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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: The Three Graves of Anna Szenes
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of Anikó (Anna) Szenes\, please join us for the international online book launch of  \n\n\n\nThe Three Graves of Anna Szenes: Memory and Body Politics in Hungary and Israel\n\n\n\nThis volume seeks answers to the question of why Anikó Szenes (1921–1944)\, a Jewish girl born and assimilated in Budapest who was murdered at the age of twenty-three\, has three graves. What is the story behind these three places? Who were the people involved in this process\, and what role did they play? On 7 November 1944\, Anikó Szenes was executed in Budapest. In March 1950\, during the Cold War\, her body was taken from the Jewish cemetery on Kozma Street in Budapest to Italy via Austria under adventurous circumstances. In Naples\, the coffin was loaded onto a ship and then transported to Haifa on another\, more ceremonial-looking ship\, from where\, after a national mourning tour\, it was buried in Jerusalem alongside Theodor Herzl\, the founder of Zionism and the visionary of the State of Israel. The volume traces the decades-long journey of Szenes’s body and grave across Europe. Through this story\, it recounts not only the history of the Holocaust in Hungary and Israel as remembered by different social groups\, but also the history of Jewish resistance\, full of silence and conflict. \n\n\n\nThe launch will be in conversation with the authors Andrea Petö (historian\, CEU Vienna) and Krisztina Politzer Maymon (lawyer; editor\, Izraelinfo)
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/online-book-launch-the-three-graves-of-anna-szenes/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260727T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: What Makes a Neighbour? with Lyonell Fliss
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nAfterwards\, you are warmly invited to stay for lunch at Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop\, where the conversation with Lyonell can continue. \n\n\n\nTalk – free \n\n\n\nLunch (soup\, bread & a drink) – R100
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lunch-learn-what-makes-a-neighbour-with-lyonell-fliss/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260730T173000
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SUMMARY:AI and Holocaust Testimony: Possibilities\, Perils\, and Principles
DESCRIPTION:A Talk by Dr David Simon\n\n\n\n\n\n17:30 for 18:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 views\, while weakening acceptance of historically accurate depictions and analysis.  \n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, Dr. Simon will summarise both the promise of AI technology\, as well as a selection of the harms – both immediate and systemic – that might arise from the careless or unethical use of AI in connection with mass atrocity testimonies. He will address some of the possibilities for technological\, legal\, and institutional responses to these challenges\, arguing that collective action involving all three prongs is needed. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDr. David J. Simon is a Senior Lecturer and the Assistant Dean for Graduate Education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University\, where he directs the Genocide Studies Program and the Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era initiative\, and co-directs Yale’s Human Rights Studies certificate programme. His research focuses on atrocity prevention and the politics of recovery from mass atrocities. \n\n\n\nHe is the co-editor of Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2020\, with Eve M. Zucker) and The Handbook of Genocide Studies (Edward Elgar\, 2023\, with Leora Kahn). With Dr. Kahn he created the exhibition Speaking Up: Confronting Hate Speech\, which has shown in Houston and New York\, and he is a founding member of the Digital Archive of the Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) working group. \n\n\n\nDr. Simon sits on the board of advisors of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab\, chairs the board of the Reckoning Project\, and serves on the advisory board of the Bosnia-based Post-Conflict Research Center. He is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California\, Los Angeles.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/ai-and-holocaust-testimony-possibilities-perils-and-principles/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260811T190000
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SUMMARY:Online Film Screening: Among Neighbors
DESCRIPTION:Join the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation for an online film screening of Among Neighbors.  \n\n\n\nDecades after the Holocaust\, award-winning American filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime\, Sundance Film Festival) unearths the haunting mysteries of a small Polish town where people of two different faiths lived side by side for centuries. At its heart\, the film focuses on two individuals who lived through the peril of World War II and its aftermath: Yaacov Goldstein\, a Holocaust survivor whose harrowing story exposes both the heights of human compassion and the depths of cruelty and Pelagia Radecka\, an eyewitness to when five Jews were murdered\, not by the Nazis but by her own Polish neighbors\, six months after the end of World War II. Breaking decades of silence for this film\, they share secrets they have held for a lifetime\, and their experiences are brought to life in stunning animated sequences\, enriched by artful touches of magical realism. Together\, their accounts illuminate the darkest chapter of Poland’s history. As attempts to rewrite this history in favor of a more politically convenient narrative gain momentum\, Among Neighbors offers a powerful counterpoint. Revealing a tale of love and murder spanning seven decades\, the film boldly asserts that true patriotism lies in facing history honestly\, no matter how painful the truths may be. As life imitates art\, political extremists and historical revisionists in Poland\, including its president\, have now called for the film itself to be banned. \n\n\n\nWatch the trailer here \n\n\n\nOn the 18th of August\, there will be an online conversation with the film’s award-winning writer\, director\, and producer Yoav Potash\, in discussion with Jakub Nowakowski.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/online-film-screening-among-neighbors/
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: We Are Here; Women's Voices\, Memory\, and Srebrenica
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we mark 31 years since the genocide in Srebrenica\, remembering the women who endured the Bosnian War and carry its memory. Aimée Mica Komorowsky playwright\, actress\, and South African ambassador for Remembering Srebrenica reflects on the 2026 theme\, We Are Here. She is joined by Lejla Damon\, an advocate born in Sarajevo in 1992 as a result of wartime sexual violence\, who will discuss memory\, reconciliation and women’s experiences of conflict. \n\n\n\nStay for lunch at Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop and continue the conversation with Lejla\, Aimée\, and the JHGC team.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lunch-learn-we-are-here-womens-voices-memory-and-srebrenica/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260818T190000
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SUMMARY:Among Neighbors: In Conversation with Yoav Potash
DESCRIPTION:Following our screening of Among Neighbors on 11 August\, we invite you to join an exclusive online conversation with the film’s award-winning writer\, director\, and producer\, Yoav Potash\, in discussion with Jakub Nowakowski. \n\n\n\nYoav Potash is an award-winning writer\, director\, and producer whose previous documentary\, Crime After Crime\, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received numerous international honours\, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award. His work is widely recognised for its commitment to social justice\, historical truth\, and human rights. \n\n\n\nIn conversation with Jakub Nowakowski\, Potash will explore the making of the film\, the ethical challenges of documenting contested histories\, and the continuing relevance of Among Neighbors in a world where historical denial\, antisemitism\, and nationalism remain pressing concerns. \n\n\n\nThis promises to be a thoughtful and engaging conversation about the enduring importance of testimony\, remembrance\, and the courage to face difficult pasts in pursuit of a more honest future.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/among-neighbors-in-conversation-with-yoav-potash/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260819T180000
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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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