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  • Lunch & Learn: Jewish Sporting Stars: From the Podium to Persecution

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

    Join us for an afternoon with Hazel Shore, who will share her mother’s story, and sports historian Dr Berno Bahro, who will introduce our new temporary exhibition, Between Success and Persecution: Jewish Stars in German Sports before 1933 and beyond. Opened at our November Pogrom commemoration on 8 November, the exhibition traces how Jewish athletes […]

  • 13th South Africa Poland Heritage Conference

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

    Using agonistic memory to coalesce Poland's hidden history into coherent public memory The relationship between agonistic memory and the Oudtshoorn Polish Heritage Trail reframes the historical narrative of the 500 Polish WWII orphans from a simplistic "feel-good" humanitarian rescue mission into a nuanced, multi-layered dialogue about geopolitical trauma, survival, and displacement and represents a critical […]