Presidential Document2022-09132
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 2022
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April 27, 2022
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April 22, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 27, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09132]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 81 / Wednesday, April 27, 2022 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10373 of April 22, 2022
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust,
2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and
throughout this week of remembrance, we reflect on the
horrors of the Holocaust when the Nazi regime
systematically murdered 6 million Jews and millions of
other innocents, including Roma, Sinti, Slavs, persons
with disabilities, LGBTQI+ individuals, political
dissidents, and many others. We stand with Jewish
people in the United States, Israel, and around the
world in grieving one of the darkest chapters in
history. We honor the memories of the victims. We
embrace the survivors. We commit to keeping alive the
promise of ``never again.''
The world must never forget the truth of what happened
across Europe during the Holocaust or forget the
horrific crimes and suffering the Nazi regime inflicted
on millions of innocent people. Entire families were
wiped out. Communities were shattered. Survivors were
left with agonizing memories and fading tattoos etched
into their skin by the Nazis, reducing them to numbers.
It is forever recorded into the history of mankind, and
it is the shared responsibility of us all to ensure
that the Shoah is never erased from our collective
memory--especially as fewer and fewer survivors remain.
The truth must always be known and shared with future
generations in perpetuity.
I have taught my own children and grandchildren about
the horrors of the Holocaust, just as my father taught
me. I have taken my family to bear witness to the
darkness at the Dachau concentration camp so that they
could understand why we must always speak out against
antisemitism and hatred in all of its pernicious forms.
The legacy of the Holocaust must always remind us that
silence in the face of such bigotry is complicity.
Remembrance is our eternal duty, but remembrance
without action risks becoming an empty ritual. As
individuals, we must never be indifferent to human
cruelty and human suffering. As nations, we must stand
together across the international community against
antisemitism, which is once again rearing its ugly head
around the world. We must combat other forms of hatred
and educate new generations about the Holocaust. We
must reject those who try to deny the Holocaust or to
distort its history for their own ends. We recognize
that, just as the Holocaust was an act of pure
antisemitism, so too Holocaust denial is a form of
antisemitism. We watch with dismay as the term ``Nazi''
is deployed to make flawed historical parallels.
Efforts to minimize, distort, or blur who the Nazis
were and the genocide they perpetrated are a form of
Holocaust denial and, in addition to insulting both the
victims and survivors of the Holocaust, spread
antisemitism.
My Administration has stepped up our efforts to counter
all the ugly forms antisemitism can take, including
Holocaust denial and distortion. We co-sponsored a
United Nations resolution that charged the
international community with combating Holocaust denial
through education. We are partnering with the German
government to improve Holocaust education and counter
Holocaust denial and distortion. A renowned scholar of
the Holocaust and
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antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, was recently confirmed
as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.
In addition to speaking out against the evils of
antisemitism, I signed--and my Administration continues
to implement--legislation that gives us more tools to
combat crimes that are based on a victim's actual or
perceived race, religion, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender, gender identity or disability. We
issued the first-ever National Strategy for Countering
Domestic Terrorism. My Administration has implemented
increased funding for a program that helps threatened
nonprofits--including houses of worship and other
religious affiliated entities--to improve their safety
and security. On International Holocaust Remembrance
Day, I met with Bronia Brandman and the Vice President
met with Ruth Cohen--both Auschwitz survivors--at the
White House so we could bear witness to their stories,
combat Holocaust denial and distortion, and give life
to the lessons of that most terrible period in human
history.
Those like Bronia and Ruth who survived the Holocaust
and went on to build new lives inspire our Nation and
the world, and they are living testaments to the
enduring resilience of the human spirit. It is the
responsibility of all of us to recognize the pain that
they carry and to support them by ensuring that the
cruelty of the Holocaust is never forgotten. Today and
every day, we stand against antisemitism and all other
forms of hate and continue our work to ensure that
everyone can live in a world that safeguards the
fundamental human dignity of all people.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 24
through May 1, 2022, as a week of observance of the
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, and
call upon the people of the United States to observe
this week and pause to remember victims and survivors
of the Holocaust.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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