Second Session, 44th General Assembly

49 Elizabeth II, 2000

BILL 33

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH HOLOCAUST

MEMORIAL

DAY IN THE PROVINCE

Received and

Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Dec. 12/00 Amendment

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE BEATON TULK

Premier

Ordered to be printed by the

Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would establish Holocaust Memorial Day

in the province as a day of reflection about the enduring lessons of

the Holocaust.

A BILL

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY IN

THE PROVINCE

Analysis

Short title

2. Holocaust Memorial Day

WHEREAS HaShoah , the Holocaust, refers to

the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of

European Jewry by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and

1945;

AND

WHEREAS six million Jewish men, women and

children were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators;

AND

WHEREAS other atrocities were planned,

organized and carried out by Nazi civil and military authorities and

their collaborators, victimizing Jews and many other people because

of race, religion,

political belief, physical disability, mental

disability or sexual orientation;

AND

WHEREAS, during the Second World War, Canada

and its allies, including many Newfoundlanders and Labradorians,

took

part in a prolonged armed struggle, costly in human life and

human suffering, to defeat the Nazis and their collaborators;

AND

WHEREAS it is desirable to observe a day to

remember the victims of the Holocaust and to honour those who fought

to defeat the tyranny and genocide of the Nazis and their

collaborators;

AND

WHEREAS that day would provide an opportunity

to reflect upon and educate the people of the province about the

enduring lessons of the Holocaust and to consider other instances of

systematic destruction of peoples, human rights issues and the

multicultural reality of modern society;

AND

WHEREAS Yom HaShoah, the Day of the

Holocaust, is determined in each year by the Jewish lunar calendar;

THEREFORE

BE IT ENACTED by the

Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session

convened, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the

Holocaust Memorial Day Act .

Holocaust Memorial Day

2. Yom HaShoah , the Day of the

Holocaust, as determined each year by the Jewish lunar calendar,

shall be kept and observed as Holocaust Memorial Day in the

province.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer