Bill Text: IL HR0943 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Commends the educators who instruct their students on the topic of the Holocaust each year during Holocaust Education Week in the State of Illinois and encourages school districts and residents to support the week.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-01-08 - Resolution Adopted [HR0943 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0943-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The Holocaust was the systemic annihilation of six | ||||||
3 | million Jews and millions of other victims by the Nazis in the | ||||||
4 | Second World War; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Illinois is the home to many Holocaust survivors | ||||||
6 | and their families; and
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7 | WHEREAS, In 1990, Illinois was one of the first states in | ||||||
8 | the nation to require education on the Holocaust in public | ||||||
9 | schools; and
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10 | WHEREAS, The U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and | ||||||
11 | Awareness Survey, released in September of 2020, demonstrated | ||||||
12 | that 59 percent of Illinoisans did not know that six million | ||||||
13 | Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and that 54 percent of | ||||||
14 | Illinois respondents could not name a single concentration camp | ||||||
15 | or ghetto; and
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16 | WHEREAS, According to the Federal Bureau of | ||||||
17 | Investigation's 2019 Hate Crimes Statistics Report, hate | ||||||
18 | crimes rose to their highest in a decade with a record breaking | ||||||
19 | 51 fatal attacks; there were 953 reports of anti-Jewish hate | ||||||
20 | crimes in 2019; this is a 14% increase from the previous year; | ||||||
21 | and
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1 | WHEREAS, Jewish students on college campuses in Illinois | ||||||
2 | have endured an unrelenting campaign of anti-Semitic | ||||||
3 | harassment, which led to an investigation by the United States | ||||||
4 | Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights into the | ||||||
5 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for its response to | ||||||
6 | such acts on campus; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Teaching the lessons of the Holocaust leads to an | ||||||
8 | understanding of the ramifications of prejudice and racism, | ||||||
9 | encourages tolerance of diversity, and nurtures the protection | ||||||
10 | of democratic values and institutions; and
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11 | WHEREAS, On January 27, 1945, the Nazi Concentration and | ||||||
12 | Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the | ||||||
13 | Allied troops; and
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14 | WHEREAS, The United Nations General Assembly designated | ||||||
15 | January 27 as an annual International Day of Commemoration in | ||||||
16 | memory of the victims of the Holocaust; and
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17 | WHEREAS, The United Nations urges its members to develop | ||||||
18 | educational programs to help prevent future genocides; and
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19 | WHEREAS, A Holocaust Education Week can be used to spur | ||||||
20 | discussion in schools, communities, and civic organizations |
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1 | throughout Illinois about hate, discrimination, and prejudice | ||||||
2 | and hopefully reduce the number of hate crimes in the State; | ||||||
3 | therefore, be it
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4 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
5 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
6 | we commend the educators who instruct their students on this | ||||||
7 | important topic each year during Holocaust Education Week in | ||||||
8 | the State of Illinois; and be it further
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9 | RESOLVED, That we encourage school districts and local | ||||||
10 | residents to support this week and participate in informed | ||||||
11 | educational events planned to commemorate the occasion.
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