Join Issy's and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for Healing Our Past Celebrating Our Future in Conversation with Nosipho Hani   For Freedom Day, the JHGC and Issy's are proud to launch Nosipho Hani's new book Healing through Literature. The launch will include a panel on intergenerational trauma with experts including Tali Nates, Hazel […]

Join us for the next installment in the Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Featuring Joanna Sliwa   An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust   Dr. Joanna Sliwa is a historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York, […]

Join us for cheese, wine, and a talk on Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past: Germany’s Confrontation with its History with Prof Monika Grütters   Professor Monika Grütters is a German politician and academic. She has been a member of the German Bundestag under the CDU since 2005. From 2013 to 2021, she was […]

JOIN US on MOTHERS DAY For a High Tea and Special Screening of FOUR WINTERS Honouring the Mothers, Daughters & Sisters who Courageously Fought Back Against the Nazis and their Collaborators in WWII. Following the screening Award Winning Director / Writer / Producer Julia Mintz will join us for an in-person Q&A Torn from their […]

Join us to commemorate the Armenian Genocide with the next of the Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Dr. Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians Dr. Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and […]

Join us for a webinar on Military and Civilian Behaviour Towards Jews during the Holocaust in Bessarabia and Transnistria as part of our new series on the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps The second programme in the series will focus on the military and civilian behavior towards Jews in Bessarabia and […]

Join us for a webinar on Jewish Forced Labour in Romania, 1940-1944 as part of our new series on the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps The third programme in the series will focus on Jewish forced labour in Romania during the Holocaust.  Between 1941 and 1944, more than 100,000 Romanian Jews […]

The JHGC invites members to this informative workshop, facilitated by the JHGC Education and Research Specialist, Dr Mispa Roux. She will explore the legal definitions and various elements of the three core international crimes listed in the title. Against the backdrop of international criminal law, Dr Roux will draw on examples of prosecution efforts at […]

Join us for a webinar on Survival Strategies of Children:  The Case of Jewish Orphans in Transnistria, the fourth programme in our series the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps  This programme will focus on the experiences of Jewish children during the Holocaust. The study of children is a history in microcosm:  it is the story of the Holocaust as seen […]

Join us for a webinar in honour of the 100 Days of Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Providence Nkurunziza is an author, speaker, an advocate for women and children, and a Commissioner at the Texas Holocaust Genocide and Antisemitism Advisory Commission. Five of her siblings and her parents, along with […]

Join us for a webinar on Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania, the fifth and final programme in our series the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps  Our first speaker, Dr. Ana Bărbulescu, will introduce our audience to the inconsistency that characterises the public memory of the Holocaust within the Romanian society, focusing on […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a webinar with Paweł Sawicki from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum The Peak of Murder at Auschwitz: 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of Jews from Hungary   This webinar will explore how during eight weeks of 1944, some 420,000 Jews from Hungary - men, women, and children - […]