[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''.


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                    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

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                            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.

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