LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM MARVIN L. KAY

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A CAMPAIGN TO REMEMBER
THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM CAMPAIGN
Honorary Chairman: President Ronald Reagan
U.S. HOLOCAUST The Honorable
MEMORIALCOUNCIL William J. Casey
VICECHAIRMAN The Central Intelligence Agency
Mark E Talisman Washington, D.C. 20505
CONGRESSIONAL
MEMBERS
U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Robert Garcia
S. William Green
William Lehman
Stephen J Solari
Sidney R Yates
U.S.SENATE
Paula Hawkins
Bob Kasten
Frank A. Lautenberg
Mack Mattingly
Claiborne Pell
CAMPAIGN CABINET
CO-CHAIRMEN
Miles Lerman
Sigmund Strochlilz
CHAIRMEN
CAMPAIGN STEERING
COMMITTEES
(In formation)
BOSTON
John C Scully
CHICAGO
Patrick J. Doyle, Sr
CONNECTICUT
Leonard E. Greenberg
MARYLAND
Lyn P Meyerhoff
NORTH DAKOTA
Hal Gershman
PHILADELPHIA
Harold W Pole
SAN FRANCISCO
William J. Lowenberg
SOUTH CAROLINA
Melvin Solomon
TEXAS
J Livingston Kosberg
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Marvin L Kay
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
DIRECTOR
Dr David Weinstein
At the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony on April 30, 1981, President Reagan
said: "I am horrified that there are people now trying to say that the
Holocaust never happened."
That concern, shared by a large segment of the population of the United
States, is the reason the Congress, by unanimous vote, created the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council which is charged with the planning,
construction and oversight of a museum memorial to the eleven million
victims of the Holocaust.
The importance of the site selected for the memorial is itself a reflec-
tion of that concern: a highly visible location in the heart of historic
Washington bordered on the east by the great museums of the Smithsonian
and on the west by the Presidential memorials. That concern, that the
world will say, the Holocaust never happened," is why I was honored to
have been selected to chair the "Campaign to Remember" for the metro-
politan Washington, D.C. area, and why I am writing to you in this regard.
While the site for the memorial was provided by our government, it must
be built and equipped by private funding. And, while the campaign is
nationwide, I feel strongly that those of us who live in Washington have
an important responsibility, as residents of the nation's capital, to
help to set the standard for participation in the creation of this museum
memorial.
The enclosed materials present the story of the origins of the Council
and the Museum, and the plans for a living and teaching institution
designed to symbolize the sanctity of life, and by recalling the
Holocaust, to deepen commitment to American values of freedom and
individual dignity.
Please give your most serious consideration to a meaningful commitment to
this historic and moving undertaking. It is so important to all of us
who believe in the rights of human beings to life. I will be asking you
to join with many other citizens who are responding graciously and
generously to insure that we never forget.
Sin,perely,
1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 303
Washington, D.C. 20006-4502
[phone]
Marvin L. Kay, Chair an Washington, D.C. Steering Committee
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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A CAMPAIGN TO REMEMBER
THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM CAMPAIGN
Honorary Chairman President Ronald Reagan
U.S. HOLOCAUST The Honorable
MEMORIAL COUNCIL William J. Casey
CHAIRMAN Director
Elie Wesel
VICECHAIRMAN The Central Intelligence Agency
MarkE Talisman Washington, D.C. 20505
CONGRESSIONAL
MEMBERS
U S HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Robert Garcia
S William Green
William Lehman
Stephen J Solar;
Sidney R Yates
U S SENATE
Paula Hawkins
Bob Kasten
Frank R Laulenhe'g
Mack Matlingly
Claiborne Pell
CAMPAIGN CABINET
CO-CHAIRMEN
Miles Lerman
Sigmund Stroch! t:
CHAIRMEN
CAMPAIGN STEERING
COMMITTEES
(In formation)
BOSTON
John C Scully
CHICAGO
Patrick J Doyle Sr
CONNECTICUT
Leonard E Greenberg
MARYLAND
Lyn P Meyerholl
NORTH DAKOTA
Hal Gershman
PHILADELPHIA
Harold W Pole
SAN FRANCISCO
William J Lowenberg
SOUTH CAROLINA
Melvin Solomon
TEXAS
J Livingston Kosberg
WASHINGTON, D C
Macon L Kay
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
DIRECTOR
Dr David Weinstein
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At the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony on April 30, 1981, President Reagan
said: 'I am horrified that there are people now trying to say that the
Holocaust never happened.'
That concern, shared by a large segment of the population of the United
States, is the reason the Congress, by unanimous vote, created the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council which is charged with the planning,
construction and oversight of a museum memorial to the eleven million
victims of the Holocaust.
The importance of the site selected for the memorial is itself a reflec-
tion of that concern: a highly visible location in the heart of historic
Washington bordered on the east by the great museums of the Smithsonian
and on the west by the Presidential memorials. That concern, that the
world will say, 'the Holocaust never happened," is why I was honored to
have been selected to chair the "Campaign to Remember' for the metro-
politan Washington, D.C. area, and why I am writing to you in this regard.
While the site for the memorial was provided by our government, it must
be built and equipped by private funding. And, while the campaign is
nationwide, I feel strongly that those of us who live in Washington have
an important responsibility, as residents of the nation's capital, to
help to set the standard for participation in the creation of this museum
memorial.
The enclosed materials present the story of the origins of the Council
and the Museum, and the plans for a living and teaching institution
designed to symbolize the sanctity of life, and by recalling the
Holocaust, to deepen commitment to American values of freedom and
individual dignity.
Please give your most serious consideration to a meaningful commitment to
this historic and moving undertaking. It is so important to all of us
who believe in the rights of human beings to life. I will be asking you
to join with many other citizens who are responding graciously and
generously to insure that we never forget.
1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 303
Washington, D.C. 20006-4502
[phone]
Sinperely,
MarviA L. Ray, Chair an~~
Washington, D.C. Steering Committee
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That there
is hereby established the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council . . ."
Public Law 96-388
Passed unanimously by the
Ninety-Sixth Congress of the
United States of America
and signed by the President
on 10/7/80.
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NEVER SHALL
I FORGET.. .
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A CAMPAIGN TO REMEMBER
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A CAMPAIGN TO REMEMBER,
1750 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W. SUITE 303
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006-4502
[phone]
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U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
MUSEUM CAMPAIGN
A Campaign to Remember
President Ronald Reagan, Honorary Chairman
Miles Lerman, Co-Chairman
Sigmund Strochlitz, Co-Chairman
Members of the U. S. Holocaust
Memorial Council
Professor Elie Wiesel, Chairman
Mark E. Talisman, Vice Chairman
Rabbi Joseph Asher
Mr. Tibor Baranski
Mr. Irving Bernstein
Dr. Marver Bernstein
Mr. Hyman Bookbinder
Mr. Victor Borge
Mr. Norman Braman
Dr. Robert McAfee Brown
Professor Harry James
Cargas
Ms. Esther Cohen
Professor Gerson D.
Cohen
Honorable Mario Cuomo
A. Arthur Davis, Esquire
Professor Terrence Des
Pres
Father Constantine N.
Dombalis
Mr. Jaroslav Drabek
Ms. Kitty Dukakis
Professor Willard Fletcher
Mr. Irvin Frank
Mr. Sol Goldstein
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend
Professor Alfred
Gottschalk
Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Ms. Dorothy Height
Father Theodore M.
Hesburgh
Professor Raul Hilberg
Mr. Herbert D. Katz
Julian E. Kulas, Esquire
Professor Norman Lamm
Mr. Miles Lerman
Professor Franklin Littell
Mr. William J. Lowenberg
Steven A. Ludsin, Esquire
Professor Ingeborg G. Mauksch
Mr. Aloysius A. Mazewski
Mr. Benjamin Meed
Dr. Ruth Miller
Mr. Set Momjian
Father John T. Pawlikowski
Rabbi Bernard S. Raskas
Mr. Edward H. Rosen
Dr. Hadassah Rosensaft
Mr. Bayard Rustin
Dr. Abram L. Sachar
Edward Sanders, Esquire
Mr. Julius Schatz
Richard Schifter, Esquire
Mr. Sigmund Strochlitz
Mr. Kalman Sultanik
Mr. Laurence A. Tisch
Mr. Glenn E. Watts
Mr. Siggi B. Wilzig
Mr. Eli Zborowski
Congressional Members
Senator Paula Hawkins
Senator Bob Kasten
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
Senator Mack Mattingly
Senator Claiborne Pell
Representative Robert Garcia
Representative S. William Green
Representative William Lehman
Representative Stephen J. Solarz
Representative Sidney R. Yates
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign
1750 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 303
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-737-5000
TfIE
UNITED SPATES
HOLOCAUST
MEMORIAL
MUSEUM
A Nation Remembers
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"B States it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, that there is hereby established
the United States Holocaust Memorial Council ..."
With these words, the Congress of the United States in 1980, dur-
ing the presidency of Jimmy Carter, took the first step toward the crea-
tion of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and made, as
an element of national policy, the commitment to institutionalize the
official remembrance of the darkest chapter in modern history-the
Holocaust.
To carry out this congressional mandate, the United States Holo-
caust Memorial Council established "A Campaign to Remember;"
which is charged with raising $100 million for the Museum. By law, all
funds necessary to design, construct and operate the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum must be contributed by private sources-individ-
uals, corporations, unions, and religious and civic groups. President
Ronald Reagan has assumed the honorary chairmanship of the
Campaign.
