HM 49 — HOLOCAUST & INTOLERANCE MUSEUM

HOUSE MEMORIAL 49 54TH LEGISLATURE- STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSIO, 2019 INTRODUCED BY Abbas Akhil and Daymon Ely and Dayan Hochman-Vigil and Gail Chasey 7 9 A MEMORIAL RECOGNIZING THE HOLOCAUST AND INTOLERANCE MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO AND ITS MISSION TO COMBAT HATE AND INTOLERANCE BY THE PROMOTION OF UNDERSTANDING THROUGH EDUCATION.

156 WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New Mexico was incorporated in 1998 by seventeen founding members e t 17 led by Werner and Frances "Frankie" Gellert and Julianna w l n d 18 Lerner;

and = = 19 a l WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New i a e r 20 Mexico, located in Albuquerque, opened officially in January a t m m 21 2001 and was the first such museum in the southwest to address d r e 22 issues of genocides and forms of bullying that have affected c e s k 23 people around the world;

and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New u [ Mexico is not limited to one religion, culture, geographic area .213910.1 or time in history;

and WHEREAS, about half of the holocaust and intolerance HM 49 Page 1 museum of New Mexico focuses on the holocaust and the horrors perpetuated by the Nazis against Jews and other targeted populations, while another portion of the museum is dedicated to other forms of intolerance worldwide;

e e 17 and e e n d 18 WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New = = l ] 19 Mexico was the first United States museum to have an exhibit on a l r i 20 "Rwanda, the tolerated genocide";

and t e a t WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New m m 21 e d r e 22 Mexico is currently researching and designing an upgraded c e r c 23 exhibit on the changing destinies of Native Americans;

and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New u [ Mexico hosted almost four thousand visitors in 2018, with one .213910.1 - 2 - thousand eight hundred visitors from New Mexico, one thousand eight hundred twenty-four visitors from other states and one hundred forty-six international visitors;

and WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New Mexico's education program includes internships for college HM 49 Page 2 and high school students, including university of New Mexico political science students who intern with the museum, and has provided several grants to schools throughout the state;

and e e 17 WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New e e n d 18 Mexico also distributes a newsletter and makes holocaust = = l ] 19 teaching materials available to educators statewide;

and a l r i 20 WHEREAS, the holocaust and intolerance museum of New t e a t Mexico deliberately avoids the use of the word "tolerate" in m m 21 e d r e 22 order to encourage individuals to warmly accept one another c e r c 23 rather than just tolerate one another;

e a n b 24 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF u [ REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the holocaust .213910.1 - 3 - and intolerance museum of New Mexico be recognized for its mission to combat hate and intolerance by the promotion of understanding through education;

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