Missouri Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission
The Missouri Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission was created by the Missouri legislature in August 2006 (SB 1189) and shall be housed in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Commission may sponsor programs or publications to educate the public about the crimes of genocide in an effort to deter indifference to crimes against humanity and human suffering where they occur. The Commission may receive funds appropriated from public monies or donated by private sources.
The mission of the Missouri Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission is to promote implementation of the Holocaust and awareness programs in Missouri in order to encourage understanding of the Holocaust and discourage bigotry.
The Holocaust is defined as the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators during the period from 1933 through 1945. Millions of others were also murdered.
