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Dr. Eleonora Bergman joined the Jewish Historical Institute in 1991, serving as its deputy director between 1996-1997 and 2001-2006. She was director from 2007 to 2011.  In this programme, our […]

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Event Details During and after WWII, Russia forcibly uprooted millions of Poles from the Kresy of eastern Poland. Those Kresovians who survived the deportations to Siberia were scattered around the […]

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A Special Series with the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center. Join us for the second programme in the series on 80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: […]

Talking Memory Series Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute. Join us for the third and final programme in the series on the Jewish Historical Institute: Beyond Oneg […]

80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: The Industrial Killing of European Jewry: Resistance in Treblinka: The Tangible Witnesses In the third programme of this series, resistance in Treblinka is examined. The systematic murder on the Treblinka extermination camp began in July 1942 with the arrival of the first transport from the Warsaw Ghetto. By the time […]

Join us for a special film preview of "I am Here", Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal’s story. The preview including remarks by Holocaust education expert Paul Salmons, followed by a Q&A with the producer and director of the film. Book your tickets directly with Ster Kinekor here.

Paul Salmons is Chief Curator of Seeing Auschwitz (produced by Musealia for UNESCO and the United Nations), and co-curator of Musealia’s international award-winning Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away. Recently he was consulting curator on two new permanent Holocaust exhibitions that opened in New York City and St Louis, Missouri, and he currently is working on a major […]