Other events remembering the Holocaust will be occurring throughout the country. Each year the ceremony has a theme geared to specific events which occurred during the Holocaust. The gentleman from California referred to the sailing of the St. Louis on May 13. 1939. 60 years ago. Just as so many refugees came from Europe and other parts of the world. they came to the United States. They came to a nation that has a Statue of Liberty that says. "Give me your tired. your poor. your huddled masses yearning to be free. the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these. the homeless. tempest tossed to me.
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