Bill Text: NY K00331 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Commemorating the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York on May 2, 2019

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-22)

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-01 - adopted [K00331 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-K00331-Introduced.html

Assembly Resolution No. 331

BY: M. of A. Cymbrowitz

        COMMEMORATING    the   observance   of   Holocaust
        Remembrance Day in the State of New York on  May  2,
        2019

  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 People of the State of New York should always  remember
the  atrocities  committed  by  the Nazis so that such horrors are never
repeated; and

  WHEREAS, Those who survived the killing camps tell us that  as  many
people walked to their deaths, their last words were "Remember Us"; and

  WHEREAS,  The  year 2019 marks the 86th anniversary of the beginning
of the genocide of European Jews, the darkest, most murderous moment  in
history; and

  WHEREAS,   We   learn   in  the  aftermath  of  the  Holocaust  that
indifference to genocide  cannot  be  tolerated;  Holocaust  remembrance
imposes a moral obligation to speak out; 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,  The  People  of  the  State of New York should continually
rededicate themselves to the principle of equal justice for all  people;
and

  WHEREAS, The People of the State of New York should remain eternally
vigilant  against  all  tyranny  and  recognize  that bigotry provides a
breeding ground for tyranny to flourish; and

  WHEREAS, Holocaust Remembrance Day, known in Hebrew as Yom  Hashoah,
is  a day set aside for remembering the victims of the Holocaust and for
reminding New Yorkers, all  Americans, and people around  the  world  of
what   can   happen   to  civilized  people  when  bigotry,  hatred  and
indifference reign; and

  WHEREAS, Internationally, Holocaust Remembrance Day is  observed  on
the  15th  day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, which this year falls on
Thursday, May 2, 2019; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
commemorate  the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of
New York on May 2, 2019; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  copies  of  this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the  State  of
New  York; Met Council on Jewish Poverty; and Helen-Margaret Nasser, MA,
Director, Kingsborough-Manhattan Beach Holocaust Memorial Center.
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