SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 14:00
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in collaboration with the Association of Siberian Deportees, Sol Plaatje University, and the Embassy of Poland for the 11th Annual South Africa-Poland Heritage Conference: Remembering the 85th Anniversary of Russia Invading Poland and the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
Speakers include:
Stefan Szewczuk: PhD candidate University of the Witwatersrand; President of the Polish Association of Siberian Deportees in Southeast Africa; Vice-President of the Polish Heritage Foundation in Southern Africa, who will present on Berling’s Army and my grandparent’s role in the Warsaw Uprising
Dr Pieter L. Möller: Former Senior Lecturer in the department of History at North West University, and former lecturer in History at the University of Stellenbosch who will present The South African Air Force and the Warsaw Airlift: Examples of Bravery
Dr Cobus Rademeyer: Senior Lecturer in History at the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley who will presentThe Polish orphans of Oudtshoorn (1943 to 1947): the Jan Smuts factor
Jarryd Clark: Masters candidate at the University of Pretoria who will present An Enigma within Enigma: The Underrepresented History of Polish Codebreakers during the Second World War
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