HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2011.04.21 - 18212Marcia Gershenson
District #17
Miscellaneous Resolution #11079
BY: Commissioner Shelley G. Taub, District #12, Helaine Zack, District #22, and Marcia Gershenson,
District #17
RE: Board of Commissioners- Observance of the Days of Holocaust Remembrance in Oakland
County — May 1 through May 8,2011
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
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 Jews were murdered;
Roma (Gypsies), 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 tragedy of the terrible reign of the Nazis must never be forgotten; and
WHEREAS the cries of grief and pain of the survivors, and the mute witness of millions of victims in mass
graves will always seed renewed resolve that such brutal inhumanity of Man to Man never recur; and
WHEREAS a key date in the history of the Holocaust is April 19, 1943, the beginning of the Warsaw ghetto
uprising, when Jews, resisted death camp deportation by the Nazis for 27 days; and
WHEREAS this date, which in the Hebrew calendar is the twenty-seventh day of Nisan, was established in
1980, by the United States Congress as the National Holocaust Remembrance Day, in memory of the victims
of the Holocaust, and in honor of the survivors, as well as, the rescuers and liberators.
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
Sunday, May 1 through Sunday, May 8, 2011, including the Day of Remembrance known as Yom Hashoah,
May 1,2011; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners desires to join in this observance to commemorate
the victims of the Holocaust and express our desire that such horrors are never repeated.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners does hereby
declare May 1, 2011, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners proclaim the week of
Sunday, May 1through Sunday, May 8, 2011, 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 should work to promote human dignity and confront hate whenever and wherever it occurs.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners joins in encouraging
individuals, educational institutions, and social, community, religious, labor and business organizations to
pause during the observance of Days of Holocaust Remembrance to reflect upon what can happen when
bigotry, indifference and hatred are tolerated in a civilized society; and to rededicate ourselves to the principles
of individual freedom in a just society.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT copies of this adopted resolution be forwarded to the Governor, the
Michigan State Legislature, the Michigan Association of Counties, the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, DC and the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Ml.
Chairperson, we move the • - the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #11079 April 21, 2011
Moved by Taub supported by Woodward to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution
#11079 — Board of Commissioners — Observance of the Days of Holocaust Remembrance in Oakland
County — May 1 through May 8, 2011.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis,
McGillivray, Middelton, Nash, Nuccio, Potts, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Taub, Weipert, Woodward,
Zack, Bosnic, Covey, Crawford, Dwyer. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #11079— Board of Commissioners — Observance of the Days of Holocaust Remembrance in
Oakland County — May 1 through May 8, 2011.
Moved by Taub supported by Woodward the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis, McGillivray,
Middleton, Nash, Nuccio, Potts, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack,
Bosnic, Covey, Crawford, Dwyer, Gershenson. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Bill Bullard Jr., Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on April 21,2011, with
the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at Pontiac,
Michigan this 21st day of April, 2011.
Bill Bullard Jr., Oakland County