Gov. Kathy Hochul has appointed Monica Gebell, senior director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester's Center for Advocacy and Education, to the state's Holocaust Memorial Advisory Commission.
The 19-member commission will guide the creation of a New York State Holocaust Memorial at the Empire State Plaza in Albany. Members will help shape the vision of the memorial, its educational goals, and commemorative elements, according to a news release from the federation.
The memorial, according to the release, will commemorate the 6 million Jewish people killed during the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazi persecution. It'll also serve "as a site of remembrance and resistance against antisemitism and all forms of hate."
The state has not released a timeline for the project.
