On May 3, 1995, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and a consortium of Jewish organizations signed an agreement over the issue of posthumous baptisms of Jewish Holocaust victims by the LDS Church. In one of the main clauses of the 1995 Mormon-Jewish agreement, the LDS Church promised to issue a directive to all officials and members of the Church to discontinue any future baptisms of deceased Jews, unless they were direct ancestors of living members of the LDS Church, or the Church had the written approval of all living members of the deceased’s immediate family. The agreement also emphasizes that lists of identifiable Jewish Holocaust victims should not be used for posthumous baptisms. LDS Church directives to cease the posthumous baptisms of deceased Jews have either been deliberately ignored, or carelessly overlooked, by many Mormons.