In 1985, on the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the liber-
ation of the concentration camps, and the end of the scourge of
officially-sanctioned Naziism, Americans embarked upon a Campaign
to Remember. When this Campaign is successfully concluded, the peo-
ple of America will have created a resource of infinite power and histor-
ical value-a Museum that will touch, inspire, awe and irrevocably
change all who feel its influence.
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What was the Holocaust?
A The systematic annihilation of six million Jews
by the Nazis; the most comprehensive and
successful, state-engineered genocide in re-
corded history.
Q Were there other victims of the Nazi era?
A Yes. There were millions who suffered tor-
ment and death throughout the countries oc-
cupied by Germany during World War II. The
Nazis killed and enslaved political activists
and anti-Nazi intellectuals of more than 20 na-
tionalities. They persecuted priests and patri-
ots, cultural and political leaders in Holland,
France, Norway, Greece, Poland, Czechoslo-
vakia, the Ukraine, and the other countries
they invaded. Many Jehovah's Witnesses, ho-
mosexuals and Gypsies also were persecuted
or marked for annihilation. The murderous
zeal of Nazi brutality finally reached its
depths in the concentration camps and death
factories of Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Ausch-
witz, Dachau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and
other crematoria and death camps.
Q Why are we building a Holocaust Museum in
the United States? After all, the Holocaust
happened in Europe.
A As President Carter noted: "Although the
Holocaust took place in Europe, the event is of
fundamental significance to Americans for
three reasons. First, it was American troops
who liberated many of the death camps, and
who helped to expose the horrible truth of
what had been done there. Also, the United
States became a homeland for many of those
who were able to survive. Secondly, however,
we must share the responsibility for not being
willing to acknowledge forty years ago that
this horrible event was occurring. Finally, be-
cause we are humane people, concerned with
the human rights of all peoples, we feel com-
pelled to study the systematic destruction of
the Jews so that we may seek to learn how to
prevent such enormities from occurring in the
future."
President Reagan has said, "Imparting the
message of the Holocaust. . . rests upon all of
us who, not immobilized by cynicism and
negativism, believe that mankind is capable of
greater goodness. For just as the genocide of
the Holocaust debased civilization, the out-
come of the struggle against those who ran
the camps and committed the atrocities gives
us hope that the human spirit will, in the end,
triumph."
Q What is the United States Holocaust Memorial
Council?
A When Congress mandated the establishment
of the Museum, it created an independent
Federal agency, the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council. This Council consists of 55
members of all faiths, appointed by the Presi
dent, five United States Senators and five
members of the House of Representatives. In
addition, there are advisory boards of promi-
nent professionals, academicians and human-
itarians. The Council is responsible for plan
ning, designing and, through its national
Campaign board co-chaired by Miles Lerman
and Sigmund Strochlitz, raising funds for the
Museum. The Council's chairman is Elie Wie-
sel, human rights activist, author, teacher and
concentration camp survivor.
Q Where in Washington will the Museum be
located?
A The site, selected and made available by the
Federal government, is located between 14th
and 15th Streets, in the shadow of the Wash-
ington Monument and close to the Smithson-
ian and other museums on the Mall.
ARCHITECTS NOTTER, FINEGOLD 8 ALEXANDER INC.
ASSOCIATE ARCHITECTS MARIANI & ASSOCIATES UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
CONSULTING ARCHITECT KARL KAUFMAN WASHINGTON, D.C.
How will the Museum be funded?
A While the Federal government has provided
the land, the Museum, by statute, must be
constructed solely with private funds. More
than ten million dollars had been contributed
by the end of April 1985.
Are contributions tax-deductible?
A Yes. The law creating the Council makes con-
tributions to the Museum tax-deductible.
Checks should be made payable to the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign.
Every contribution is acknowledged. Pledges
payable on a scheduled basis are also wel-
comed.
What is the total amount of funds needed?
A CONCEPT PROPOSAL
A The Campaign has a 5-year goal of $100 mil-
lion. Of this total, approximately thirty per-
cent will be used to construct the 275,000-
square-foot facility. Forty-five percent is allot-
ted to equip the Museum, create exhibits,
install computer systems, and acquire archi-
val, artifact, film and library collections. The
remaining twenty-five percent will be used
for an endowment fund, to provide for neces-
sary maintenance and operating costs of the
Museum.
Q How will the Museum be organized?
A The Museum will integrate the crucial roles of
remembrance, teaching, and documenting
both history and human response. Com-
memoration, bearing witness, education and
research each will be expressed in separate
halls, permanent and changing exhibit areas,
and information resources. These resources,
by virtue of their electronic formats, will be
readily accessible to visitors, scholars, col
leges, schools, and homes throughout the
United States and abroad.
Q What programs will the Museum offer?
A The Museum will support the highest level of
academic research, curriculum development
and teacher training services. The archival,
artifact and library collections will provide
fundamental resources for visitors, students,
teachers and scholars.
The Museum will be a central address for
sharing curricula, textbooks, audio-visual
materials and teaching techniques. It will also
be instrumental in integrating the archival
collections of Holocaust Memorial institu-
tions throughout the world.
Q When will the Museum be open?
A The Council has set the spring of 1989 as the
target date for completion of the Museum.
"In building this Museum," said Elie Wie
sel, "we feel we accomplish a mission the vic-
tims have assigned us: to collect memories
and tears, fragments of fire and sorrow, tales
of despair and defiance, and names ... above
all, names. Then we shall bring words. Even
in Buchenwald and Treblinka, laboratories for
total extermination, there were historians. It
is our duty to take their message, keep it,
study it, cherish it"
For further information, please contact:
Dr. David Weinstein, National Campaign Director
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign
1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 303
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-737-5000
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
MUSEUM CAMPAIGN NEWS
A Campaign to Remember
CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY IN 20 STATES
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will ensure that succeeding generations remember the Holocaust. As President Reagan, honorary chairman of the Campaign, has said, "The memory
of this greatest of human tragedies, the Holocaust, should never fade and its lesson never be forgotten. "
$14.5 Million Raised for Museum to Data,
Construction Slated to Start in Fall
More than $14.5 million in gifts and pledges
has been raised toward the construction of the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, Dr. David Weinstein, national
director of A Campaign to Remember, re-
ported. This represents an increase of $4.5 mil-
lion since the official Campaign kickoff in April.
"We are excited by the Campaign's progress
and support from all sectors of American life,
which should enable construction of the Museum
to begin in the fall," Dr. Weinstein said.
The Campaign to Remember is the volunteer-
led fundraising activity of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council. The Council, an independent
federal agency, was given the mandate by Con-
gress to create a living memorial museum honor-
ing the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust
and the millions of others who died at the hands
of the Nazis. Apart from Israel, the U.S. will be
the only country with a national Holocaust
Museum.
Campaign Leadership
Elie Wiesel, author, human rights activist and
survivor of the Holocaust, is chairman of the
Council. He has committed an extraordinary
amount of time and vision to the Campaign and
has promised that "no visitor will leave (the
Museum) unchanged." Co-chairmen of the Cam-
paign are Miles Lerman of Vineland, N.J., and
Sigmund Strochlitz of New London, Conn., both
Holocaust survivors. President Reagan is
honorary chairman of the Campaign. Sam E.
Bloch of Philadelphia is chairman of the Coun-
cil's Board of Advisers.
The Council has targeted early 1989 for com-
pletion of the Museum, which will be built on
federal land near the Mall and the Washington
Monument. It will be constructed entirely with
private donations, as required by law.
The Campaign expects to reach its fundrais-
ing goal of $100 million in five years. Thirty
million dollars is needed for constructing the
275,000-square-foot facility; $45 million for
equipping the Museum, creating exhibits, install-
ing computer systems, and acquiring archival, ar-
tifact, film and library collections; and $25
million for an endowment fund to cover operating
and other costs.
Museum Draws Support
The Museum is being planned as a living in-
stitution that will serve visitors of all ages and
backgrounds. It has the support of people from
all sectors of American life-religious, business
and civic leaders; veterans; foundation officers;
government officials, and many others. The
American labor movement, through individual
members and leaders, is actively participating in
the Campaign. The Christian community, as in-
dividuals and institutions, is offering support.
Non-Jewish ethnic Americans, such as Slavs,
'Poles, Gypsies and Armenians, are contributing
to the effort.
The 65-member Council reflects this broad
support. It includes 10 Members of Congress:
Sens. Paula Hawkins, Bob Kasten, Frank
Lautenberg, Mack Mattingly and Claiborne Pell;
and Reps. Robert Garcia, S. William Green,
William Lehman, Stephen Solarz and Sidney
Yates.
The,nation's governors are actively working
to support the Museum. Mrs. Kitty Dukakis, a
member of the Holocaust Memorial Council, is
coordinating the effort to organize support from
them. She announced recently that she has com-
mitments from more than 30 governors to hold
a major event for the Campaign. The goal for
each event is $1 million.
Steering Committees Created
The focus of the Campaign currently is the
establishment of steering committees in 25
metropolitan areas throughout the country. Steer-
ing commitees have been created in Boston,
Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta,
North Dakota, South Carolina, Connecticut, Los
Angeles, San Francisco/Oakland and Texas. Ad-
ditional committees are being formed in six cities.
