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SUMMARY:Special Talking Memory programme marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
DESCRIPTION:The webinar will include a round table discussion about Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel with guest speakers: Tamar Herzberg from Yad Mordechai\, Noam Leibman from Moreshet\, and Anat Bratman-Elhalel from Ghetto Fighters’ House. \nThis will be followed by keynote speaker\, Dr. Avinoam Patt discussing The Battle of Warsaw’s Jews: The Afterlife of the Revolt. \nOn April 23\, 1943\, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency delivered the news of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt\, relaying a report received in Stockholm the day before with the headline “Nazis Start Mass-Execution of Warsaw Jews on Passover; Victims Broadcast S.O.S.” The timing of the revolt\, taking place in the spring of 1943\, the deadliest year of WWII for European Jewry\, influenced the manner in which it was reported\, interpreted\, and understood. Through an examination of the ways in which the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was reported in April and May of 1943\, we can begin to understand how and why the event was transformed into both a symbol of Jewish resistance\, Jewish sacrifice\, and Jewish martyrdom during and after World War II. Soon after the revolt was suppressed in May 1943\, representatives from the Jewish Labor Bund in New York and the Zionist movement in the Yishuv began to dispute both the heroes of the revolt and its true political and ideological significance. While historians have generally seen the politicisation of the revolt occurring after the war\, with the first encounter of the survivors with their new homes\, the polemics of 1944 between the Bund and the Labor Zionists (with the role of the Revisionists left out of early narratives) makes clear that within one year of the revolt\, the battle for credit in Jewish public opinion meant the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was too great a symbol to relinquish to the political enemy. By the first anniversary after the Uprising (April 19\, 1944) Jewish communities organized solemn commemorations in New York\, London\, Tel Aviv and elsewhere to recall Warsaw as a “fortress of freedom” and as the “Masada of Warsaw.” Responding to this politicization during the war\, it was the surviving ghetto fighters themselves who would play a critical role in writing their own “three lines in history.” \nThis programme is in partnership with the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Centre\, Yad Mordechai Museum\, \nClassrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/special-talking-memory-programme-marking-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230525T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230525T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Jonathan Ball Publishers\, and Book Dealers for a launch of Jonny Steinberg’s newest book Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage. The scholar and award-winning author of Midlands and The Number\, will be in conversation with Professor and researcher at WISER Hlonipha Mokoena\, about his latest book. \nJonny Steinberg (born 22 March 1970) is a South African writer and scholar. He is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. Two of them\, Midlands (2002)\, about the murder of a white South African farmer\, and The Number (2004)\, a biography of a prison gangster\, won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.  In 2013\, Steinberg was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. \nAbout the book: One of the most celebrated political leaders of our time\, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area\, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. \nDuring his years in prison\, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife\, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie\, every bit his political equal\, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband’s politics. \nBehind his back\, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power\, a path he feared would lead to an endless war. Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage – its longings\, its obsessions\, its deceits – making South African history a page-turning political biography. \nWinnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just the couple at its centre\, but an entire nation. It is also a Shakespearean drama in which bonds of love and commitment mingle with timeless questions of revolution\, such as whether to seek retribution or a negotiated peace. \nSteinberg reveals\, with power and tender emotional insight\, how far these forever-entwined leaders would go for each other and where they drew the line. For in the end\, both knew theirs was not simply a marriage\, but a struggle to define anti-apartheid policy itself. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/book-launch-winnie-nelson-portrait-of-a-marriage-by-jonny-steinberg/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230528T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230528T140000
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SUMMARY:"I am Ella" Book Launch at Issy’s Café and Gifts
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Kwela Books\, and Issy’s Coffee & Gifts invite you to join author Joanne Jowell in conversation with third generation Holocaust survivor Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein\, in launching I am Ella. \nElla Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in faraway South Africa is a lesson in resilience\, attitude and – perhaps unexpectedly – joy. From the dying embers of the Warsaw Ghetto to the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps; from Poland to Paris\, Palestine and eventually Cape Town; from stateless refugee to community pillar\, Ella’s 100 years of life have been nothing short of herculean. “I am Ella” is the staggering tale of a real-life superheroine. \nJoanne Jowell is the author of the bestselling biographies\, On the Other Side of Shame: An Extraordinary Account of Adoption and Reunion (Macmillan\, 2008) and Zephany: Two mothers\, one daughter. An astonishing true story (Tafelberg\, 2019). She lives in Cape Town with her husband and three children. I am Ella: A remarkable story of survival\, from Auschwitz to Africa is her seventh book. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/i-am-ella-book-launch-at-issys-cafe-and-gifts/
LOCATION:Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop\, 1 Duncombe Road\, Forest Town\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230530T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230530T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
