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SUMMARY:Film Screening of Syberiada Polska(Siberian Exile)
DESCRIPTION:To commemorate Black Ribbon Day\, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism you are invited to a screening of \n\n\n\nSYBERIADA POLSKA (SIBERIAN EXILE) \n\n\n\nProduced by Mirosław Słowiński over seven long\, difficult years this film depicts the fates of Poles deported to Siberia by the Soviet Union during WWII. The film portrays the harsh conditions of the Soviet labour camps (Gulags) and the struggles faced by the deportees\, highlighting themes of love\, courage\, and hope amidst adversity. It was filmed in the majestic and severe Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia\, aiming for a realistic portrayal of the era and environment. The film is in Polish with English subtitles.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-of-syberiada-polskasiberian-exile/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250916T173000
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SUMMARY:A Hidden Jewish Child during the Holocaust with Armand Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:Armand Schmidt’s story is one of survival\, courage\, and resistance in the face of unthinkable danger. It is the true story of a Jewish child\, hidden in a Catholic institution during the Holocaust to escape persecution\, deportation and death. He will explore life before\, during and after World War II and the Holocaust\, using original photographs and historical documents\, pieces of memory\, alternating historical background information linked to personal and family events. \n\n\n\nArmand Schmidt is a Holocaust survivor\, who was hidden in a Catholic institution\, Institut Enfant Jésus in Belgium as a child. He is a journalist\, who is currently studying Jewish ‘lost tribes’. He has presented his incredible story of survival across the world\, and will be doing so in South Africa for the first time.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/a-hidden-jewish-child-during-the-holocaust-with-armand-schmidt/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250917T210000
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SUMMARY:“Echoes Across Time: Voices of Survival and Lessons for Our Future” Session 6
DESCRIPTION:As we stand on the cusp of history\, the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors grow ever more urgent\, reminding us of the cost of silence\, the value of empathy\, and the power of resilience. Echoes Across Time invites audiences to explore the crucial lessons these testimonies offer—on values\, democracy\, and the warning signs of oppression. Through monthly episodes\, each centred around a survivor’s testimony about their life experiences\, this series poses the question: Are we truly listening? \n\n\n\nJoin us as we amplify stories from the Holocaust to Rwanda\, Cambodia\, and beyond\, engaging with survivors\, scholars\, and advocates who work tirelessly to preserve these legacies and inspire a more compassionate future. \n\n\n\nSrebrenica: Capturing Memories in the Face of Denial\n\n\n\nFeaturing: A survivor and memory activist Hasan Hasanović\, working at the Genocide Memorial in Srebrenica will recount their personal story as well as the process of gathering testimonies at present\, shedding light on the ongoing struggle of preserving memories amidst a culture of denial and revisionism. This session will address the challenges faced by survivors in ensuring their voices are heard and respected\, especially as they fight against misinformation and a lack of acknowledgment. Participants will discuss the impact of Srebrenica’s legacy and the critical importance of listening\, believing\, and preserving survivor stories in the face of denial. \n\n\n\nHasan Hasanović is a Srebrenica genocide survivor\, and a curator and interpreter at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center. Hasanović is the author of Surviving Srebrenica\, which tells his personal story of survival\, and he speaks frequently about his experience at academic and commemorative events worldwide. Most recently\, he headed on behalf of the Memorial Center a joint project by the Center and the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo focused on recording stories of children who survived the Srebrenica genocide. He holds a degree in Criminal Sciences from the University of Sarajevo. \n\n\n\nHasan Hasanović will be in conversation with Tali Nates\, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualising Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021)\, the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany)\, the US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Award (2023)\, and the International Network of Genocide Scholar’s Impact Award (2024).
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/echoes-across-time-voices-of-survival-and-lessons-for-our-future-session-6/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250920T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250920T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20250911T105058Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the life of Dowi Bele
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to remember and celebrate the life of our beloved colleague\, Dowi Bele.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/celebrating-the-life-of-dowi-bele/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251019T150000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition opening of Traces of Violence by Marcelo Brodsky
DESCRIPTION:In 2021\, Germany formally recognised the genocide of the Herero and Nama People\, committed by the German Empire in 1904-1908 in German South West Africa (now Namibia).In the course of the division of Africa by the European powers in the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885\, the German Empire acquired the right to colonise South West Africa. Colonial policy included the expulsion of the local Nama and Herero communities from their fertile land so that German colonisers and farmers could settle there. \n\n\n\nAs an artist and human rights activist\, Marcelo Brodsky believes in the importance of art in the social debate. Their ability to influence the public opinion-forming process and attract media attention. The subject of human rights violations was and is a central part of his art. \n\n\n\nBrodsky became internationally known with his work cycle “Buena Memoria” (1997) about the kidnapping of some of his classmates and his brother Fernando Brodsky by the death squads during the Argentine military dictatorship. Fernando’s body has not been found to this day. Other series of works followed\, such as “1968 The Fire of Ideas\,” “Africa Fighting for Freedom” or “Migrants.” \n\n\n\nAs part of his human rights activities\, Brodsky met the German human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck\, who came to Argentina 20 years ago to defend the cases of German citizens who have disappeared due to state terror. Kaleck is the founder and director of ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights). This Berlin-based organisation has a team of international lawyers who work for global justice\, defend political prisoners and fight human rights violations and crimes against humanity with legal means. Wolfgang