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The Holocaust, state Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet notes, did not begin overnight. “It was a drip, drip, drip,” she said. “Everything didn’t change at once.” In Colorado, where reported hate crimes are on the rise, the Commerce City Democrat fears “we are in a drip, drip, drip phase now.” To help prevent drips from becoming floods, Michaelson Jenet — whose cousins are Holocaust survivors and who directed the Holocaust Awareness Institute at the University of Denver — is planning to bring a bill in 2020 designed to educate more young people in Colorado about the Holocaust and about genocide in general. “It is time for us to make certain that our students understand genocide, like what happened in the Holocaust, in Armenia, to Native Americans,” she said, adding that she believes instruction on these topics is “inconsistent” in Colorado public schools. The bill she’s working on “would require public schools to include holocaust and genocide education at age-appropriate levels,” she said. Michaelson Jenet said she “wouldn’t want to see it start before fifth grade,” but that other details of the bill are flexible at this point. Her legislative partner on this bill, Rep.

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