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HR0801LRB104 21429 LAW 36488 r

1HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of 

3Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Samuel 

4R. "Sam" Harris, one of the youngest known survivors of the 

5Holocaust; and

6 WHEREAS, Sam Harris was born Szlamek Rzeznik in Deblin, 

7Poland in 1935; at the age of four, he witnessed the Nazi 

8occupation of his hometown; he, his parents, and his seven 

9siblings were subsequently forced to move into a ghetto, where 

10they lived until its liquidation in 1942; he and two of his 

11older sisters, Rosa and Sara, were then separated from their 

12parents and remaining siblings, who were deported to the 

13Treblinka extermination camp and murdered; and

14 WHEREAS, Sam Harris survived the Holocaust through the 

15fierce, protective love of his sister, Rosa, who worked as a 

16slave laborer in the concentration camp outside of Deblin, 

17where she hid both him and his other sister, Sara; they were 

18all transported to the Czestochowa concentration camp in 1944, 

19where Rosa was again able to hide her two siblings; he and his 

20sisters were all liberated by the Soviet Army on January 17, 

211945; the following year, he and Sara were smuggled to Austria 

22by Rosa, who then arranged for her younger siblings' 

23relocation to the United States in 1947, where he was adopted 

HR0801- 2 -LRB104 21429 LAW 36488 r

1by the Harris family of Illinois, moved to Chicago, and was 

2given the opportunity to experience college, a career, 

3marriage, and fatherhood; and

4 WHEREAS, Sam Harris began telling his story of survival 

5and resilience in the late 1970s, later publishing his memoir, 

6Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust, in 1999; he 

7reconnected wi