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March 2013
Welcome to the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust and Anne Frank in the World e-newsletter. Updates on upcoming events, program, and opportunities right to your inbox! Here is what is new:
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New travelling exhibit "Witness to the Holocuast" launches
14 MARCH 2013 – The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust launched a new travelling exhibit, “Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwald” at Sweetwater Middle School on March 14th, 2013. The exhibit will be on display at the school until March 22, 2013. Alexis Scott, publisher of the Atlanta Daily World newspaper and the daughter of William Alexander (W.A.) Scott III, spoke to students and faculty about her late father’s experiences as a photojournalist in the Army during World War II and his witnessing of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. “Because my father witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust and was experiencing the injustice of racial discrimination back at home, he was determined to do what he could to change things. One of the things he knew, based on his experiences as a soldier in World War II, is that there was a concerted effort to eliminate the Jews – a genocide – and that this was the extreme execution of hatred. He realized, in coming back to combat it here, that you cannot fight hate with hate."
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3/17/13, 1pm - Sunday Matinee: Deadly Medicine
Join us at Anne Frank in the World:1929-1945 at 1pm for a showing of a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum production. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to "cleanse" German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's "health." Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of "genetically diseased" persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. Read more... |
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4/12/13 - State Official Days of Remembrance
Please save the date for Georgia's Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust in the North Wing of the State Capitol. The event, hosted on behalf of the state by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, is open to the public. The 2013 theme is "Never Again: Heeding the Warning Signs." Six candles will be lit in honor of those who perished during the Holocaust. History teaches us that genocide can be prevented if enough people care enough to act. Our choices in response to hatred truly do matter, and together we can help fulfill the promise of “Never Again.” Click here to learn why we remember.
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