In each area, 20 corporations or individuals,
Jewish and non-Jewish, are being asked to serve
on the steering committee and to make contribu-
tions over a five-year period.
Donations for the Museum should be sent to
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Cam-
paign, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite
303, Washington, D.C. 20006. All contributions
are tax deductible and will be acknowledged.
Museum Design Okayed
Progress on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum moved forward significantly on July 23
when the Executive Committee of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council approved a revised
design concept of the Museum. This approval
followed design revisions which had been recom-
mended by key regulatory bodies.
Construction is expected to begin in September
after formal approval is obtained from the
Secretary of the Interior, as required by law.
Positive reviews from the Fine Arts Commission,
which oversees architectural standards for federal
buildings, and from the National Capital Planning
Commission were submitted in late June.
The site for the Museum, stretching from 14th
to 15th Streets and located between the historic
Auditor's Building and the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing near the Mall, has been cleared.
As approved by the Council, the Museum will
contain 275,000 to 290,000 square feet. There
will be a special Hall of Remembrance, and
spaces for both permanent and changing exhibits.
The Museum will serve regional and local
Holocaust centers through its outreach program,
which will include lectures, seminars, teacher
training, curriculum development, classes, films
and traveling exhibits. It will'contain space for
a library, archive, auditorium and classrooms.
The Museum also will provide archival ma-
terials to other institutions, and will make its
information resources available by computer to
colleges, research centers, museums and other
institutions worldwide.
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"I wholeheartedly support the Holocaust
Memorial Museum, and will be an active
participant, not just a spectator, in this pro-
ject of importance to all Americans."
--Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (Kan.)
Texas Governor
Opens Mansion for
Campaign Dinner
AUSTIN-The governor's mansion was the
scene of the Texas Campaign kickoff May 22 on
behalf of the Holocaust Museum.
Gov. Mark White, chairman of the Texas ef-
fort, was host for 70 business, community and
professional leaders from around the state, and
more than $1 million was pledged on behalf of
the Museum Campaign.
It is most fitting that the Museum will sit be-
tween memorials to two of history's greatest
champions of human freedom-George Washing-
ton and Thomas Jefferson," said Gov. White.
"Just as their monuments stand as eternal
reminders of the struggle to secure human rights,
so too will the Holocaust Memorial Museum
serve so that future generations will never forget
that the cause of human rights must forever
endure. "
J. Livingson Kosberg of Houston, a prominent
financier and chairman of the state Department
of Human Resources, is assisting the governor
by coordinating the Texas fundraising effort.
Dinner guests included Mr. and Mrs. M.
Robert Hecht of Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
Kane of Corpus Christi, and Miles Lerman, na-
tional Campaign co-chairman.
Holocaust survivors David Cukierman, Bill
Morgan and Marcus Rosenberg also attended.
Holocaust Memorial Council Chairman Elie
Wiesel spoke to the dinner guests after having
addressed a joint session of the state legislature
earlier in the day. Speaking before a packed
gallery in the House of Representatives, Wiesel
described his experiences in Auschwitz and
Buchenwald and thanked Americans for their
fight against Hitler.
He urged them never to forget what happened
to Jews and others in occupied Europe. "For we
have seen what it takes for history to go astray,
and we have determined never to allow history
to go astray again," he said.
Two more dinners are being planned by Gov.
White and Kosberg for Houston and Dallas in
October.
"The purpose of the Holocaust Memorial
Museum is to build a record to assure that
future generations remember the systematic
genocide of the Jews in Europe. We must
make certain that the people of all nations
never close their eyes to persecution or to the
violation of basic human rights."
--House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (Mass.)
"The Museum will serve as a permanent
symbol of the commitment by all people of
the United States never to forget the tragedy
of the Holocaust. It will stand as a message
to the world that Americans will never rest
until liberty it secure for all people in every
land on earth."
-Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.)
"This Museum will be a permanent reminder
to future generations of one of the darkest
chapters in history. It will also symbolize our
commitment to insuring that this tragedy will
never be repeated."
-Senator Paul Laxalt (Nev.)
"We must defeat all attempts to deny the
Holocaust... We have made great progress
toward this goal by establishing the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council. . . . "
-Senator Alfonse D'Arnato (N. Y.)
"The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
will serve as a symbol of our unwavering
commitment to help people remember,
understand and never again repeat the
violence that millions of innocent human
beings suffered in the Holocaust."
-Senator Bob Packwood (Ore.)
"The Holocaust Museum will be a fitting
and solemn tribute to the millions victimized
by the Nazi horror and will serve as a
reminder to future generations of our
pledge-never again."
-Senator John Glenn (Ohio)
"We must remember, so that we can
rededicate ourselves to the simple irreducible
proposition: 'Never again'."
-Senator Christopher Dodd (Conn.)
". . At is so important for all of us today
and every day for all humanity to be certain
that it will never be forgotten, never
diminished, never denied."
-Senator Howard Met:enbaum (Ohio)
Houston philanthropist Bertha Alyce Segall announces her pledge to banker and investor Bob Hecht during
fundraiser in Texas Governor's mansion. Seated are Gov. White (left) and Elie Wiesel.
D.C. Holds Four Events
"Four successful events already held in the na-
tion's capital have made us optimistic that we will
make a major contribution to the Holocaust Mu-
seum," Washington Steering Committee Chair-
man Marvin L. Kay has noted.
The activities began Nov. 14, 1984, with a
luncheon in the home of real estate developer
Norman Bernstein. Guests included Albert
Abramson, a developer and chairman of the
Building Committee of the Holocaust Memorial
Council.
Gerald Sigal, head of a construction manage-
ment firm, opened his Georgetown home for a
luncheon on Jan. 23, 1985. Sigal offered his
firm's services at no cost to help build the
Museum.
Father Timothy S. Healy, S.J., president of
Georgetown University, held a dinner for the
Museum Campaign in his private dining room
on the campus June 3rd. Chairmen for the din-
ner were John McMahon and Nick Paleologos,
partners in a Washington area construction
company.
Others in attendance included Aaron Goldman,
retired chairman of Macke Co., and Julia Walsh,
president of the Greater Washington Board of
Trade and a leading investment counselor.
J. Livingston Kosberg of Houston is coordinating the
Texas Campaien .
Georgetown University President Timothy S. Healy, S. J. (left) explains Museum model at dinner he .spon-
sored. With him, from left, are John McMahon, president, and Nick Paleologos, executive vice president,
Miller and Long Construction Co.; and Gerald Sigal, Sigal Construction Co.
On June 18, attorney Ralph Dweck and his wife
were hosts at a dinner in their home on Embassy
Row for 50 professional and business leaders.
Mark Talisman, vice chairman of the Council,
addressed the group. Among the guests was Sig-
mund Strochlitz, national co-chairman of A Cam-
paign to Remember.
Steering Committee Chairman Kay, secretary-
treasurer of Richmarr Construction Corporation,
said that developers Abe Pollin and Charles Smith
and author Herman Wouk have recently been
added to the Steering Committee.
Marvin Kay (left), Washington Steering Committee chairman, talks with Mark Campaign Co-Chairman Miles Lerman shows Museum model to dinner hosts
Talisman, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council vice chairman, at Dweck dinner. Ralph and Louie Dweck.
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Governor's Dinner
Raises $1 Million
in Massachusetts
BOSTON-More than 800 Massachusetts com-
munity and business leaders launched the Bay
State's Campaign for the Holocaust Memorial
Museum at a dinner in the State House with
Governor and Mrs. Michael Dukakis as hosts.
More than $1 million was raised for the
Museum Campaign, it was announced by Barbara
and Steven Grossman, co-chairmen of the event.
"This very special event, the first dinner of its
kind ever held in the State House, exceeded all
expectations in the number of dedicated leaders
it attracted," said Mrs. Grossman. "Jews and
non-Jews from extraordinarily diverse constituen-
cies sensed the urgency of this project and sup-
ported it from the outset."
Governor and Mrs. Dukakis, the dinner's
hosts, attributed its success to strong personal in-
volvement and "inspirational leadership" by the
Grossmans. Kitty Dukakis is a member of the
Holocaust Memorial Council.
Elie Wiesel, Council chairman, was the
featured speaker at the dinner. He stressed the
goal of the Museum is to impart knowledge and
understanding about the Holocaust to all levels
of society. "We must unite in an endeavor to
maintain the sanctity of the memory of the vic-
tims if we wish to assure the future of our
children," he said.
While the governor's dinner was being organiz-
ed, the Campaign Steering Committee for the
Boston area was moving into high gear under the
direction of John C. Scully, executive vice presi-
dent of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Scully and co-chairman Norman Cahners
already have drafted 20 members for the Steer-
ing Committee and scheduled a mid-July planning
meeting for the group.
Elie Wiesel (center) was the featured speaker at the Massachusetts Campaign dinner at which Gov. and Mrs.
Michael Dukakis were hosts.
Barbara and Steven Grossman were co-chairmen of the Massachusetts Campaign dinner, held in
the State House.
Scully attributed his assuming the chairman's
role to a "desire to get more than the Jewish com-
munity involved in the Museum construction ef-
fort. I have a personal belief in the importance
of the Holocaust Museum that I want to share
with as many people as I can," he said.
Pritzker Hosts Chicago Major Gifts Luncheon
A.N. Pritzker was host for Chicago Campaign Patrick Doyle is Steering Committee chairman for
luncheon. Chicago.
