• Lunch & Learn: What Makes a Neighbour? with Lyonell Fliss

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Join us for an afternoon with Holocaust survivor Lyonell Fliss, who will share his story and reflect on the theme of neighbours. This Lunch & Learn marks the closing of our temporary exhibition Some Were Neighbours, which features Lyonell's own story and photographs. Afterwards, you are warmly invited to stay for lunch at Issy's Coffee […]

  • AI and Holocaust Testimony: Possibilities, Perils, and Principles

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    A Talk by Dr David Simon 17:30 for 18:00 The rise of AI-generated and enhanced mass violence materials – often (mis)using recorded testimonies that are central to historical memory and social repair – presents a crisis for mass atrocity memory. While AI could revolutionise the field of memorialisation, it also risks amplifying distorted and denialist […]