Senate Bill sb2710

    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SR 2710

    By Senator Rich





    34-1766A-05

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing May 6, 2005, as

  3         "Holocaust Remembrance Day."

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  5         WHEREAS, Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day set aside

  6  annually for remembering the victims of the Holocaust and for

  7  reminding Americans of what can happen to civilized people

  8  when bigotry, hatred, and indifference reign in human society,

  9  and

10         WHEREAS, the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,

11  created by an Act of Congress in 1980, was mandated to lead

12  the nation in civic commemorations of the Holocaust and to

13  encourage appropriate remembrance observances throughout the

14  country, and

15         WHEREAS, while the Council has called for special

16  observances and remembrance activities to be held during the

17  week surrounding May 6, 2005, it is fitting that we begin to

18  acknowledge the importance of Holocaust Remembrance activities

19  today, March 30, 2005, which is Jewish Advocacy Day, and

20         WHEREAS, the Holocaust is not only a record of

21  incredible human destruction and loss, and of the stark,

22  staggering immorality of an apathetic world; it is also the

23  story of individuals of extraordinary courage, of life that

24  flourished before the Holocaust, struggled through its darkest

25  hours, and ultimately prevailed as survivors rebuilt their

26  lives; and thus the Holocaust is a vital part of the history

27  of the human spirit, and

28         WHEREAS, Justice Robert Jackson, Chief U.S. Counsel to

29  the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany,

30  expressed the gravity of the social and political meaning of

31  the Holocaust when he wrote: "The wrongs which we seek to

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 1  condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and

 2  so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being

 3  ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated," NOW,

 4  THEREFORE,

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 6  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 8         That the Senate pauses in its deliberations today,

 9  Jewish Advocacy Day 2005, to contemplate the enormous outrage

10  committed against the Jewish people and millions of others,

11  and against Humanity itself, by the moral and political

12  failures that enabled the Holocaust to take place; calls for

13  the observation of Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 6, 2005;

14  and calls upon all within hearing to repeat the vital words:

15  "Never again for any people, anywhere, at any time," and to

16  support those words with their actions.

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