AR HR1009

Recognizes International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2019 as a memorial day commemorating the Holocaust during World War II.

Acknowledges that January 27 marks the date in 1945 when Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by Soviet forces.

Commemorates the estimated 6 million Jewish victims, 5 million Slavs, 3 million ethnic Poles, 200,000 Romani people, 250,000 people with mental and physical disabilities, and 9,000 homosexual men killed by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators.

Calls for honoring Holocaust victims, developing educational programs about Holocaust history, rejecting Holocaust denial, condemning religious intolerance and violence based on ethnic or religious origin, and preserving Nazi death camps and concentration camps.

Emphasizes the importance of remembering Holocaust lessons to help future generations prevent hatred, bigotry, racism, prejudice, and the violence and human suffering such prejudice can cause.