Events

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. Afterwards, you are warmly invited to stay for lunch at Issy's Coffee […]

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 social repair – presents a crisis for mass atrocity memory. While AI could revolutionise the field of memorialisation, it also risks amplifying distorted and denialist […]

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 Festival) unearths the haunting mysteries of a small Polish town where people of two different faiths lived side by side for centuries. At its heart, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Join us for a roundtable discussion as an archaeologist, a historian, a curator, and a writer for a conversation on how Holocaust history is represented in the 21st century. As […]