CHICAGO---A.N. Pritzker, founder of the
Hyatt Hotel chain, was host to 45 Chicago area
businessmen and women at a luncheon April 24
for the Museum Campaign.
Patrick Doyle. president of McDade & Co., is
Steering Committee chairman for the Windy
City.
As a Christian I am sensitive to the fact that
world indifference toward the Jews helped create
the Holocaust," Doyle said. "By participating
in this effort to build the U.S. Holocaust Mu-
seum, I am helping to prevent future generations
from being indifferent toward genocide."
Norman Ross, vice president of the First Na-
tional Bank of Chicago and a well-known radio
personality, was master of ceremonies for the
luncheon. Also attending was Adam Starkopf, a
Holocaust survivor and retired plastics company
executive.
The luncheon, held in the Hyatt Regency Hotel,
featured the first showing at a Campaign event
outside Washington of the Museum model de-
veloped by architects Notter, Finegold & Alex-
ander, Inc.
Several lunches and dinners are being planned
for the fall and winter in Chicago. The next ma-
jor event in the city will be a dinner hosted by
Gov. James Thompson on October 13, Doyle
said.
Campaign Briefs
Governors from around the country are
taking key Campaign roles. More than 30
have committed to holding major fundrais-
ing events, and the following are planning
dinners:
James Blanchard, Michigan. November
10 ... Harry Hughes, Maryland, October
5 ... William O'Neill, Connecticut,
fall ... Rudy Perpich, Minnesota,
October ...Charles Robb, Virginia,
September 22... James Thompson,
Illinois, October 13.
Newly-appointed city and state Steering
Committee chairpersons include: Hal
Gershman, North Dakota, Grand Forks
businessman; Lyn P. MeyerhofT, Maryland,
Baltimore community leader and recent
public delegate to the United Nations: and
Harold W. Pote, Philadelphia, chairman of
Fidelity Bank.
Other Campaign activities around the
country include the following:
Los Angeles-Barry Bruk is sponsoring
a dinner September 22 ... New Steering
Committee members include Nathan Shap-
pell, Fred Diament, Sam and Gertrude
Goetz, Abe Spiegel and Stanley
Hirsh... Shappell and Spiegel are planning
a Campaign dinner.
New York-A dinner sponsored by the
Central Businessman's Club on June 15
raised $317,000... Abe and Stella Baum
will sponsor an event in September ... New
Steering Committee members include Abe
Baum, Rose and Martin Buchwald, Isaac
Student and Thomas Weisz.
Connecticut--Leonard E. Greenberg,
chairman of Coleco Industries, is the
recently-appointed state Steering Commit-
tee chairman. . New Steering Committee
members include Simon Konover and
David Chase.
"The Holocaust is something that we
should remember so that it will never happen
again."
"I am pleased that the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council is formulating
plans for the construction of a museum to
serve as a memorial to all of the victims of
the Holocaust."
-Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Archbishop of Chicago
"I wholeheartedly endorse the establish-
ment of a museum in our nation's capital to
honor the victims of the Holocaust and wish
your committee a most successful campaign."
-77u' Right Reverend Paul Moore, Jr.
Bishop of'New York
"We are our brother's keeper. We must
never turn a blind eye to the sufferings in-
flicted around the world ... And we must
never delude ourselves. Mankind's capacity
for evil did not die in the hunker with
Hitler."
-The Honorable George P. Slnlt;.
Secretary of State
"I am pleased to be part of a project which
is close to my heart and which has been en-
dorsed by the Executive Council of the AFL-
CIO.-
-Line Kirkland
President, AFL.-('10
"It is absolutely essential that Americans
understand the historical significance of what
transpired during World War II, for only a
living historical memorial can insure that the
more ugly aspects of mankind's history are
never repeated."
-Zbignieu' Brzecinski
Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Georgetown University
''The germ that exploded into an epidemic
of mass murder in one nation at one time is a
germ that goes with man at all times and in
all places. Awareness of the past is no sure
antidote, but ignorance of history is a
breeding ground for the next epidemic."
Hodding Carter III
Journalist
"The Holocaust is the emblematic fact of
the century. It is the black sun into which we
cannot bear to stare, but must. It is right that
the Holocaust Museum will be established at
the epicenter of our national life, on the Mall
in Washington. No other nation has the grave
responsibilities ours has, so we, especially,
need to confront the cruelest face of
history."
-George F. Will
Journalist
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ON FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY-The Nation Remembers
Ceremony in Capitol Rotunda-During the
annual Days of Remembrance observance spon-
sored by the Holocaust Memorial Council in
April, the national commemoration was held
under the great dome of the Capitol Rotunda. In
a solemn ceremony Secretary of the Army John
Marsh formally presented the 10 flags of the
Army units that liberated the death camps to
Council Chairman Elie Wiesel for display in the
future Museum. Speaking in commemoration of
the Holocaust victims were Secretary of State
George P. Shultz; Senator Claiborne Pell (R.I.)
and Representative Stephen J. Solarz, both Coun-
cil members; Council Vice Chairman Mark E.
Talisman; and Benjamin Meed and Sigmund
Strochlitz, co-chairmen of the Days of Remem-
brance Committee.
Reception held by Senator Dole-In another
Days of Remembrance event, Senate Majority
Leader Robert E. Dole (Kan.) sponsored a recep-
tion officially launching the Campaign. Senator
Dole vowed to take an active Campaign role, in
remarks before Council members, Campaign
supporters, members of Congress and Ad-
ministration officials.
The Senator's pledge of support was echoed
by Senator Howard Metzenbaum (Ohio) and
others. Campaign co-chairmen Miles Lerman and
Sigmund Strochlitz were honored for their efforts
in getting the Campaign into full swing across
the country.
Among those attending were Health and
Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler;
Energy Secretary John Herrington and his wife,
Assistant Attorney General Lois Haight Herr-
ington; Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel;
Smithsonian Secretary Robert McC. Adams;
Senators Paula Hawkins (Fla.), Bob Kasten
(Wis.), Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Mack Mat-
Secretary of State George P. Shultz memorializes Key members of Congress and the Reagan Administration attended the Rotunda ceremony. From left are Senators
Holocaust victims in Rotunda observance. Frank R. Lautenberg (N.J.), John C. Danforth (Mo.), Paula Hawkins (Fla.), Interior Secretary Donald Hodel,
Sen. Rudy Boschwitz (Minn.) and Rep. Jack F. Kemp (N.Y.).
tingly (Ga.), all Council members; Senators Rudy Breakfast on Capitol Hill-Speaking at a lowing the program of commemoration, Albert
Boschwitz (Minn.), Chris Dodd (Conn.), Chic Remembrance Breakfast in the Dirksen Senate Abramson, a Washington developer and chair-
Hecht (Nev.) and Arlen Specter (Pa.), and Office Building were Senator Frank Lautenberg man of the Council's Building Committee, un-
Representatives Bobbie Fiedler (Cal.) and S. (N.J.), a Council member, and Council Chair- veiled the preliminary Museum design for Coun-
William Green (N.Y.), a Council member. man Wiesel and Vice Chairman Talisman. Fol- cil members.
The Dole reception drew a large number of Campaign and Congressional leaders. From left are Sigmund
Strochlitz, Campaign co-chairman; Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (N.J.), member of the Holocaust Memorial
Council; Miles Lerman, Campaign co-chairman; and Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum (Ohio).
Senate Majority Leader Robert E. Dole (Kan.) speaks at a reception he sponsored officially launching the
Campaign. At right is a blowup of the special cancellation stamp used by the Postal Service during the Days
of Remembrance to commemorate the liberation of Nazi death camps.
Many Holocaust Memorial Council members attended the Remembrance Breakfast. From left are Father John
T. Pawlikowski, Julian E. Kulas, national Campaign Co-Chairman Miles Lerman, Set Momjian and Tibor
Baranski.
National Campaign Director David Weinstein (left) and Albert Abramson, chairman of the Council's Building
Committee, were prominent guests at the Remembrance Breakfast in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM CAMPAIGN
1750 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 303, Washington, D.C. 20006 [phone]
Miles Lerman and Sigmund Strochlitz, Campaign Co-chairmen; Dr. David Weinstein, National Campaign Director; Diane D. Sternberg, Newsletter Editor
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"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That there
is hereby established the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council ... "
Laa. ' 388
i asscd una^;mc,i:~iv by the
':Ninety-Sixth Cor g ess of the
United States of America
and signed by the President
on 10/7/80.
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NEVER SHALL
I FORGET.. .
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1933 -1940
? Hitler comes to power in Germany.
? Books by Jewish authors burned.
? German Jews imprisoned and forced
to emigrate.
? Concentration camp established at
Dachau.
? Synagogues burned.
? Eastern Europe attacked.
? Jews of Eastern Europe forced into
labor camps and sealed into ghettos.
On the way
to the
hospital.
(Buchenwald)
by Henri Pieck
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1941-1943
? Massacres in Odessa, Kiev, Rovno
-93,000 dead.
? United States enters the war.
? Wannsee Conference on Nazi "Final
Solution of the Jewish Question'.
0 Einsatz Gruppen Massacre -
11/2 million Jews murdered in areas
near their homes.
? 300,000 Jews from Warsaw Ghetto
deported to Treblinka.
? German Sixth Army surrenders at
Stalingrad.
? Revolt of Jews at Warsaw Ghetto.
