HJR170 Summary

• Recognizes the Alabama Holocaust Commission's 2019 State Yom HaShoah Commemoration on April 30, 2019, at the State Capitol in Montgomery with Governor Kay Ivey as speaker.

• Acknowledges Yom HaShoah as a day of commemoration instituted in Israel in 1951 for 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.

• 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.

• House adopted on April 30, 2019; Senate adopted on May 2, 2019.