• Online Book Launch: The Hour of Revenge

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    Join us for a thought-provoking book talk on The Hour of Revenge, a powerful historical study that re-examines the immediate aftermath of the Second World War through the lived experiences of Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. In this session, we will explore how the emotional landscape of post-war Europe was shaped not only by […]

  • Lunch & Learn: Where Memory Lives with Tali Nates

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

    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 […]

  • Online Commemorative event: Elie Wiesel: Witness, Writer, Moral Voice Marking the 10th Anniversary of His Passing

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    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. The programme will open with remarks […]

  • Talking Memory Book Launch: The Ravine of Memory

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    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. Our first speaker is Prof. Elissa Bemporad. Drawing on the long history of Jewish life in the lands of present-day Ukraine, […]

  • Online Book Launch: The Three Graves of Anna Szenes

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    To mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of Anikó (Anna) Szenes, please join us for the international online book launch of The Three Graves of Anna Szenes: Memory and Body Politics in Hungary and Israel This volume seeks answers to the question of why Anikó Szenes (1921–1944), a Jewish girl born and assimilated in Budapest who […]

  • Lunch & Learn: What Makes a Neighbour? with Lyonell Fliss

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

    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 […]

  • AI and Holocaust Testimony: Possibilities, Perils, and Principles

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

    A Talk by Dr David Simon 17:30 for 18:00 The rise of AI-generated and enhanced mass violence materials – often (mis)using recorded testimonies that are central to historical memory and […]

  • Online Film Screening: Among Neighbors

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    Join the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation for an online film screening of Among Neighbors. Decades after the Holocaust, award-winning American filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime, Sundance Film […]

  • Lunch & Learn: We Are Here; Women’s Voices, Memory, and Srebrenica

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

    Join us as we mark 31 years since the genocide in Srebrenica, remembering the women who endured the Bosnian War and carry its memory. Aimée Mica Komorowsky playwright, actress, and South African […]

  • Among Neighbors: In Conversation with Yoav Potash

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    Following our screening of Among Neighbors on 11 August, we invite you to join an exclusive online conversation with the film's award-winning writer, director, and producer, Yoav Potash, in discussion […]

  • Exhibition Opening: The Landscape Archive

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

    6 for 6:30 pm Beyond the major killing centres, thousands of Jewish people were murdered in forests, fields and by roadsides across Poland. Many were buried where they fell, in graves that were never marked. Hundreds of these sites remain unmarked to this day. The Landscape Archive reveals a lesser-known landscape of the Holocaust: the […]

  • When the Nazi Past Becomes a Bestseller: the Opportunities and Limits of Popular Fiction

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

    For a while now, popular fiction set in the years before 1933 and their long aftermath has been doing very well in Germany. In its own way, it's become part of how the country remembers — and it's quietly reshaping how people picture that history. Drawing on two examples – the Gereon Rath crime novels, […]