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Congressional Record—House H2558 H2558 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 14, 2010 fact of the matter is the tax cuts that HONORING MIAMI CHILDREN’S MU- Clara Rona still remembers the smell of were passed by the previous adminis- SEUM ON THE OCCASION OF ITS human flesh being incinerated at Auschwitz, tration are going to expire at the end 25TH ANNIVERSARY seeing smoke wafting through the air and knowing it was somebody’s mother. of this year and the Democrats are (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was She won’t allow herself to forget a mo- going to let them expire, which means given permission to address the House ment—not the beatings, the hunger, or the that in effect all those taxes are going for 1 minute and to revise and extend baby who was killed in a toilet in her pres- to go up. That is a tax increase. her remarks.) ence. At age 89, the West Toledo woman still Mr. Volcker, who was in the Carter Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I talks openly about the horrors of which hu- rise to honor the Miami Children’s Mu- manity is capable. administration and raised interest And yet. 1 seum as it celebrates its 25th anniver- rates to 21 ⁄2 percent that put this ‘‘I wish I had dementia,’’ she says, pleading country into a real economic spiral, he sary as an invaluable educational and in her Hungarian accent. ‘‘I don’t want to re- is now saying that we are going to need cultural center in my district in South member.’’ a VAT tax, a value-added tax of about Florida. I would like to recognize the Between 150,000 and 170,000 survivors of the 15 to 20 percent, which they are going museum’s stellar leadership team, in- Holocaust probably remain in this country, to probably try to push through after cluding its chairman, Jeff Berkowitz, according to the United States Holocaust and its executive director, Deborah Memorial Museum, and there are fewer than the election. And a VAT tax of 20 per- a dozen believed to live in the Toledo area. cent would mean if you buy a $10,000 Spiegelman. Since 1983, the Miami Children’s Mu- All face the same dilemma: How to balance car it is going to cost you $12,000 be- seum has fostered an environment for the responsibility of being the last living cause you have a $2,000 additional tax active learning and creative play for threads to the systematic killing of 6 million tacked on. Jews with the pain of memory. children of all ages. Thanks to the vi- Today is Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Re- This is a tax and spend administra- sionary leadership of Jeff and Deborah, membrance Day. Now and in the days to tion. We have the biggest deficits in as well as the dedication of the muse- come people will gather at events to urge the the history of the United States. And um’s staff and volunteers, the facility world, ‘‘Never again! Never forget!’’ when I hear my colleagues talking is now one of the 10 largest children’s But Rena Mann won’t be among them. about all the good things they are museums in the United States. The The 83-year-old has never opened up to doing for America, I wish they would museum is also a leader in cutting-edge anyone—not her late husband nor her chil- look at the unemployment rate and children’s programming on topics such dren—about what she endured in two con- centration camps during World War II. look at what people are taking out of as environmental conservation, green Maybe it’s because it hurts too much. Or their salaries and what this country is technologies, and financial literacy. maybe it’s because she’s afraid the world going through economically. It ain’t As a grandmother, I know firsthand doesn’t want to know. what they are saying. how important the Miami Children’s ‘‘Do people care?,’’ the Sylvania Township Museum is for parents and educators woman asked. ‘‘On the one hand I don’t want f seeking a safe and fun learning envi- it to be forgotten, and on the other hand I ronment for their children. I wish feel that people are really, in the future, not much success to the Miami Children’s going to care.’’ THE START TREATY AND Museum as it works toward the next 25 PAIN AND SUFFERING NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW years of service to our South Florida Born in Berlin, Mrs. Mann was 12 and liv- (Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- community. ing in Poland when the war began. After her fornia asked and was given permission mother died of blood poisoning and her step- f father was trapped in a newly formed ghetto, to address the House for 1 minute and HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY she was sent to stay with family in another to revise and extend her remarks.) town. (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- This was no death camp, but already the permission to address the House for 1 terror had begun. She remembers being fornia. Mr. Speaker, I am here to rec- minute.) ognize the new START treaty that was awakened in the night and sent to the mar- Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, our coun- ket to watch Jews being hanged. Their recently signed by President Obama try observed Yom HaShoah, or Holo- crime? Baking bread, which was forbidden. and the Russian President and the re- caust Remembrance Day, this past ‘‘As an example they were hung, and we all cently released 2010 Nuclear Posture Sunday, which recalls the global trag- had to watch it,’’ Mrs. Mann said. Review. edy of state-sponsored systemic annihi- Before she turned 14, Mrs. Maim was sent away to a factory and forced into slave I believe it is important to realize lation and persecution of European labor. It was hard work involving water and that the Cold War is over, and it is Jewry by Nazi Germany and its col- spools of flax that left her fingers and feet time to align our nuclear policy with laborators as well as millions more frostbitten. the new generation of security threats. deaths of people who were of Roma ex- Mostly what she remembers is the hunger. The biggest threat facing our country traction, the disabled, Slavic peoples, There was a bit of bread that was supposed today is having nuclear materials fall homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and to last three days and some potato soup at into the hands of an organization potential dissidents. night that might not have any potato at all. ‘‘We got, like we used to say, too much to called al Qaeda. History has shown I would like to include in the RECORD an article from the Toledo Blade in our die from and too little to exist,’’ Mrs. Mann that building our nuclear stockpile has said. not deterred al Qaeda and other actors district, a front-page story last Sunday Two years later she moved to another from trying to gain nuclear capabili- entitled ‘‘Survivors Urge World to camp, where she slept in an abandoned fac- ties. Never Forget Horror,’’ which recounts tory with broken windows, no water or pri- the story of some of the heroic sur- vacy, and vicious guards who would kick and What we do need to do is to take vivors in our district in Ohio. push. A Polish song written by her smart steps to prevent the spread of In our country, 150,000 to 170,000 sur- girlfriends still resounds in her head. It con- nuclear weapons to those enemies and vivors remain today. The horror of the cludes: secure vulnerable nuclear materials Holocaust has affected countless souls Who knows if I’ll ever see / My mother’s from those who want to get their hands across this globe. Our district is home tender home. / This is a song of despair, / Of Jewish pain and suffering. on that to do us harm. I believe the to persevering survivors like Mrs. new START treaty and the 2010 Nu- ‘‘That song is always with me and I don’t Clara Rona, whose words I will place in want to take it with me to my grave,’’ Mrs. clear Posture Review are important the RECORD today, and so many others Mann said. steps in the right direction. who never should have had to make She never talked about the four years she It is also important to note that this sacrifice, but she remains a woman spent in camps before being liberated in 1945. America still has a very robust nuclear of hope. No one really asked. ‘‘I am actually a coward,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s arsenal, and that as we work towards a [From toledoblade.com, Apr. 11, 2010] true. Because I am pushing it away, or have nuclear-free world we will not take any SURVIVORS URGE WORLD TO NEVER FORGET been pushing it away.’’ action that would put our security at (By Ryan E. Smith) Maybe now, though, after all these years, risk. Our country will be more, not less Living through the Holocaust was one the pain is far enough behind her that she secure from these new initiatives. thing. Remembering it is another. can let it out. VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:34 Jul 08, 2010 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD10\RECFILES\H14AP0.REC H14AP0 mmaher on DSKD5P82C1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE April 14, 2010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2559 EYEWITNESSES sacks of cement while surviving on bits of immediately sent to the crematorium—re- Mrs.
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