MI SR0116

Recognizes May 5-6, 2024, as Holocaust Remembrance Day in Michigan to honor victims, survivors, and liberators of the Holocaust.

Acknowledges the Holocaust as state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany from 1933-1945, resulting in six million Jewish deaths and reducing the world's Jewish population by one-third.

Documents that Poland lost 90 percent of its Jewish population, while Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Lithuania, Bohemia, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Latvia each lost more than 70 percent.

Notes that the Anti-Defamation League reported antisemitic incidents increased 140 percent in 2023, with assaults up 45 percent, harassment up 184 percent, and vandalism up 69 percent, marking the highest level in 45 years of tracking.

Calls for Michigan citizens to reflect on the Holocaust and strive to overcome hatred and intolerance through learning and remembrance, consistent with Michigan's PA 170 of 2016 requirement for genocide education in grades 8-12.