29 September at 15:00
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Pretoria for the opening of the new temporary exhibition, The Righteous Among the Nations. The opening will include formal remarks from Ambassador of the Czech Republic to South Africa Ambassador Tomáš Uličný, a presentation by Zuzana Pavlovská, Ph.D from the Jewish Museum in Prague, and a walkabout.
This Yad Vashem exhibition explores stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust who came from different countries, religions, genders, ages and social backgrounds. They risked their lives to save Jews despite facing danger and even death. Yad Vashem recognises rescuers by awarding them the title of ‘Righteous Among the Nations’.
Guest speaker, Zuzana Pavlovská has been the Head of the Department for Education and Culture of the Jewish Museum in Prague since 2011. The Department collaborates with some leading universities and educational institutions – including the Terezín Memorial, the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Yad Vashem Memorial – as well as with independent historians, experts in Jewish studies, literary scholars, scientists and teachers. Zuzana has been involved in several educational projects and gives lectures on Jewish studies and Modern Hebrew both in the Czech Republic and internationally, at the Charles University, the Johannesburg Holocaust Genocide Centre and their branches in Durban and Cape Town as well as Bejt Terezin in Israel.
Zuzana studied at the Charles University in Prague and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2019, she concluded her Ph.D. studies and wrote her thesis on the topic of women´s role in the Haskalah. Currently she is representing the Czech Republic in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and in 2020 she was the Chair of its Educational Working Group. From 2021 until 2023 she was the Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
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