PA SR223

Designates January 27, 2026, as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania, commemorating the date Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945

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 victims beyond the Jewish population, including Romani, disabled individuals, homosexuals, Poles, Communists, Soviet citizens, Socialists, and Jehovah's Witnesses

Encourages using the day to condemn all manifestations of religious intolerance, harassment, or violence against individuals or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief

Introduced and adopted February 2, 2026, with bipartisan sponsorship from 17 senators