REMARKS
Council Member Eric Dinowitz speaks on Auschwitz Remembrance Day resolution
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz provides remarks on the significance of passing a resolution to make January 27th Auschwitz Remembrance Day in New York City. He emphasizes the importance of memory in Jewish tradition and quotes Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel on the power of remembrance.
- Dinowitz explains that the Hebrew Torah doesn't have a word for history, but expresses it through memory and remembrance
- He quotes Elie Wiesel: "Memory is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love"
- The council member concludes by thanking the speaker and Regina Paul for drafting the resolution
Eric Dinowitz
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Thank you, majority leader.
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Today, we're voting on a resolution to, to make January 27th Auschwitz Remembrance Day and to remember, you know, this this dark moment, in in our history.
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You know, the the Torah, the sacred Jewish text in Hebrew, does doesn't have a word for history.
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That word doesn't exist in the Torah.
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Instead, the concept of history is expressed through memory, through remembrance.
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And when we remember something, when we have a memory of something, it is part of who we are.
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And with the passage of this resolution, we are declaring that New York City remembers Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
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But, perhaps, you know, I I can't say too too well, but Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, always had a a way of saying things.
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He said memory is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love.
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What does it mean to remember?
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It is to live in more than one war world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.
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And with the passage of this resolution, New York City is preventing the past, from fading.
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And I wanna thank the speaker for moving this resolution forward and for and to Regina Paul, for drafting this resolution.