? Himmler orders liquidation of all
Polish Jewish ghettos.
? Jewish partisans leave Vilna Ghetto
for forest to continue resistance to
Nazis.
? Revolts at Treblinka death camp and
Bialystok Ghetto.
? United States War Crimes
Commission is established.
Le betail humain.
(Procession of
inmates and
transport train)
By Louis Heller
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1944-1945
? D-Day.
? Himmler orders Auschwitz
crematoria destroyed to hide
evidence of death camp.
? American troops liberate Buchen-
wald death camp.
? British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen
death camp.
? Soviet troops liberate Maidanek
death camp.
? Allied troops liberate Dachau camp.
? Hitler commits suicide.
? Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal.
Twelve defendants sentenced to
death.
Three to life imprisonment.
Four to various prison terms.
Three acquitted.
The death Train
by Itzchak Belfer
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Q
The night spread
and millions of
other peoples were
caught up in the
Nazi atrocities.
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HITLER'S EUROPE
(Autumn 1042'
~uh!crt t~r~ ; i'l~ t'r- nnt~i~tr
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Eyewitness
"The things I saw beggar description ...The visual
evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty,
and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit
sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or
thirty naked men killed by starvation, George Patton
would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did
so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position
to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the
future, there develops a tendency to charge these allega-
tions merely to 'propaganda"'
General I) ight I). Eisenhower
Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe
from a letter to (hief of Staff George Marshall
April 12, 1045
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" I am horrified
that there are
people now
trying to say
that the
Holocaust
never happened"
President Ronald Reagan
at Holocaust Remembrance . rrenwm,
April 30, I-81, The Fast Roost,
I he White House.
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1! is a particular pleasure for me to he
here with von today. This meeting, this
ceremony has meaning not only for people
oc the Jewish faith, those who have been
persecuted but for all who want to pre-
vent another I lolocaust.
Jeremiah wrote of the days when
Je s were carried off to Babylon and Jeru-
alem was destroyed. He said, Jerusalem
weeps in the night and tears run down her
cheeks. Ioday, yes, we remember the sut-
tering and the death of Jews and of all
those others who were persecuted in
World War II. We trv to recapture the hor-
ror of millions sent to gas chambers and
crematoria. And wvc commemorate the
davs of April in 1045 when American and
Allied troops liberated the Nazi death
camps. The tragedy that ended 3e years
ago was still raw in our memories because
it took placer as ~,e ve been told, in our
life time. We share the wounds of the sur-
vivors. We recall the pain only because we
must never permit it to come again...
'I m horrified today %, hen 1 know that
in here, that there are actually people now
trying to say that the Holocar.st was in-
vented, that it never happened, that there
weren't six million people whose lives were
taken cruelly and needlessly in that event,
that all of this is propaganda. '\ell, not
only do we have survivors today to tell us
first-hand, but in World War II, I was in
the military assigned to a post ~, here every
week, we obtained from every branch of
the service all over the world the combat
film that was taken in every branch. And I
remember April 45 .seeing, the first film
that came in when the war was still on.
Our troops had come upon the first camps
and had entered those cam ps. And you
saw, unretouched .. and no way that it
could have been rehearsed - what they
saw - the horror they s,av,' _
And that film still. I know, must exist
in the military, and there it is, living motion
pictures, for anyone to see and I wont go
into the horrible scenes that %,e sat,. But,
it remains with me as confirmation of our
right to rekindle these memories, because
we need always guard against that kind of
tyranny and inhumanity. Our spirit is
strengthened by remembering and our
hope is our strength. There is an American
poem that says humanity, with all its fears
and all its hopes, depends on us.
The hope of a ceremony such as this
is that even a tortured Nast holds promise
if we learn its lessons. According to Isaiah
there will be a new heaven and a new
earth and the voice of weeping will be
heard no more. Together, with the help of
God, we can bear the burden of our night-
mare. It is up to us to ensure Ihat we
never live it again.'
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" The Holocaust
was the
quintessence
of sin..!,
From a Sermon preached by
The Reverend John C. Danforth,
A United States Senator from Missouri,
on the occasion of
Days of Remembrance
of the Victims of the Holocaust,
at the National Cathedral,
Washington, D.C.
Sunday, April 29, 1979, 11 A.M.
".. A f that hideous course of events is
never to recur, it is the responsibility not
only of Jews as victims to reflect on the
meaning of the Holocaust; it is the respon-
sibility of Christians as well ...
"The Holocaust was the quintessence
of sin-the ultimate example of the abuse
of human freedom.
"It is as old as the beginning of
Genesis. God created man good and also
free. That is the story of Creation. And
the story of the Fall is that we abuse that
freedom, rebel against our creator, and
war against our brother. The Holocaust
testifies not to the cruelty or the indif-
ference of God, but instead it testifies to
the profound seriousness, the awful conse-
quences of human sin. Our tendency to
evil, yours and mine, is not a trivial mat-
ter. It is not a game to be taken lightly.
It is an overturning of God's order, for
which we are accountable, and which
leads, in its extreme manifestation, to
Holocaust ...
"That is precisely why it is appropriate
to reflect on the Holocaust in the light of
the Christian faith. It is not simply a mat-
ter of exhortation to do good and avoid
evil. It is not simply a matter of an emo-
tional remembrance and an appeal to treat
one another in a more humane manner.
Emotions are impermanent. They come
and go. Exhortations are forgotten soon
after they are made. A commitment not to
persecute must be something more than a
fleeting whim, emanating from the good
feeling of the moment...
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"If we are to avoid Holocausts of the
future, you and I have an obligation to
accept these basic principles today and to
act in accordance with them.
"First, we are compelled to recognize
that all people, no matter who they are or
where they are, are the Children of God
... created by Him and for his purposes,
and entitled to our respect-to our love-
because they are His. We cannot humili-
ate, we cannot destroy others because to
do so is to destroy the people of God.
"Second, we are expressly forbidden to
judge or condemn other people. This is a
point made not just once or twice, but
over and over again in the New Testament
The notion that we are somehow better
than others and that we are vested with
some special commission to impose what
we believe on others contradicts the mean-
ing of the New Testament.
"Finally, the Christian faith proclaims
that the establishment of the Kingdom of
God is His work and His alone. The estab-
lishment of a new order-a Third Reich -
with an idolized fuhrer as its leader is, in
its essence, an act of rebellion against
God...
"What, then, can prevent the occur-
rence of another Holocaust? It cannot be a
fleeting mood of kindness nor an exhorta-
tion from this or any other public rostrum.
It can only be a faith which alone claims
our total commitment, with which a
Holocaust cannot coexist, and which com-
mands us that we are to love the Lord our
God with all our hearts, our souls and our
minds, and we are to love our neighbors
as ourselves."
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The uniqueness
of the Holocaust
Adapted From: Report by
President's Commission on the Holocaust
(Sept. 27, 1979)
Be Wiesel, chairman
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureau-
cratic annihilation of six million Jews by
the Nazis and their collaborators as a cen-
tral act of state during the Second World
War; as night descended, millions of other
peoples were swept into this net of death.
It was a crime unique in the annals of
human history, different not only in the
quantity of violence-the sheer numbers
killed-but in its manner and purpose as a
mass criminal enterprise organized by the
state against defenseless civilian popula-
tions. The decision to kill every Jew every-
where in Europe: the definition of Jew as
target for death transcended all bound-
aries. There is evidence indicating that the
Nazis intended ultimately to wipe out the
Slavs and other peoples; had the war con-
tinued or had the Nazis triumphed, Jews
might not have remained the final victims
of Nazi genocide, but they were certainly
its first.
The concept of the annihilation of an
entire people, as distinguished from their
subjugation, was unprecedented; never
before in human history had genocide
been an all-pervasive government policy
unaffected by territorial or economic
advantage and unchecked by moral or reli-
gious constraints...
In the Nazi program of Genocide, Jews
were the primary victims, to be destroyed
only for the fact that they were Jews. (In
the Nuremberg Decree of 1935, a Jew was
defined by his grandparents' affiliation.
Even conversion to Christianity did not
affect the Nazi definition.) Gypsies, too,
were killed throughout Europe, but Gyp-
sies who lived in the same place for two
years or more were exempt. Many Polish
children whose parents were killed were
subjected to forced Germanization-that
is, adoption by German families and
assimilation into German culture-yet
Jewish children were offered no such alter-
native to death.
The Holocaust was not simply a
throwback to medieval torture or archaic
barbarism but a thoroughly modern ex-
pression of bureaucratic organization, in-
dustrial management, scientific achieve-
ment, and technological sophistication.
The entire apparatus of the German
bureaucracy was marshalled in the
service of the extermination process ...
The location and operation of the
camps was based on calculations of
accessibility and cost-effectiveness, the
trademarks of modern business practice.
German corporations actually profited
from the industry of death. Pharmaceuti-
cal firms, unrestricted by fear of side ef-
fects, tested drugs on camp inmates, and
companies competed for contracts to build
ovens or supply gas for annihilation. (In-
deed, they were even concerned with pro-
tecting the patents for their products.) Ger-
man engineers working for Topf and Sons
supplied one camp alone with 46 ovens
capable of burning 500 bodies an hour.
