HJR166 Summary

• Recognizes the Alabama Holocaust Commission's 2024 State Yom HaShoah Commemoration on May 2, 2024, held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

• Acknowledges Yom HaShoah as a day of commemoration instituted by Israel in 1951 for the 6,000,000 Jewish men, women, and children who perished in the Holocaust.

• Honors the memory of Holocaust victims, Holocaust survivors who died within the last year, and surviving Holocaust survivors.

• Emphasizes that Yom HaShoah commemorations are vital to ensuring people never forget the significance and horrors of the Holocaust.