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Orrin G. Hatch

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Latest Update: Monday, October, 06th 2008

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A resolution honoring Dr. Feng Shan Ho, a man of great courage and humanity, who saved the lives of thousands of Austrian Jews between 1938 and 1940.

6/6/2008--Passed Senate without amendment.    (There is 1 other summary)

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Honors the courage and humanity of Dr. Feng Shan Ho for acting at great personal risk to issue Chinese visas to Jews in Vienna between 1938 and 1940.

Recognizes his heroic deeds in saving the lives of thousands of Jewish persons by allowing them to escape the Holocaust.

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  • 06/06/2008 - Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5374-5375; text as passed Senate: CR S5375; text of measure as introduced: CR S5372-5373)
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S.RES.588 Agreed to by Senate06/10/2008