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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Norcross Weekend Planner: Trains, Phones and More

Get ready for the weekend, Patch readers.

Get ready for the weekend, Patch readers. It's almost here, and Norcross has a few events lined up for it.  To start us off, the Golden Spike Train Show will be at the North Atlanta Trade Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12. With admission at $7 and no cost for kids under 12, the show will feature a variety of railroadiana for sale, model trains for sale, artifacts and lots of collectors. Check out the website for more details. From 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the city of Norcross is having an opening on the welcome center's latest exhibit on Ravensbruck, the most notorious women's concentration camp where 140,000 women were sent to during the Holocaust. Held in Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, the opening will have …

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Holocaust Survivor to Host Talk in Norcross

The Norcross Welcome Center and Museum also will screen the documentary "My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports."

Local historian Dr. Edie Riehm and members of the Museum of History & Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University will present the documentary "My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports," along with a discussion from a Holocaust survivor this Sunday in Norcross. The film and discussion will focus on Kindertransport, the Allied rescue mission that aimed to safely transport Holocaust children to England during World War II. Sunday's speaker, Susi Schwarz, was one of the children of Kindertransport. Originally born in Berlin, Schwarz and her family moved to Austria after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. He took over Austria in 1938, the same year Kindertransport started. She was 16 when she was safely delivered to …

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