• Ethics and Education as Practices of Freedom with Professor Pedro Tabensky

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Adolf Eichmann was a good careerist and a terrible human being. He understood what was demanded of him to succeed professionally in his time. But as Hannah Arendt famously put […]

  • Uncovering Memory – Book Launch

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina How can we remember events that we have not experienced but are somehow intertwined in our DNA? How can we […]

  • Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom

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    Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom: Yitzhak Benditer's Synagogue Memorial Plaques and The Iasi Pogrom One of the Most Brutal Chapters in the History of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust With H.E. Dr. Radu Ioanid, Ambassador of Romania in the State of Israel, Greta Barak, Ghetto Fighters House, and Lyonell Fliss, Holocaust child survivor of […]

  • Curating and Graphic Novels

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Curating and Graphic Novels: Using approachable media in curating forced labour and the Holocaust with Professor Ruth Leiserowitz The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw invite you to a talk by Professor Ruth Leiserowitz where she will explore the curation of the new Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue’s […]

  • Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915

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    Book Discussion: Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915 Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915 brings together the multifarious publications of the scholars in the network "Workshop of Armenian-Turkish Scholarship (WATS)". The book will be published in August and the following book discussion will be significant in contextualising the book within […]

  • The Demjanjuk Affair in Israel: Remember to Forget

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to a seminar by Dr Tamir Hod on the Demjanjuk affair of the 1980s and 1990s. Dr Hod will explore the trial and eventual acquittal of Ukrainian-American John Ivan Demanjuk. Demanjuk was extradited to Israel on suspicion of being "Ivan the Terrible" […]