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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening: The Landscape Archive
DESCRIPTION:6 for 6:30 pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond the major killing centres\, thousands of Jewish people were murdered in forests\, fields and by roadsides across Poland. Many were buried where they fell\, in graves that were never marked. Hundreds of these sites remain unmarked to this day. \n\n\n\nThe Landscape Archive reveals a lesser-known landscape of the Holocaust: the hundreds of unmarked burial sites of Jewish victims scattered across forests\, fields\, and roadsides in Poland. While the Holocaust is often associated with major killing centres such as Auschwitz or Treblinka\, thousands of people were murdered in countless other places while hiding\, escaping\, or during deportations. Many of these graves remain unmarked to this day. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition presents the work of the Zapomniane Foundation\, which combines historical research with non-invasive technologies to locate and document these burial sites in accordance with Jewish religious law (Halakha). Through photographs\, precise geographical coordinates\, and visual documentation\, The Landscape Archive uncovers traces of violence still embedded in the contemporary landscape of Poland. At once a research project\, an artistic intervention\, and an act of remembrance\, the exhibition invites visitors to reconsider how the Holocaust continues to shape the places that surround us. \n\n\n\nProgramme highlights\n\n\n\n Keynote address by exhibition curator Dr Aleksandra (Ola) Janus and photographer and surveyor Aleksander Schwarz \n\n\n\nFormal remarks from Mr Jacek Chodorowicz (Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Republic of Poland) and Tali Nates (Founder & Executive Director Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre).  \n\n\n\nA response from Prof. Sascha Feuchert (Professor of Modern German Literature\, Managing Director of the Institute for German Studies\, Head of the Holocaust Literature Research Unit at the University of Giessen) \n\n\n\nA walkabout of the exhibition \n\n\n\nThe keynote speakers\n\n\n\nAleksandra (Ola) Janus works at the intersection of academia\, art\, and activism. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków\, Poland. She is the Director of ESHEM: European Sites of Holocaust Memory\, a European Commission initiative\, President of the Zapomniane Foundation\, and co-founder of the Engaged Memory Consortium\, which develops innovative approaches to remembrance. \n\n\n\nShe is a collaborator with the Research Center for Memory Cultures at the Jagiellonian University\, a member of the global network Thinking Through the Museum\, and serves on the editorial board of the Jagiellonian University/Columbia University Press book series Exhibiting Theory. She initiated numerous cultural projects\, including Museum Lab (2014)\, Open Culture Studio (2016)\, Kultur-Lige – a network of contemporary Jewish artists in Poland (2023) – and the Museums for the Climate working group and Culture for Climate collective (2020)\, within which she co-authored the guidebook Culture for Climate. \n\n\n\nShe is the author and editor of numerous academic articles and publications\, including Hideouts. Architecture of Survival (Hatje Cantz\, Berlin\, 2024)\, and the co-editor of a two-volume Polish-language publication on “non-sites of memory.” She has co-created exhibitions including Natalia Romik’s Hideouts. Architecture of Survival (Warsaw and Szczecin\, 2022; Frankfurt\, 2024)\, and curated exhibitions such as Landscape Archive (Brussels and Mechelen\, 2025) and Miła: The State of Things (Warsaw\, 2026). \n\n\n\nAleksander Schwarz is the co-founder and vice-president of the Zapomniane Foundation\, long-term member of the Rabbinical Commission for Cemeteries (Office of the Chief Rabbi of Poland)\, where he works as an expert on Jewish law (Halacha) specializing in cemeteries and burials. Responsible for defining historical boundaries of cemeteries and their burial zones and identifying mass graves of Jewish victims of the Holocaust\, using forensic analysis and non-invasive methods such as GPR (ground penetrating radar)\, LIDAR analysis\, aerial photos interpretation and synchronization of archival maps. He collaborates with experts from AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow and Warsaw University of Technology.  He supervised the archeological and construction works in most of the sites of the former Nazi camps in Poland\, including: Bełżec\, Sobibór\, Auschwitz\, Majdanek\, Treblinka as well as site of the former KL Plaszow camp (Kraków)\, Chełmno (Kulmhof) and many others.  \n\n\n\nHe runs workshops and gives talks on Jewish law and non-invasive methodology of studying material traces of the Holocaust. He works with diverse audiences: schoolchildren\, students\, teachers\, religious groups and groups of people affected by social exclusion\, including prisoners (within the Atlantis Project\, 2005-2009 and Tikkun Repair\, 2009-2014).  \n\n\n\nHe recently co-created several artistic research projects such as: „Speculative Cartographies” (Biennale Warszawa\, Poland\, 2019; NSCAD Halifax\, Canada 2022)\, participated in exhibitions: „Knowing materiality” 2021 (Re:Kultura\, Kraków)\, „Reference Points” 2021 (CentrALT\, Kraków). He also contributed artistic-research materials for the exhibition „(post-)Jewish” at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2024).
