Ted Deutch: “I thank my friend, Ranking Member Engel, for his hard work on this bill and for yielding. I thank Chairman Royce as…”

“I thank my friend, Ranking Member Engel, for his hard work on this bill and for yielding. I thank Chairman Royce as well. I want to thank the many Members of Congress who have shown their unyielding commitment to caring for Holocaust survivors and ensuring that their needs are met, including the cosponsors of this bill, and, of course, the House bill's sponsors, Congressman Crowley and Congressman Smith. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my friend and colleague, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, for her tireless efforts throughout her career on behalf of Holocaust survivors in our community in south Florida and everywhere they live. Two weeks after we marked Yom HaShoah, it is fitting that Congress would consider this bill. I hope that the world is watching, because every year that we move away from the horrible atrocities of the Holocaust, we lose more and more survivors. They are the people who survived Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, and other Nazi death camps. They are the people who survived the attempted genocide against them. Six million Jews perished. We must remember that every single victim, those who perished and those who survived, had a story. They had homes, they had businesses, family heirlooms, and personal possessions. As the Nazis stormed through Europe to wipe out European Jewry, they stole everything they could as they sent Jews to their death.…”