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SUMMARY:Reckonings | Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:It’s been said that it felt as if the souls of the six million who were murdered during the Holocaust were in the room with them when the meetings began. They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide the world had ever known. Survivors were in urgent need of help\, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction of a people and atrocities suffered by millions? Reckonings explores this fascinating true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust and leading to the ground-breaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman (Who Will Write Our History) and commissioned by the German Ministry of Finance and the Claims Conference\, the film is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process of negotiating German reparations for the Jewish people. It takes viewers from the halls of power in Bonn\, West Germany\, where fierce debate raged over how to pay wartime debts\, to the streets of Jerusalem\, where horror about any talks with Germany led to violent protests and a mob storming the Knesset. It profiles Jewish and German leaders who risked their lives to meet in a hidden castle near the Hague to negotiate the impossible . It captures the anger on one side\, the shame on the other\, and the anguish for all as talks broke down and failure seemed imminent. And it honours the behind-the-scenes figures who forged ahead to continue negotiations\, knowing the compensation would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement\, a recognition and a step toward healing. \nFilmed in six countries and featuring new interviews with Holocaust survivors\, world-renowned scholars and dignitaries and the last surviving member of the negotiating delegations\, Reckonings powerfully illustrates how political will and a moral imperative can join forces to bridge an impossible divide. By confronting the past\, the German and Jewish leaders charted a better future for a desperate and traumatised people. Their actions led to the first time in history that individual victims of persecution received material compensation from the perpetrators. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/reckonings-film-screening/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230604T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230604T170000
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SUMMARY:Members only walkabout of Eva’s Story: The Promise (closed event)
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to an exclusive walkabout of our returning temporary exhibition Eva’s Story: The Promise led by JHGC Founder and Director\, Tali Nates\, with video testimony by Eva Schloss. \nYou are invited to explore the story of Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss and her brother Heinz and his artwork. Born in Vienna in 1929\, Eva’s family fled after the Anschluss to Holland and after it too was occupied\, went into hiding. During his time in hiding\, Heinz quelled his fears by writing poetry and painting. They were all betrayed and deported to Auschwitz. Eva and her mother survived but her father and brother were killed just weeks before liberation. \nPlease note that this event is only open to JHGC Members\, contact Shirley Sapire on shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za before the event to find out more about membership. \nRSVP to shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/members-only-walkabout-of-evas-story-the-promise-closed-event/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230606T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230606T200000
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Education as Practices of Freedom with Professor Pedro Tabensky
DESCRIPTION: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 it in her report on his trial in Jerusalem\, he was thoughtless; the inner dialogue central to agential existence was largely absent from his life. Had he been born today\, he may have become a successful CEO\, banker\, politician\, or whatnot. \nI will argue that mainstream educational institutions globally\, and South Africa is no exception\, are fostering the mass production of potential mini-Eichmanns. Why so? Because they are\, for the most part\, training individuals to cater to the needs of the status quo thoughtlessly. We must reconsider what it means to be truly educated. Following John Dewey and others\, I will argue that education is the practice of freedom. Eichmann may have been good at making the trains run on time\, but he lived a machine-like existence\, lacking the reflective capacities that make us truly human. \nPedro Tabensky was born in Santiago\, Chile\, to refugee parents. His mother is a Holocaust survivor born in Hungary two weeks before the final stage of the final solution. His father\, of Polish Jewish ancestry\, is a refugee of the Chinese revolution. He has lived a peripatetic life since the age of three\, ending up in South Africa in 2001 and meeting his wife\, with whom he has two children. Tabensky is the founding director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGLE)\, Department of Philosophy\, Rhodes University (South Africa). He is the author of Happiness: Personhood\, Community\, Purpose and of several articles and book chapters. Tabensky is also the editor of and contributor to Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will\, Narrative\, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation; The Positive Function of Evil; and\, coedited with Sally Matthews (his wife)\, Being at Home: Race\, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions. He has a book\, published in 2023 by Routledge\, titled Fanon and Camus on the Algerian Question: An Ethics of Rebellion\, and is commencing work on another book provisionally titled Ethics and Education as Practices of Freedom coming out with Lexington\, probably in 2026. \nRSVP: dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/ethics-and-education-as-practices-of-freedom-with-professor-pedro-tabensky/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230611T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230611T140000
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SUMMARY:Uncovering Memory -  Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa\, Germany\, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina \nHow can we remember events that we have not experienced but are somehow intertwined in our DNA? How can we go back to actual places of memory and engage with the act of remembering? How can we make the invisible memory that is locked in space and place visible? Hence the tool\, the camera. How can we use a still or moving image to translate our experiences\, emotions and interactions with the past? \nUncovering Memory is about the role of film in memory and remembering\, and how to uncover memories. It takes you on a journey of interactions with historical\, political\, cultural and personal memory. \nTanja Sakota is an artistic researcher\, writer\, filmmaker and Associate Professor at the School of Arts\, Film and Television Department\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg.  \nTerry Kurgan is an artist and a writer based in Johannesburg. Her book\, Everyone is Present\, was shortlisted for the Photo Arles Book Prize (in France\, 2019)\, selected as a Finalist for the  National Jewish Book Awards (New York\, 2019) and won South Africa’s premier non-fiction literary prize\, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award (2019). \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/uncovering-memory-book-launch/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230615T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230615T213000
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SUMMARY:German Professionals and the Holocaust with Dr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr.
DESCRIPTION:5th programme in the series ‘The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry’:\nGerman Professionals and the Holocaust with Dr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. \n“The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8-part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nThe most significant perpetrators of the crimes committed during the Holocaust are well known: Hitler\, Himmler\, and Heydrich\, as well as the SS\, among others. But less known are the contributions of “ordinary” people—doctors\, lawyers\, teachers\, civil servants\, officers\, and other professionals throughout German society—whose individual actions\, when taken together\, resulted in dire consequences. Put simply\, the Holocaust could not have happened without them. This programme will explore the motives and contribution of ordinary German professionals and their contribution to the Nazi racial agenda and to Nazi crimes. \nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. The title of his dissertation was\, Conflicting Loyalties: The Supreme Court in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1945. In 1992\, he joined the staff of the Wexner Learning Centre of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC\, working on a number of programmes and books. In June 2000 he joined the staff of Museum’s Education Division. For the last twenty years Meinecke Jr has worked with law enforcement officers\, judges\, prosecutors and attorneys in the Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust training programme. He is currently working in the Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education on programming for the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership. \nThis programme is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Generations of the Shoah\, and Liberation75. \nRegister Here.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/german-professionals-and-the-holocaust-with-dr-william-frederick-meinecke-jr/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230621T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230621T120000
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SUMMARY:International Day Countering Hate Speech
DESCRIPTION:To RSVP click here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/international-day-countering-hate-speech/
LOCATION:Apartheid Museum\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230625T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230625T213000
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SUMMARY:Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom
DESCRIPTION:Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom: Yitzhak Benditer’s Synagogue Memorial Plaques and The Iasi Pogrom\nOne of the Most Brutal Chapters in the History of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust \nWith 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 the Iasi pogrom. \nThe first programme in this series will focus on the pogrom of Iasi that took place on June 29\, 1941. Greta Barak from the Ghetto Fighters’ House will present a memorial tablet from the museum’s archive that commemorates the names of the worshippers at one of the synagogues in Iasi (Jassy) who were massacred in the pogrom that took place there. \nDr. Radu Ioanid\, Ambassador of Romania in the State of Israel\, will give a presentation on why the Holocaust in Eastern Europe is still a forgotten one\, including the pogrom in Iasi. As he will show\, this pogrom was a major outbreak of violent anti-semitism\, yet it was neither isolated nor fortuitous; rather\, it was part of a long series of mass murders committed by Romanian fascists. The pogrom was organized by the SSI (the Romanian Intelligence Service) in co-ordination with the General Staff of the Romanian Army. At least 6\,000 Jews were murdered in the town of Iasi and another 2\,600 perished in two death trains. The perpetrators were Romanian soldiers\, gendarmes and police mobs from Iasi\, and German soldiers. The Iasi pogrom was followed by the systematic deportation and extermination of the Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina\, and by the extermination of Ukrainian Jews from Transnistria. \nThe programme will conclude with the personal testimony of Lyonell Fliss\, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Johannesburg today. He was 6 years old at the time of the pogrom in Iasi. His relatives were murdered there and on the death trains. Last year\, he received the highest medal of honour from the Romanian government. \nThe series is in participation with A.M.I.R. Organization\, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv\, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania\, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \nRegister here.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/wartime-commemoration-of-the-iasi-pogrom/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230626T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230626T150000
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SUMMARY:Curating and Graphic Novels
DESCRIPTION:Curating and Graphic Novels:\nUsing approachable media in curating forced labour and the Holocaust with Professor Ruth Leiserowitz \nThe 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 permanent exhibition. This will include examples of how the events of forced labour and the Holocaust could be transposed understandably through media such as graphic novels. \nProfessor Ruth Leiserowitz is Deputy Director at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and professor for East European History at the Humboldt University\, Berlin. She is also the curator of the permanent exhibition in the new Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue. \nClick here to register 
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/curating-and-graphic-novels/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230627T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230627T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
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SUMMARY:Critical Approaches to Genocide: History\, Politics\, and Aesthetics of 1915
DESCRIPTION:Book Discussion: Critical Approaches to Genocide: History\, Politics\, and Aesthetics of 1915  \nCritical 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)”. \nThe book will be published in August and the following book discussion will be significant in contextualising the book within contemporary debates in memory\, trauma and genocide studies. \nModerator:  \nTali Nates is the Director/ Founder of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). \nPresenters: \nElyse Semerdjian is currently Professor of History at Whitman College and the incoming Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. \nElisa Von Joeden-Forgey is an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and the Co-President of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. \nAndrea Petö is a Professor in Gender Studies at the Central European University and a Doctor of Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. \nHülya Adak is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at Sabancı University and works on trauma and memory studies. \nFatma Müge Göçek who was born and raised in Istanbul\, Turkey is a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan where she works on violence and social change in the Middle East and the world at large. \nArlene Avakian is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian American Memoir among other publications. \nDavid Kazanjian is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. \nEgemen Özbek is the Academic Coordinator at the Academy in Exile at Universität Duisburg-Essen. \nDeanna Cachoian-Schanz  is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. \n\nClick here to register
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/critical-approaches-to-genocide-history-politics-and-aesthetics-of-1915/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230726T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230726T210000
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SUMMARY:Live stream and Q&A with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter
DESCRIPTION:Click here to register.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/live-stream-and-qa-with-holocaust-survivor-pinchas-gutter/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230807T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230807T190000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening: I See Something You Don’t See
DESCRIPTION:RSVP essential to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/exhibition-opening-i-see-something-you-dont-see/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230810T180000
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SUMMARY:Being at Double Risk: Women's Survival in the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:RSVP is essential to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/being-at-double-risk-womens-survival-in-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230813T144500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230813T170000
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CREATED:20230725T123930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230725T123930Z
UID:9500-1691937900-1691946000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Fundraising performance of 'Do I Win or Do I Lose?' at the Theatre on the Square
DESCRIPTION:Click here to book.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/fundraising-performance-of-do-i-win-or-do-i-lose-at-the-theatre-on-the-square/
LOCATION:Gauteng
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230829T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230829T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20230822T034030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230822T034030Z
UID:9520-1693330200-1693335600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:The Demjanjuk Affair in Israel: Remember to Forget
DESCRIPTION: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” a notorious concentration camp guard at Treblinka. \nDr. Tamir Hod is a historian in the field of World War II and the Holocaust\, as well as the impact of Holocaust remembrance on Israeli society. His doctoral thesis was about the Demjanjuk trial in Israel\, under the guidance of Prof. Hanna Yablonka\, which was also the title of his first book. Dr. Hod researched the role the Ukrainian collaborators played in the Treblinka extermination camp. At the moment\, Tamir is working on a book about the Nazi Crimes Investigations Unit in the Israeli Police. The unit\, which was founded in 1960\, was mainly comprised of Holocaust survivors and contributed greatly to various trials against Nazi criminals and their collaborators in many countries around the world. Dr. Tamir Hod teaches at the Tel Hai Academic College and at the Western Galilee Academic College. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/the-demjanjuk-affair-in-israel-remember-to-forget/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230919T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230919T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20230911T044743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T044743Z
UID:9524-1695142800-1695153600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Opening of Chayela Rosenthal: Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Opening of Chayela Rosenthal: Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre accompanied by a film screening of The Paper Brigade. Members only walkabout at 5pm\, Opening and film screening at 6 for 6:30pm. \nPlease join us for the opening of Chayela Rosenthal: Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre\, which focuses on Chayela Rosenthal\, a remarkable talented performer who was one of the few survivors of the Vilna Ghetto. Known as the “Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto\,” Chayela survived the labour and concentration camps and a death march to the Baltic Sea. After liberation\, she joined the State Yiddish Theatre and gained recognition\, eventually performing in major European capitals and settling in Cape Town. \nThe opening will be accompanied by a film screening of The Paper Brigade\, an award-winning Belgian documentary which tells the moving story of the resistance group “The Paper Brigade”\, a group of Jewish writers\, scholars\, and librarians who desperately tried to rescue Jewish cultural treasures in Vilnius during the Nazi occupation. \nRSVP for the walkabout or become a member at dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za \nRSVP for the opening to pretoria@diplobel.fed.be
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/opening-of-chayela-rosenthal-wunderkind-of-the-vilna-ghetto-theatre/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230921T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230921T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20230911T044940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T044940Z
UID:9527-1695326400-1695333600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Jewish Studies and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry\, 6th programme: Jewish Studies and the Holocaust \n“The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8 part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nThe sixth lecture in this series focuses on Jewish Studies and the Holocaust. Presenting will be Prof Shirli Gilbert\, the director of the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre\, a professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London\, and the co-editor of Jewish Historical Studies. She holds a D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and its legacies\, modern Jewish identity\, and Jews in South Africa. \nJoining Prof Gilbert is Prof Adam Mendelsohn\, director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town\, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. The Centre\, the only of its kind in Africa\, conducts research focused on Jews in southern Africa\, past and present. \nThe final presenter is Prof Yael Siman\, associate professor\, academic coordinator of the graduate program in social and political sciences at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Mexican National Council of Science and an affiliated researcher of the Centre for Advanced Genocide Research. She has investigated the displacement and migration trajectories of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Mexico. \nThis programme is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Generations of the Shoah\, and Liberation75. \nRegister here: https://cwbpgh.org/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-7/
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/jewish-studies-and-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231010T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231010T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231005T105942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110056Z
UID:9530-1696962600-1696968000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Vatengesi – Hannah’s Dance
DESCRIPTION:This dance performance uses the story of Hannah’s Dance and the Kulturbund’s plan to save Jewish dancers during World War II as a starting point explore contemporary issues in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Movement\, mask work\, song\, poetry and metaphors come together to create a magical piece of ritual theatre exploring healing from political trauma. \nRSVP: https://forms.gle/2TTmAirEsDNenm6s6
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/vatengesi-hannahs-dance/
LOCATION:Goethe-Institut\, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue\, Parkwood\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231015T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231015T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231005T110227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110257Z
UID:9533-1697400000-1697407200@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Nation Takes Action: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Rescue of the Jews in Denmark During the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:We are honoured to have the Ambassador of Denmark\, H.E. Thomas Winkler to open this special commemoration programme about a most incredible act of rescue. Almost all of the seven thousand Jews living in Nazi occupied Denmark\, managed to escape the Holocaust. What made Denmark the exception to the systemised horror? Bo Lidegaard\, a historian who has researched the subject\, presents a new explanation of the rescue based on more than ten years of historical research. Dr. Judith Goldstein\, Founder and Executive Director Emeritus of ”Humanity in Action”\,will introduce us to the work of the non-profit organisation\, including the production of the animated documentary ”Voices in the Void”\, which is part of the film series Traces: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve. We will have the opportunity to see a screening of the film during the programme. Afterwards\, Rabbi Jair Melchior\, Chief Rabbi of Denmark\, will share the story of his grandfather\, Rabbi Bent Melchior z’l\, who was rescued on one of the boats to Sweden\, and enlighten us about Denmark and the Danish society today\, in relation to the moral lessons and insights gained by learning about this unique example of rescue during the Holocaust. \nThis programme is in partnership with the Embassy of Denmark in Tel Aviv\, Humanity in Action\, the Danish Jewish Museum\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms without Borders\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \nRegister Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrduyrrDgsG9enoLgn2AxpwcpxWowsNJcQ
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/nation-takes-action-commemorating-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-rescue-of-the-jews-in-denmark-during-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231005T110359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110359Z
UID:9536-1698350400-1698357600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Gendering the Holocaust with Prof Andrea Pető
DESCRIPTION:“The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8 part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nThe seventh lecture in this series focuses on women and the Holocaust. Research on women and the Holocaust developed driven by the political strategy formulated by Joan Ringelheim in 1983 that in failing to recognise that men and women suffer differently we “lose the lives of women for a second time”. Andrea Pető analyses the consequences that the scholarship on women and the Holocaust followed the same epistemological route as women’s history writing in general. It started to collect the facts – making women visible and collecting evidence – and establish the history of women’s participation in\, for example\, the ghetto and among the Jewish resistance movements building up a considerable scholarship by now. The talk closes by analysing the causes and actors of the recent illiberal challenge on Holocaust Studies and its consequences on gendering the Holocaust. She will also explore the causes and actors of the recent illiberal challenge on Holocaust Studies and its consequences on gendering the Holocaust. \nThis programme is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Generations of the Shoah\, and Liberation75. \nAndrea Pető is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University\, Vienna\, Austria\, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works on gender\, politics\, Holocaust and war have been translated into 23 languages. She edited three pioneering books in the field of Jewish Studies with Louise Hecht\, Karoline Krasuska Women and Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges. IBL\, Warsawa\, 2015.\, and with Szapor\, Judith\, Hametz\, Maura\, Calloni\, Marina\, Jewish Intellectual Women in Central Europe 1860-2000. The Edwin Mellen Press\, 2012.\, with Helga Thorson The Future of Holocaust Memorialisation. Confronting Racism\, Anti-Semitism\, and Homophobia Through Memory Work. Tom Lantos Institute\, Budapest\, 2015. Her recent monographs are: Women in the Arrow Cross Party (Palgrave\, 2020)\, Forgotten Massacre\, Budapest in 1944 (DeGruyter 2021). She the editor-in-chief of East European Holocaust Studies (DeGruyter). In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values and 2022 University of Oslo Human Rights Award. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University\, Stockholm\, Sweden. \nRegister Here: https://cwbpgh.org/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-8/
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/gendering-the-holocaust-with-prof-andrea-peto/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231029T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231029T220000
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CREATED:20231005T110539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110539Z
UID:9538-1698609600-1698616800@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:From Darkness to Freedom: Honouring the 80th Anniversary of the Courageous Tunnel Escape from the Novogrudok Ghetto
DESCRIPTION:On September 26\, 1943 about 230 Jews accomplished a daring escape from the Novogrudok (Navardok) labor camp in Belarus (White Russia) via an underground tunnel dug by the inmates over a period of several months. In this programme\, we will focus on this less known escape. \nLady Gilbert give the opening remarks.  Afterwards\, Dr. Silberklang will present the broader picture of Jewish resistance in the ghettos.  Betty Cohen\, whose mother\, Fania Dunetz Brodsky\, was one of the escapees\, will examine the survivors’ choice to rebuild their lives\, where they did so\, the legacies they left behind\, and the families they created. Tamara Vershitskaya\, founder of the Jewish Resistance Museum in Novogrudok\, will take us on a virtual tour of the exhibition. Debra Brunner\, CEO of the Together Plan\, will discuss the organisation’s work in Belarus\, including the “Making History Together” project that promotes Holocaust commemoration. Our program will conclude with a special commemoration in honour of all those who were involved in the escape. \nThis programme is in partnership with The Together Plan\, the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain\, Jewish Small Communities Network\, Qesher\, the Jewish Tapestry Project\, DIALOG International Charitable Organization\, Jewish Religious Union (Belarus)\, Jewish History Association of South Wales/Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. \nRegister Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkc-yurjktHdZtIKssgd8K4THtnEQ5TRSb
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/from-darkness-to-freedom-honouring-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-courageous-tunnel-escape-from-the-novogrudok-ghetto/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231116T210000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231116T230000
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CREATED:20231113T064721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T064721Z
UID:9549-1700168400-1700175600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Museums and Memorials with Dr Mirjam Zadoff
DESCRIPTION:Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry series: Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials with Dr Mirjam Zadoff  \n“The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8 part series that engages with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series explores the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. Our experts challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nThe final lecture in the series looks at memory studies focusing on museums and memorials. Dr Mirjam Zadoff\, the Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism\, and lecturer at the University of Munich\, will explore the relationship between memory studies and the Holocaust. \nThis programme is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Generations of the Shoah\, and Liberation75. \nRegister here: https://cwbpgh.org/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-9/
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/museums-and-memorials-with-dr-mirjam-zadoff/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231119T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231113T065000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T065000Z
UID:9551-1700406000-1700413200@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Commemorating the Iasi Pogrom: Lessons and Remembrance 82 years later
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a special commemoration of the June 1941 lasi Pogrom. The programme will feature testimony by lasi pogrom survivor\, Lyonell Fliss\, as well as a conversation with HE. Mrs Monica Sitaru\, Ambassador of Romania to South Africa\, Mr Enrico Brandt\, Deputy Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to South Africa\, and Founder/Director of the JHGC\, Tali Nates. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/commemorating-the-iasi-pogrom-lessons-and-remembrance-82-years-later/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231119T210000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231119T230000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231113T065232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T065232Z
UID:9554-1700427600-1700434800@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:A Nation Takes Action: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Rescue of the Jews in Denmark During the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:“Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis \nSession 1: A Nation Takes Action: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Rescue of the Jews in Denmark During the Holocaust  \nIn these turbulent times\, we find strength in the bonds we share with our friends as well as in our commitment to a mission of education\, sharing inspiring stories of bravery and resilience\, and eliminating all forms of hatred. The new Talking Memory series represents our unwavering commitment to maintaining meaningful connections with you\, our friends from around the world\, with the intention of cultivating a shared sense of unity among us. We believe that this series represents a powerful response to current events\, while also serving as a profound testament to the strength of civil society today. \nThe first session\, taking place on November 19\, 2023\, will feature the following an opening by Ambassador of Denmark to Israel\, H.E. Thomas Winkler to open this special commemoration programme about a most incredible act of rescue. Bo Lidegaard\, an historian who has researched the subject of the Danish rescue\, presents a new explanation of the rescue based on more than ten years of historical research. Dr. Judith Goldstein\, Founder and Executive Director Emeritus of ”Humanity in Action”\, will introduce us to the work of the non-profit organisation\, including the production of the animated documentary “Voices in the Void”\, which is part of the film series Traces: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve. We will have the opportunity to see a screening of the film during the programme. Afterwards\, Rabbi Jair Melchior\, Chief Rabbi of Denmark\, will share the story of his grandfather\, Rabbi Bent Melchior who was rescued on one of the fishing boats who sailed to Sweden\, in relation to the moral lessons and insights gained by learning about this unique example of rescue during the Holocaust. \nThis programme is in partnership with the Embassy of Denmark in Tel Aviv\, Humanity in Action\, the Danish Jewish Museum\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms without Borders\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \nRegister here.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/a-nation-takes-action-commemorating-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-rescue-of-the-jews-in-denmark-during-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231123T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231123T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231113T065512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T065544Z
UID:9557-1700764200-1700769600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Book Launch of Comrade King
DESCRIPTION:Please join Khulu Radebe and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for the launch of their book\, Comrade King\, which will include a conversation between Khulu Radebe will be in conversation with Jeff Kelly Lowenstein. \nAt age 50\, and proving a prophet’s prediction correct\, Khulu Radebe learned about his royal roots. He was informed that he was the ruler of the AmaHlubi people of the Embo Nation\, a nation that stretches along the east coast of Africa. In chronicling his extraordinary life and times in this landmark autobiography\, Radebe\, in a humane and vivid way\, chronicles the revolutionary path for freedom in South Africa. Alexandra Township in Johannesburg is a central character in this book and Radebe reveals an astonishing story of the post-1990 war between Inkatha and the ANC in Alex. Gripping\, bold and original\, Comrade King\, is an unforgettable story. King Bhungane III\, born Khulu Radebe\, a former activist\, Robben Island graduate\, and Umkhonto we Sizwe member\, now reigns as the King of the Embo Nation. \nJeff Kelly Lowenstein is an accomplished investigative journalist\, author\, and Executive Director of the Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCI)). \nRSVP: rsvp@jacana.co.za  \nPlease use Comrade King Launch in the subject line
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/book-launch-of-comrade-king/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231126T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231126T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231113T065812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T065812Z
UID:9561-1700994600-1701000000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Book launch of Catastrophic Grief\, Trauma and Resilience in Child Concentration Camp Survivors
DESCRIPTION:This book describes the narratives of child Holocaust survivors and their experiences of complex trauma\, complicated bereavement\, ageing\, resilience and existential loneliness. The work is unique in that it describes the trauma of child Holocaust survivors who were placed in concentration camps. Most children were killed on entry. Child survivors were rare. These survivors went on to build lives with considerable resilience and coping but their trauma remained within for the next 70-75 years. This is a unique view of the impact of catastrophic trauma and grief over a lifespan. \nThe book is based on the research of Tracey Farber’s PHD research in which she interviewed 9 child Holocaust survivors who were interned in concentration camps. Gill Eagle and Cora Smith were the research supervisors. The authors have added original chapters discussing the relevant research and literature in the field of massive grief\, complex trauma and ethics. \nThe survivors retained vivid recollections of the horror of internment and expressed ongoing grief for the multiple losses they had experienced. Unresolved grief contributed to a sense of existential loneliness\, particularly prominent in their late life reflections.  