AL HR459

Recognizes the Alabama Holocaust Commission's State Yom HaShoah Commemoration scheduled for April 10, 2018, at the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

Acknowledges that Yom HaShoah was instituted in Israel in 1951 to commemorate the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Notes that the Alabama Holocaust Commission was established by legislation in 1999 to foster understanding and promote Holocaust education as a proper concern of all peoples.

Honors the memory of lives lost in the Holocaust and recognizes the commemoration as an occasion to enhance public awareness of the Holocaust's consequences and significance.