The Senate has adopted a resolution declaring the week of April 10-16 as a Week of Remembrance for the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The House is expected to adopt a similar resolution which also calls on the President to designate that week as a week of remembrance.
The resolution, introduced by Senators Charles Percy (R. III.) and Claiborne Pell (D. R.I.) and co-sponsored by 45 other Senators, notes that the uprising “by the besieged and outnumbered Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto” demonstrated “their courage and heroism” to the world and “showed the world for all time that the forces of freedom and liberty cannot long be suppressed by the forces of tyranny.” It added that “their valor and their faith gave urgency to the creation of the free State of Israel.”
The resolution also took note that the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors is being held in Washington starting April 10 “and will organize programs to reinforce the need for the continuous struggle against anti-Semitism.”
There will be no Bulletins dated March 30 and 31 because of Passover.
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