Presidential Document2023-08430
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 2023
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April 19, 2023
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April 14, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 19, 2023)]
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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: 2023-08430]
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Vol. 88
Wednesday,
No. 75
April 19, 2023
Part III
The President
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Proclamation 10552--Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust,
2023
Proclamation 10553--National Volunteer Week, 2023
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10552 of April 14, 2023
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust,
2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During Yom HaShoah and throughout these days of
remembrance, we mourn the six million Jews who were
murdered during the horror of the Holocaust--as well as
the millions of Roma and Sinti, Slavs, disabled
persons, LGBTQI+ individuals, and political dissidents
who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis and their
collaborators. Together with courageous survivors,
descendants of victims, and people around the world, we
renew our solemn vow: ``never again.''
Last year, I returned to Yad Vashem, the World
Holocaust Remembrance Center, to pay tribute to the
lives that were stolen during this dark chapter of our
history and to honor their memory. I will never forget
meeting with two survivors on that sacred ground and
hearing their stories. The horrors of the Holocaust are
painful to recount--the savage murder of innocent
families and the systemic dehumanization of entire
populations. We remember the cries for help that went
unanswered and the bright futures cut short. We must
never look away from the truth of what happened. The
rite of remembrance becomes more urgent with each
passing year, as fewer survivors remain to share their
stories and open our eyes to the harms of unchecked
hatred.
Unfortunately, hatred never truly goes away. It only
hides--lurking until it is given the oxygen to emerge
again. We have seen this hard truth across our country,
from swastikas on cars and antisemitic banners on
bridges to attacks against Jewish people at schools and
synagogues and outright Holocaust denialism. The venom
and violence of antisemitism goes against all the
values we stand for as Americans. And it is a stark
reminder--as my dear friend Elie Wiesel once said--that
``Indifference is always the friend of the enemy.'' And
as my father taught me, ``silence is complicity.''
My Administration has not and will not be indifferent.
That is why I appointed Deborah Lipstadt, a historian
of the Holocaust, as the first Ambassador-level Special
Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. We are
developing a national strategy to counter
antisemitism--mobilizing the full weight of the Federal
Government to fight this scourge of hate in America--
and we have co-sponsored a United Nations resolution to
combat Holocaust denial through education. We secured
the largest increase in funding ever for the physical
security of nonprofits, including synagogues, Jewish
Community Centers, Jewish day schools, and other houses
of worship. And I convened the first-ever White House
summit on combating hate-fueled violence because nobody
should fear going to a religious service, wearing a
symbol of their faith, or simply being who they are.
Hate must have no safe harbor in America or anywhere
else. Today and always, we make our message clear: Evil
will not win. Hate will not prevail. And the violence
of antisemitism will not be the story of our time.
Together, we can ensure that ``never again'' is a
promise we keep.
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 16
through April 23, 2023, as a week of observance of the
Days of Remembrance
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of Victims of the Holocaust, and I 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
fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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