Kaleck informed Marcelo Brodsky about the case and the genocide in South West Africa. With his help\, Brodsky contacted the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation based in Namibia and offered them his collaboration to develop an art project on their case and present it in an art space in Berlin. \n\n\n\nThe photographs that Brodsky collected in archives\, agencies and universities for two years were taken by the colonists or their helpers (soldiers\, missionaries\, journalists\, etc.). They are irrefutable evidence of the brutal violence of the perpetrators. After reading Mark Sealy’s book “Decolonizing the Camera”\, which describes that every time a colonialist image is shown\, its violence is reproduced\, Brodsky decided to radically rework these images. As in his previous series of works\, Brodsky enlarges and reworks the photographs underlining the aesthetic effect of the motif by reworking the colours by hand. The beautiful becomes more beautiful\, the horror becomes more horrific. His own short text contribution\, typical of his works\, expresses the voice and point of view of the colonisers in every single coloured photo. They show violence very clearly\, which makes it rather disturbing for the viewer. \n\n\n\nThe opening will feature a presentation by Brodsky and welcome representatives of the Herero and Nama nations and organisations.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/exhibition-opening-of-traces-of-violence-by-marcelo-brodsky/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251020T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251024T223000
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SUMMARY:JHGC and Issy's closed for private event
DESCRIPTION:The JHGC and Issy’s will be closed from 20-24 October for a private event. We will reopen on 25 October. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/jhgc-closed-for-private-conference/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251026T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
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SUMMARY:Honouring Memory and Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Talk and Walkabout of More Important than Life with Dr Mirjam Zadoff and the Presentation of Decoration of Honour in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria to Tali Nates\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a talk and walkabout of the exhibition More Important than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto with Dr Mirjam Zadoff\, director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and co-curator of the exhibition. \n\n\n\nThe event will be accompanied by the formal awarding of Decoration of Honour in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria to director and founder of the JHGC\, Tali Nates\, as well as formal remarks from the Ambassador of Austria to South Africa\, H.E. Ms Romana Königsbrun\, and a musical performance by the Austrian Duo Minerva beginning at 16:00. \n\n\n\nMore Important Than Life explores some of the artefacts and documents collected in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Oneg Shabbat\, a collective of academics\, writers\, and activists led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum\, who worked secretly to document the mass murder of European Jews as it was happening. 
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talk-and-walkabout-of-more-important-than-life-with-mirjam-zaddoff/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251029T210000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251029T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251007T060425Z
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SUMMARY:“Echoes Across Time: Voices of Survival and Lessons for Our Future” Session 7
DESCRIPTION:As we stand on the cusp of history\, the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors grow ever more urgent\, reminding us of the cost of silence\, the value of empathy\, and the power of resilience. Echoes Across Time invites audiences to explore the crucial lessons these testimonies offer—on values\, democracy\, and the warning signs of oppression. Through monthly episodes\, each centred around a survivor’s testimony about their life experiences\, this series poses the question: Are we truly listening? \n\n\n\nJoin us as we amplify stories from the Holocaust to Rwanda\, Cambodia\, and beyond\, engaging with survivors\, scholars\, and advocates who work tirelessly to preserve these legacies and inspire a more compassionate future. \n\n\n\nFrom Tragedy to Healing: Rwanda’s Path to Restorative Justice\n\n\n\nFeaturing: Rwanda genocide survivor and Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial and Aegis Trust\, Freddy Mutanguha\, shares his powerful story of survival\, healing\, and contributing to the country’s unique journey through restorative justice. This session will examine Rwanda’s approach to rebuilding—through forgiveness\, communal healing\, and reconciliation—and the powerful lessons this path holds for the world. Freddy’s testimony provides insight into how survivors and communities alike can transform trauma into hope\, and how memory and accountability can drive long-lasting peace and understanding. \n\n\n\nFreddy Mutanguha is CEO of the Aegis Trust and Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Freddy led the development of Aegis’ peace education programme in Rwanda and is now leading Aegis’ work to take this model beyond the borders of Rwanda to areas at risk\, including the Central African Republic\, South Sudan and Kenya. Joining Aegis in 2004 during the construction of the Kigali Genocide Memorial as a team leader responsible for genocide documentation\, he was appointed Country Director in 2006. Freddy is Chair of the board of Miracle Corner Rwanda\, an organisation which aims to empower the community in Rwanda by helping young people to acquire the vocational skills they need to thrive socially and economically. \n\n\n\nHe holds a master’s degree in project management from the Maastricht School of Management and trained as a teacher\, securing a bachelor’s degree in Education from the Kigali Institute of Education. He survived Rwanda’s 1994 genocide as a teenager\, and as an orphan head of household\, in 2016\, the Justice and Security Foundation declared him a Peace award winner for his outstanding contribution to peace. He is also profiled in the Atlanta Human Rights Museum as a prominent activist for human rights. \n\n\n\nHelping to found AERG\, Rwanda’s student survivors association\, Freddy went on to become vice-President of IBUKA\, the national umbrella association for Rwandan genocide survivors. He is an External Advisory Committee member of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive in Los Angeles\, and lectures internationally on the impact of the Genocide and the importance of forgiveness as way of post-conflict reconstruction. \n\n\n\nFreddy Mutanguha will be in conversation with Tali Nates\, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualising Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021)\, the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany)\, the US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Award (2023)\, and the International Network of Genocide Scholar’s Impact Award (2024).
