Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 2023, 24323-24324 [2023-08430]

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 19, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 24323-24324]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-08430]



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Vol. 88

Wednesday,

No. 75

April 19, 2023

Part III





The President





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Proclamation 10552--Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 
2023



Proclamation 10553--National Volunteer Week, 2023


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 88 , No. 75 / Wednesday, April 19, 2023 / 
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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 10552 of April 14, 2023

                
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, 
                2023

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                During Yom HaShoah and throughout these days of 
                remembrance, we mourn the six million Jews who were 
                murdered during the horror of the Holocaust--as well as 
                the millions of Roma and Sinti, Slavs, disabled 
                persons, LGBTQI+ individuals, and political dissidents 
                who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis and their 
                collaborators. Together with courageous survivors, 
                descendants of victims, and people around the world, we 
                renew our solemn vow: ``never again.''

                Last year, I returned to Yad Vashem, the World 
                Holocaust Remembrance Center, to pay tribute to the 
                lives that were stolen during this dark chapter of our 
                history and to honor their memory. I will never forget 
                meeting with two survivors on that sacred ground and 
                hearing their stories. The horrors of the Holocaust are 
                painful to recount--the savage murder of innocent 
                families and the systemic dehumanization of entire 
                populations. We remember the cries for help that went 
                unanswered and the bright futures cut short. We must 
                never look away from the truth of what happened. The 
                rite of remembrance becomes more urgent with each 
                passing year, as fewer survivors remain to share their 
                stories and open our eyes to the harms of unchecked 
                hatred.

                Unfortunately, hatred never truly goes away. It only 
                hides--lurking until it is given the oxygen to emerge 
                again. We have seen this hard truth across our country, 
                from swastikas on cars and antisemitic banners on 
                bridges to attacks against Jewish people at schools and 
                synagogues and outright Holocaust denialism. The venom 
                and violence of antisemitism goes against all the 
                values we stand for as Americans. And it is a stark 
                reminder--as my dear friend Elie Wiesel once said--that 
                ``Indifference is always the friend of the enemy.'' And 
                as my father taught me, ``silence is complicity.''

                My Administration has not and will not be indifferent. 
                That is why I appointed Deborah Lipstadt, a historian 
                of the Holocaust, as the first Ambassador-level Special 
                Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. We are 
                developing a national strategy to counter 
                antisemitism--mobilizing the full weight of the Federal 
                Government to fight this scourge of hate in America--
                and we have co-sponsored a United Nations resolution to 
                combat Holocaust denial through education. We secured 
                the largest increase in funding ever for the physical 
                security of nonprofits, including synagogues, Jewish 
                Community Centers, Jewish day schools, and other houses 
                of worship. And I convened the first-ever White House 
                summit on combating hate-fueled violence because nobody 
                should fear going to a religious service, wearing a 
                symbol of their faith, or simply being who they are.

                Hate must have no safe harbor in America or anywhere 
                else. Today and always, we make our message clear: Evil 
                will not win. Hate will not prevail. And the violence 
                of antisemitism will not be the story of our time. 
                Together, we can ensure that ``never again'' is a 
                promise we keep.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 16 
                through April 23, 2023, as a week of observance of the 
                Days of Remembrance

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                of Victims of the Holocaust, and I call upon the people 
                of the United States to observe this week and pause to 
                remember victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                seventh.
                
                
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[FR Doc. 2023-08430
Filed 4-18-23; 11:15 am]
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