STANLEY DECLINES JNF AWARD
REMEMBERING ROTHSCHILD
First Baptist Church Atlanta Senior Pastor Charles Stanley wins praise from opponents by pulling out of the JNF breakfast to stop the conflict within the Jewish community. Page 13 Responses to the honor, Pages 12-14
Activist Marcia Rothschild, daughter of The Temple’s longtime spiritual leader, dies in a car crash. Page 21
Atlanta VOL. XC NO. 15
APRIL 24, 2015 | 5 IYAR, 5775
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Galambos Dies at 87
Holocaust Heroes In Spotlight
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he “founding mother” of Sandy Springs, Eva Galambos, died of cancer at age 87 Sunday, April 19, just two days after being honored with the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust’s Humanitarian Award. Galambos had been scheduled to accept the award during the commission’s annual Days of Remembrance observance at the state Capitol. The extent of her illness was revealed when commission Executive Director Sally Levine announced that Galambos couldn’t attend because she was in hospice care at home. Galambos for 30 years led the fight to incorporate Sandy Springs, and when the city finally was born Dec. 1, 2005, she was sworn in as the first mayor, a post she held for eight years. “This is a great loss for the city and a great loss personally,” her successor, Rusty Paul, said in a statement from the city. “Eva was truly our city mother.” Galambos and her family escaped Germany in the 1930s, moving to Italy before settling in Georgia. Her husband survived Bergen-Belsen. She was instrumental in finding a permanent home for the “Anne Frank in the World” exhibit in Sandy Springs. ■ Galambos Tribute, Page 20
1 STATE FOR NOW
Rabbi Arnold Goodman tells a group at Ahavath Achim that a two-state solution with the Palestinians is a long way off. Page 18
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In Touch With Past, Future Photo by Michael Jacobs
The morning rain clears enough at the end of the community Yom HaShoah observance Sunday, April 19, for people to look for familiar names among the Holocaust victims on the family plaques inside the Memorial to the Six Million at Greenwood Cemetery. Hundreds of people, including dozens of survivors, attended the ceremony to mark the monument’s 50th anniversary. The community observance continued that day at the Breman Museum with keynote speaker Stuart Eizenstat. Full coverage, Pages 6-8 Photo by Michael Jacobs
THE RANT IS DUE
Comedian Lewis Black talks comedy, politics and Atlanta traffic with the AJT before his appearance at the Cobb Energy Centre May 1. Page 24
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eorgia paid tribute to the heroes produced by the Holocaust at the annual Days of Remembrance observance Friday, April 17, at the Capitol. The climactic candle-lighting ceremony, featuring survivors and troops who liberated Nazi camps or visited them soon after, helped mark the 70th anniversary of liberation. “On the 70th anniversary of liberation, with the last witnesses in their twilight, the responsibility falls on all of us” to educate people about what happened, said Sally Levine, who heads the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. Memory is not enough to prevent genocide, Levine said. “Never again” is a call to action, and to hear a witness is to become a witness. Rather than hear from the witnesses, the audience learned about their experiences from a mix of state representatives, consuls general, a police chief and Attorney General Sam Olens. Ambassador Opher Aviran, Israel’s consul general to the Southeast, received the Lifetime Achievement Award and expressed gratitude for the commission’s work to ensure remembrance and education as defenses against anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of persecution. “We are becoming increasingly removed from the era in which the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust occurred,” Aviran said, so it’s easier for people to forget or ignore what happened. ■ Photos and more, Page 32