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This resolution recognizes January 27, 2025, as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania, providing a comprehensive historical context about the Holocaust. The resolution details how the Nazi regime, under Adolf Hitler's leadership, systematically persecuted and murdered an estimated 17 million people between 1933 and 1945, with a particular focus on the Jewish population. It highlights how the Nazis targeted not only Jewish people, but also Romani, disabled individuals, homosexuals, Poles, Communists, and other groups based on perceived racial, biological, ideological, and behavioral grounds. The resolution notes that by 1945, approximately 6 million Jewish men, women, and children had been killed as part of the Nazi's "Final Solution" policy. Drawing on a 2005 United Nations General Assembly resolution, the document emphasizes that January 27 commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet soldiers in 1945 and serves as a day to honor Holocaust victims, reject Holocaust denial, educate future generations, and condemn religious intolerance and violence against individuals or communities based on ethnic or religious differences.

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https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2025&sind=0&body=H&type=R&bn=22