[Congressional Bills 103th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.J. Res. 151 Introduced in House (IH)] 103d CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 151 Designating April 18, 1993, as ``Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day''. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 15, 1993 Mr. King introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT RESOLUTION Designating April 18, 1993, as ``Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day''. Whereas, half a century ago, 6,000,000 Jews were herded into ghettos and concentration camps, starved, gassed, and their corpses burned, while the nations of the world remained silent; Whereas, in April 1943, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto organized the first civilian resistance in Nazi Europe and rose up against their oppressors; Whereas courageous Jewish men, women, boys, and girls, facing certain death, repelled wave after wave of trained Nazi soldiers, while the walls crumbled, food, water, and ammunition ran out, and flames turned the ghetto into an inferno; Whereas, in the end, the ghetto was reduced to nothing but smoke and rubble, yet the courage of the Jewish freedom fighters endures; Whereas the courage of the Jews who fought the Nazis 50 years ago still echoes down through the years and demands that all who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust, and all generations to come, remember, record, and teach its lessons; and Whereas the people of the United States should rededicate themselves to the conviction that the world will never know another Holocaust: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That April 18, 1993, is designated as ``Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day'', and the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. <all>