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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2001.04.05 - 26294Shelley G. Tau District #12 Miscellaneous Resolution # 01 r_ 5 BY: Commissioner Shelley G. Taub, District #12, Michelle Friedman Appel, District #23 RE: Board of Commissioners- Support of Senate Bill 315 Holocaust Remembrance TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS, the Michigan State Legislature introduced Senate Bill 315 to establish Holocaust Remembrance Week in the State of Michigan; 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. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Oakland County Board of Commissioners does hereby support the passage of Senate Bill 315 to establish the Holocaust Remembrance Week in the State of Michigan; and 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 Holocaust Remembrance Week 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; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT copies of this adopted resolution be forwarded to the Governor, the Michigan State Legislature, the Michigan Association of Counties and to the County's legislative lobbyists. Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. Michelle FriedmarTAppel District #23 Resolution #01115 April 5, 2001 The Chairperson referred the Resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no objections.