For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 25, 2005
60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 2005
A PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA 1
At the Auschwitz
concentration camp, evil found willing servants and innocent victims. For
almost 5 years, Auschwitz was a factory for
murder where more than a million lives were taken. It is a sobering reminder of
the power of evil and the need for people to oppose evil wherever it exists. It
is a reminder that when we find anti-Semitism, we must come together to fight
it.
In places like Auschwitz,
evidence of the horror of the Holocaust has been preserved to help the world
remember the past. We must never forget the cruelty of the guilty and the courage
of the victims at Auschwitz and other Nazi
concentration camps.
During the Holocaust, evil was systematic in its
implementation and deliberate in its destruction. The 60th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz is an opportunity to
pass on the stories and lessons of the Holocaust to future generations. The
history of the Holocaust demonstrates that evil is real, but hope endures.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 27, 2005, as the 60th
anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. I call upon
all Americans to observe this occasion with appropriate ceremonies and programs
to honor the victims of Auschwitz and the
Holocaust. May God bless their memory and their families, and may we always
remember.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand five,
and of the Independence of the United States of America
the two hundred and twenty-ninth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Source:
[ http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050125-6.html
]
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