MAY 4TH, 2008 "JASENOVAC DAY OF COMMMEMORATION"

Subject: JASENOVAC
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Office of the Mayor

CITY OF NEW YORK

Proclamation

WHEREAS:

MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST. AS THE HORROR OF THOSE EVENTS RECEDES DEEPER INTO HISTORY, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REMEMBRANCE WEIGHS MORE HEAVilY ON ALL OF US. NEW YORK CITY IS
PROUD TO JOIN THE JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN COMMEMORATING THE HOLOCAUST IN YUGOSLAVIA WITH A CEREMONY AT THE HOLOCAUST PARK IN BROOKLYN. TOGETHER WE HONOR THOSE WHO SUFFERED AND PLEDGE TO REMAIN VIGILANT AGAINST THE DARK IMPULSES THAT CAN LEAD TO GENOCIDE.

WHEREAS:

JASENOVAC WAS THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AND THE MONUMENT, PROUDLY UNVEILED LAST YEAR, CONTINUES TO STAND AS A TESTAMENT TO THE BRAVERY Of THE CAMP'S VICTIMS. WETAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REMEMBER THE THOUSANDS WHO DIED THERE, AS WELL AS THE HEROIC PRISONERS WHOSE ESCAPE IN 1945 SPARKED THE LIBERATION OF THE CAMP.

WHEREAS:

IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE SCOPE OF LOSS SUffERED BY YUGOSLAVIA'S JEWS, SERBS, ROMAS, AND ANTI-FASCISTS AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE HONOR THEIR MEMORY FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE WHO SUFFERED IN THE PAST AND ALSO TO ENSURE THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL NEVER KNOW SUCH AN ATROCITY.

NOW THEREFORE I, MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, MAYOR Of THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN REMEMBRANCE Of THEMILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE HOLOCAUST, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM SUNDAY, MAY 4TH,2008 IN THE CITY Of NEW YORK AS

"JASENOVAC DAY OF COMMMEMORATION"

IN WITNESS WHEREFOR I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND CAUSED THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO BE AFFIXED.

MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG

MAYOR