Adjacent to the extermination camp at
Auschwitz was a privately owned, cor-
porately sponsored concentration camp
called I.G. Auschwitz, a division of
I.G. Farben. This multi-dimensional,
petro-chemical complex brought human
slavery to its ultimate perfection by reduc-
ing human beings to consumable raw
materials, from which all mineral life was
systematically drained before the bodies
were recycled into the Nazi war economy
-gold teeth for the treasury, hair for mat-
tresses, ashes for fertilizer. In their relent-
less search for the least expensive and most
efficient means of mass murder, German
scientists experimented with a variety of
gasses until they discovered the insecticide
Zyklon B, which could kill 2,000 persons
in less than 30 minutes at a cost of one-
half-cent per body...
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Never shall I forget...
"Never shall I forget that night, which has
turned my life into one long night, seven
times cursed and seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
"Never shall I forget the little faces of the
children whom I saw being thrown into
the flames alive beneath a silent blue sky.
Never shall I forget that sky.
"Never shall I forget those flames which
murdered my hopes forever.
"Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence
which deprived me, for all eternity, of the
desire to live.
"Never shall I forget those moments which
murdered my soul and turned my
dreams into dust, into smoke.
"Never shall I forget these words
even if I am condemned to live as
long as God Himself."
From remarks made by
Elie Wiesel
at the
National Civic Holocaust
Commemoration Ceremony
April 24, 1979
The United States Capital Rotunda
Washington, D.C.
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Let us then
remember
and make the
memory alive.
I want you to know once again how greatly I have valued your distinguished ser-
vice as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. Under your guidance
and leadership, the Commission has made an invaluable contribution to our country
and to the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and the
other victims of Nazism in World War II.
I have been gratified by our developing friendship, and deeply touched by the op-
portunity to broaden my awareness and perception of the Holocaust-a period of
darkness that revealed the most profound evil and the highest spirituality that the
human soul is capable of achieving.
In order to carry out the Commission's recommendations, I have now established
the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Specifically, the Council will be responsi-
ble for the establishment of an appropriate memorial museum, an educational and
research foundation, and a Citizens Committee on Conscience to commerorate the
Holocaust.
I think it is essential that these projects recognize the distinctively Jewish nature
of the Holocaust. As you so eloquently wrote In submitting the Commission's report,
while not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims, destined for annihilation solely
because they were born Jewish. Of course, it is also important to take into account, as
the Council's work proceeds, that there were Nazi atrocities committed against other
nationalities and ethnic groups in all of the occupied countries of Europe.
Although the Holocaust took place in Europe, the event is of fundamental
significance to Americans for at least three reasons. First, it was American troops who
liberated many of the death camps, and who helped to expose the horrible truth of
what had been done there. Also, the United States became a homeland for many of
those who were able to survive. Secondly, however, we must share the responsibility for
not being willing to acknowledge forty years ago that this horrible event was occurring.
Finally, because we are humane people, concerned with the human rights of all
peoples, we feel compelled to study the systematic destruction of the Jews so that we
may seek to learn how to prevent such enormities from occurring in the future.
I am pleased to invite you to serve as Chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Council.
In view of your previous service and your extraordinary record as a survivor, witness,
author, scholar, and teacher, it is uniquely appropriate that you once again assume the
responsibilities of leadership in this vital mission.
The Honorable Elie Wiesel
239 Central Park West
New York, New York 10024
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The funding of
these projects...
(to be carried out by the Holocaust
Memorial Council as an independent agency
of the United States Government)
(1) provide for appropriate ways for the
Nation to commemorate the Days of
Remembrance, as an annual, civic com-
memoration of the Holocaust, and shall
encourage and sponsor appropriate obser-
vances throughout the United States.
(2) plan, erect, and oversee the operation
of a permanent living memorial museum
to the victims of the Holocaust, in
cooperation with the Secretary of the
Interior and other Federal agencies as
provided in section 5.
(3) plan for carrying out the recommenda-
tions, not otherwise provided for in this
Act of the President's Commission on the
Holocaust in its report to the President of
September 27, 1979.
is to be primarily
through private
contributions.
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Enacted...
The Honorable SIDNEY R. YATES (D IL)
House of Representatives
As we know, Mr. Speaker, the Holocaust was
the annihilation of six million Jews as a f or-
mal, systematic act of state, pursuant to what the
Nazis referred to as the final solution of the Jewish
question. The event was all the more ghastly
because it was committed by a modern European
country with an extraordinary history of achieve-
ment in science, the arts, and philosophy. Indeed,
those very achievements, which might have been
expected to provide a civilizing bulwark against
beastliness, were put to work to expedite the mass
slaughters, to ease the consciences of the slaugh-
terers, and even to attempt to rationalize and to
justify the evil. And, through the years of anti-
Semitic race laws, persecution, and extermination,
the world acquiesced in its silence and inaction.
Inevitably, the horror spread, and other people,
throughout the occupied countries of Europe, were
subjected to Nazi atrocities. Those victims, too, will
be remembered through the work of the
Holocaust Memorial Council.
The Honorable LESTER L. WOLFF (D NY)
House of Representatives
It is vitally important that we remember the
Holocaust. Washington is a crossroads for the
country, and the erection of a Memorial/Museum
here will take on a special significance as people
from all over the country and the world
visit the city.
The Honorable TIMOTHY E. WIRTH (D CO)
House of Representatives
I am proud to have been a cosponsor of the
legislation that established this observance
and created the Holocaust Memorial Council,
charged with planning a lasting tribute to the 6
million Jews who died during the Nazi terror.
"To remember the Holocaust is to sensitize our-
selves to its critical political lessons," the President's
Commission on the Holocaust stated in its 1979
report, "Nazism was facilitated by the breakdown of
democracy, the erosion of faith in the political
leadership and in the ability of democratic
governments to function."
The Honorable TED S. WEISS (D NY)
House of Representatives
Remembering the slaughter of six million Jews
during World War II, which has come to be
known as the Holocaust, serves two vital functions:
we are reminded both of man's capacity for cruelty
to other human beings, and of the vital importance
of preserving and keeping ever strong our
democratic values and system of government.
The Honorable HENRY A. WAXMAN (D CA)
House of Representatives
As Americans, and peace-loving people, the
memory of the Holocaust points out to us the
necessity of preserving our democratic values. It
allows us to strengthen our belief in the inalienability
of human rights and to appreciate the pluralism and
ethnic diversity of our own system. Our own fail-
ures during the tragedy, particularly turning our
backs during the war on millions of Jewish refugees,
have obliged us to reflect inwardly and to reaffirm
our commitment to helping others.
Today, as we honor the 6 million innocent vic-
tims of the Holocaust, we pledge that such atrocities
will never again occur. To adhere to that commit-
ment, we must keep the memory of the
Holocaust alive.
The Honorable CHARLES A. VANIK (D OH)
House of Representatives
I support the Holocaust Memorial Council to
develop an appropriate memorial to the vic-
tims of the Holocaust. European nations have taken
comparable steps. It is essential that the American
people also keep alert and aware of the ideology of
cruelty which resulted in the systematic anni-
hilation of Six Million Jews.
The Honorable STEPHEN J. SOLARZ (D NY)
House of Representatives
Let future generations of Americans know
about the night of broken glass which pro-
vided a violent prevision of the slaughter that lay
ahead for the Jewish community.
Let them know about Adolph Eichmann, who
with bureaucratic efficiency, oversaw the implemen-
tation of the final solution itself.
Let them know about the glorious and coura-
geous revolts of the inmates of Treblinka, at Sobibor,
at Auschwitz, and Warsaw.
Let them know about the silence of Popes and
Presidents who failed to speak out in protest against
this monstrous evil.
Let them know how the Holocaust had its roots
in the theology of anti-Semitism and swept ahead
on a tide of world indifference.
And let them know about the Nuremberg trials
at which those who were responsible for these foul
deeds were finally brought before the bar
of justice.
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The Honorable CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH (R NJ)
House of Representatives
We are in danger of forgetting the Holocaust.
This should never happen. The 6 million dead
must call their remembrance to us all the time. For
we live in a world that seems, sometimes, committed
to death. The culture of death, not life, seems all
about us. Instead of celebrating those joyous things
associated with life there is a popular preoccupation
with negativism, with decay and death.
In this commemoration of the victims of the
Holocaust we ought to say again: life is sacred. A
survivor of the death camps has said it best: "Every
life is a life worth living. A nation that dedicates
itself to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
should recall, only too well, a dark time in
history when Hell was always in session.
The Honorable ROBERT N. SHAMANSKY (D OH)
House of Representatives
World War II was the greatest upheaval of
F death and destruction in human history. But
within the general conflagration another war,
unique in the experience of mankind, took place.
One people, the Jews, were singled out for exter-
mination. They became a target not because of
what they did but simply because of who they
were. The hate-filled doctrines of nazism, supported
by anti-Semitic bigotry which still has roots in
Western culture, decreed that Jews were subhuman
and fit for death.
Remembrance alone, however, is not enough.
We must fight the resurgence of fascism around the
world, the use of anti-Semitism as foreign policy by
certain governments, the institutionalization of
bigotry and hatred anywhere.
We must teach our children. We must
never forget. We must act.
The Honorable F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER (R WI)
House of Representatives
As a country dedicated to freedom of political
and religious thought, it is appropriate that
we reflect on this dark hour in history to remind
us all of the potential destructiveness of
hatred and prejudice.
The Honorable BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL (D NY)
House of Representatives
No matter how painful, the memories of the
destruction, vile atrocities, and utter inhu-
manity must be recalled. By reminding ourselves,
and more importantly our children that these hor-
rors did in fact occur, we can hope to maitain an
awareness of man's humanitarian commit-
ment to his fellow man.
The Honorable PETER A. PEYSER (D NY)
House of Representatives
The President's Commission on the Holo-
caust, which was chaired by Elie Wiesel, was
established to study the Holocaust so that we might
prevent this from happening again. They recom-
mended that a living memorial be established that
will speak, not only of the victim's deaths, but of
their lives- "a memorial that can transform the living
by transmitting the legacy of the Holocaust." We
can hope that all who see this memorial, which will
be built in the near future, will be constantly
reminded of our past omissions and of our deter-
mination to prevent a recurrence of such ac-
tions anywere on Earth in the future.
The Honorable CLAUDE D. PEPPER (D FL)
House of Representatives
Being a member of the U.S. Senate during
Wand after the war, I attended at Dachau,
Germany, the opening of the trials of known perpe-
trators of the horrors whose effects we had wit-
nessed at Dachau the night before on a tour of the
infamous camp where many, many thousands died.
This was an event which occurred in our lifetime
and produced such enormous evidence of almost
unspeakable cruelty and twisted indifference to
human life that future generations might almost be
tempted to view the Holocaust as an almost incred-
ible fact. We must not allow those who say now
that Jews did not die at German hands under Hitler
to prevail against the mountain of personal testi-
mony of people who barely survived the concentra-
tion camps, who can tell today from experience that
what our soldiers saw to be the truth of murder and
bodies piled in heaps outside of unspeakably filthy,
cold barracks and holding pens was the truth and
the only truth proven to be the truth at the trials of
the manslayers I myself attended at Nuremberg,
Germany, shortly after the conclusion of the war.
In the words of the poet: "Lord God of hosts,
be with us yet-lest we forget, lest we
forget!"
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The Honorable RICHARD L. OTTINGER (D NY)
House of Representatives
Mr. Speaker, the passage of time must not
diminish the horror and magnitude of the
Holocaust. Age will yellow the photographs of
persecuted Jews, but if we ignore the atrocities
of the past, we will invite them in the
future.
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by the
Ninety-Sixth
Congress...
The Honorable GUY V. MOLINARI (R NY)
House of Representatives
As philosopher and theologian, Rabbi Joshua
Herschel, said:
"Six million people were wiped off the face of
the earth. And there is a danger they will be anni-
hilated from our memories. Are they doomed to a
two fold annihilation?"
While the names of such places as Dachau,
Auschwitz, and Treblinka are all too familiar to my
colleagues and I, are they just as familiar to our
children? While it is almost beyond comprehension
to realize the wholesale slaughter of human beings
we should pause to consider that the last death
camp was closed less than 40 years ago.
We read periodically in our local newspapers of
teenagers destroying and defacing synagogues and
the homes of our Jewish citizens. And, each time I
cringe when I learn that the teenager caught
knew very little about the Holocaust.
The Honorable JOSEPH G. MINISH (D NJ)
House of Representatives
Not only is this a time to pay homage to the
memory of innocent victims who suffered
unimaginable brutality, but also it is an opportunity
to remind ourselves of the inhumanity that took
place not so long ago. We must learn from this ex-
perience so that history does not repeat itself. We
adversity and to use our strength to work
toward a better world.
The Honorable ROBERT H. MICHEL (R IL)
House of Representatives
In commemorating the Holocaust, we are not
only making a statement of sorrow and anger
and shame about what happened years ago, but a
statement of hope and concern and love about the
future. Simply by joining those who care enough to
remember-and to learn from-the Holocaust, one
can contribute something to the cause of
human freedom and human rights.
The Honorable WILLIAM LEHMAN (D FL)
House of Representatives
The establishment of a permanent Holocaust
Memorial Council to plan and oversee the
construction and operation of a Memorial Museum,
and to oversee the implementation of the other
recommendations, is of great importance, not only
to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, but
to all people who have been persecuted and those
who may perhaps escape persecution in the future.
While the Council will be principally concerned
with commemorating the Holocaust, its work will
be dedicated to seeking to prevent genocide
directed against any people, anywhere in the
world.
The Honorable TOM LANTOS (D CA)
House of Representatives
I would like to express my appreciation to the
President of the United States, with whom a
group of us met this morning in the White House,
because with a degree of dignity and intensity and
commitment, President Reagan joined us in remem-
bering the Holocaust, and we in turn gave thanks
that the mindless attack on his life proved unsuc-
cessful.
At the meeting with the President, Elie Wiesel, a
survivor of the Holocaust and perhaps the greatest
writer of the Holocaust, shared some thoughts with
us, and I would like in part to carry his words to
you:
'In those times, European Jewry felt abandoned
and, indeed, it was abandoned. Other oppressive
nations received help, not the Jews. On April 16,
1943, the young commander of the Warsaw ghetto
uprising wrote to a friend. "We are fighting. We
shall not surrender, but as our last days are ap-
proaching, remember that we have been betrayed."
'That is what he felt. That is what we all felt.
They were betrayed then, and to forget them now
would mean to betray them again. We must not
allow this to happen. We shall not allow this
to happen.'
The Honorable WILLIAM J. HUGHES (D NJ)
House of Representatives
We have learned an enduring lesson from the
unspeakable sorrow of the Holocaust. We are
telling the people of the world today and most im-
portantly, we are telling those among them that
would lead through fear and kill without cause, that
never again will the rest of mankind stand idly by
and watch the slaughter and think only of their own
interests. Our interests lie in the freedom and
recognition of the human rights of our fellow men.
That is the lesson we have all learned
from the Holocaust. We will speak up.
The Honorable HAROLD C. HOLLENBECK (R NJ)
House of Representatives
I would like to take this opportunity to join
my colleagues in paying homage to the 6 mil-
lion men, women, and children that fell victim to
Nazi extermination plans during World War II. As a
crime unique in the annals of history, different not
only in the quantity of violence but in its manner
and purpose as a masscriminal enterprise organized
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by the state against defenseless civilian populations, I
believe that we have a solemn obligation to examine
the circumstances that prevented the world from
recognizing the moral truths which per-
mitted the Holocaust to proceed.
The Honorable MARGARET M. HECKLER (R MA)
House of Representatives
Perhaps the most valuable lesson to be learn-
ed from the Holocaust was that we must al-
ways beware of future atrocities. The death of the
six million Jews, and other innocent peoples massa-
cred in Hitler's Europe, will be less in vain if they
serve to instruct us that we must always be on
guard against tyrannical abuses of any
portion of humankind.
The Honorable S. WILLIAM GREEN (R NY)
House of Representatives
The Holocaust challenged moral, spritual,
ethical, and political standards of the modern,
civilized world with consequences of enormous
significance for all humanity. By establishing a per-
manent Holocaust Memorial, not only the agony
and suffering of these innocent human beings will
be commemorated, but also the memory will for-
ever be preserved. And by remembering, we at-
tempt to fulfill, at least in part, our moral obligation
to deliver mankind "from apathy to evil
if not from evil itself."
The Honorable BENJAMIN A. GILMAN (R NY)
House of Representatives
The inspiration that the survivors of the War-
saw ghetto and other victims of the Holo-
caust have passed on to us can, and will, serve as a
reminder of the limits of the human soul -how
man can survive and ultimately overcome the ex-
perience of degradation, and how man can rectify
the hatred and fear which produces even more
violence and abuse by piercing the veil of silence
and speaking out and acting against viola-
tions of human rights.
The Honorable SAMUEL GEJDENSON (D CT)
House of Representatives
Nazism sought not only to exterminate all of
the Jews in the world, but in addition to erad-
icate even the memory of their existence. The Nazi
crime, which came perilously close to complete
fulfillment in a callously indifferent world, is
thwarted by our memory; though we cannot undo
their deeds, we can at least transmit the memory
of their victims through our collective
recollection.
The Honorable BARNEY FRANK (D MA)
House of Representatives
In remembering the Holocaust, its
victims and its survivors, we must rededicate
ourselves to a vigilance so that we may never again
experience the unreasoning and unjustified terror
that was the Holocaust. We must work to eliminate
political, cultural, and religious persecution. We
must study the Holocaust and heed its lessons.
Otherwise, we risk making mistakes that would en-
danger our liberties and rights and give
rise to terrorism, fear, and hatred.
The Honorable JAMES J. FLORIO (D NJ)
House of Representatives
It is vitally important that we not forget the
cruelty which resulted in the systematic exter-
mination of the Jews during World War II. We all
have an obligation to remember, so that we can
prevent the ocurrence of such atrocities in
the future.
The Honorable BOBBI FIEDLER (R CA)
House of Representatives
While the Holocaust has become history, the
heritage of hate that nurtured and fueled it,
the attitude and ideas that made it possible are, too
often, with us here, in America, in 1981. It shows
itself every time a house of worship is desecrated or
defiled. It is painful to imagine what a survivor of
the Holocaust feels, seeing the swastikas painted on
the synagogue wall yet again, not in a nightmare of
the past, but here, today. It can strip away all the
security that years of peace and freedom have
brought. Those who died in the Holocaust, shall
not return through any acts of ours; but shall we
the hatred that killed them unabated in
their place?
