A resolution authorizing President Ford to proclaim April 6 as a day commemorating the 30th anniversary of the liberation of the survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the first camp liberated by the Allies, has been introduced in the House and Senate.
The resolution, introduced by Sen. Jacob Javits (R, NY) and Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R, NY), called for a national day of observance with appropriate ceremonies and activities to serve “as a reminder to all people of the free world that some six million people of the Jewish faith were slaughtered by Hitler and the forces of the Third Reich.”
Gilman’s resolution stated that such presidential action would “be an expression of American humanitarian concern, and a reaffirmation of our belief in liberty, justice and equality,” Gilman previously introduced in the House a resolution calling for a stamp to be issued on the Holocaust. He is also planning to sponsor a resolution making education of the Holocaust mandatory in American public schools.
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