WHEREAS, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945; Jews were the primary victims – six million were murdered; and

        WHEREAS, gypsies, the handicapped and Poles also were targeted for racial, ethnic or national reasons while millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny; and

        WHEREAS, MAX FULLMER, CITIZEN OF IDAHO, WWII VETERAN AND DACHAU CAMP LIBERATOR, has indeed acted upon his moral responsibilities and continues to strongly reflect on the moral responsibilities of individuals, societies and governments; and

        WHEREAS, MAX FULLMER, CITIZEN OF IDAHO, WWII VETERAN AND DACHAU CAMP LIBERATOR, has indeed and continues to strongly remember the terrible events of the Holocaust that he personally witnessed and he remains forever vigilant against bigotry and tyranny; and

        WHEREAS, MAX FULLMER, CITIZEN OF IDAHO, WWII VETERAN AND DACHAU CAMP LIBERATOR, has indeed and continues to strongly to rededicate himself to the principles of equality and justice for all;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “Butch” Otter, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby honor and invite all citizens of Idaho to honor

MAX FULLMER, CITIZEN OF IDAHO, WWII VETERAN AND DACHAU CAMP LIBERATOR

an exemplary individual who clearly remembers the inhumanity of those who perpetrated the Holocaust and has clearly respected all peoples through his thoughts and his actions.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 16thday of April in the year of our Lord two-thousand and eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-second and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred eighteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE