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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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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Holocaust Exhibit Coming to Norcross

The Norcross Welcome Center will debut the Ravensbrück concentration camp exhibit this Monday, Jan. 7.

Updated, 8:40 a.m. The Norcross Welcome Center will hold an exhibit this month on Ravensbrück, a women’s concentration camp during the Holocaust in World War II. The exhibit will be on display starting Monday, Jan. 7, with an opening reception to be held in the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center on Sunday, Jan. 13. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Ravensbrück camp in northern Germany was the largest concentration camp for women in the German Reich, coming second in size after the women's camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. While the prison started off with 900 women in 1939, Ravensbrück grew in 1945 to 50,000 prisoners, who came from more than 30 different countries. The Norcross Welcome Center & Museum is …

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Norcross Welcome Center, Norcross Weekend Planner: The Arts and More, and Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center

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