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Holocaust Museum Under Consideration For Nevada

Entrance to the Dachau concentration camp.
Rennett Stowe via Wikimedia Commons

Entrance to the Dachau concentration camp.

Anti-Semitic hatred has shown itself recently at both ends of Nevada:

Last fall, fliers blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were found outside a Reno synagogue.

When Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke in Henderson this year, he was greeted by a protesterholding a poster emboldened with a swastica.

Into this environment of increasing anti-Semitism, a Nevada Assembly member is proposing legislation to create a Holocaust museum in Nevada.

AB257 - State of Nevada Holocaust Museum is sponsored by  Lisa Krasner, the Assembly minority whip, 

Lisa Krasner, Assemblywoman, Nevada State Assembly District 26

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Since June 2015, Fred has been a producer at KNPR's State of Nevada.