I. Ermeni Sorunun Tarihsel Boyutu
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Ronald REAGAN - Nisan
22, 1981
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"Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the
Cambodians which followed it — and like too many other such persecutions of
too many other peoples — the lessons of the Holocaust must never be
forgotten."
Proclamation 4838 of April 22, 1981
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust
by the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The Congress of the United States established the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council to create a living memorial to the victims of the Nazi
Holocaust. Its purpose: So mankind will never lose memory of that terrible
moment in time when the awful specter of death camps stained the history of
our world.
When America and its allies liberated those haunting places of terror and
sick destructiveness, the world came to a vivid and tragic understanding of
the evil it faced in those years of the Second World War. Each of those
names — Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Treblinka and so many others — became
synonymous with horror.
The millions of death, the gas chambers, the inhuman crematoria, and the
thousands of people who somehow survived with lifetime scars are all now
part of the conscience of history. Forever must we remember just how
precious is civilization, how important is liberty, and how heroic is the
human spirit.
Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the
Cambodians which followed it — and like too many other such persecutions of
too many other peoples — the lessons of the Holocaust must never be
forgotten.
As part of its mandate, the Holocaust Memorial Council has been directed to
designate annual Day of Remembrance as a national, civic commemoration of
the Holocaust, and to encourage and sponsor appropriate observances
throughout the United States. This year, the national Days of Remembrance
will be observed on April 26 through May 3.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America,
do hereby ask the people of the United States to observe this solemn
anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, with appropriate
study, prayers and commemoration, as a tribute to the spirit of freedom and
justice which Americans fought so hard and well to preserve.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 22nd day of April, in
the year of our Lord Nineteen hundred and eight-one, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth.
Ronald Reagan
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