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PROCLAMATION: Days of - -
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April 5, 2022 - REGULAR MEETING OF THE MOUNT
PROSPECT VILLAGE BOARD -
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Holocaust Remembrance Proclamation 2022.pdf
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PROCLAMATION
DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE
March 24 – April 1, 2022
WHEREAS, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and
annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between
1933 and 1945—six million were murdered; Roma, people with disabilities, and
Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or
national reasons; and millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's
Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered
grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny; and
WHEREAS, the history of the Holocaust offers an opportunity to reflect on the
moral responsibilities of individuals, societies, and governments; and
WHEREAS, we the people of the Village of Mount Prospect always remember
the terrible events of the Holocaust and remain vigilant against hatred,
persecution, and tyranny; and
WHEREAS, we the people of the Village of Mount Prospect should actively
rededicate ourselves to the principles of individual freedom in a just society;
and
WHEREAS, the DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE have been set aside for the people
of the Village of Mount Prospect to remember the victims of the Holocaust as
well as to reflect on the need for respect of all peoples; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Act of Congress (Public Law 96-388, October 7,
1980), the United States Holocaust Memorial Council designates the Days of
Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust to be Thursday, March 24
through Friday, April 1, 2022, including the DAY OF REMEMBRANCE known as
Yom Hashoah, April 28, 2022.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Paul Wm. Hoefert, Mayor of the Village of Mount
Prospect do hereby proclaim the week of Thursday, March 24 through Friday,
April 1, 2022, as
"DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE"
in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and in honor of the survivors as well
as the rescuers and liberators, and further proclaim that we, as citizens of the
Village of Mount Prospect should work to promote human dignity and confront
hate whenever and wherever it occurs.
Paul Wm. Hoefert
Mayor
Attest:
Karen M. Agoranos
Village Clerk
Dated this 5th day of April, 2022
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