BILL NUMBER: ACR 1	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  26
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 5, 2003
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2003
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MARCH 6, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 6, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 3, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 16, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Koretz and Cohn
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Bates, Canciamilla, Chan, Chavez,
Chu, Cox, Firebaugh, Laird, Mountjoy, Negrete McLeod, Pacheco,
Pavley, Steinberg, Vargas, Aghazarian, Benoit, Berg, Bermudez, Bogh,
Calderon, Campbell, Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, Daucher, Diaz, Dutra,
Dutton, Dymally, Frommer, Garcia, Goldberg, Hancock, Harman, Jerome
Horton, Shirley Horton, Houston, Jackson, Keene, Kehoe, La Malfa, La
Suer, Leno, Leslie, Levine, Lieber, Liu, Longville, Lowenthal,
Maddox, Maldonado, Matthews, Maze, McCarthy, Montanez, Mullin,
Nakanishi, Nakano, Nation, Nunez, Oropeza, Parra, Plescia, Reyes,
Richman, Ridley-Thomas, Runner, Salinas, Samuelian, Simitian,
Spitzer, Strickland, Wesson, Wiggins, Wolk, Wyland, and Yee)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Aanestad, Ackerman, Alarcon, Alpert,
Ashburn, Battin, Bowen, Brulte, Burton, Cedillo, Chesbro, Denham,
Ducheny, Dunn, Escutia, Figueroa, Florez, Hollingsworth, Johnson,
Karnette, Knight, Kuehl, Machado, Margett, McClintock, McPherson,
Morrow, Murray, Oller, Ortiz, Perata, Poochigian, Romero, Scott,
Sher, Soto, Speier, Torlakson, Vasconcellos, and Vincent)

                        DECEMBER 2, 2002

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 1--Relative to California
Holocaust Memorial Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 1, Koretz.  California Holocaust Memorial Week.
   This measure would proclaim the week of April 27 through May 4,
2003, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and would urge
Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of
the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.




   WHEREAS, The Holocaust was a tragedy of proportions the world had
never before witnessed; and
   WHEREAS, More than 60 years have passed since the tragic events we
now call the Holocaust transpired, in which the dictatorship of Nazi
Germany murdered six million Jews as part of a systematic program of
genocide known as "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question"; and
   WHEREAS, Jews were the primary victims, but they were not alone.
Five million others were murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part
of a carefully orchestrated, state-sponsored program of cultural,
social, and political annihilation under Nazi tyranny; and
   WHEREAS, We must teach our children 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,
   WHEREAS, We must always remind ourselves of the horrible events of
the Holocaust and remain vigilant against hatred, persecution, and
tyranny lest these atrocities be repeated; and
   WHEREAS, We, the people of California, should actively rededicate
ourselves to the principles of human rights, individual freedom, and
equal protection under the laws of a just and democratic society; and

   WHEREAS, Each person in California should set aside moments of his
or her time every year to give remembrance to those who lost their
lives in the Holocaust; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Holocaust Memorial Council has
designated the week of April 27 through May 4, 2003, as the Days of
Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, including the
International Day of Remembrance known as Yom Hashoah; and
   WHEREAS, According to Eli Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and
nationally recognized scholar, "... a memorial unresponsive to the
future would violate the memory of the past"; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the week of April 27 through May 4, 2003, be
proclaimed "California Holocaust Memorial Week," and that
Californians are urged to observe these days of remembrance for
victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit sufficient
copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate
distribution.