Act No. 10

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

February 26, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

February 26, 2004

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 26, 2004

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Reps. Shulman, Garfield, Tobocman, Voorhees, Hopgood, Vagnozzi, Meisner, Hummel, Meyer, Hager, Shaffer, Brandenburg, Palmer, Koetje, Stahl, Nofs, Steil, Rocca, Kooiman, Hart, Vander Veen, Bisbee, Tabor, Stewart, Hoogendyk, Gaffney, Woronchak, Middaugh, Shackleton, Newell, Sheen, Hune, Caswell, Minore, Sheltrown, Caul, Van Regenmorter, Walker, DeRossett, Jamnick, Taub, Emmons, Anderson, O'Neil, Gieleghem, Drolet, Pappageorge, Phillips, Zelenko, Kolb, Richardville, Spade, Lipsey, Julian, Dennis, Williams, Rivet, Pumford, Ruth Johnson, Bradstreet, Adamini, Brown, Hunter, Farrah, Paletko, Pastor, LaJoy, Law, Bieda, Condino, DeRoche, Accavitti, Amos, Stakoe, Robertson, Ward, Byrum, Sak, Nitz, Huizenga, Farhat, Elkins, Moolenaar, Palsrok, Gillard, Casperson and Mortimer

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4276

AN ACT to establish Holocaust remembrance week in the state of Michigan.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1. (1) The legislature recognizes that the horrors of the Holocaust should never be forgotten. The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to the murder of some 6,000,000 Jews, millions more, including the handicapped, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.

(2) A key date in the history of the Holocaust is April 19, 1943, the beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, when Jews, using homemade bombs and stolen or bartered weapons, resisted death camp deportation by the Nazis for
27 days. This date, which in the Hebrew calendar is the twenty-seventh day of Nisan, has been established by the United States congress as a national Holocaust remembrance day, and the week surrounding this date has been established as the Days of Remembrance.

(3) The legislature declares that the twenty-seventh day of the month of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar shall be Holocaust remembrance day, and that the period beginning on the Sunday before that day through the following Sunday shall be the Days of Remembrance in this state, in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and in honor of the survivors, as well as the rescuers and liberators.

Sec. 2. The legislature encourages individuals, educational institutions, and social, community, religious, labor, and business organizations to pause on Holocaust remembrance day and during the Days of Remembrance and reflect upon the terrible events of the Holocaust, so that as a society we will remain vigilant against hatred, persecution, and tyranny and actively rededicate ourselves to the principles of individual freedom in a just society.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor