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Georgia Commission on the Holocaust outlines statewide education work and Anne Frank Center plan
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The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust described statewide survivor‑speaker programs, teacher training and traveling exhibitions; the commission’s chair outlined negotiations for an Anne Frank Center in Sandy Springs with exhibits, a reconstructed hidden annex, a digital survivor interface and plans to host tens of thousands of visitors.
Sally, executive director of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, told the committees the commission provides free statewide programming — survivor speakers, teacher workshops, oral histories and three traveling exhibitions that have visited 88 public libraries since 2022 — and aligns materials with Georgia Department of Education standards.
Chuck Burke, chair of the commission, described negotiations on a Sandy Springs facility to host an Anne Frank Center for Education and Responsibility. Burke said the center will be educational rather than a museum, and that planned components include an Anne Frank exhibit, a reconstructed hidden annex experience, stories of Georgia survivors and liberators (including photographer William Alexander Scott III) and an AI‑enabled interactive survivor interface produced in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. Burke said a lease is anticipated in the coming weeks and an opening could occur in the spring or early second quarter of the next year, with an expectation that the center could serve "tens of thousands" of Georgia students and visitors annually.
Commission staff emphasized that much of their programming is free to schools and libraries and that state funds combined with foundation support underwrite outreach and teacher training.
