Assembly Resolution No. 799

BY: M. of A. Rozic

MEMORIALIZING Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim
January 27, 2024, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in
the State of New York

WHEREAS, From 1933 to 1945, 5.8 million Jews were murdered in the
Nazi Holocaust as a 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 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 2024 marks the 91st Anniversary of the beginning
of the genocide of European Jews, the bleakest, most murderous moment in
history; and

WHEREAS, The Holocaust represents the darkest period in the
civilization of mankind and must always be remembered in order to
prevent its reoccurrence anywhere else in the world; 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, was liberated
by Soviet Troops in 1945; 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, In times of war and chaos, with the threat of genocide and
ethnic cleansing present in many war-torn regions of the world, the
events of the Holocaust continue to be relevant and important to
remember so that suffering on this scale 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, 2024, 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.