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GA SR829

Resolution

Status

Passed

3/30/2022

Primary Sponsor

Kay Kirkpatrick

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Origin

Senate

2021-2022 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Recognizes the 57th Annual Community Observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 1, 2022, commemorating the six million European Jews, including 1.5 million children, systematically persecuted and annihilated by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945
  • Acknowledges other groups targeted during the Holocaust, including Roma, Poles, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents
  • Honors the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery, dedicated on April 25, 1965, which has stood for more than 57 years as Eternal Life-Hemshech's tribute to Holocaust victims
  • Recognizes the contributions of Eternal Life-Hemshech, the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta in organizing the 57th Annual Community-wide Yom HaShoah Holocaust Commemoration
  • Directs the Secretary of the Senate to make copies of the resolution available for public distribution

Legislative Description

57th Annual Community Observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day; recognize May 1, 2022

Last Action

Senate Read and Adopted

3/30/2022

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