Stunned by this barbarism. the world seemed impotent to halt the slaughter. and when the war finally ended. we remained shamefully impotent to help the handful of survivors. For some 3 years. homeless Jews remained in displacedpersons camps in Germany and Austriathe graveyard of their kin. And behind the iron curtain. Jews who had miraculously survived annihilation by the Naziswere now being liquidated by expropriation by the Communists. This black chapter of disaster came to a sudden and dramatic end on May 14. 1948. when the State of Israel was proclaimed. On that day. even as the new democracy was invaded. it threw open its doors and the refugees began to come home after an exile of 2.000 years. Mr. Speaker.
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