SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER, 2PM (SAST)
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, the Goethe-Institut, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to their annual commemoration of the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht).
The commemoration will include formal remarks, a candle lighting ceremony, a performance by violinist Sharon De Kock, and a keynote address from Prof Hanna Yablonka, an internationally renowned Holocaust historian who among her numerous accolades pioneered the research field dealing with the survivors of the Holocaust after 1945. She will present a talk on Kristallnacht 1938: The final accord in a fateful year.
Prof. Hanna Yablonka is affiliated with the History Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, as well as currently being a member of the Yad Vashem Council and was the academic advisor of Yad Vashem’s exhibition marking the 50th and 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. Hanna Yablonka is the chair of Governors of the Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry in Safed and the chief Historian of the Ghetto Fighters Museum for the last 25 years. Her acadmeic research has focused on the cultural and social impact of the Shoah on Israeli society. She pioneered the research field dealing with the survivors of the Holocaust after 1945. In her research, she has emphasised the resilience and activism of the survivors. Hanna Yablonka is the author of over 40 scientific articles, The editor of 4 books, and the author of six books including: Survivors of the Holocaust (1999) awarded the Ish Shalom prize Yad Ben Zvi, The History of the War Veterans Association (1999,) The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (2004) awarded the Buchman prize Yad Vashem, Off the beaten track: the Mizrahim and the Shoah (2008). Her last book: Yeladim Besseder Gamur (children by the book) became a best seller.