasserman Schultz, Bloom
    and Heyman




  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution designating Tuesday, May 2, 2000,

  3         as the "International Day of Remembrance,"

  4         known as Yom Hashoah.

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  6         WHEREAS, the year 2000 marks the fifty-fifth

  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 Tuesday, May 2, 2000, as the

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HR 9059

    707-108A-00






  1  "International Day of Remembrance," known as Yom Hashoah, NOW,

  2  THEREFORE,

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

  5  Florida:

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  7         That the citizens of the state are encouraged to

  8  observe the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the

  9  Holocaust, and Yom Hashoah, in memory of the victims and

10  survivors of the Holocaust and their liberators.

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