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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Hibby Margol (center), with his wife, Betty Ann of 75 years, and representatives from local veterans’ groups, showing one of the special honors presented to him for his military service // Photo Credit: Helen Scherrer-Diamond
February 28, 2024, 12:26 pm
WWII Liberator Feted at 100th Birthday
Hibby Margol was recognized during a special ceremony at Berman Commons on Feb. 18.
By Fran Putney
Miami Holocaust Memorial // Photo Credit: Fred N. Katz
January 23, 2024, 5:20 pm
Report: Official Holocaust Survivor Count Drops
JF&CS Atlanta reports that more than half of its survivor clients receive Medicaid and nearly half also food stamps.
By Dave Schechter
The continued success of the “Voices of Resilience” trip to Poland has inspired another set of Westminster students to embark on the program in January.
December 27, 2023, 10:39 am
YIR: Westminster Students Re-Queue for Jewish Culture Trip
This coming January, a cohort of Upper School students from Westminster will once again have the opportunity to explore Jewish culture, antisemitism, and the psychology of hate.
By Marcia Caller Jaffe
A formal premeire of Ararat is scheduled for November // Photo Courtesy of Christina J. Massad
February 15, 2023, 3:08 pm
Emory Dance Program Examines New Beginnings
Atlanta’s staibdance performs a first look for Ararat, its work in progress.
By Bob Bahr
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s private papers will get an expanded exhibit in the new Arthur Blank building at the National Center.
October 27, 2022, 10:50 am
Blank Breaks Ground for National Civil Rights Center
Arthur Blank’s $15 million dollar gift jumpstarts Center’s $50 million capital campaign.
By Bob Bahr
The Small Fortress Cemetery memorial at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Fewer than 1,600 Jew inmates of the camp survived. // Elan Kawesch/Times of Israel
June 2, 2022, 4:12 pm
Emory Grad’s Play Stages Shakespeare During the Shoah
The prize-winning drama focuses on Jewish life in Theresienstadt set up by the Nazis.
By Bob Bahr
Stuart Eizenstat, center, was a lead negotiator for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany at its annual negotiations with the German government. (Photo courtesy of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany)
March 8, 2022, 5:06 pm
U.S. Holocaust Survivor Count Dips to 50,000
The youngest survivors are now in their late 70s. More than one-third are estimated to live below the poverty line.
By Dave Schechter
American historian and author Deborah Lipstadt poses for photographer at the Rome Film festival in Rome, October 17, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
August 1, 2021, 4:55 pm
Holocaust Historian Deborah Lipstadt Nominated as US Anti-Semitism Envoy
Diverse array of Jewish groups welcome announcement, which also included tapping of New York LGBT synagogue Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum to Commission on International Religious Freedom.
By Jacob Magid
Marjorie Taylor Greene
June 15, 2021, 5:20 pm
Greene Apologizes for ‘Offensive’ Holocaust Remarks
The controversial Georgia congresswoman had been rebuked widely for comments linking COVID-19 measures to Jewish suffering at the Nazis’ hands.
By Dave Schechter
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks at an America First rally with Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in Dalton, Georgia on May 27th, 2021 // Nathan Posner for the AJT
May 28, 2021, 7:55 am
Greene, Under Fire, Fires Back
Rebuked for linking COVID-19 measures to Jewish suffering at the Nazis’ hands, the controversial Georgia congresswoman was on the offensive the night of May 27.
By Dave Schechter
Chuck Berk and Sally Levine address Sandy Springs City Council on May 5.
May 11, 2021, 4:44 pm
Sandy Springs Weighs In on Anne Frank Exhibit
A proposed facility on the City Springs campus for use by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust has sparked considerable public interest.
By Dave Schechter
Program at Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights discussed how the media influenced public opinion in America during the Holocaust.
May 22, 2019, 2:51 pm
Not Much Help from America For Jews Caught in the Holocaust
American public opinion before World War II was deeply divided about what to do about Nazi Germany, and even less interested in the fate of German Jews under the Nazi regime.
By Bob Bahr
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