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URL:https://holocaust.georgia.gov/events/2013-06-03/witness-holocaust-2013-
 library-tour-vidalia
LOCATION:Vidalia-Toombs County Library 610 Jackson St. VIDALIA\, GA 30474
SUMMARY:\"Witness to the Holocaust\" 2013 Library Tour: Vidalia
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DESCRIPTION:The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in partnership with the
  Georgia Public Library Service is bringing the travelling exhibit “Witn
 ess to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwa
 ld” to libraries throughout the state from May to November of 2013. This
  project is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National E
 ndowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia Ge
 neral Assembly.\n\nThe exhibit will be on display at Vidalia-Toombs County
  Library from June 3rd to June 14th. It will be presented to the community
  by Viki E. Staley\, Executive Director of the Georgia Commission on the H
 olocaust\, and Dr. Jerry Legge\, University of Georgia\, on June 3rd at 7p
 m. Following the presentation of the exhibit\, Dr. Legge will speak. The e
 vent is free and open to the public.\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 50th a
 nniversary of key events in the Civil Rights Movement and now citizens acr
 oss Georgia will have the opportunity to gain a uniquely local perspective
  on the struggle against discrimination. William Alexander “W.A.” Scot
 t III was a photographer in a segregated battalion of the United States Ar
 my during World War II. His witness testimony of the liberation of Buchenw
 ald is told in the travelling exhibit “Witness to the Holocaust”\, whi
 ch draws parallels to the Jim Crow Laws and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 193
 5-1945 implemented in Germany and Nazi-controlled areas of Europe. The exh
 ibit is based on a permanent exhibit of the same name which is hosted at t
 he Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 exhibit in Sandy Springs. It was cur
 ated by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in 1997 and revised in 201
 2 for the traveling version.\n\nScott was the son of W.A. Scott II\, found
 er of first black-owned daily newspaper in the United States: The Atlanta 
 Daily World (1928). W.A. Scott III\, was a Business and Mather major at Mo
 rehouse College in 1943 when he was unexpectedly drafted into the Army. Be
 fore being shipped overseas in 1944\, he married his high school sweethear
 t\, Marion Willis. W.A. Scott III was a reconnaissance sergeant\, photogra
 pher\, camoufleur\, and part-time historian in S2 (Intelligence Section) o
 f the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion. On April 11\, 1945\, W.A. rode into
  Eisenach\, Germany\, on an Army convoy with the 8th Corps of General Geor
 ge S. Patton’s 3rd Army. At the time\, the United States Army was segreg
 ated but nothing in W.A.’s background could have prepared him for the ho
 rrors he witnessed at Buchenwald. Buchenwald was one of the\n\nlargest con
 centration camps established by the Nazis within the German borders. W.A. 
 returned to Atlanta and completed his education at Morehouse. In 1948 he b
 ecame circulation manager of the Atlanta Daily World and was very active i
 n the Atlanta community. He served on the committee to celebrate the first
  official national holiday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King\, 
 Jr. W.A. was appointed by Georgia Governors Joe Frank Harris and Zell Mill
 er to be a member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He was also 
 appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Mem
 orial Council.Click here for more information about the \"Witness to the H
 olocaust\" 2013 Library Tour.
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