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he Michigan Senate in late May
approved House Bill 4493, also
known as the Holocaust and
Armenian genocide education bill. The
House will need to approve the minor
Senate changes before the bill goes to
Gov. Rick Snyder to be signed into law,
which is expected to happen in early
June.
The legisla-
tion, authored by
Republican Rep.
Klint Kesto, would
require grade 8-12
students from
Michigan public
high schools to learn
about the Holocaust
Cheryl Guyer
and the 1915
Armenian massacre beginning in the
2016-2017 school year.
“On behalf of the Holocaust
Memorial Center Zekelman Family
Campus, we congratulate the Michigan
Senate for passing legislation that
requires all students in Michigan
public schools be educated about
genocide and the Holocaust,” said
Cheryl Guyer, interim executive direc-
tor, Holocaust Memorial Center
Zekelman Family Campus.
“The purpose of this legislation,”
she added, “is to ensure that critical
lessons of these events help students
become compassionate, responsible and
responsive citizens. By educating future
generations, our hope is that we prevent
atrocities from happening again. These
lessons will create empowering actions
to combat bullying, hatred and bigotry.”
Kesto said, “We need to educate chil-
dren as to what genocide is so they will
be able to identify it and take action to
prevent it. When we say ‘never again,’
we mean it.”
The legislation has been pending for
several years and was opposed by some
members of the Turkish community,
who do not use the term “Armenian
genocide,” which is often used to
describe the Ottoman government’s
extermination of its minority Armenian
subjects inside their historic homeland,
which lies within present-day Turkey.
Up to 1.5 million Armenians died.
“The Holocaust Memorial Center has
been actively supporting this legislation
since 2012,” Guyer said. “We look for-
ward to working with community lead-
ers and educators throughout the state
of Michigan to provide teaching materi-
als and resources about the Holocaust
and genocide to schools throughout the
state.”
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Holocaust by Bullets
YAHAD-IN UNUM
TEN YEARS OF INVESTIGATIONS
and Roma executed
2.2 million by Jews
Nazi mobile killing units
1,893 execution sites in 7 countries identified
4,714 videotaped eyewitness testimonies
Exhibit Opening Program | Tuesday, June 14 at 7 p.m.
This powerful exhibit showcases Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum’s historic
undertaking to ensure that these victims won’t be forgotten.
Learning from the Past to Fight
Genocide and Mass Killing Today
Featuring Marco Gonzalez
Director of Yahad-In Unum
Dessert Reception to Follow Presentation
$10 Admission, Free to Members
Limited Seating RSVP by June 10, 2016
to 248.553.2400, ext. 112
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