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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: Where Memory Lives with Tali Nates
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an inside view of the new European Union project\, European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM)\, with Tali Nates – who serves on its steering committee. ESHEM is the network safeguarding the Holocaust’s historical sites for research\, education and commemoration. Attendees will also be given unique insights into our two temporary exhibitions\, and are invited to stay for lunch at Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop to continue the conversation with Tali Nates and the JHGC team. \n\n\n\nTalk – free \n\n\n\nLunch (soup\, bread & a drink) – R100
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lunch-learn-where-memory-lives-with-tali-nates/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Online Commemorative event: Elie Wiesel: Witness\, Writer\, Moral Voice Marking the 10th Anniversary of His Passing
DESCRIPTION:Ten years after the passing of Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)\, one of the most influential Holocaust survivors and moral voices of the twentieth century\, the Talking Memory International Lecture Series invites you to a special programme exploring his life\, legacy\, and enduring impact on Holocaust memory and contemporary moral discourse. \n\n\n\nThe programme will open with remarks by Ambassador Radu Ioanid. It will feature Joel Rappel on the many dimensions of Wiesel’s life and public role; Prof. Michael Berenbaum on Wiesel as writer\, public intellectual\, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Prof. Dina Porat on the questions of identity\, mission\, and legacy that shaped Wiesel’s postwar life; and Dr. Ana Bărbulescu on how the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania carries forward his vision of memory as an active ethical responsibility. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a timely conversation honoring a voice that continues to challenge\, inspire\, and guide us today. \n\n\n\nIn partnership with the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania\, A.M.I.R. Organization in Israel\, the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv\, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/online-commemorative-event-elie-wiesel-witness-writer-moral-voice-marking-the-10th-anniversary-of-his-passing/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260712T200000
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Book Launch: The Ravine of Memory
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory programme marking the launch of Dr. Shay Pilnik’s book\, The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War. \n\n\n\nOur first speaker is Prof. Elissa Bemporad. Drawing on the long history of Jewish life in the lands of present-day Ukraine\, she invites us to look beyond familiar narratives of persecution and to consider a more complex historical reality. In her presentation\, she claims that any examination of Jewish life in the lands of present-day Ukraine must begin with an important caveat: it would be a mistake to impose a teleology of violence on a long and rich history that generated remarkable religious\, political\, and cultural contributions to Jewish civilization. While episodes of violence undeniably formed part of this history\, relations between Jews and non-Jews were shaped far more often by coexistence\, interaction\, and mutual entanglement. This caution is particularly relevant in the context of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine\, which has relied in part on historical distortions. More broadly\, it serves as a reminder against reading the Jewish experience in the region retrospectively\, as though it were destined from the outset to culminate in persecution and catastrophe. \n\n\n\nOur next speaker\, Dr. Shay Pilnik\, joins us on the occasion of the publication of his new book\, Ravine of Memory\, which examines the place of Babyn Yar in Soviet literary and cultural memory. In his talk\, he examines how Babyn Yar – where more than 100\,000 people\, the vast majority Jews\, were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators – has been remembered and forgotten in Soviet literature and culture\, in both Russian and Yiddish. Revisiting well-known works alongside lesser-known texts\, he reveals how Babyn Yar became a powerful symbolic site that illuminates both the fragility and the courage of those who bear witness to atrocity. \n\n\n\nOur final speaker\, Inna Kalenska\, will bring us from the historical and cultural landscape explored in Ravine of Memory to the ongoing work of preserving and reconstructing the history of Babyn Yar today. Her presentation examines the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center’s approach to memory work through archival research\, digitization\, and public engagement. It will focus on the “Names” project and the role of archives in reconstructing individual histories of Holocaust victims. The talk will also reflect on how the ongoing war shapes contemporary memorial practices and influences the ways historical memory is preserved and communicated. \n\n\n\nIn partnership with the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University\, The Zekelman Holocaust Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch-the-ravine-of-memory/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: The Three Graves of Anna Szenes
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of Anikó (Anna) Szenes\, please join us for the international online book launch of  \n\n\n\nThe Three Graves of Anna Szenes: Memory and Body Politics in Hungary and Israel\n\n\n\nThis volume seeks answers to the question of why Anikó Szenes (1921–1944)\, a Jewish girl born and assimilated in Budapest who was murdered at the age of twenty-three\, has three graves. What is the story behind these three places? Who were the people involved in this process\, and what role did they play? On 7 November 1944\, Anikó Szenes was executed in Budapest. In March 1950\, during the Cold War\, her body was taken from the Jewish cemetery on Kozma Street in Budapest to Italy via Austria under adventurous circumstances. In Naples\, the coffin was loaded onto a ship and then transported to Haifa on another\, more ceremonial-looking ship\, from where\, after a national mourning tour\, it was buried in Jerusalem alongside Theodor Herzl\, the founder of Zionism and the visionary of the State of Israel. The volume traces the decades-long journey of Szenes’s body and grave across Europe. Through this story\, it recounts not only the history of the Holocaust in Hungary and Israel as remembered by different social groups\, but also the history of Jewish resistance\, full of silence and conflict. \n\n\n\nThe launch will be in conversation with the authors Andrea Petö (historian\, CEU Vienna) and Krisztina Politzer Maymon (lawyer; editor\, Izraelinfo)
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/online-book-launch-the-three-graves-of-anna-szenes/
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: What Makes a Neighbour? with Lyonell Fliss
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon with Holocaust survivor Lyonell Fliss\, who will share his story and reflect on the theme of neighbours. This Lunch & Learn marks the closing of our temporary exhibition Some Were Neighbours\, which features Lyonell’s own story and photographs. \n\n\n\nAfterwards\, you are warmly invited to stay for lunch at Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop\, where the conversation with Lyonell can continue. \n\n\n\nTalk – free \n\n\n\nLunch (soup\, bread & a drink) – R100
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lunch-learn-what-makes-a-neighbour-with-lyonell-fliss/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260730T173000
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SUMMARY:AI and Holocaust Testimony: Possibilities\, Perils\, and Principles
DESCRIPTION:A Talk by Dr David Simon\n\n\n\n\n\n17:30 for 18:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe rise of AI-generated and enhanced mass violence materials – often (mis)using recorded testimonies that are central to historical memory and social repair – presents a crisis for mass atrocity memory. While AI could revolutionise the field of memorialisation\, it also risks amplifying distorted and denialist views\, while weakening acceptance of historically accurate depictions and analysis.  \n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, Dr. Simon will summarise both the promise of AI technology\, as well as a selection of the harms – both immediate and systemic – that might arise from the careless or unethical use of AI in connection with mass atrocity testimonies. He will address some of the possibilities for technological\, legal\, and institutional responses to these challenges\, arguing that collective action involving all three prongs is needed. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDr. David J. Simon is a Senior Lecturer and the Assistant Dean for Graduate Education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University\, where he directs the Genocide Studies Program and the Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era initiative\, and co-directs Yale’s Human Rights Studies certificate programme. His research focuses on atrocity prevention and the politics of recovery from mass atrocities. \n\n\n\nHe is the co-editor of Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2020\, with Eve M. Zucker) and The Handbook of Genocide Studies (Edward Elgar\, 2023\, with Leora Kahn). With Dr. Kahn he created the exhibition Speaking Up: Confronting Hate Speech\, which has shown in Houston and New York\, and he is a founding member of the Digital Archive of the Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) working group. \n\n\n\nDr. Simon sits on the board of advisors of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab\, chairs the board of the Reckoning Project\, and serves on the advisory board of the Bosnia-based Post-Conflict Research Center. He is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California\, Los Angeles.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/ai-and-holocaust-testimony-possibilities-perils-and-principles/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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