| 1 | House Resolution |
| 2 | A resolution designating the week of April 23-30, 2006, as |
| 3 | "Holocaust Remembrance Week" in Florida. |
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| 5 | WHEREAS, the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known |
| 6 | as Yom Hashoah, has been set aside as a time to remember the |
| 7 | victims of the Holocaust and to remind Americans of what can |
| 8 | happen among even the most civilized of peoples when bigotry, |
| 9 | hatred, and indifference are allowed to run rampant, and |
| 10 | WHEREAS, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic |
| 11 | persecution and annihilation of six million Jews and millions of |
| 12 | other victims between the years of 1933 and 1945, and |
| 13 | WHEREAS, in 1980, Congress created the United States |
| 14 | Holocaust Memorial Council with the charge to build the United |
| 15 | States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and to |
| 16 | encourage annual observances of the Days of Remembrance |
| 17 | nationwide in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and |
| 18 | WHEREAS, the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, |
| 19 | Inc., the first Holocaust museum in South Florida, was |
| 20 | established in 1979 as a nonsectarian, nonprofit organization |
| 21 | proposed to serve as "A Living Memorial Through Education," and |
| 22 | WHEREAS, during the observance of Holocaust Remembrance |
| 23 | Week, on Thursday, April 27, 2006, the Holocaust Documentation |
| 24 | and Education Center, Inc., and the City of Hollywood will |
| 25 | dedicate the new home of the Center, a recently acquired 14,000- |
| 26 | square-foot building that will be used to display artifacts and |
| 27 | provide educational opportunities designed to reduce prejudice |
| 28 | and promote a resolve that such atrocities must never again be |
| 29 | carried out against humankind, NOW, THEREFORE, |
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| 31 | Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of |
| 32 | Florida: |
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| 34 | That the House of Representatives designates the week of |
| 35 | April 23-30, 2006, as "Holocaust Remembrance Week" in Florida. |
| 36 | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the House of Representatives |
| 37 | congratulates the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, |
| 38 | Inc., upon the dedication of its new building and encourages all |
| 39 | Floridians to avail themselves of opportunities to gain a better |
| 40 | understanding of the attitudes and events that led to the |
| 41 | horrors of the Holocaust. |