Delegate Eisenberg's Floor Statement on 60th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
January 27, 2005
Mr. Speaker, I rise for a point of personal privilege. Today is the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz -- the most notorious of the thousands of Nazi death camps in World War II. Literally millions of people -- men, women, and children were cruelly shoved into the gas chambers and murdered solely because they were Jews, Romani, homosexuals, or members of numerous other groups. Their terrible experience we commemorate today; it reminds us of how prejudice and hate can result in despicable horror. Sorrowfully, despite the cry, "Never Again, Never Forget", the horror of genocide has continued decade by decade. Yet the world must never forget. We must learn the lessons that will turn our faces toward the light -- not the darkness -- and strive with all our hearts and our souls and our might to make the plea -- Never Again -- a reality that will be heard around the world.
I ask that upon the close of today's business we adjourn in the memory of the liberators of Auschwitz and the other death camps, and of the millions who died there and the many whose names are known only to God.