Remembrance

Candle lighter and Survivor -Sally Nyssenkorn

By Law, the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust is charged with holding a suitable memorial and remembrance observance annually and with encouraging communities throughout the State to hold such remembrance observances. The ceremony, held in the State Capitol, coincides with similar programs held nationally and internationally.

Humanitarian Awards

 

2007

Holocaust Memorial Museum, Leesburg Middle School
We Remember: A Memorial for the Children of the Holocaust, Habersham County Middle School
Children's Holocaust Memorial and Paper Clip Project, Whitwell Middle School

2006

Rescuers of Baby Noor: Captain Anthony Fournier, First Lieutenant Billy Chau, First Lieutenant Jeffery Moran, First Lieutenant Charles Morgan, First Sergeant Bobby Mayfield, Sergeant First Class Michael Sonen, Staff Sergeant Archer Ford, Sergeant Nicholas Jelks - Charlie Company First Battalion 121st Infantry 48th Brigade Combat Team, Georgia Army National Guard, Gainesville

2005

Dr Robert R. Friedmann

2004

Jaap Polak, Chairman Emeritus of Anne Frank, USA and Survivor of Bergen Belsen

2003

Honoring United States Armed Forces Members - Past and Present, Active and Reserve

2002

Rev. Gerald Durley
Rabbi Steve Lebow

2001

Senator Vincent Fort

2000

U.S. Senator Max Cleland

1999

Betty G. Cantor

1998

Dr. Marvin C. Goldstein

1997

Monica Kaufman

1996

Pat Conroy

1995

Speaker Thomas B. Murphy

1994

Governor Zell Miller

Past Keynote Speakers

 

2006

Senator Saxby Chambliss

2005

Govenor Sonny Perdue

2004

Jaap Polak, Chairman Emeritus of Anne Frank, USA and Survivor of Bergen Belsen

2003

Mark Weitzman, Director of the Task Force Against Hate and the Associate Director of Education for the Simon Wiesenthal Center

2002

Governor Roy E. Barnes

2001

Senator Vincent Fort

2000

U.S. Senator Max Cleland

1999

Eva Schloss, Step-sister of Anne Frank

1998

Eli Rosebaum, Director Office of Special Investigations, US Department of Justice

1997

Yaffa Elliach

1996

Robert Benham, Georgia Chief Justice

1995

Cantor Isaac Goodfriend

1994

Dr. Leon Bass

1993

General Sidney Shacknow