(20 ILCS 5010/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2032)
Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: "Commission" means the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
"Genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such:
(1) killing members of the group;
(2) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members |
"Holocaust" means the killing of approximately 6,000,000 Jews and millions of other persons during World War II by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) and Nazi collaborators as part of a state-sponsored, systematic program of genocide and other actions of persecution, discrimination, violence, or other human rights violations committed by the Nazis and Nazi collaborators against those persons.
(Source: P.A. 96-1063, eff. 1-1-11 .)
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