PA HR391

Designates January 27, 2026, as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania, aligning with the United Nations observance established in 2005

Commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet soldiers on January 27, 1945, where more than 6,000 prisoners were freed

Recognizes the Holocaust as the state-sponsored persecution and murder of an estimated 17 million people by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945, including approximately 6 million Jewish victims

Acknowledges that Nazi persecution targeted multiple groups including Jewish people, Romani, disabled individuals, homosexuals, Poles, Communists, Soviet citizens, Socialists, and Jehovah's Witnesses

Encourages condemnation of religious intolerance, harassment, or violence against individuals or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief