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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Dr. Khatchig Mouradian: Resisting the Armenian Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Join us to commemorate the Armenian Genocide with the next of the Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Dr. Khatchig Mouradian:\nResisting the Armenian Genocide: Lessons in Resilience from a Clandestine Network of Humanitarians\nDr. Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies at Columbia University\, and the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress. Mouradian is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria\, 1915-1918. He is the co-editor of After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience and the forthcoming The I.B.Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy. \n  \nDr. Mouradian will be in conversation with Tali Nates\, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualising Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021)\, the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany)\, and the US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Award (2023). \nRegister here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-with-dr-khatchig-mouradian-resisting-the-armenian-genocide/
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SUMMARY:Military and Civilian Behaviour Towards Jews during the Holocaust in Bessarabia and Transnistria
DESCRIPTION: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 \nThe second programme in the series will focus on the military and civilian behavior towards Jews in Bessarabia and Transnistria during the Holocaust. Adrian Cioflâncă\, director of the “Wilhelm Filderman” Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and a member of the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives\, will discuss the role of police company attached to the Romanian Cavalry Corp\, which was an elite unit that took part in the Blitzkrieg during the Barbarossa Operation. He will also discuss his documentary film\, Memories from the Eastern Front that reveals a handsomely bound and carefully labelled photo album that bears silent witness to history as it traces the path of the 6th Regiment of the Romanian army during 1941 and 1942. \nThe presentation of Dr. Diana Dumitru\, current Ion Ratiu Visiting Professor in Romanian Studies at Georgetown University\, will delve into the painful Jewish-gentile interactions in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Bessarabia (since 1940 the Moldavian SSR)\, particularly focusing on the legacies of the of gentile collaboration with murderous Romanian authorities during World War Two. Using oral history interviews\, archival material\, and published memoirs\, the study sheds light on the sensitive and perilous context surrounding the revelation of neighbours’ involvement in murder\, betrayal\, and plunder of Jewish inhabitants during the Holocaust. \nGreta Barak\, an archivist at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will talk about Gershon Knispel’s Art Series “The Death March of the Romanian Jewry” that is located in the museum’s art archives. A leading Israeli artist\, Gershon Knispel decided in the late 1990s to represent a chapter of the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust\, namely the fate of the Jews from Bessarabia. \nThe series is in participation with A.M.I.R. (The Association of Romanian Jewry in Israel)\, 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: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkd-6orDIsHdaIj7BBHHLsTWABFQCk0eLt
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/military-and-civilian-behaviour-towards-jews-during-the-holocaust-in-bessarabia-and-transnistria/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240602T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:Jewish Forced Labour in Romania\, 1940-1944
DESCRIPTION: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 \nThe 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 were conscripted into forced labour under the auspices of the Romanian military’s labour service system. Dr. Dallas Michelbacher’s presentation will look at how these labourers worked in a wide variety of contexts\, including forced labour camps\, mobile forced labour battalions\, and forced labour units raised within Romanian cities. They performed numerous types of labour in the interest of the Romanian state\, including road and railroad construction\, clearing snow from streets and railroad tracks\, work in war-related industry\, and tasks of direct military significance like building and repairing fortifications. The forced labour system was part of a larger programme of persecution directed against Romanian Jews as part of the “Romanianization” policy pursued by Ion Antonescu’s regime\, the goal of which was the complete removal of Jews from the Romanian social and economic life. \nGreta Barak\, an archivist at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will present a war-time document stored in the GFH Archive: a note of the 89th Infantry Division of the Romanian Army concerning a group of 14 Jews sent to forced labour in October 1943. \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: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf-usqjkuHNGbyMMVn8kJUXf5bAvRHu6t
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/jewish-forced-labor-in-romania-1940-1944/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Closed Event for members only: The legalities behind the crimes: war crimes\, crimes against humanity\, and genocide
DESCRIPTION: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 international criminal courts and tribunals. The aim of the workshop is to equip participants with a better understanding of the relevant law behind terminology used\, in the context of both historic\, and ongoing global mass atrocities. \nDr Mispa Roux joined the JHGC in April 2024 as an Education and Research Specialist in the fields of international criminal\, human rights\, and humanitarian law. Before joining the JHGC\, Mispa was a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Johannesburg\, and a project coordinator at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights. Mispa’s research and writing concentrate and analyse early warning indicators of genocide and crimes against humanity\, the prevention and prosecution hereof\, the question of state responsibility for these crimes\, as well as methods that may achieve justice for victims of international crimes. \nMembers can RSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za to receive the registration link. Become a member for only R360 a year by clicking here\, after which you can email dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za for the registration link.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/closed-event-for-members-only-the-legalities-behind-the-crimes-war-crimes-crimes-against-humanity-and-genocide/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240616T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240616T213000
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SUMMARY:Survival Strategies of Children:  The Case of Jewish Orphans in Transnistria
DESCRIPTION: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  \nThis 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 through the eyes\, and fates\, of its youngest victims.  Eyal Fabian\, COO of The Association of Romanian Jewry in Israel will give the opening remarks and share with us the activities of the organization. \nDr. Patricia Heberer Rice will explore the world of the child:  examining the ways in which youngsters managed the menacing world around them and illustrating their experiences through their own voices. By examining how children coped with the events of the Holocaust\, not through adult eyes\, but through their own\, we learn how young people were able to transcend the physical and emotional traumas they experienced and cling to their hopes for survival. \nDr. Ionela Ana Dăsculțu will explore the complexity of the experiences of Jewish orphans who survived the dreadful conditions in Transnistria. The talk provides an overview of the factors that influenced the survival of these young people. The presentation will then focus on the daily lives of Jewish orphans in the Bershad ghetto\, located in the Balta district. The Bershad ghetto\, which consisted of dilapidated houses and ruins\, lost about 60-75% of its inhabitants in the winter of 1941-1942. Some of the orphans living in this ghetto were sheltered in an orphanage\, while others roamed the streets. As we shall see\, both groups of orphans employed a variety of survival strategies and coping mechanisms while defying death in Transnistria. \nOur final speaker\, Greta Barak\, will talk about Hersh Segal collection that was donated to the Ghetto Fighters’ House. While working as a mathematics schoolteacher\, Segal encouraged child Holocaust survivors he was teaching to write about their war-time experiences in Transnistria. Some of these testimonies were collected in 1946 at the Jewish orphanage in Bacau\, and the rest in 1947\, at the Jewish school in Gura Humorului\, Romania\, with the help of Rachel Hasenfratz. \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/survival-strategies-of-children-the-case-of-jewish-orphans-in-transnistria/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240624T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240624T200000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Providence Nkurunziza
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar in honour of the 100 Days of Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.\nProvidence 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 the rest of her extended family members were murdered during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in a span of about 100 days. She was only 11. She published her story in her memoir\, Next Couple Hours. As a survivor\, Providence considers it her responsibility to bear witness to the atrocities of genocide. She wants to save the next generation from falling into the same trap of experiencing such sinister events\, as nobody is immune to genocide. She considers it a privilege to share the stories of the well lived lives of her entire family\, as well as all those families\, who were completely wiped out with no one to remember them.  She does all with a thankful heart to preserve their memory and restore their values.  She believes silence is complicity in the face of such atrocities and terror. As an advocate\, she is also proud to be a voice for women survivors living with HIV/AIDS and other long-term illnesses contracted through rape and other violence during the genocide. Providence has spoken at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva\, New York\, and Vienna\, the Swedish parliament\, three of the four Holocaust museums in Texas\, Universities\, Holocaust centres and Synagogues in New Jersey and New York. She was recently one of the 4 honourees at the Wagner College for leadership in Holocaust\, Genocide and Anti Bias Education for the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the 30th Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. She is attending an intensive program on fighting antisemitism in Oxford\, UK starting in July 2024. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/in-conversation-with-providence-nkurunziza/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240630T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240630T213000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania
DESCRIPTION: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  \nOur 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 why the Romanian society has difficulties acknowledging the Holocaust of the Romanian Jews.  As the founder of the transnational platform\, Olga Stefan\, the second speaker\, will discuss the mission and activities of the platform\, the research and documentaries undertaken and produced\, and what the future might hold as so many countries in the West slide to the right. Our final speaker is Anat Bratman-Elhalel\, Director of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Archives.  She will discuss the transcription project of audio and video testimonies that have been collected over the years. This project represents a significant step in making these valuable materials accessible to the public. Included in these testimonies are accounts from survivors from Romania. The lecture will disclose these testimonies. \nThere will be an exclusive screening of Olga Stefan’s film Gestures of Resistance.  This documentary connects the personal testimonies of some of the last survivors of the Holocaust from Romania\, Czech Republic and Slovakia through their presentations of antifascist resistance and their relevance in today’s society. A link to watch the documentary will be sent to registrants close to the date of the webinar. \nThe series is in collaboration with A.M.I.R. Organisation\, 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/holocaust-public-memory-in-post-communist-romania/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240704T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240704T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:The Peak of Murder at Auschwitz: 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of Jews from Hungary
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a webinar with Paweł Sawicki from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum \nThe Peak of Murder at Auschwitz: 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of Jews from Hungary\n  \nThis webinar will explore how during eight weeks of 1944\, some 420\,000 Jews from Hungary – men\, women\, and children – were deported to Auschwitz. The estimation is that 75 percent of them were murdered in gas chambers immediately after arrival selections. This means that the daily average number of victims was close to 6\,000. This was the largest killing operation conducted by Nazi Germany at Auschwitz. The presentation will focus on the unique set of photographs that the perpetrators took to document the logistics of this horrifying action. \nPaweł Sawicki is a press officer at educator at the Auschwitz Memorial.  He is responsible for the social media activity of the Memorial that is followed on different platforms by over 2 million people. He is also the editor-in-chief of the monthly online magazine Memoria & coordinator of the “Auschwitz. Not far away. Not long ago” exhibition project on behalf of the Museum. He co-authors of the “On Auschwitz” podcast and  authored the photo album “Auschwitz-Birkenau. The place where you are standing…” that compares 1944 images from Auschwitz II-Birkenau with the authentic site of the Memorial today. A photographer and a former radio journalist. For several years in Polish Radio 2 he authored a documentary feature series “Auschwitz – between crime and sanctity” that used the audio testimonies from the Auschwitz Memorial Archives. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/the-peak-of-murder-at-auschwitz-80th-anniversary-of-the-deportations-of-jews-from-hungary/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240716T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240716T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:Museums and Memorials as Healing Spaces with Prof Carla Sofka
DESCRIPTION:Based on observations and experiences as a volunteer with 9/11 artefacts and research conducted at various museums and memorials related to historic events involving tragedy\, this presentation will describe how these spaces serve as a resource for healing and public death education.The motives of individuals who volunteer in these spaces will be explored\, potential benefits of their participation will be identified\, and challenges inherent in the creation and maintenance of these healing spaces will be discussed. \n\nCarla Sofka\, PhD\, MSW\, is a Professor of Social Work at Siena College in Loudonville\, NY (USA). As a result of volunteer work at the NYS Museum with 9/11 artefacts and subsequent research at various museum in the US and several other countries\, she has studied how museums and memorials related to tragedy serve as healing spaces and sites for public death education. Her thanatology-related research and writing has focused on digital immortality and the role of thanatechnology (all types of technology\, including digital and social media) in coping with illness\, death/dying\, and grief\, including survivor advocacy. \n\nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/museums-as-healing-spaces-with-prof-carla-sofka/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240717T203000