Despite indications of resilience and life productivity\, a ‘Trauma Trilogy’ of inter-linked catastrophic grief\, anger\, and survivor guilt contributed to a sense of pain and struggle in negotiating Erikson’s final life task of Integrity versus Despair.  By publishing the body of a doctoral thesis in the form of a book the aim was to make the material available to a wide audience. The authors include some practical outcomes that may inform clinical practice\, further research\, and understanding of the impact of other genocides. \nAbout the Authors: \nTracey Farber worked full time as a clinical psychologist\, psychotherapist\, supervisor\, and trainer in private practice for 24 years in Johannesburg. She specialized in treating traumatized adults\, adolescents and children and her work also included also included seeing second generation Holocaust survivors for individual psychotherapy. At present\, she works as a clinical psychologist at the Tel Aviv University Psychological Services\, Student Success Centre and in private practice in Tel Aviv. She developed a psychoeducational program called “Understanding Trauma and Building Resilience” that was developed from her PhD research. This program has been taught to mental health workers\, students\, teachers\, and parents as well as employees and managers. \nGill Eagle is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She lectures primarily on the master’s program in Clinical Psychology and is also a core member of the doctoral team overseeing research work. Her research interests lie in the field of psychosocial studies\, with a particular focus on traumatic stress and gender and issues. She runs a small private practice\, working primarily within a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy framework. \nCora Smith is Adjunct Professor in the Division of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of the Witwatersrand. She also holds a joint appointment post as the Chief Clinical Psychologist at the Child\, Adolescent and Family Unit at Johannesburg Hospital. Her interests are in the development of personality pathology through the life cycle with a particular focus on attachment. She has a keen interest in the ethical dilemmas that emerge in clinical practice. \n  \nRSVP here.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/book-launch-of-catastrophic-grief-trauma-and-resilience-in-child-concentration-camp-survivors/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231126T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T051107
CREATED:20231113T070003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T070003Z
UID:9564-1701010800-1701018000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:10th Annual South Africa-Poland-Heritage Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in collaboration with the Association of Siberian Deportees\, Sol Plaatje University\, and the Embassy of Poland in South Africa invite you to the 10th South Africa-Poland Heritage Conference: Southern Africa – On the Edges of Polish Identity\, with a presentation by Mary Mbewe (Mulungushi University\, Zambia) on Memorialisation of  Polish Refugees of Northern Rhodesia – Preliminary Findings\, and a co-presentation by lan Macqueen (University of Pretoria\, South Africa)\, and Adam Kochajkiewicz (Institute of National Remembrance\, Poland) on Patrick Mabinda: The Experience of a South African Exile in Communist Poland\, (1977 – c. 1989). \nRSVP here. \n 
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/10th-annual-south-africa-poland-heritage-conference/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231129T183000
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SUMMARY:Sub-Saharan Africans and the Holocaust by Prof Edward Kissi
DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust was a catastrophe for its direct Jewish victims in Europe. For the non-Jewish and non-European “distant observers” of the Holocaust in sub-Saharan Africa\, the Nazi anti-Jewish campaign in Europe had a particular significance. The Speaker\, Dr. Edward Kissi\, author of Africans and the Holocaust: perceptions and responses of colonized and sovereign peoples\, will look at how particular groups of people in East and West Africa obtained and interpreted news reports about the Nazi persecution and attempted destruction of German and other European Jews in the 1930s and early 1940s. The talk focuses on how these groups in sub-Saharan Africa used their indigenous cultures and memories of European colonialism to make moral and analytical judgements about the Holocaust. \nEdward Kissi is Associate Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies\, University of South Florida\, and a member of the Africana Studies faculty. Kiss’s research focuses on the post-20th century history of West and East Africa\, the comparative history of genocide and human rights\, and sub-Saharan African perspectives on the Holocaust. He has published on a wide range of issues including genocide and human rights in Africa\, and the prospects and challenges of genocide prevention and global Holocaust and Genocide Education. In 2009\, Kissi was invited by the United Nations to write “The Holocaust as a Guidepost for Genocide Detection and Prevention in Africa” for the landmark United Nations’ Discussion Papers Journal.  He has since been involved in major national and international activities on Holocaust and Genocide Education\, including  UNESCO’s on-going initiatives on Holocaust and Genocide Education in Africa. His latest book Africans and the Holocaust (2019) is a pioneering effort to integrate sub-Saharan African perspectives on the Holocaust into Holocaust Studies and incorporate Holocaust content into African history\, and Africana Studies. Kissi has also been featured in the new National Geographic documentary Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony which made its international debut in December 2022. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/sub-saharan-africans-and-the-holocaust-by-prof-edward-kissi/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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