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for larger version       Addabbo Cosponsors Yom Ha'Shoah Bill City Council Member Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. has announced that he has cosponsored a Resolution in the Council commemorating Yom Ha'Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 15, 2007. Six million Jews and scores of other innocent people throughout Europe were slaughtered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, the most brutal and devastating of all pogroms. "We should never forget the victims nor the survivors of the Holocaust," Addabbo stated. The Holocaust was the manifestation of intense anti-Semitism, hatred, savagery and inhumanity that ravaged Europe from 1933 to 1945, resulting in the senseless murder of millions. Jewish men, women and children and others targeted by the Nazis were herded to the concentration camps that bore names like Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka and Theresienstadt, where they were met by unspeakable living conditions, inhumane medical experimentation, torture and mass scale killings. Addabbo expressed, "There can be no measure to the destruction and devastation that resulted from the Holocaust nor can the world ever fully recover from this hate campaign." He also stated that every possible effort on every level of society should learn from these past evils and ensure that the lives of those who perished and those generations of lost and ruined families are remembered in order to never allow another Holocaust to occur. On April 15, 2007 people of all religions, races and ethnicities across the globe are urged to join in the commemoration of the lives of those who perished in the Holocaust and the mass destruction it reaped upon the Jewish people and the world. The true meaning of Yom Ha'Shoah is not only a call for people to devote one calendar day to remembrance but a call to devote the entirety of our lives to the preservation of humanity, decency, respect and peace among all peoples. "It is our responsibility to conduct our lives in a manner that values humanity above all else and to honor and remember the millions of lives taken in the Holocaust," said Councilman Addabbo.
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