Bill Text: NY J00298 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 27, 2023, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-01-31 - ADOPTED [J00298 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-J00298-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 298

BY: Senator THOMAS

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        January 27, 2023, as Holocaust  Remembrance  Day  in
        the State of New York

  WHEREAS,  It  is  the  custom  of this Legislative Body to recognize
official days that are set aside to increase awareness of serious events
that affect the lives of the citizens of New York State; and

  WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and  in  full  accord  with  its
long-standing  tradition,  it  is  the sense of this Legislative Body to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul  to  proclaim  January  27,  2023,  as
Holocaust  Remembrance Day in the State of New York, in conjunction with
the observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day; and

  WHEREAS, From 1933 to 1945, 5.8 million Jews were  murdered  in  the
Nazi Holocaust as part of a systematic program of genocide, and millions
of other people also perished as victims of Nazism; and

  WHEREAS,  Jews  who fell under German control in Eastern and Central
Europe were quickly and cruelly stripped of their rights  and  property;
and

  WHEREAS, The Jews who perished at Nazi hands comprised two-thirds of
all  European  Jewry,  and in countries such as Poland, which before the
second World War included parts of the Ukraine and Belarus,  the  Jewish
death toll surpassed 90 percent; and

  WHEREAS,  The  year 2023 marks the 90th Anniversary of the beginning
of the genocide of European Jews, which is the bleakest, most  murderous
moment in history; and

  WHEREAS,  The Holocaust represents the darkest period in the history
of civilization of mankind and must always be  remembered  in  order  to
prevent its reoccurrence and promote respect and common humanity; and

  WHEREAS,  International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed
on January 27th each year, is  a  day  set  aside  for  remembering  the
millions  of  victims  of the Holocaust; this date was designated by the
United Nations General Assembly on November 1, 2005,  as  it  marks  the
date  when Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, which in its
operation murdered over one million Jews, was liberated by Soviet Troops
in 1945, freeing over 7,000 prisoners; and

  WHEREAS, The year 2023 marks the 78th Anniversary of the  liberation
of Auschwitz-Birkenau; and

  WHEREAS,  Remembrance  ceremonies  are  held  throughout  the United
States and around the world to remember the tragedy of the Holocaust  on
January  27th, including at Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and in
the halls of the United Nations in New York City; and

  WHEREAS, It is critically important to remember the  events  of  the
Holocaust  to  ensure  that  the events shall never again happen, as has
been the rallying cry among the Jewish people; and

  WHEREAS,  Following  the  recent acts of hatred and violence against
the Jewish Community, it is critical that we stand together to decry all
forms of hate and bigotry in our communities and across this  State,  so
we  ensure that suffering on the scale of the Holocaust truly never does
happen again; and

  WHEREAS, Knowing that the events and root causes  of  the  Holocaust
must  not  be  forgotten and that, particularly as survivors diminish in
number, links  must  be  forged  to  educate  future  generations;  now,
therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul  to  proclaim  January  27,  2023,  as
Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.