AL HJR339

Recognizes the Alabama Holocaust Commission's State Yom HaShoah Commemoration scheduled for April 25, 2017, at the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, with Governor Kay Ivey as the speaker.

Acknowledges that Yom HaShoah was instituted in Israel in 1951 as a day of commemoration for the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Notes the Alabama Holocaust Commission was established by legislation in 1999 with the responsibility to enhance public awareness of the consequences and significance of the Holocaust and promote Holocaust education.

Honors the memory of lives lost in the Holocaust and recognizes the 2017 Yom HaShoah Commemoration as an opportunity to enhance public awareness of the Holocaust's significance and consequences.