Irene Fainman: Surviving Westerbork & Ravensbruck Concentration Camps
2022-08-06 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Online
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Film: I Am Here
2022-08-09 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Online
Join the JHGC in collaboration with the SA Jewish Report and Sanktuary films for a special Women’s Day screening of the award-winning I Am Here and a celebration of Holocaust survivor and icon Ella Blumenthal’s 101st birthday. Join the conversation with the film’s director and producer and more.
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Upcoming Exhibition Opening & Lecture Silhouettes In A Lullaby
2022-08-16 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

An Afternoon With Roger Ballen: Ballenesque
2022-08-21 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

The Road to the Umschlagplatz: The Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto
2022-08-21 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Online

Film Screening: Once My Mother
2022-08-23 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Film Screening: Vera
2022-08-30 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

The Psychological Toll of the War in Ukraine
2022-09-13 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Online

Upcoming Exhibition Opening: Vilna Ghetto Posters
2022-09-18 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

The Hippocratic Oath at the Umschlagplatz: The Jewish Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto
2022-09-18 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Online

FILM: Crows of the Desert
2022-09-19

Environmental Destruction & Ecocide
2022-09-28 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Online

Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom
2022-09-29 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Online

Workshop: Education and Memory in Times of a Global Crises IV
2022-10-06 15:00 - 17:30 UTC | Online

Farm Killings in South Africa: A Conversation
2022-10-13 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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Exhibition Opening by Tuomo Manninen: In The Shadow of Conflict
2022-10-18 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Museums of the Future
2022-10-20 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Online
Join the JHGC in collaboration with Classrooms Without Borders for the second session in our series Holocaust Museums & Memorials Around the World. Executive director of the JHGC Tali Nates will be joined by writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Alice Herscovitch from The Montreal Holocaust Museum.
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Beyond the Umschlagplatz: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto
2022-10-23 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Online

Honouring our Colleague Tali Nates
2022-10-26 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Online
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Film Screening: Polmission
2022-10-27 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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Children as Victims of Medical Experiments in Nazi Camps
2022-11-03 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

"Let the World Read and Know" - The Oneg Shabbat Archives
2022-11-06 21:00 - 22:30 UTC | Online

84th Commemoration of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht)
2022-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, South Africa
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Exhibition Opening: Seeing Auschwitz
2022-11-13 14:30 - 16:00 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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The Road to the "Final Solution": 1933-1941
2022-11-16 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Online

The Witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto: The Archives and the Streets
2022-11-20 21:00 - 22:30 UTC | Online
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 guest speaker will discuss her involvement in the recently published volume on clandestine education and children that reflects not only their fate but is a record of civil resistance. It contains 47 archival items including several dozen documents – essays, drawings, texts for learning, invitations to performances, songs, and other.
Another initiative that Bergman will discuss is the project to mark the ghetto borders so that both residents and visitors can experience the size of the ghetto, can try to imagine the old sites, even if nothing is left of them, and to recall the people who once lived and died there.
This programme is in partnership with the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Polish Institute in Tel-Aviv, the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre in Lublin, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, Liberation 75, Classrooms without Borders, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
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Film Screening: Raoul Wallenberg’s War
2022-11-24 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

South Africa - On the Edges of Polish Identity
2022-11-27 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online
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 globe. In South Africa, 500 children and their caregivers found safety and refuge in Oudtshoorn. These Polish children of Oudtshoorn went on to form the core of the Polish community in South Africa. Listen to Dr Wanda Chunnett and Dr Marta Nowakowska discuss these refugees re-establishing their identity in a new country.
Source: Map generated by the authors from MPIDR and CGG (2011) and GADM (2008).

Characteristics of Polish Refugee Entrepreneurs who Established Sustainable Businesses in South Africa
Wanda’s presentation provides a contribution to the debate on the value that is created by migrant entrepreneurs in developing economies and answers the question as to what these countries can do to leverage sustainable growth opportunities from resource constrained, involuntary migrant entrepreneurs. Wanda investigated three migrant groups to South Africa, namely, Rwandese, Chinese and Polish migrants. Wanda seeks to take the involuntary migrant debate beyond the “refugee as burden” paradigm, by focusing on a theoretical proposition that the legal, knowledge, language and economic capital gained by constrained migrant entrepreneurs gives them a competitive advantage when establishing small businesses. The entrepreneurial spirit of a group of Polish orphans that was involuntarily transported to South and Southern Africa during WWII, allowed them to establish a locus of power in their host country, augmented by additional “migration capital”. The presentation considers the benefit that can be realised by host country, in this case South Africa, where the process driver remains the migrant entrepreneur, eager to become established in a new country and achieve their long-term vision, including re-establishing their identity.
Wanda Chunnett is a business practitioner with a passion for the development of small businesses as a route to long term economic sustainability. The daughter of a displaced migrant, her Doctoral thesis focused on providing insight into how these migrants add value to their host countries, providing a counterpoint to the often-prevalent view of “migrant as burden.

Managing Cultural Heritage. An introduction to the identity of Kresovians/Borderlanders of inter-war Poland
Involuntary migrants occupy a special place in the landscape of many modern states. Despite the diverse national cultures surrounding them – they strive to preserve their own identity. They are often united by multi-generational cooperation, coexistence and a system of values. Awareness of cultural identity is associated with a sense of belonging to one’s own community, with identification with that community with its specific culture and shared history, with a particular territory that one inhabits together, at the same time as a sense of apparent distinctiveness to other groups. Marta will address the issue of Borderland/Kresy identity. The Borderlands/Kresy are a Polish place of memory, vividly pulsating, full of individual emotions, and at the same time, a myth-making message. The longing for the lost homeland triggers unique memories, inscribing them into the cultural memory of successive generations of Poles. How do the generations of the South African Siberians remember the Borderlands/Kresy? How does the memory of the Borderlands/Kresy shape generations of Poles living outside their homeland? What is the concept of double identity? How should we think about our homeland? Marta’s presentation aims to answer these and other questions.
Marta Nowakowska is an assistant professor at the Department of Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Her scientific background is an MA and PhD in Anthropology of Culture. She is interested in the subject of cultural heritage, identity and memories, and cultural risk analysis. In her profession, she addresses the topic of the training methods to minimise cultural errors.

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JHGC Members Only: "Seeing Auschwitz" Exclusive Viewing
2022-11-28 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Coming to terms with Genocides
2022-11-29 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Online
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