The Honorable MILLICENT H. FENWICK (R NJ)
House of Representatives
By remembering the terrible suffering of those
who died in the Holocaust we honor their
memories and pledge ourselves to oppose the many
similar currents of hate that are abroad in
the world today.
The Honorable WALTER E. FAUNTROY (D DC)
House of Representatives
There was a feeling in the 1930's and 1940's
that our Jewish brothers and sisters were
somehow strangers and that what happened to
them was not terribly important. Such a feeling
allowed most of the world to remain silent and in
our country led to the rejection of Jewish refugees
from Hitler's terror.
Similar instances of indifference and callousness
toward human life and human rights plague
humanity today, and while it is good that we
remember, it is imperative that we honor the victims
of the Holocaust by rededicating ourselves to the
politics of reconciliation, nonviolence, and bringing
good news to the suffering poor and op-
pressed here at home and abroad.
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without a
single dissenting
voice.
The Honorable DANTE B. FASCALL (D FL)
House of Representatives
." The Nazis did not choose as their enemy
another nation. The Nazis chose to annihilate
the Jews of Europe. The underlying current of this
psychotic and diseased notion is a deep-seated feel-
ing of prejudice. Anti-Semitism is not a new pheno-
menon - it has been with us throughout the nearly
6,000 years of Jewish history. Anti-Semitism, as well
as prejudice against blacks and other minorities
represents the worst aspects of the human nature.
That this prejudice could manifest itself into the
reality of the Holocaust must give us pause, and
make us look at ourselves. Prejudice still exists to-
day in many forms, against many people. It is
essential to eradicate prejudice and it must start with
teaching our children the evils of prejudice and the
necessity of growing to understand and accept all
people, though different from ourselves, educating
against prejudice should be one of our first priori-
ties, as the horrors of the Holocaust so
vividly teach us.
The Honorable BOB ECKHARDT (D TX)
House of Representatives
There are some who think it is time to leave
genocide and suffering in the past, and ask
when we will allow ourselves to forget. We will not
forget. We will keep remembering the Holocast until
Soviet Jews have the full right to worship, live and
travel as Jews; until Israel is allowed to be a secure,
proud, and accepted part of the world community
and until Jews everywhere are free from
the oppression of anti-Semitism.
The Honorable BERNARD J. DWYER (D NJ)
House of Representatives
- Our recollections of that most frightful period
-in history must not only focus on the devas-
tation wrought by the Nazi war machine through
segregation, starvation, and ultimately extermina-
tion of millions of innocent people.
We must also remember the brave, and often suc-
cessful, attempts to thwart this systematic Nazi im-
morality: The Jewish underground; the escape of
thousands through the courage of Raoul Wallen-
berg, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and so many
other examples of a profound sense of strength and
commitment to justice that has transcended the im-
mediate horror of genocide to emerge
even stronger in the face of new threats.
The Honorable CHARLES F. DOUGHTERY (R PA)
House of Representatives
There is another method of keeping the
Holocaust memories from being forgotten. A
section of the measure passed last year calls for the
establishment of a permanent memorial museum in
the District of Columbia dedicated to the victims of
the Holocaust. The Council is already developing
ideas for this museum and is examining possible
sites for its location. It is my hope that once it is set
up that my colleagues will bring their families to the
museum to visit and learn from the experience.
It is our duty as Representatives to make sure our
entire Nation learns from the dreadful experience
known as the Holocaust, and never forgets this
lesson. It is only by taking the action defined in this
law now that reduces the possibility of such tragic
events from taking place in future
generations.
The Honorable CHRISTOPHER J. DODD (D CT)
United States Senate
The work of the Holocaust Memorial Council
to establish this memorial in Washington,
D.C., will provide a lasting testament to the evil of
the Nazi final solution. Most importantly, the
memorial will stand forever as a reminder that we
must never allow ourselves to be complacent about
violations of human rights or indifferent
to the suffering of our fellow men and
women.
The Honorable GEORGE E. DANIELSON (D CA)
House of Representatives
People forget.
Indeed, Adolph Hitler, when asked
how the world would react to the Holocaust,
replied, 'Who today remembers the Armenians?"
We remember. And we will never
forget.
The Honorable Resident Commissioner
BALTSAR CORRADA (D PR)
House of Representatives
The Holocaust symbolizes all that can go
wrong in a society and that is why it is par-
ticularly important that we take this moment to say
a silent prayer on behalf of all those innocent vic-
tims that perished in it, and to pray that
it will never happen again.
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The Honorable JAMES C. CORMAN (D CA)
House of Representatives
I am proud to have cosponsored this legisla-
tion which will be a living memorial to the six
million Jews who perished in the Holocaust during
World War II.
While the Coucil will plan and carry out the
recommendations of the President's Commission on
the Holocaust, including and observance of the
Days of Remembrance as an annual commemora-
tion, and oversee the operation of a Memorial
Museum in the District of Columbia, it is also ap-
propriate that the Council will be dedicated to seek-
ing the prevention of genocide directed
against other people of the world.
The Honorable DON H. CLAUSEN (R CA)
House of Representatives
The Holocaust Memorial/Museum will be
built on an appropriate site within the Dis-
trict of Columbia with funds donated for that pur-
pose. Considering the significant impact on this Na-
tion's history of the tragic acts of genocide during
World War II, I believe the establishment
of such a Memorial is essential.
The Honorable PHILIP BURTON (D CA)
House of Representatives
The Holocaust has been recognized as the
systematic act of extermination of nearly six
million Jews in Europe before and during World
War II. During this same period millions of other
people suffered death and destruction at the hands
of those who embraced the Nazi philosophy. The
records of history fail to provide evidence of
another act of genocide of this, or even approaching
this magnitude.
The armies of the United States were the primary
discoverers of the locations used for extermination,
the records of the systematic genocide and the few
survivors. Of those few survivors of the Holocaust,
many subsequently emigrated to the United States
and they and their descendents now form an in-
tegral part of our society. The historic perspective of
the Nation has been clearly affected by this event in
such a way that historians generally recognize the
Holocaust as an occurrence of the history
the United States.
The Honorable WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD (D MI)
House of Representatives
Why do we take the time to commemorate
an event which is so universally condemned?
Why not do all we can to let it fade into obscurity?
Because only by giving serious contemplation to the
fact that for a time, so many people allowed so ter-
rible an ideology to grip them, that such horrible
barbarism flourished in so civilized a society, can we
hope to recognize the signs of a recurrence, and
thereby prevent such a recurrence from taking
place. Only by a conscious effort to preserve the
memory of the Holocaust and its degradation can
can we be led to make a commitment
never to let it happen again.
The Honorable EDWARD P. BOLAND (D MA)
House of Representatives
The memory of the Holocaust should
strengthen our resolve to resist the many
forces at work around the world which tend to
undermine the advances made by civil-
ized nations in the area of human rights.
The Honorable JAMES J. BLANCHARD (D MI)
House of Representatives
It is the task of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
1VW Council to keep the memory of this terrible
tragedy in the minds of all Americans, now and in
the future. Only by maintaining that memory will
present and future generations be able to learn the
lessons that the Holocaust can teach us all. One
lesson, a political lesson, was aptly stated in the
Holocaust Commission's report to the President. It
stated:
"Nazism was facilitated by the breakdown of
democracy, the collapse of social and economic
cohesion, the decline of human solidarity, and an
erosion of faith in the political leadership and in the
ability of democratic governments to function."
We must always cherish and be grateful for our
democratic way of life yet at the same time we must
be vigilant and watchful to insure the continued
strength, justice, and freedoms that are
provided by our system of government.
The Honorable FRANK ANNUNZIO (D IL)
House of Representatives
We as Americans have been privileged to live
in freedom, and we must never forget the ter-
rible Hitler massacres of the Jews because these
murders are the most horrifying example of what
can happen to any nation which loses its dedication
to the ideals of liberty and the dignity of
all human beings.
The Honorable JOSEPH P. ADDABBO (D NY)
House of Representatives
Numbers alone cannot, and will not, help us
understand and fully mourn those who suf-
fered and were killed, or those who survived and
still suffer. Those who were forced to die were not
just numbers that were tallied up after the war, nor
were they just bodies thrown into mass graves. No,
they were human beings with everything to live for,
each with a special future. They were doctors,
clerks, and tailors. They were mothers and fathers,
sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles. They com-
mitted no crimes, broke no laws. They left behind
people who loved them and people who
to this day, miss them.
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To house the
memories,
the lessons,
and the hopes.
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National Gallery
of Art
The buildings, of red brick and Romantic
style design, were built at the turn of the
century.
Money couldn't have bought them.
The spacious interiors will be redesigned to
accommodate a theatre, seminar rooms,
library, film collection, offices, plus free-
ranging areas to highlight our displays and
special-event showings.
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ment of a permanent Holocaust Memorial
Museum have been dedicated to the
Holocaust Memorial Council by the
Government of the United States.
Money couldn't have bought them.
The two adjoining buildings front 14th &
15th Streets. They are just off the Mall
with the Washington Monument at the far
end-close to the Jefferson Memorial and
the Tidal Basin-adjacent to the Bureau of
Printing & Engraving-near the Smith-
sonian Museum complex-in proximity to
the 14th Street Bridge, the major access to
Washington, D.C.
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Memorial
activities
begun and
underway.
Days of Remembrance.
April 24, 1979--a National Civic
Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony,
with the participation of President Carter,
is held at the United States Capitol Rotun-
da in Washington, D.C.
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