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/exhibition-opening-the-landscape-archive/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:When the Nazi Past Becomes a Bestseller: the Opportunities and Limits of Popular Fiction
DESCRIPTION:For a while now\, popular fiction set in the years before 1933 and their long aftermath has been doing very well in Germany. In its own way\, it’s become part of how the country remembers — and it’s quietly reshaping how people picture that history. Drawing on two examples – the Gereon Rath crime novels\, including the popular Babylon Berlin\, which run from the 1920s through to the end of the Nazi regime\, and the novel Stella\, about a Jewish “catcher” – this conversation looks at what popular fiction can achieve\, and where it runs up against its limits. \n\n\n\nSascha Feuchert is a professor of modern German literature\, specializing in Holocaust and concentration camp literature\, at the University of Giessen. He has received numerous awards for his work\, including the Copernicus Prize of the German Research Foundation and the Foundation for Polish Science\, as well as the Hessian University Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/when-the-nazi-past-becomes-a-bestseller-the-opportunities-and-limits-of-popular-fiction/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Representing the Past in 2026: Holocaust History\, Memory\, and Meaning in a Changing World
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a roundtable discussion as an archaeologist\, a historian\, a curator\, and a writer for a conversation on how Holocaust history is represented in the 21st century. As societies look back at the past and confront new social\, political\, and technological realities\, how do we create museums\, memorials\, exhibitions\, artworks\, and narratives that remain relevant\, inclusive\, and meaningful? This panel explores the challenges and responsibilities of interpreting Holocaust history in 2026 and beyond. \n\n\n\nYou are warmly invited to Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop for an early lunch beforehand. The session itself will begin at 1pm. \n\n\n\nThe speakers\n\n\n\nDr Aleksandra (Ola) Janus works at the intersection of academia\, art\, and activism. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and is Director of ESHEM: European Sites of Holocaust Memory\, President of the Zapomniane Foundation\, and co-founder of the Engaged Memory Consortium. \n\n\n\nShe is the author of Hideouts. Architecture of Survival (Hatje Cantz\, 2024) and co-editor of a two-volume Polish-language study of “non-sites of memory.” Her curatorial work includes Natalia Romik’s Hideouts. Architecture of Survival (Warsaw and Szczecin\, 2022; Frankfurt\, 2024)\, Landscape Archive (Brussels and Mechelen\, 2025)\, and Miła: The State of Things (Warsaw\, 2026). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Shay Pilnik is the Director of the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, which he founded in 2020\, having previously served as Executive Director of the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center (HERC) in Milwaukee. \n\n\n\nHe earned his BA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, his MA in Jewish Studies at McGill University\, and his PhD in Modern Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War (Purdue University Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nHe is the grandson of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel from the USSR about a decade after its founding. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Yoram Haimi is an archaeologist with approximately 25 years of experience at the Israel Antiquities Authority\, where he served for around 20 years as archaeologist for the Southern Negev Region and now manages the logistics of the National Treasures Department\, overseeing facilities that hold over 1.7 million artefacts. \n\n\n\nBetween 2007 and 2020\, he co-directed the groundbreaking excavation of the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland. The project uncovered the camp’s structural layout\, the foundations of the gas chambers\, and numerous personal artifacts\, contributing significantly to the reconstruction of its physical design and historical record. \n\n\n\nHe holds a PhD in Archaeology from Tel Aviv University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe discussion will be chaired by Tali Nates\, who is the Founder and Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors – her father and uncle were rescued by Oskar Schindler – she lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights\, and leads the Centre’s strategic vision. \n\n\n\nAs chief historian of the JHGC\, she directed the curatorial team for its permanent exhibition and has contributed to numerous documentary films\, curated exhibitions\, and publications in the field. She serves on international advisory and academic boards\, and her work has been recognised with awards including the Goethe Medal (2022)\, the U.S. Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Award (2023)\, the International Network of Genocide Scholars’ Impact Award (2024)\, and Austria’s Decoration of Honour in Gold (2025).
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/representing-the-past-in-2026-holocaust-history-memory-and-meaning-in-a-changing-world/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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