HJR457 Summary

• Recognizes the Alabama Holocaust Commission's State Yom HaShoah Commemoration scheduled for April 10, 2018, at the State Capitol in Montgomery, with Governor Kay Ivey as the speaker.

• Honors the memory of six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and commemorates Yom HaShoah, which was instituted in Israel in 1951 as a day of remembrance.

• References the Alabama Holocaust Commission established by legislation in 1999 with the mission to foster understanding, promote education about the Holocaust, and enhance public awareness of its consequences and significance.

• Directs that copies of the resolution be prepared for appropriate presentation and display to recognize the occasion as one to enhance public awareness of the Holocaust.

• Adopted by the House on March 21, 2018, and the Senate on March 27, 2018.