The director of the Holocaust and genocide memorial and education office shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the Holocaust and genocide memorial and education commission. The director shall, with the commission’s approval, appoint employees as necessary to carry out the duties of the office. The employees shall serve at the director’s pleasure.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 197.12

  • Genocide: means an internationally recognized crime where the following acts are committed against a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group's members with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the group:

    (1) Killing;

    (2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm;

    (3) Deliberately inflicting life conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction, in whole or in part;

    (4) Imposing measures intended to prevent births;

    (5) Forcibly transferring a group's children to another group. See Ohio Code 197.01

  • Holocaust: means the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. See Ohio Code 197.01

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