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Memorial to the Six Million
Individual sunflowers, a sign of hope, were left on the Greenwood Cemetery Memorial during the 58th annual remembrance service.
December 27, 2023, 10:45 am
YIR: Atlanta Remembers the Holocaust
The April 16 service was highlighted by an inter-generational observance of the loss of six million Jews during World War II.
By Compiled by AJT staff
Individual sunflowers, a sign of hope, were left on the Greenwood Cemetery Memorial during the annual remembrance service.
April 26, 2023, 10:58 am
Atlanta Remembers the Holocaust
The April 16 service was highlighted by an inter-generational observance of the loss of six million Jews during World War II.
By Bob Bahr
Atlanta’s Yom HaShoah commemoration will be held at the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery.
April 24, 2019, 12:47 pm
Yom HaShoah, a Day of Remembrance
The memories of the events that took place during the Holocaust are often too painful for those who survived to recount.
By Marc Huppert
Hemshech President Karen Lansky Edlin recalls her friend Ben Hirsch, who served as Hemshech’s president for 13 years.
April 17, 2018, 2:48 am
Memorial to 6 Million, Monument to 1
Atlanta's Yom HaShoah commemoration takes time for a tribute to survivor and architect Ben Hirsch.
By Michael Jacobs
A NFTY member lights a memorial candle for a survivor at the Memorial to the Six Million during the annual Yom HaShoah service in 2017.
April 5, 2018, 7:05 pm
We Are All Survivors at Yom HaShoah
An ancestry investigation reveals closer connections to the Holocaust, with more personal losses.
By Harold Kirtz
Helen Weingarten is a familiar friendly face at Hammond Glen in Sandy Springs.
April 5, 2018, 6:59 pm
Memorial Speaker Triumphs With Testimony, Joy
Holocaust survivor Helen Weingarten won't let anyone deny the history she lived at Auschwitz and beyond.
By Michael Jacobs
Executive Director Sally Levine and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust are more valuable than ever.
March 14, 2018, 6:45 pm
Our View: Rare Unanimity on Holocaust Bill
Not one legislator voted against strengthening Georgia's Holocaust Commission and building a state memorial.
By Atlanta Jewish Times
Benjamin Hirsch talks about the Memorial to the Six Million in his home office in the spring of 2015, shortly before the Holocaust memorial's 50th anniversary.
February 12, 2018, 10:17 pm
Obituary: Benjamin Hirsch
He escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, came to Atlanta at age 9, and became an award-winning architect, including the Memorial to the Six Million.
By Atlanta Jewish Times
Ben Walker and daughter Ronit Walker present a Yiddish reading in front Harold Kirtz and Robert Max at the 2017 Yom HaShoah observance at the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery.
February 8, 2018, 4:56 am
Letter: Our Holocaust Memorial
Eternal Life-Hemshech built and maintains the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery.
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