Impact of the Holocaust and Georgia's Response

Harold Hirsch

People in Atlanta were just getting over the Leo Frank case. Atlanta was the center of Jewish culture. When the war ended in 1945, the Jewish community in Atlanta wished they could have done more to help. Some people and organizations did help and could feel proud for helping. The Atlanta Section of the National Council of Jewish Women and the Hebrew Orphans Home tried to help the minors who immigrated to Georgia by themselves. Individuals like Harold Hirsch tried to raise money to help the European Jews who had been reduced to penury by the Nazi regime. After WWII refugees came from the Holocaust came to the US. American Jews including Georgians came to Israel in 1948 to support their homeland.

Anti-Nazi propaganda video made by Walt Disney

during WWII