INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE GRANT PROGRAM WINNER 2023

Join us for the IHRA Webinar Series, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), Eastern European Holocaust Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (EEHS), Ukraina Moderna website (UM), and Austrian Service Abroad (ASA) on the theme of “Othering, Occupation, Violence, and Denial”. Topics that will be engaged with under the central theme include the way in which historical analogies and presentism in studying the history of the Holocaust are used to foster deeper understanding and critical thinking about the Holocaust, current armed conflicts and the rise of hate speech. Ways in which oversimplifications, misrepresentations, distortions, and denial of these topics can be challenged and safeguarded against will also be grappled with, alongside testimonies, resistance, education, remembrance, and the collection and preservation of history.

This first webinar in the series deals with the theme of Othering, featuring speakers: Albert Hytry on “The Colonial Gaze of Nazi Propaganda on Occupied Ukraine (1941-1943)”; Dr Andrea Dahlauist on “Anti-Semitism as Propaganda Tool in Romania During the Interwar Period and Nowadays”; Prof Adam Mendelsohn on “The Holocaust beyond History: The Uses and Abuses of Holocaust Memory in South Africa”; and Prof David Simon on “Pathologies of Exclusion: Patterns in Narratives of ‘Othering’ across the Holocaust and Rwanda”.