# What This Bill Does

This bill authorizes Congress to create and award a special gold medal honoring the Jewish people who fought back during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. The medal recognizes their heroic armed resistance against Nazi forces during the Holocaust, when Jewish residents of the Warsaw ghetto mounted an organized defense against impossible odds rather than submit to deportation and death.

The bill is primarily symbolic and historical in nature. Congress is creating a commemorative medal to acknowledge the courage of these resistance fighters and to preserve the memory of Jewish life and culture in Poland. The actual medal will be presented at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which sits on the site of the former ghetto. After the initial presentation, the gold medal will be given to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where it will be displayed and potentially loaned to other Holocaust-related institutions and museums that request it.

From a practical standpoint, this bill has minimal direct impact on everyday Americans. It's not creating new laws, regulations, or programs that affect people's daily lives. The main costs involve producing the medal itself—the bill allows the U.S. Mint to use funds to cover the expenses of designing and creating the gold medal. The government can also produce and sell bronze copies of the medal to the public, with any profits going back into the Mint's budget. This is a way for Congress to officially recognize historical events and honor those who resisted tyranny, serving as a permanent reminder of the Holocaust and the importance of standing against oppression.

Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Congressional Gold Medal Act

Keating, William R.

Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Congressional Gold Medal Act This bill provides for the award of a Congressional&nbsp;Gold&nbsp;Medal&nbsp;posthumously to commemorate the participants in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who led an armed resistance against Nazi occupiers.