Presidential Document2024-10523
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, 2024
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May 13, 2024
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May 3, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 93 (Monday, May 13, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 41287-41288]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10523]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89 , No. 93 / Monday, May 13, 2024 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10747 of May 3, 2024
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the
Holocaust, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During Yom HaShoah and these days of remembrance, we
mourn the six million Jews who were systematically
targeted and murdered in the Holocaust, one of the
darkest chapters in human history. We also mourn the
Roma, Sinti, Slavs, people with disabilities, LGBTQI+
people, racial minorities, and political dissidents who
were killed or endured abuse by the Nazis and their
collaborators, as well as those who risked or lost
their lives to protect others. We honor the memories of
the victims, the courage of the survivors, and the
heroism of those who stood up to the Nazis, and we
recommit ourselves to making real the promise of
``Never Again.''
I often reflect on memories of sitting around our
kitchen table where my father would educate my siblings
and me about the horrors of the Holocaust. Entire
families wiped out. Communities savagely destroyed.
Survivors left with memories and traumas that will
never go away--even as the tattoos etched into their
skin by the Nazis fade and the number of survivors
dwindles. My dad taught us that silence is complicity--
a lesson I have passed down to my children and
grandchildren by taking them to the Dachau
concentration camp in Germany. As United States
Senator, as Vice President, and now as President, I
have met with many Holocaust survivors, promising them
that our Nation would neither forget what they endured
nor ever again stand by silently in the face of
antisemitism.
The charge has never been more urgent than in the
aftermath of Hamas' vicious terrorist attack on October
7th--the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Among the 1,200 innocent people who were slaughtered
and the hundreds taken hostage were elderly survivors
of the Shoah, who were forced to relive the horrors
they thought they had escaped decades ago. My
Administration is working tirelessly to free the
hostages who have been held by Hamas for over half a
year--and as I have said to their families, we will not
rest until we bring them home.
While Jews across the country and around the world are
still coping with the trauma of that day and its
aftermath, we have seen an alarming surge in
antisemitism at home and abroad that resurfaces painful
scars of millennia of antisemitism and hate against the
Jewish people. This includes harassment and calls for
violence against Jews--in our schools, in our
communities, and online. This blatant antisemitism is
reprehensible and dangerous. Antisemitic hate speech
has absolutely no place on college campuses or anywhere
else in our country. As Americans, we cannot stay
silent as Jews are attacked, harassed, and targeted. We
must also forcefully push back attempts to ignore,
deny, distort, or revise the history of Nazi atrocities
during the Holocaust or Hamas' murders and other
atrocities committed on October 7th--including the
appalling and unforgiveable use of rape and sexual
assault to terrorize and torture Jewish women and
girls.
My commitment to the safety of the Jewish people and
the security of Israel is ironclad. Under the first-
ever National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, my
Administration is mobilizing the full force of the
Federal Government to crack down on antisemitism and to
ensure hate has no safe harbor in America. We clarified
civil rights protections for Jews under
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Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The
Department of Education is leading investigations into
antisemitism on college campuses. The Department of
Justice is investigating and prosecuting hate crimes.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is focused on
delivering security resources to Jewish communities. We
provided the largest-ever increase in funding for the
physical security of non-profits, including synagogues,
Jewish community centers, and Jewish schools. I
appointed Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust expert, to be
the first-ever Ambassador-level Special Envoy to
Monitor and Combat Antisemitism around the world.
During these somber days of remembrance, we mourn the
lives tragically stolen in the Shoah and on October
7th. As we hold the Jewish community close to our
hearts, we recommit to remembering so that what
happened can never be erased. Some injustices are so
heinous, horrific, and grievous that they cannot be
buried, no matter how hard people try. In silence,
wounds deepen, but in remembrance comes healing,
justice, and repair. Toward those aims, we must all
forcefully act against antisemitism and all forms of
hate-fueled violence. As we do, we honor the courage,
strength, and resilience of the Jewish people, who have
inspired the world for generations by turning pain into
purpose, healing into hope, and darkness into light.
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 May 5 through
May 12, 2024, as a week of observance of the Days of
Remembrance of the 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
third day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand
twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.
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