Bill Text: NY K00700 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim January 27, 2020, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 69-13)

Status: (Passed) 2020-01-27 - adopted [K00700 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-K00700-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 700

BY: M. of A. Rozic

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        January  27,  2020,  as Holocaust Remembrance Day in
        the State of New York

  WHEREAS, It is the custom of  this  Legislative  Body  to  recognize
official days that are set aside to increase awareness of serious events
that affect the lives of citizens of New York State; and

  WHEREAS,  Attendant  to  such  concern,  and in full accord with its
long-standing tradition, it is the sense of  this  Legislative  Body  to
memorialize  Governor  Andrew  M. Cuomo to proclaim January 27, 2020, as
Holocaust Remembrance Day in the State of New York, in conjunction  with
the observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day; and

  WHEREAS,  From  1933  to 1945, 5.8 million Jews were murdered in the
Nazi Holocaust as 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 2020 marks the 87th 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, This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the  liberation  of
Auschwitz-Birkenau;  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  Andrew  M. Cuomo to proclaim January 27, 2020, 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 Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of
New York.