Resolution to honor the life and legacy of Jack Repp.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 892 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 892

         Resolution to honor the life and legacy of Jack Repp.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2020

Mr. Allred (for himself, Mr. Olson, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Weber of 
 Texas, Mr. Wright, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Taylor, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Babin, 
Mr. Veasey, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Hurd of Texas, Mr. McCaul, and Mr. 
Marchant) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
         Resolution to honor the life and legacy of Jack Repp.

Whereas Jack Repp was born on August 16, 1923, in Radom, Poland, to Lazar and 
        Chava Rzepkowicz as one of five children, with his brothers, Srulik, 
        David, and Jankel, and his sister, Nannette;
Whereas Nazi Germany invaded Poland beginning in September 1939;
Whereas, in 1941, Jack and family were interned in the Radom ghetto, during 
        which time his father passed away two years later and his family was 
        separated to different labor and concentration camps;
Whereas, from 1941 to 1942, he worked in a Radom labor camp;
Whereas, from 1942 to 1943, he worked in a Radom concentration camp until he was 
        moved to an ammunition factory;
Whereas, at the end of 1943, he was moved to Auschwitz Concentration Camp;
Whereas eventually he was moved to Dachau Concentration Camp where he was 
        liberated by United States forces on April 29, 1945;
Whereas, on November 17, 1949, he moved to the United States to join relatives 
        in Greenville, Texas;
Whereas, in March 1950, he settled in Dallas, Texas;
Whereas, after the war, he met his wife Edna in a displaced persons camp and 
        they went on to have three children: Lotty, David, and Stanley, and 
        enjoyed a happy marriage for 50 years until Edna passed away in 1995;
Whereas, after his wife's passing, he met Sara Yarrin at Temple Emanu-El and 
        began another loving relationship that lasted 23 years;
Whereas, for 20 years, Jack Repp has been sharing his life story of the horrors 
        that happened against the Jewish people and in the concentration camps 
        under the Nazi regime in the hopes that by sharing this story people 
        would learn from the past to prevent these horrors from happening again;
Whereas, in 2017, he and Rabbi Lewin published a book that told his story in 
        Dreams and Jealousy: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jack Repp;
Whereas he has lectured to thousands of people at museums, public and private 
        schools, universities, and military bases and remained an active part of 
        the Jewish community as a member of Temple Emanu-El, Temple Shearith 
        Israel, and a speaker at the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for 
        Education and Tolerance;
Whereas Jack Repp passed away peacefully at the age of 96 on January 14, 2020; 
        and
Whereas Jack Repp was one of the last Holocaust survivors living in Dallas, and 
        with his death, our country loses another connection to the past and a 
        storyteller of the horrors of the Holocaust: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) extends its heartfelt sympathy to the family of Jack 
        Repp on the occasion of his death;
            (2) honors the life and legacy of Jack Repp; and
            (3) honors and expresses deep appreciation to Jack Repp on 
        the behalf of the United States for continuing to share his 
        story of his experience during the Holocaust.
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