Proclamation
Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 24, 2025
Whereas, The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of Six Million European Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted Roma, Poles, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents for oppression, destruction, or decimation; and Whereas, the history of the Holocaust offers an opportunity to reflect on the moral responsibilities of individuals, societies, and governments and the need to respect of all peoples; and Whereas, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed on the 27th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar representing Israel's day of commemoration for the Six Million Jewish people including 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust and honoring the survivors, rescuers, and liberators of the Holocaust; and Whereas, we must educate and teach, not only this generation but future generations, that the individual and communal acts of heroism during the Holocaust serve as a powerful example of how our nation and its citizens, can, and must, respond to acts of hatred and inhumanity; and Now, Therefore, I, Gary Singh, Mayor of the City of Manteca, on behalf of City Council, do recognize April 24, 2025, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and in honor of the survivors, and encourage we work to promote human dignity and confront hate whenever and wherever it occurs.
DATE: May 6, 2025
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Mayor Gary Singh
ATTACHMENT 1
Mayor Singh • Vice Mayor Halford • Councilmember Breitenbucher • Councilmember Lackey • Councilmember Morowit