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/echoes-across-time-voices-of-survival-and-lessons-for-our-future-session-7/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251030T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251030T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
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SUMMARY:Film screening: Letters from Brno
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the South African premiere of Letters from Brno. \n\n\n\nThe screening will be accompanied by formal remarks by Deputy Ambassador of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in South Africa\, Mr. Petr Čáp\, and by writer and producer Karen Kruger. \n\n\n\nIn December\, 1976\, during a college break\, Karen learned that her mother\, Erika Stefanie Turkl (Neumann) was Jewish. This discovery marked the beginning of Karen’s insatiable curiosity about her mother’s family history and the start of a 45+ year journey to uncover her mother’s pastNicholas Winton was the British stockbroker who was responsible for arranging the Kinder transports of 669 Czechoslovakian Jewish children in 1939. Erika and Daisy Turkl were 2 of the 669 “Winton’s children”. In 2009\, during a reenactment of the Winton Kindertransport from Prague to London\, Karen and her son\, Max were able to meet 100 year old Nicholas Winton and personally thank him for saving Erika’s and Daisy’s lives. \n\n\n\nJeffery Gary\, a documentary filmmaker\, learned of Karen’s project and offered to interview/film her to record her recent research trip “while it was still fresh in her mind.” During the first 2 sessions of filming\, Jeffery realized that the story of Karen’s mother’s family had all the components of a documentary film and he suggested that she consider telling the story on film first instead of writing a book.While filming the documentary\, Karen imagined how this story could be part of a curricula for Holocaust education.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-letters-from-brno/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251102T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251102T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251022T092105Z
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SUMMARY:Heroines of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special online book launch of Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide. \n\n\n\nJoin co-editors Professor Lori Weintrob and Professor Judy Baumel-Schwartz as they introduce this groundbreaking volume\, which brings together international scholars to explore new perspectives on women’s rescue and resistance during the Holocaust\, and the Armenian and Rwandan genocides. \n\n\n\nTwo contributing authors\, both descendants of Holocaust survivors\, will also share insights from their chapters: \n\n\n\nDr Daniela Ozacky Stern delves into the often-overlooked stories of Jewish women partisans during the Holocaust\, focusing on the personal narrative of Chaya Shapira Lazar. Through her grandmother’s journey from the Vilna Ghetto to the partisan forests\, Dr Ozacky Stern illuminates the complex challenges faced by female resistance fighters navigating between traditional gender roles and revolutionary combat duties. \n\n\n\nDr Steven Meed\, son of Vladka Meed (née Feyge Peltel)\, reflects on his mother’s extraordinary courage as an 18-year-old member of the Bund’s youth organisation in Warsaw during the German invasion of 1939. Recognised for her fearlessness\, resourcefulness\, and perfect command of Polish\, Vladka was entrusted with increasingly dangerous missions on the Aryan side. After liberation\, she dedicated her life to speaking and writing—first in Yiddish—about her wartime experiences\, ensuring the memory of those who perished and survived would endure with dignity and respect. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Wagner College Holocaust Center\, the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University\, Remember the Women Institute\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, and the Rabin Chair Forum.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/10777/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251104T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251104T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251103T080002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T080003Z
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SUMMARY:Online Roundtable: Visual Languages And Mediums Of Holocaust Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging online roundtable exploring the visual languages of Holocaust literature. This discussion will examine how literary texts engage with visual elements—and how photography\, film\, art\, and other visual representations of the Holocaust have influenced and been influenced by literature. The speakers will consider a diverse range of works\, including graphic novels\, to reflect on how visual media shapes our understanding of Holocaust memory and representation. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nDaniel H. Magilow: Professor of German\, University of Tennessee \n\n\n\nLynn Wolff: Associate Professor of German\, Michigan State University \n\n\n\nBrad Prager: Professor of German and Film Studies\, University of Missouri \n\n\n\nChair: \n\n\n\nMcKenna Marko: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust Literature\, University of Leeds \n\n\n\nThis event forms part of the ongoing series featuring original research from the forthcoming Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature\, presented by the project Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts\, Canons\, and Circulations. \n\n\n\nLearn more: Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Public Engagement Programme
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/online-roundtable-visual-languages-and-mediums-of-holocaust-literature/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251109T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251109T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251027T121524Z
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SUMMARY:87th Commemoration of the November Pogrom
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Goethe-Institut\, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to their annual commemoration of the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). \n\n\n\nThe commemoration will include formal remarks\, a candle lighting ceremony\, a performance by violinist Sharon De Kock\, a screening of the film Das Tagebuch Der Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank) (2016)\, followed by a keynote address from director Hans Steinbichler. \n\n\n\nHans Steinbichler was born in Solothurn\, Switzerland\, and grew up near Lake Chiemsee. He lives in Munich with his family. \n\n\n\nSteinbichler’s graduation film Hierankl (HFF Munich) marked his debut and earned numerous awards\, including the Förderpreis Deutscher Film (2003)\, the Bavarian Film Prize\, and the Grimme Gold Award for script and directing. \n\n\n\nHis second feature\, Winterreise (2006)\, opened the Munich Film Festival and was nominated for the German Film Prize for Best Film\, with Josef Bierbichler receiving the Best Actor Lola. \n\n\n\nIn 2008\, Steinbichler directed The Second Woman\, starring Matthias Brandt and Monika Bleibtreu\, the official German contribution to the Toronto Film Festival. The film earned him another Grimme Prize for directing and was released in French cinemas. \n\n\n\nIn 2010\, he directed Blue of the Sky\, featuring Juliane