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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, led by Adolf Hitler, systematically persecuted and murdered an estimated 17 million people between 1933 and 1945, targeting not only Jewish people but also Romani, disabled individuals, homosexuals, Poles, Communists, and other groups deemed racially or ideologically inferior. It highlights that the Jewish population in Europe decreased from over 9 million to approximately 6 million by 1945 through the Nazi's "Final Solution" policy of genocide. The resolution notes that on January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and in 2005, the United Nations established this date as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The purpose of this commemoration is to honor the victims, reject Holocaust denial, educate future generations, and reaffirm a commitment to human rights by preventing future genocides.

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