ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – For Holocaust Remembrance Day, dozens of people filled Fulton County’s Greenwood Cemetery for the 59th annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday morning.
During the ceremony, the audience remembered the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, along with the survivors and rescuers. The community-wide event took place at the cemetery’s newly restored “Memorial to Six Million” monument.
Holocaust survivor George Rishfeld was the keynote speaker.
“It really happened,” Rishfeld said. “Six million Jews were murdered. A million and a half children were murdered. And it was a most horrific time.”
Originally born in Warsaw, Poland, Rishfeld was taken to the Vilna Ghetto in modern-day Lithuania — one of many slums Jews were forced into by Nazi Germany.
But as an infant, Rishfeld was thrown over the barbed-wire fence to the daughter of a man who worked for his father. The family hid Rishfeld for the rest of the war, “taking him out …