Köhler and Hannelore Elsner\, which won the Bavarian Film Prize (2011) for Best Picture. He subsequently directed several acclaimed episodes of Polizeiruf 110 with Matthias Brandt\, garnering multiple awards including the German Television Award. \n\n\n\nFrom 2013 to 2015\, Steinbichler served as Professor of Directing at the Cologne International Film School. \n\n\n\nIn 2016\, his feature Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank) premiered at the Berlinale\, followed by a nationwide release. The film earned Steinbichler the German Director Award Metropolis\, while lead actress Lea van Acken received the Bavarian Film Prize. That same year\, he was appointed a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. \n\n\n\nHis next feature\, An Unheard Woman (2016)\, starring Rosalie Thomass\, won the One Future Prize at the Munich Film Festival\, the German Television Award (2018)\, and the Grimme Prize (2018). \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Steinbichler directed the ZDF historical mini-series Walpurgisnacht\, filmed in Prague and the Czech Republic\, followed by Hannes (2021)\, based on the novel by Rita Falk. \n\n\n\nIn 2020/2021\, he co-directed the third season of Das Boot for Sky\, filmed in Prague and Malta\, released in spring 2022. \n\n\n\nMost recently\, Steinbichler completed A Whole Life (2023)\, an adaptation of the acclaimed novel set in the Alps. The film has been a major box-office success and received multiple nominations for German and Austrian film awards.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/87th-commemoration-of-the-november-pogrom/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251116T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251116T223000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251113T084558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T101024Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Opening Event for "Fanny's Journey"
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special online Talking Memory opening event for the new exhibition Fanny’s Journey. \n\n\n\nJoin us as we celebrate this moving exhibition that brings to life the experiences of Fanny Ben Ami through her expressive and powerful drawings. Fanny’s Journey tells the extraordinary story of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who was born in Germany\, grew up in France\, and—after the rise of Nazism—found herself responsible for leading a group of Jewish children to safety. The exhibition presents the artworks she created later in life\, accompanied by short excerpts from her testimony\, illuminating one young girl’s courage\, responsibility\, and resilience. \n\n\n\nThe programme will feature: \n\n\n\nOpening RemarksProfessor Aryeh Barnea will reflect on the critical work of the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants – the Children’s Aid Society)\, the underground rescue network that saved thousands of Jewish children—including Fanny—by sheltering them in children’s homes\, placing them with foster families\, or helping them escape across borders. \n\n\n\nGuest SpeakersLilach Efraim\, curator of Fanny’s Journey\, will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the exhibition.Greta Barak\, archivist at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will present a selection of OSE documents from the archive that help contextualise the story of Fanny and the children she helped lead to freedom. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and Yad LaYeled France.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-opening-event-for-fannys-journey/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251127T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251113T104429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T104430Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: It Always Seems Impossible
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an inspiring book launch with James Urdang\, Founder and CEO of Education Africa\, of his new memoir\, It Always Seems Impossible: My fight to build and save Education Africa. With a foreword from the Nelson Mandela Foundation and a cover endorsement from Sir Bob Geldof\, who calls it “a powerful account from a genuine African hero. Inspiring\, urgent\, and true”\, the book tells the story of how one man’s determination to use education as a tool for social justice transformed thousands of lives – and how that work was nearly destroyed by corporate misconduct. \n\n\n\nUrdang traces his journey from being a school underachiever diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia to founding Education Africa\, a grassroots organisation that has opened educational opportunities for disadvantaged South Africans. Mentored by Walter Sisulu\, entrusted by Nelson Mandela\, and supported by figures such as Helen Suzman and Dr Aggrey Klaaste\, he built ambitious programmes ranging from the world’s largest national Model UN initiative to large-scale marimba training and early childhood development projects. The memoir also exposes a shocking battle with a global bank that brought Education Africa to its knees\, and the role anti-corruption campaigner Lord Peter Hain played in challenging this injustice. At its heart\, the book is a testament to resilience\, accountability\, and the power of education to change lives. \n\n\n\nAbout James UrdangJames Urdang is an award-winning humanitarian\, social entrepreneur\, and sought-after motivational speaker. For more than three decades he has worked to create meaningful educational opportunities for disadvantaged communities across Africa. He has collaborated closely with Nelson Mandela\, spoken at the funeral of Chris Hani\, and continues to advocate for equity\, dignity\, and transformation through education.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/book-launch-it-always-seems-impossible/
LOCATION:Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop\, 1 Duncombe Road\, Forest Town\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251130T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251130T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251119T101329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T101647Z
UID:10810-1764536400-1764540000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:A Contrarian’s Tale: Reflecting on Henry Greenspan’s REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory book launch event \n\n\n\nA Contrarian’s Tale: Reflecting on Henry Greenspan’s REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors \n\n\n\nSunday\, 30 November 2025 \n\n\n\nOpening Remarks:Prof. Debórah Dwork \n\n\n\nGuest Author:Prof. Henry Greenspan \n\n\n\nYou are warmly invited to a special Talking Memory webinar marking the launch of Henry Greenspan’s new book\, REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors. The programme will begin with opening remarks by Prof. Debórah Dwork\, followed by a conversation with Prof. Greenspan about his decades of work and his reflections on Holocaust testimony as sustained\, evolving dialogues. Greenspan will also present a short live performance of an excerpt from REMNANTS. \n\n\n\nThis event opens the new series\, Conversations that Endure: In the Footsteps of Henry Greenspan and Dori Laub. \n\n\n\nFor more than fifty years\, Henry Greenspan—psychologist\, playwright\, and pioneering oral historian—has been listening to\, learning from\, and engaging in deep conversation with Holocaust survivors. His work has reshaped understandings of survivor accounts\, highlighting how testimony emerges through collaboration\, trust\, and survivors’ own active choices shaped by the contexts in which they speak. \n\n\n\nIn REMNANTS and What Remains\, Greenspan brings together powerful moments from a lifetime of encounters\, illuminating both survivors’ lived experiences and the complex ethical and emotional questions that arise in the work of remembrance. The book also explores the question of what remains after profound loss: survivors’ loss of a world; Greenspan’s loss of his survivor-partners; and\, as survivors near the end of their lives\, their own diverse and often unexpected views of their “legacies”. \n\n\n\nThis webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from Henry Greenspan as he reflects on the evolution of his work\, the individuals who shaped it\, and the continued relevance of these conversations in a world marked by both past and present catastrophes. \n\n\n\nYou are invited to watch REMNANTS (45-minute performance video) prior to the event:https://youtu.be/Vty8b_euk-k \n\n\n\nRegister here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZlO3XmsJTCyFH79Jj4PNNQ \n\n\n\nTime:2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel Time \n\n\n\nThis programme is co-sponsored by the Jean and Shimuel Frankel Centre for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan\, the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/a-contrarians-tale-reflecting-on-henry-greenspans-remnants-and-what-remains-moments-from-a-life-among-holocaust-survivors/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251207T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251207T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251125T123252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T094127Z
UID:10820-1765117800-1765125000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:12th South Africa-Poland Heritage Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Polish Association of Siberian Deportees in Southeast Africa is collaborating with the Sybir Memorial Museum and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Join us for the 12th conference to launch a series of posters depicting the lived experiences of Polish Siberian Deportees – Sybir – Prison of Nations. The recent unveiling of the memorial to the Oudtshoorn Polish WWII refugees and the Oudtshoorn Polish Heritage Trail will also be discussed. \n\n\n\nOpening statements will be made by Mr Jacek Chorodowicz\, head of the Polish Mission in Pretoria. Recorded presentations will be from Mr Wojciech Śleszyński\, Director of the Sybir Memorial Museum\, Museum historian Mr Tomas Danilecki and Ms Julita Waś\, Museum’s international business development manager. Stefan Szewczuk will launch the posters on behalf of the Sybir Memorial Museum.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/12th-south-africa-poland-heritage-conference/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251214T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251214T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251119T102833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T124231Z
UID:10817-1765746000-1765749600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Listening as Witnessing: Dori Laub and the Creation of the Fortunoff Archive
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to the Talking Memory series \n\n\n\nConversations that Endure: In the Footsteps of Henry Greenspan and Dori Laub \n\n\n\nListening as Witnessing: Dori Laub and the Creation of the Fortunoff Archive \n\n\n\nSunday\, 14 December 2025 \n\n\n\nOpening Remarks:Stephen Naron\, Director\, Fortunoff Archive \n\n\n\nGuest Filmmaker:Ohad Ufaz \n\n\n\nYou are warmly invited to the second programme in the Talking Memory series\, honouring the legacy of Dori Laub — psychoanalyst\, Holocaust survivor\, and co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. The event will open with remarks by Stephen Naron\, who will reflect on Laub’s pioneering contributions and lasting influence on testimony and trauma studies. Following these remarks\, filmmaker Ohad Ufaz will present and discuss the documentary The Listener\, co-directed by Ufaz and Micha Livne\, which offers a moving exploration of Laub’s life and his profound commitment to listening — conceived as an act of empathy and a bridge between past and present\, memory and witness. \n\n\n\nA pre-screening of The Listener will be made available to all registrants. \n\n\n\nRegister here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9V1GcaeFRZqp8GFd3RWIWw \n\n\n\nTime:2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel Time \n\n\n\nThis programme is presented in partnership with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and Classrooms Without Borders.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/listening-as-witnessing-dori-laub-and-the-creation-of-the-fortunoff-archive/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251225T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251226T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251215T114223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T114224Z
UID:10852-1766649600-1766768400@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Please note the JHGC and Issy's are closed on 25 and 26 December
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/please-note-the-jhgc-and-issys-are-closed-on-25-and-26-december/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260101T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260102T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20251215T114308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T114309Z
UID:10854-1767254400-1767373200@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Please note the JHGC and Issy's are closed on 1 and 2 January 2026
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/please-note-the-jhgc-and-issys-are-closed-on-1-and-2-january-2026/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260118T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260118T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260113T082300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T094528Z
UID:10861-1768748400-1768753800@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Beneath the Skin Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Mike Fisher is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans Cape Town\, Santander (Spain)\, and the United Kingdom. For over four years\, he has been deeply engaged in the development of a sustained body of work rooted in Holocaust memory\, testimony\, and material witness. This practice is driven by extensive research\, creative exploration\, and profound personal commitment—marked by what he describes as blood\, sweat\, and tears. \n\n\n\nAt the heart of Fisher’s work is storytelling through art as a primary language. He believes art moves the spirit and touches the soul on a level far deeper than words or sound\, reaching the core of what it means to be human. His work is not illustrative; it is experiential and material\, asking the viewer not simply to look\, but to stand\, to witness\, and to remember. \n\n\n\nAll works are available for sale. As a self-funded artist\, Fisher hopes this body of work will one day be represented internationally within museum and gallery collections\, as well as private collections worldwide. \n\n\n\nFor further information or enquiries\, Mike Fisher can be contacted at fishermike@icloud.com. \n\n\n\nThe opening will include an address by Mike Fisher and a walkabout of the exhibition.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/beneath-the-skin-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260129T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260129T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260120T100143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T113238Z
