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SUMMARY:Elias Mendel's "Letters to Yesterday"
DESCRIPTION:Join the JHGC and Sylt Foundation for a talk by Elias Mendel about his art and creative process\, and a presentation of his artworks made throughout his residency with the Sylt Foundation in May 2023. \nThis collection of work examines the artist’s German Jewish history through his interventions in an extensive family archive. In recent years Elias and his father Gideon Mendel have become the custodians of a vast collection of documents\, letters\, objects\, and photographs. \nIn response to the uncovering of his family history\, Mendel embarked on a photographic interrogation of Germany’s Holocaust memorial culture. This journey through personal family history is multifaceted and tragic. It deals with the spaces in between: the silences\, the complications\, and the unspoken. This is a story of one family but is a universal tale\, written in different languages\, in various documents\, across disparate continents and fractured peoples. \nThis archive traces the Mendel family history in Germany – from the 18th Century through to the Franco-Prussian War\, the First World War\, bourgeois life in the Weimar Republic\, the Holocaust – and then life in apartheid-era South Africa. \nElias Mendel is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across mediums of photography\, animation\, and drawing. His practice delves into identity\, migration\, and generational trauma\, and emerges from his own personal family archive. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/elias-mendels-letters-to-yesterday/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Special Talking Memory programme marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
DESCRIPTION:The webinar will include a round table discussion about Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel with guest speakers: Tamar Herzberg from Yad Mordechai\, Noam Leibman from Moreshet\, and Anat Bratman-Elhalel from Ghetto Fighters’ House. \nThis will be followed by keynote speaker\, Dr. Avinoam Patt discussing The Battle of Warsaw’s Jews: The Afterlife of the Revolt. \nOn April 23\, 1943\, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency delivered the news of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt\, relaying a report received in Stockholm the day before with the headline “Nazis Start Mass-Execution of Warsaw Jews on Passover; Victims Broadcast S.O.S.” The timing of the revolt\, taking place in the spring of 1943\, the deadliest year of WWII for European Jewry\, influenced the manner in which it was reported\, interpreted\, and understood. Through an examination of the ways in which the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was reported in April and May of 1943\, we can begin to understand how and why the event was transformed into both a symbol of Jewish resistance\, Jewish sacrifice\, and Jewish martyrdom during and after World War II. Soon after the revolt was suppressed in May 1943\, representatives from the Jewish Labor Bund in New York and the Zionist movement in the Yishuv began to dispute both the heroes of the revolt and its true political and ideological significance. While historians have generally seen the politicisation of the revolt occurring after the war\, with the first encounter of the survivors with their new homes\, the polemics of 1944 between the Bund and the Labor Zionists (with the role of the Revisionists left out of early narratives) makes clear that within one year of the revolt\, the battle for credit in Jewish public opinion meant the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was too great a symbol to relinquish to the political enemy. By the first anniversary after the Uprising (April 19\, 1944) Jewish communities organized solemn commemorations in New York\, London\, Tel Aviv and elsewhere to recall Warsaw as a “fortress of freedom” and as the “Masada of Warsaw.” Responding to this politicization during the war\, it was the surviving ghetto fighters themselves who would play a critical role in writing their own “three lines in history.” \nThis programme is in partnership with the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Centre\, Yad Mordechai Museum\, \nClassrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/special-talking-memory-programme-marking-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
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