- Collection:
- Georgia Government Publications
- Serial:
- The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust e-newsletter.
- Title:
- Georgia Commission on the Holocaust e-newsletter [Sept. 2016]
- Creator:
- Georgia. Commission on the Holocaust
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia. Commission on the Holocaust
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia. Commission on the Holocaust
- Date of Original:
- 2016-09
- Subject:
- Georgia
- People:
- Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 Periodicals.
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. fast (OCoLC)fst00044981 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- publications (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Began with: December 2015; ceased with: May 2017.
December 2015; title from PDF caption (Georgia Government Publications database, viewed May 2, 2018).
May 2017 (Georgia Government Publications database, viewed May 1, 2018). - External Identifiers:
- Call Number GA G630.H6 P1 A5 2016/9
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-bg630-ph6-bp1-ba5-b2016-s9-belec-p-btext
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_i-ga-bg630-ph6-bp1-ba5-b2016-s9-belec-p-btext
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
- Rights:
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September 2016
Welcome to the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust e-newsletter. Updates on upcoming events, programs, and opportunities right to your inbox!
September 6, 1944
The inhabitants of the Secret Annex arrive at Auschwitz.
After a three day journey by train from the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, Anne Frank and her fellow inhabitants of the Secret Annex arrive at the Auschwitz camp complex in Poland. Of the 1,019 passengers on the transport with the Frank family, 549--including all children younger than 14--are sent directly to the gas chambers immediately upon arrival.
All the inhabitants of the Secret Annex survive this selection but only one will survive the entire ordeal.
Click here to learn more.
(Photo: A transport of Hungarian Jews lines up for selection at Auschwitz. Poland, May 1944. -- Yad Vashem Photo Archives)
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Free screening and discussion
September 13 at 7 p.m.
Emory University - Center for Ethics 1531 Dickey Drive Atlanta, GA 30322 "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War," tells the untold story of an American husband and wife who spent nearly two years on lifethreatening missions in Europe to save refugees and dissidents from Nazi occupation. The documentary will air on GPB and PBS stations across the country on September 20. Join us for a special sneak preview screening of the film and panel discussion. Click here to learn more about this event.
Admission is free but seating is limited. Reservations are required.
Please click here to make a reservation.
A Survivor's Story: Ben Walker
Free to attend - Open to the public
September 21, 2016 7:00 p.m.
Young Harris College - Rollins Campus Center, Charles Suber Banquet Hall 1 College Avenue Young Harris, GA 30582
This program is presented in cooperation with
Ben Walker was born near Czernowitz, Romania, an area that is now the Ukraine. On November 20, 1940, Romania formally joined the Axis alliance. In 1941, Ben and his family were deported to Transnistria, an occupied territory in northeast Romania where Romanian authorities established several de facto ghettos and two concentration camps. Between 1941 and 1944, German and Romanian authorities murdered or caused the deaths of between 150,000 and 250,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews in Transnistria. Ben and his mother were the only members of his family to survive. His father, sister, uncles, and grandparents perished.
Click here for details.
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
New dates are being posted for the "Teaching About the Holocaust: Lessons for Today" series in the 2016-2017 school year.
January 26-27, 2017 at Augusta University in Augusta, GA
Please click here to learn more about the workshops and sign-up 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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