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August 2016
Welcome to the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust e-newsletter. Updates on upcoming events, programs, and opportunities right to your inbox!
August 4, 1944
The inhabitants of the Secret Annex are betrayed and arrested.
Julius Deetman, the officer in charge of the German Security Service in Amsterdam, receives an anonymous tip via phone about people hiding at 263 Prisengracht. He dispatches SS-Oberscharfhrer Karl Silberbauer to the address. He is accompanied by two or three Dutch policemen. They arrive around 10:30am. This is what the occupants of the annex have feared most. They have been discovered.
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Sunday Matinee - The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
Augut 14, 1 p.m. at Anne Frank in the World
For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympic Games. This short film, produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, explores the issues surrounding the Games--the Nazis' use of propaganda, the intense boycott debate, the history of the torch run, the historic performance of Jesse Owens--and includes testimony from both African American and Jewish American athletes who competed at the infamous Games.
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(Photo: American Olympic runner Jesse Owens and other Olympic athletes compete in the twelfth heat of the first trial of the 100m dash. Berlin, Germany, August 3, 1936.-- National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.)
Events
Sunday Matinees: September November
Join us for free showings of short films and documentaries about the Holocaust, World War II, and human rights.
September 18 - Deadline Medicine: Creating the Master Race October 9 - The Path to Nazi Genocide November 13 - Survivors Remember Kristallnacht
Georgia Council on the Social Studies 2016 Conference
The 2016 conference will be held at the Classic Center in Athens on October 13-14, 2016. Click here to register and for more information. The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust will be presenting the following sessions:
"Shaping Thought, Justifying War, Committing Mass Murder: Deconstructing Nazi Propaganda" Oct. 13, 12:45-1:45 p.m. in Parthenon Room 2 "Holocaust ID Cards Activity: Translating Statistics into People"Oct. 13, 4:45-5:45 p.m. in Grand Hall 5 Room "Were We Our Brothers' Keepers: Holocaust Collaboration and Complicity" Oct. 14, 8:30-9:30 a.m. in Cypress I Room
News
FREE educator workshop series
The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust will be announcing new dates for "Teaching About the Holocaust: Lessons for Today" series in the 2016-2017 school year. Please click here to learn more about the workshops and signup to receive e-mail notifications.
Join the USHMM in uncovering how American newspapers reported about the Holocaust
Help the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum uncover what ordinary people around the country could have known about the Holocaust from reading your local newspapers in the years 19331945. Join the team of citizen historians uncovering new knowledge that will be shared with scholars, curators, and the public. Please click here to learn more.
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The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust is a secular, nonpartisan state-agency.
Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 is an exhibit by Anne Frank House and Anne Frank Center USA. It is presented in Georgia by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust and is currently hosted by the City of Sandy Springs.
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