UID:10872-1769711400-1769722200@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration 2026
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 with an evening of reflection\, scholarship\, and film. \n\n\n\nThe programme includes formal remarks\, a candle-lighting ceremony\, a keynote address by Professor Rolf Wolfswinkel\, and a screening of the documentary Lost City—a powerful exploration of complicity\, memory\, and moral responsibility in wartime Amsterdam. \n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker\n\n\n\nProfessor Rolf WolfswinkelProfessor of Modern History (ret.)\, University of Cape Town & New York University \n\n\n\nBorn in Amsterdam during the Second World War\, Professor Wolfswinkel has published widely on trench warfare in the First World War\, the German occupation of the Netherlands\, and the Holocaust. He has lectured extensively in South Africa\, the United States\, and the Netherlands\, and is known for his ability to illuminate the human consequences of historical events through rigorous archival research. \n\n\n\nAbout the Film: Lost City\n\n\n\nA groundbreaking archival discovery reveals a hidden chapter in the tragic story of Anne Frank and tens of thousands of Dutch Jews: the complicity of the Amsterdam Public Transport company (GVB) in the Nazi deportation system. \n\n\n\nEmmy Award–winning filmmaker Willy Lindwer and historian Guus Luijters uncovered an invoice issued by GVB to the German occupation authorities—charging 80 guilders (approximately $4\,500 today) for transporting Anne Frank\, her family\, and many others to their deaths. In seeking payment for these transports\, the company became an unwitting accomplice in Nazi crimes. \n\n\n\nPresented as a poignant road movie\, Lost City features the original tram used to deport 48\,000 Jews from Amsterdam—nearly half of the Netherlands’ Jewish population—retracing its route through the city’s hauntingly beautiful yet morally burdened streets. A survivor’s reflection captures the collective indifference of the time:“Everybody knew\, everybody saw it\, and nobody took action.” \n\n\n\nThe film offers a profound new perspective on the murder of Amsterdam’s Jews and the city’s enduring loss of its Jewish soul. \n\n\n\nAttendance is free but booking is essential.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-commemoration-2026/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260130T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260130T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260120T105442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T105443Z
UID:10875-1769770800-1769776200@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:An Unexpected Find in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, in partnership with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung\, invites you to a public talk by historian Prof. Rolf Wolfswinkel. \n\n\n\nAbout the event\n\n\n\nDuring a research visit to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation\, Prof. Wolfswinkel made an unexpected discovery: a thin folder of letters from the German Occupying Administration detailing how Dutch libraries were to deal with the books and films of Erich Maria Remarque\, author of All Quiet on the Western Front. \n\n\n\nAlthough Remarque himself had escaped to the United States\, his work became the target of systematic censorship. The responses of librarians and library boards offer a revealing insight into how institutions and individuals attempted to accommodate — and survive — even the most extreme ideological demands. \n\n\n\nThis talk explores censorship\, compliance\, and moral choice under occupation\, using this archival find as a lens onto broader questions of power and resistance. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nProf. Rolf Wolfswinkel is a retired Professor of Modern History at New York University and the University of Cape Town. Born in Amsterdam during the Second World War\, he has published extensively on trench warfare in the First World War\, the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands\, and the Holocaust. He has served as a guest lecturer in the United States\, South Africa\, and the Netherlands.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/an-unexpected-find-in-amsterdam/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260201T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260201T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260120T110828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T085126Z
UID:10878-1769956200-1769963400@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Commandant's Shadow
DESCRIPTION:As part of our programmes commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, in partnership with the British High Commission in Pretoria\, invites you to a screening of the documentary The Commandant’s Shadow. \n\n\n\nAbout the Film\n\n\n\nThe film\, The Commandant’s Shadow\, follows Hans Jürgen Höss\, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss\, as he faces his father’s terrible legacy for the first time. His father was the Camp Commandant of Auschwitz and masterminded the murder of over a million Jews. The life of Hans and his family was recently fictionalised in the Academy Award-winning film\, The Zone of Interest. Now\, The Commandant’s Shadow\, tells the story of the real people who lived on site at Auschwitz. While Hans enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz\, Jewish prisoner\, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch\, was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of this film is the historic and inspiring moment – eight decades later – when the two come face-to-face in Anita’s London living room.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-the-commandants-shadow/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260208T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260120T112335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T112336Z
UID:10881-1770561000-1770570000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Shadow of the Day (L’Ombra del Giorno)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the programme marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute\, invites you to a screening of The Shadow of the Day (L’Ombra del Giorno). \n\n\n\nAbout the Film\n\n\n\nSet in Fascist Italy\, the film tells a quiet but gripping love story unfolding in a time of growing danger. Luciano\, a restaurant owner and supporter of the regime—like the vast majority of Italians of the period—believes he can live according to his own rules\, insulated from the political turmoil beyond his doors. \n\n\n\nAs ominous signs gather in the ancient square outside his restaurant\, a young woman named Anna appears\, carrying a secret. When she is hired to work there\, Luciano’s carefully controlled world begins to unravel. From that moment on\, nothing is the same. Alongside the external threats closing in\, he must confront the greatest danger of all: love. \n\n\n\nTender and tense\, The Shadow of the Day is a love story set against the moral compromises and uncertainties of a dark historical moment.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-the-shadow-of-the-day-lombra-del-giorno/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260212T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260126T113201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T113202Z
