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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Book Launch Event: Out of the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe with the Author Matti Friedman\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 Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe. \n\n\n\nIn 1944\, a group of young Jewish men and women – having escaped Europe – made the decision to return. Parachuting into Nazi-occupied territory under a British mission\, they went back to the continent that had tried to destroy them. Out of the Sky tells their story: the gap between the mission’s tragic reality and its powerful afterlife in Israeli memory\, and the question of what heroism means when it ends in failure. \n\n\n\nThe programme will feature: \n\n\n\nMatti Friedman\, author of Out of the Sky\, in conversation on the Jewish parachutists of 1944\, the archival research behind the book\, and the role of narrative in shaping collective memory. \n\n\n\nDr Rochelle Saidel will speak on Haviva Reick (1914–1944)\, one of three women among the parachutists\, who operated in Slovakia during the Slovak National Uprising – aiding Allied airmen\, working to rescue Jews\, and ultimately captured and murdered by Nazi collaborators. \n\n\n\nShlomit Dagan\, CEO of the Hannah Senesh House\, will reflect on Hannah Senesh and the ongoing work of remembrance and education. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, the Hannah Senesh House\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch-event-out-of-the-sky/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Partner event: Breathwork session with ELTIAR Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Join a free community Breathwork session in partnership with ELTIAR Wellness and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre holds space for remembrance\, reflection and dialogue around histories of genocide and human rights. Grounded in reflection\, the breathwork session invites participants to pause and reconnect – with themselves and with the present moment. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a restorative experience that combines Conscious Connected Breathing with grounding\, down-regulating techniques. This practice helps release tension\, restore balance\, and reconnect with a sense of calm and clarity. \n\n\n\nSpaces are limited so RSVP is essential. \n\n\n\nNo experience needed. Open to all.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/partner-event-breathwork-session-with-eltiar-wellness/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Commemorative Event: The 80th Anniversary of the “Zivia Conference"
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory programme marking the 80th anniversary of the “Zivia Conference” at Kibbutz Yagur: Testimony\, Resistance\, and Remembrance. \n\n\n\nIn June 1946\, Zivia Lubetkin stood before the United Kibbutz Movement at Kibbutz Yagur and delivered her testimony. A leader of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and a central figure in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, Lubetkin gave voice to the destruction of Polish Jewry – the struggle for resistance\, the human realities behind a history the world was only beginning to reckon with. Eighty years on\, her words remain a document of extraordinary moral force. \n\n\n\nThis programme returns to that moment and to its enduring significance. \n\n\n\nThe programme opens with remarks from Yigal Cohen\, CEO of the Ghetto Fighters’ House. \n\n\n\nProf. Lori Weintrob\, Professor of History and Director of the Holocaust Center at Wagner College\, will draw on three decades of scholarship to explore how Lubetkin and other women who shaped resistance have been taught – and\, too often\, overlooked. Her talk considers testimony as both historical record and moral legacy\, and what it asks of educators\, historians\, and the broader public today. \n\n\n\nDr. Batya Brutin of Beit Berl Academic College and WHISC will examine how Lubetkin has been represented visually across the decades: in paintings\, murals\, stamps\, and memorial works in Israel and Poland\, sometimes beside her husband Yitzhak Zuckerman\, sometimes as part of a collective\, and sometimes alone. Across these varied depictions\, a consistent portrait emerges – of determination\, resilience\, and inner strength to which artists across generations have returned. \n\n\n\nRuth Kupperberg of the NYC Commission on Human Rights and the Wagner College Holocaust Center will read from Lubetkin’s own testimony\, bringing her voice directly into the room. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Wagner College\, WHISC (Women in the Holocaust International Study Center)\, Remember the Women Institute\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-commemorative-event-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-zivia-conference/
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Après Coup (Afterwards)
DESCRIPTION:17:30 for 18:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo commemorate the 100 days of remembrance of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung invite you to a screening of Après Coup (Afterwards)\, followed by a live Q&A via Zoom with director Susan Solomon. \n\n\n\nAprès Coup explores the persistence of trauma among adults who survived genocide as children. It centres on the experiences of orphans of two genocides separated by fifty years – the Holocaust in France and the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda – and asks: what might the orphans of these genocides have to say to each other today? \n\n\n\nIn November 2019\, Solomon and Mutarabayire-Schafer brought together three orphans of the 1942 deportation of Jews from France and three orphans of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda for a dialogue at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris\, arguably the first encounter of its kind. Their conversation was not about genocide itself\, but about what came afterwards: growing up without parents\, without roots\, and the deep loneliness that persists long after the events that shaped their lives. A table in a small room at the Mémorial serves as the film’s focal point – the place from which participants move outward into their daily lives in Paris\, and the place to which they return\, again and again\, to pick up the threads of a conversation that has no easy ending. Without warning\, the past pierces the present. \n\n\n\nSusan Solomon is a producer and co-director of Après Coup and Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto. Born in Montreal\, she attended a school in which half the children came from families partially destroyed in the Holocaust. A historian of medicine\, her work focuses on the trauma of child victims of genocide. She co-directed the documentary In Search of Roubakine\, shown at the Solzhenitsyn Festival in 2012. \n\n\n\nAmélie Mutarabayire-Schafer is a psychotherapist and co-director of Après Coup who lost the majority of her family in the Genocide against the Tutsi. She is the founder of Subirusuke\, an association supporting widows and orphans of genocide\, and coordinated psychological support programmes for genocide survivors during the Gacaca trials. She directed Les Dames de la Colline (2014) and co-authored L’Appel de L’Inanga (2023).
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-apres-coup-afterwards/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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