ADOPTED - APRIL 29, 2008

Agenda Item No. 5

 

Introduced by the County Services Committee of the:

 

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

 

RESOLUTION DESIGNATING MAY 1, 2008 AS "HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY@

 IN INGHAM COUNTY

 

RESOLUTION #08-110

 

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Board of Commissioners and citizens of Ingham County recognize that the horrors of the Holocaust should never be forgotten; and

 

WHEREAS, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945; and

 

WHEREAS, the Holocaust involved the genocide of millions of innocent Jewish men, women, and children and other minorities throughout Europe; there was an enormity of suffering inflicted on the many survivors through mistreatment, brutalization, violence, torture, slave labor, involuntary medical experimentation, death marches, and numerous other acts of cruelty that have come to be known as “crimes against humanity”; and

 

WHEREAS, a key date in the history of the Holocaust is April 19, 1943, the beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, when Jews, using homemade bombs and stolen or bartered weapons, resisted death camp deportation by the Nazis for 27 days; and

 

WHEREAS, in the past 62 years, the Holocaust has provided the people of the world with a critical lesson in the importance of compassion, caring, and kindness and has served as a reminder of the dangers inherent in bigotry, racism, and intolerance in the world; and

 

WHEREAS, recognition of the 62nd anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of the concentration camps is crucial and the Board of Commissioners wishes to honor the memory of all who lost their lives and all who have and continue to suffer as a result of the Holocaust.

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners hereby designates May 1, 2008 as “Holocaust Remembrance Day” in Ingham County and encourages the citizens of Ingham County to commemorate the occasion through reflection, acts of compassionate caring, and learning about the terrible consequences and lessons of the Holocaust.

 

COUNTY SERVICES:  Yeas:  Nolan, Copedge, Soule, Grebner, Severino

       Nays:  None                 Absent:  De Leon               Approved 4/22/08