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City of Sandy Springs votes on new location for the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust to create new Holocaust and Anne Frank exhibits.,

Six Georgians with ties to the Holocaust are honored in a newly installed permanent exhibition at the Georgia State Capitol. The exhibit, entitled “Georgia’s Connection to the Holocaust,” was unveiled in a ceremony at the Capitol building on January 27, 2020.

Eighty one years ago, on November 9–10, 1938, Jews in Nazi Germany and its occupied territory were subjected to ruthless destruction and incarceration in what became known as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

October 2019 marks 80 years since the inception of the first Nazi mass murder program, codenamed T-4. It began two years before the genocide of 6 million European Jews began. The Holocaust took place because individuals, groups and nations made decisions to act, or not to act.

A headline on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website reads:   WHAT DOES WAR MAKE POSSIBLE?

September 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II.

On May 15, 2018, the Anne Frank House, the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, published hidden text found beneath gummed paper in Anne Frank's first diary. 

March is Women's History Month.

Representative John P. Yates passed away Monday, December 11, 2017, at the age of 96. He was the last World War II veteran to serve in the Georgia General Assembly. He participated as a candlelighter in the state's official Holocaust Days of Remembrance in 1995, 2010, and 2015.

The theme for the 2019 Holocaust Days of Remembrance in Georgia is "Holocaust Remembrance: The Responsibility to Educate" 

On December 16, 2016, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam published new research about the arrest of Anne Frank and the occupants of the Secret Annex.  It does not refute the possi