Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, 2024, 41287-41288 [2024-10523]

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 93 (Monday, May 13, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 41287-41288]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10523]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 89 , No. 93 / Monday, May 13, 2024 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 10747 of May 3, 2024

                
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the 
                Holocaust, 2024

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                During Yom HaShoah and these days of remembrance, we 
                mourn the six million Jews who were systematically 
                targeted and murdered in the Holocaust, one of the 
                darkest chapters in human history. We also mourn the 
                Roma, Sinti, Slavs, people with disabilities, LGBTQI+ 
                people, racial minorities, and political dissidents who 
                were killed or endured abuse by the Nazis and their 
                collaborators, as well as those who risked or lost 
                their lives to protect others. We honor the memories of 
                the victims, the courage of the survivors, and the 
                heroism of those who stood up to the Nazis, and we 
                recommit ourselves to making real the promise of 
                ``Never Again.''

                I often reflect on memories of sitting around our 
                kitchen table where my father would educate my siblings 
                and me about the horrors of the Holocaust. Entire 
                families wiped out. Communities savagely destroyed. 
                Survivors left with memories and traumas that will 
                never go away--even as the tattoos etched into their 
                skin by the Nazis fade and the number of survivors 
                dwindles. My dad taught us that silence is complicity--
                a lesson I have passed down to my children and 
                grandchildren by taking them to the Dachau 
                concentration camp in Germany. As United States 
                Senator, as Vice President, and now as President, I 
                have met with many Holocaust survivors, promising them 
                that our Nation would neither forget what they endured 
                nor ever again stand by silently in the face of 
                antisemitism.

                The charge has never been more urgent than in the 
                aftermath of Hamas' vicious terrorist attack on October 
                7th--the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. 
                Among the 1,200 innocent people who were slaughtered 
                and the hundreds taken hostage were elderly survivors 
                of the Shoah, who were forced to relive the horrors 
                they thought they had escaped decades ago. My 
                Administration is working tirelessly to free the 
                hostages who have been held by Hamas for over half a 
                year--and as I have said to their families, we will not 
                rest until we bring them home.

                While Jews across the country and around the world are 
                still coping with the trauma of that day and its 
                aftermath, we have seen an alarming surge in 
                antisemitism at home and abroad that resurfaces painful 
                scars of millennia of antisemitism and hate against the 
                Jewish people. This includes harassment and calls for 
                violence against Jews--in our schools, in our 
                communities, and online. This blatant antisemitism is 
                reprehensible and dangerous. Antisemitic hate speech 
                has absolutely no place on college campuses or anywhere 
                else in our country. As Americans, we cannot stay 
                silent as Jews are attacked, harassed, and targeted. We 
                must also forcefully push back attempts to ignore, 
                deny, distort, or revise the history of Nazi atrocities 
                during the Holocaust or Hamas' murders and other 
                atrocities committed on October 7th--including the 
                appalling and unforgiveable use of rape and sexual 
                assault to terrorize and torture Jewish women and 
                girls.

                My commitment to the safety of the Jewish people and 
                the security of Israel is ironclad. Under the first-
                ever National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, my 
                Administration is mobilizing the full force of the 
                Federal Government to crack down on antisemitism and to 
                ensure hate has no safe harbor in America. We clarified 
                civil rights protections for Jews under

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                Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The 
                Department of Education is leading investigations into 
                antisemitism on college campuses. The Department of 
                Justice is investigating and prosecuting hate crimes. 
                The Federal Bureau of Investigation is focused on 
                delivering security resources to Jewish communities. We 
                provided the largest-ever increase in funding for the 
                physical security of non-profits, including synagogues, 
                Jewish community centers, and Jewish schools. I 
                appointed Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust expert, to be 
                the first-ever Ambassador-level Special Envoy to 
                Monitor and Combat Antisemitism around the world.

                During these somber days of remembrance, we mourn the 
                lives tragically stolen in the Shoah and on October 
                7th. As we hold the Jewish community close to our 
                hearts, we recommit to remembering so that what 
                happened can never be erased. Some injustices are so 
                heinous, horrific, and grievous that they cannot be 
                buried, no matter how hard people try. In silence, 
                wounds deepen, but in remembrance comes healing, 
                justice, and repair. Toward those aims, we must all 
                forcefully act against antisemitism and all forms of 
                hate-fueled violence. As we do, we honor the courage, 
                strength, and resilience of the Jewish people, who have 
                inspired the world for generations by turning pain into 
                purpose, healing into hope, and darkness into light.

                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 May 5 through 
                May 12, 2024, as a week of observance of the Days of 
                Remembrance of the 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 
                third day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand 
                twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.
                
                
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