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URL:https://holocaust.georgia.gov/events/2013-06-14/witness-holocaust-2013-
 library-tour-hazlehurst
LOCATION:Jeff Davis County Library 189 E. Jarman St. HAZLEHURST\, GA 31539
SUMMARY:\"Witness to the Holocaust\" 2013 Library Tour: Hazlehurst
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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 Jeff Davis County Lib
 rary from June 14th to July 24th.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 50th 
 anniversary of key events in the Civil Rights Movement and now citizens ac
 ross Georgia will have the opportunity to gain a uniquely local perspectiv
 e on the struggle against discrimination. William Alexander “W.A.” Sco
 tt III was a photographer in a segregated battalion of the United States A
 rmy during World War II. His witness testimony of the liberation of Buchen
 wald is told in the travelling exhibit “Witness to the Holocaust”\, wh
 ich draws parallels to the Jim Crow Laws and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 19
 35-1945 implemented in Germany and Nazi-controlled areas of Europe. The ex
 hibit is based on a permanent exhibit of the same name which is hosted at 
 the Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 exhibit in Sandy Springs. It was cu
 rated by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in 1997 and revised in 20
 12 for the traveling version.\n\nScott was the son of W.A. Scott II\, foun
 der 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 M
 orehouse College in 1943 when he was unexpectedly drafted into the Army. B
 efore being shipped overseas in 1944\, he married his high school sweethea
 rt\, Marion Willis. W.A. Scott III was a reconnaissance sergeant\, photogr
 apher\, camoufleur\, and part-time historian in S2 (Intelligence Section) 
 of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion. On April 11\, 1945\, W.A. rode int
 o Eisenach\, Germany\, on an Army convoy with the 8th Corps of General Geo
 rge S. Patton’s 3rd Army. At the time\, the United States Army was segre
 gated but nothing in W.A.’s background could have prepared him for the h
 orrors he witnessed at Buchenwald. Buchenwald was one of the largest conce
 ntration camps established by the Nazis within the German borders. W.A. re
 turned to Atlanta and completed his education at Morehouse. In 1948 he bec
 ame circulation manager of the Atlanta Daily World and was very active in 
 the Atlanta community. He served on the committee to celebrate the first o
 fficial national holiday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King\, Jr
 . W.A. was appointed by Georgia Governors Joe Frank Harris and Zell Miller
  to be a member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He was also ap
 pointed by President George H.W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Memor
 ial Council.Click here for more information about the \"Witness to the Ho
 locaust\" 2013 Library Tour.
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