UID:10888-1770919200-1770924600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Webinar: Hidden in Plain Sight: A Conversation with Julie Brill
DESCRIPTION:About the Book\n\n\n\nIn Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia\, readers encounter a powerful and largely untold chapter of Holocaust history\, told through one family’s story and a daughter’s enduring quest to understand the past that shaped her life. \n\n\n\nFrom childhood\, Julie Brill struggled to comprehend how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade\, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population—without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through meticulous research\, chance discoveries\, and three deeply emotional journeys to Serbia\, Brill pieces together her family’s lost history\, uncovers long-buried secrets\, and restores to her father something the Nazis tried to erase: his own family story. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nJulie Brill is the author of Hidden in Plain Sight\, which Menachem Kaiser has called “a powerful reminder of why our stories—personal\, familial\, historical—are so crucial.” She has written for Haaretz\, The Forward\, Kveller\, The Times of Israel\, Balkan Insight\, and Boston’s National Public Radio station\, among others. Brill regularly shares her family’s Holocaust history with middle and high school students through 3GNY and is a co-facilitator for Living Link’s WEDU training\, working at the intersection of memory\, education\, and intergenerational dialogue.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/webinar-hidden-in-plain-sight-a-conversation-with-julie-brill/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260222T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260222T223000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260210T125535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T080907Z
UID:11013-1771794000-1771799400@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Talking Memory Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation marking the launch of Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nIn this thought-provoking book\, Dr Kobi Kabalek examines how postwar German society has grappled with questions of rescue\, responsibility\, and collective memory after Nazism. His research explores how the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust has been understood\, remembered\, and represented in Germany from the Nazi period to the present. \n\n\n\nThe programme will include a short introduction to the book followed by a reflective conversation and audience discussion. \n\n\n\nIn Conversation\n\n\n\nDr Kobi Kabalek\n\n\n\nHolocaust Studies and Visual Studies\, Penn State University \n\n\n\nDr Kabalek’s work focuses on Holocaust memory\, visual culture\, and the ways rescue and responsibility have been interpreted in Germany since 1945. \n\n\n\nHarry Legg\n\n\n\nPhD candidate\, University of Edinburgh \n\n\n\nHarry Legg will comment on the book and its contribution to current research on the attitudes and actions of the non-Jewish German population toward Jews during the Nazi regime. \n\n\n\nTogether\, the speakers will reflect on memory\, postwar narratives\, the commemoration of rescuers\, and the ongoing challenges of confronting the past.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260224T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260224T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260210T105039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T132313Z
UID:11008-1771959600-1771965000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Film screening: I Never Said Goodbye
DESCRIPTION:Join us online on Tuesday 24 February at 7PM for a screening of the documentary\, “I Never Said Goodbye“\, tributing the extraordinary life of Holocaust survivor Héléne Joffe. \n\n\n\nThe film documents Héléne’s remarkable journey and is testimony to the endurance of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this moving story of memory and resilience.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-i-never-said-goodbye/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260304T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260304T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T235305
CREATED:20260224T084710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T100847Z
UID:11076-1772647200-1772652600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:What Gets Seen\, What Gets Silenced: Violence\, Complicity\, and Memory in the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Sylt Foundation for a discussion panel exploring what was seen\, silenced\, and later remembered about the Holocaust. Through three perspectives – sexualised violence\, everyday complicity through stolen homes\, and the shaping of heroic memory – the talks reveal how genocide entered ordinary lives and spaces. Together\, they invite reflection on violence\, responsibility\, resistance\, and how Holocaust memory is constructed. \n\n\n\n“It was everywhere—in Buna\, in Auschwitz […] That’s a shame to tell.”: Sexualised Violence during the Holocaust – Larissa-Marie Lömpel\n\n\n\n“It was everywhere! In Buna\, in Auschwitz … That’s a shame to tell.“ With these words\, Sam Lubat captured both the pervasiveness of sexualised violence during the Holocaust and the silence that long surrounded it. This talk discusses both dimensions. \n\n\n\nDrawing on recent scholarship\, it maps the contexts in which sexualised violence occurred under National Socialist rule: from the mass shootings and pogroms in the occupied East to the ghettos\, hiding spaces\, and concentration camps of Nazi-ruled Europe. It examines the range of perpetrators – SS personnel\, Wehrmacht soldiers\, allied forces\, and civilians – as well as the complexity introduced by cases of victim perpetration. The lecture then turns to historiography\, asking why sexualised violence remained at the margins of Holocaust scholarship for so long. It traces how survivors navigated cultural taboos and institutional barriers when attempting to speak about their experiences\, and how scholars – shaped by similar constraints and by a universalised narrative of the Holocaust that left little room for gendered analysis – were slow to engage with the subject. By examining both the phenomenon and its fraught reception in testimony and scholarship\, the lecture contributes to an ongoing effort to bring sexualised violence into focus as a distinct and indispensable dimension of Holocaust history. \n\n\n\nLarissa-Marie Lömpel holds a BA in History and Gender Studies from the University of Göttingen and is currently completing an MA in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa. Her research interests include gendered violence\, perpetrator–victim relations\, and the intersections of historical scholarship and public memory. Her MA thesis examines sexualised violence in the Auschwitz camp complex. Alongside her studies\, she has been actively involved in Holocaust education and remembrance. During her undergraduate years\, she worked as a guide at the Bergen-Belsen and Moringen memorial sites and completed several internships in Germany and abroad. In 2024/25\, she worked as a researcher at the Anne Frank House. \n\n\n\nStolen Homes\, Taken Lives: Housing Expropriation and Everyday Complicity in the Holocaust – Indra Wussow\n\n\n\nThis seminar is based on Wussow’s PhD research on German Baltic settlers resettled by the Nazi regime into Łódź (Litzmannstadt)\, one of the central administrative sites of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. The