AL HR174

Recognizes the Alabama Holocaust Commission's 2019 State Yom HaShoah Commemoration scheduled for Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at the State Capitol in Montgomery, 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 that the Alabama Holocaust Commission was established by legislation in 1999 to foster understanding and promote education about the Holocaust, with the state policy that Holocaust education is the proper concern of all peoples.

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