This measure would designate the week of April 10 through April 16, 1994, as California Holocaust Memorial Week, and would urge Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
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WHEREAS, More than 50 years have passed since the tragic events that we now call the Holocaust transpired in which the dictatorship of Nazi Germany murdered six million Jews as part of a systematic program of genocide known as “The Final Solution of the Jewish Question”; and
WHEREAS, The Holocaust was a tragedy of proportions the world had never before witnessed; and
WHEREAS, We must be reminded of the reality of the Holocaust’s horrors so they will never be repeated; and
WHEREAS, Each person in the State of California should set aside moments of his or her time every year to give remembrance to those who lost their lives in the Holocaust; and
WHEREAS, The United States Holocaust Memorial Council has designated the week of April 10 through April 16, 1994, as Holocaust Memorial Week—Days of Remembrance for Victims of the Holocaust; and
WHEREAS, April 10, 1994, is Yom HaSho’ah, and has been designated internationally as a day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the week of April 10 through April 16, 1994, be proclaimed as California Holocaust Memorial Week, and that Californians are urged to observe these days of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.