The Michigan Senate adopted Senate Resolution 35 on April 28, 2025, recognizing April 2025 as Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). The resolution was brought under immediate consideration and adopted by voice vote after remarks from Senator Jeremy Moss recalling episodes from Holocaust history and urging vigilance against antisemitism.
Senator Jeremy Moss delivered extended remarks for the record, recounting Kristallnacht and the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, a passenger ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees that was denied entry to Cuba and later turned away from the United States. "They literally could see the lights and palm trees in Miami as our government turned them away," Moss said, describing the ship’s passengers and noting the later fates of many aboard the vessel. He framed the remembrance as a warning amid rising antisemitism and called for listening to Jewish voices in peril.
After the remarks, the chamber proceeded without further debate and adopted the resolution by voice vote. No roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript excerpt for the resolution; the presiding officer announced that the resolution was adopted.