talk examines housing expropriation as a key mechanism through which genocide entered everyday life. \n\n\n\nAt the centre of the seminar is a microhistorical case study: the appropriation of a Jewish family’s apartment by Bruno Carlhoff\, a resettled Baltic German who entered the Nazi administration in Łódź. Through archival material including housing files\, administrative records\, and later testimony\, she reconstructs how the Ajzen family was dispossessed of their home\, and how that same space was subsequently occupied and normalised by its new German inhabitants. \n\n\n\nFocusing on one apartment allows us to follow the Holocaust at a human scale: how removal\, reassignment\, and occupation were organised; how violence was translated into paperwork; and how perpetrators learned to live comfortably inside stolen spaces. Housing emerges here not as a marginal detail\, but as a central site of moral and material transformation—where racial entitlement was made tangible through rooms\, furniture\, and everyday routines. \n\n\n\nUsing microhistory as a method\, the seminar shows how complicity developed not primarily through ideological fervour or overt cruelty\, but through institutional permission\, emotional adjustment\, and the acceptance of “normal” advantages produced by persecution. By placing a perpetrator and a victim family in the same spatial frame\, the talk foregrounds the intimate proximity of genocide and challenges abstract understandings of participation in Nazi crimes. \n\n\n\nThe seminar offers an archive-based\, concrete perspective on how the Holocaust was lived\, enacted\, and normalised in cities like Łódź and why attention to stolen homes remains crucial for understanding responsibility\, memory\, and loss. \n\n\n\nIndra Wussow is a psychologist and Holocaust researcher working at the interface of history and psychology\, currently completing a PhD on everyday complicity in Nazi-occupied Łódź. She is the director of the Sylt Foundation\, and holds a MA in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa and a MA in Narrative Therapy from the University of Melbourne. \n\n\n\nZivia Lubetkin: How a Resistance Fighter Became a National Symbol – Andreea-Cristina Stanca\n\n\n\nHow does a young woman who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising become a symbol for an entire nation? And what gets lost when a human life is turned into a heroic myth? \n\n\n\nThis presentation explores how the public memory of Zivia Lubetkin was shaped in the first decades of the State of Israel\, and how her story became central to a heroic model of Holocaust remembrance. Drawing on Lubetkin’s memoir and scholarship on Holocaust memory and Israeli nation-building\, the lecture shows how her image was mobilised to promote ideals of resistance\, strength\, and Zionist renewal at a moment when Israeli society was seeking unifying symbols. In this process\, armed resistance was elevated as a moral ideal\, while many other survivors experiences marked by vulnerability\, coercion\, and “choiceless choices” remained marginalised. \n\n\n\nThe conversation also traces the shift brought about by the Eichmann Trial\, when survivor testimonies reshaped public understanding of the Holocaust and complicated earlier myths of heroism. By returning to Lubetkin not only as a fighter but also as a woman who resisted the Nazis\, becoming a public icon and carrying her trauma into postwar life\, this talk argues for a more honest and humane memory culture\, one that remembers courage without erasing suffering and resistance without turning people into symbols. \n\n\n\nAndreea Stanca is engaged in her MA in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University\, focusing on Zionism\, Holocaust education\, antisemitism\, and Holocaust memory. She has published widely and is currently working on an article on political antisemitism in Romania. She is currently an intern at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/what-gets-seen-what-gets-silenced-violence-complicity-and-memory-in-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:ZAPP Fest Performance Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, in collaboration with the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP)\, invites you to the 2026 ZAPP Fest Performance Showcase \n\n\n\nCome celebrate and enjoy the performances of an exciting group of young South African poets as they explore themes of community\, identity\, and human and animal rights. The poems which will be performed are the product of a one-day poetry workshop facilitated by the South African Poetry (ZAPP)\, a group of educators and professional poets who are dedicated to fostering a love of reading and writing poetry in schools.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/zapp-fest-performance-showcase-2/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Talking Memory Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDue to unforeseen circumstances\, the Talking Memory book launch event\, \n\n\n\nThe Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War\, \n\n\n\nscheduled for March 15th\, has been postponed. \n\n\n\nA new date will be announced\, and invitations will be resent accordingly. \n\n\n\nIn the meantime\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House extends its heartfelt thanks for your continued support of the Talking Memory programmes. \n\n\n\nThe Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory program marking the launch of The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War. \n\n\n\nIn this conversation\, Dr. Shay A. Pilnik examines how Babyn Yar—where more than 100\,000 people\, the vast majority Jews\, were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators—has been remembered\, reshaped\, and at times silenced in Soviet literature and culture. Drawing on Russian and Yiddish sources\, he revisits both well-known and lesser-known texts to show how Babyn Yar became a contested symbolic site\, revealing the tensions between official narratives\, suppressed Jewish memory\, and acts of cultural resistance. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr. Shay A. PilnikDirector\, Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide StudiesYeshiva University \n\n\n\nDr. Pilnik will discuss the central arguments of his book\, focusing on memory\, forgetting\, and representation in Soviet responses to Babyn Yar\, and the ways literature became a space for mourning\, testimony\, and moral reckoning. \n\n\n\nOpening Remarks:Dr. Arkadi ZeltserDirector\, Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet UnionInternational Institute for Holocaust Research\, Yad Vashem \n\n\n\nDr. Zeltser will reflect on the historiography of Babyn Yar and its place within Soviet Holocaust history\, addressing how politics\, ideology\, and archival silences have shaped public understanding of the site. \n\n\n\nGuest Speaker:Dr. Marta HavryshkoHistorian and Dr. Thomas Zand Visiting Assistant Professor in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism StudiesStrassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Clark University \n\n\n\nDr. Havryshko will speak about her research on Babyn Yar\, the challenges of commemorating mass violence in contemporary Ukraine\, and the ethical and political complexities involved in researching and memorialising the site today. \n\n\n\nThis programme is in partnership with the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University\, The Zekelman Holocaust Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch-2/
LOCATION:Online
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