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1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, Polish President Andrzej Duda recently signed a |
3 | | law that would impose jail terms for
suggesting that the |
4 | | country of Poland was complicit in crimes against humanity |
5 | | committed on Polish soil during the Holocaust; and
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6 | | WHEREAS, Over three million of Poland's 3.4 million Jews |
7 | | were murdered by the Nazis, accounting
for about half of the |
8 | | Jews killed in the Holocaust across the continent of Europe; |
9 | | and
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10 | | WHEREAS, Jews were killed in death camps operated by |
11 | | Germany in Poland, including Auschwitz,
Treblinka, Belzec, and |
12 | | Sobibor; and |
13 | | WHEREAS, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, has |
14 | | stated that "One cannot change history,
and the Holocaust |
15 | | cannot be denied"; and |
16 | | WHEREAS, About 6,700 Poles were in fact commemorated by |
17 | | Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial for rescuing Jews, the |
18 | | largest number in any country; and
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19 | | WHEREAS, This legislation is an attempt to whitewash |
20 | | history; and
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