A resolution calling on the President to proclaim “Days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust” has been introduced by Sen. Jack Danforth (R. Mo. ) with cosponsorship by 70 other Senators. It proposes that the remembrance days fall annually on the weekend of April 29, or the preceding weekend, April 29, 1945 being the date when the U.S. Seventh Army liberated Dachau concentration camp, the first one built by the Nazis.
The resolution calls on the American people each year to “honor the memory of the victims of Nazi concentration camps and to reflect upon the pernicious nature of bigotry and the danger of tyranny.” Danforth, who circulated it personally among most of his Senate colleagues, said “the response has been overwhelming.”
He said he has been “working with leaders of various churches and synagogues to get them behind the idea. The churches and synagogues, it seems to me, are the organizations which can make these ‘days of remembrance’ significant periods of reflection.” Danforth said he was working to see to it that a similar resolution is adopted in the House.
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