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
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 twentyfifth
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
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