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SUMMARY:Reconciliation & Remembrance: Restoring the Kutno Jewish Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a compelling webinar on the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Kutno\, Poland. \nTotally destroyed by the Nazis during World War II and subsequently misused\, this sacred site is now undergoing a profound transformation. Led by a dedicated group of activists from South Africa\, Israel\, and Poland\, all with deep ties to Kutno\, this restoration project symbolizes a powerful journey of remembrance\, reconciliation\, and resilience. The panelists: Yosef Kutner (Israel)\, Luc Albinski (South Africa)\, Zigniew Wdowiak (Poland) will share their perspectives\, insights\, and personal connections to this restoration effort. \nDon’t miss this opportunity to learn about the profound impact of restoring heritage and fostering understanding across borders. \n17 July at 7pm SAST \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/reconciliation-remembrance-restoring-the-kutno-jewish-cemetery/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240724T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240724T203000
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SUMMARY:Diplomatic and International Law Mechanisms in Mass Atrocity and Genocide Prevention
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a webinar on Diplomatic and International Law Mechanisms in Mass Atrocity and Genocide Prevention. \nAs the modern world continues to face gross human rights violations\, it is important to confront the roots and history of these conflicts and explore how the international community works to them. Guest speakers\, Ambassador (ret) Edward O’Donnell and Ambassador David Scheffer will discuss the duality of soft diplomacy and international law mechanisms in the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide\, and reflect on the past to invigorate the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmbassador O’Donnell is a Co-Founder of the ASU Lab for Leadership\,\nDiplomacy and National Security and is a Professor of Practice in the School of\nPolitics and Global Studies and the Barrett Honors College. He teaches in the\nMaster of Arts program courses such as: Diplomacy in Action\, the Embassy\nCountry Team\, International Negotiations\, Diplomacy\, Human Rights and\nPreventing Genocide\, The Holocaust and World War II and International\nEconomics. \nHe is on the Board of the Genocide Awareness Week (2025) at ASU. \nAmbassador O’Donnell retired from the career U.S. Foreign Service in 2018\,\nafter 33 years in Latin America\, German-speaking Europe and other positions\nin Washington\, D.C. He served in Germany\, Austria\, Panama\, Colombia and\nParaguay\, as Charge\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Consul General (Principal\nOfficer)\, Economic Counselor and Commercial Attaché. In Washington D.C.\,\nHe was a negotiating Ambassador concentrating on Holocaust issues\, a\nDemocratic Charter for the Americas and civil aviation rights. He was\nExecutive Assistant to three Under Secretaries and Special Assistant\, U.S. State\nDepartment Policy Planning Staff. \nO’Donnell served in the active U.S. Army Reserve for 30 years with tours in\nGermany\, Panama and the United States. A Foreign Area Officer in Europe\nand Latin America\, he commanded two Military Intelligence Detachments as\nColonel. \nSince retirement from the State Department\, he was Senior Strategy Advisor\nto the Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security (2014-2018)\, Senior\nMentor/Advisor to the Afghanistan Government Minister of Counter Narcotics\nin Kabul (2011-2014) and State Department inspector (2010 – 2011) in the Middle\nEast Regional Office of the Inspector General. From 2009 – 2011 he was Acting\nPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Congressional Relations Bureau\nand earlier managed the State Department Liaison Office to the House of\nRepresentatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid J. Scheffer joined the School of Politics & Global Studies in 2021 as a Professor. He is also\na Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations (Washington office). \nFrom 2006 through 2020 Professor Scheffer was the Mayer Brown/Robert A.\nHelman Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and\nis Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights there. He was\nthe Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust\nMemorial Museum (2019-2021) and the International Francqui Professor at\nKatholieke Universiteit Leuven\, Belgium (2022). From 2012 to 2018 he was the\nU.N. Secretary-General’s Special Expert on U.N. Assistance to the Khmer Rouge\nTrials. Professor Scheffer was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes\nIssues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation to the U.N. talks establishing the\nInternational Criminal Court. He negotiated the creation of five war crimes\ntribunals and chaired the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group\n(1998-2001). He served on the Deputies Committee of the National Security\nCouncil and as Senior Adviser and Counsel to Dr. Madeleine Albright\, the U.S.\nPermanent Representative to the United Nations\, from 1993-1996. His latest two\nbooks are “All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals”\n(Princeton 2012) and “The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace” (Oxford\n2019). \nProfessor Scheffer has worked in an international law firm\, the Committee on\nForeign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives\, the Carnegie Endowment\nfor International Peace\, the U.S. Institute of Peace\, and the U.N. Association of\nthe U.S.A.\, and he has held visiting professorships at several law schools. He was\nan International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1986-87. \nProfessor Scheffer received the Berlin Prize in 2013\, the Champion of Justice\nAward of the Center for Justice and Accountability in 2018\, and the 2020 Dr.\nJean Mayer Global Citizenship Award\, Global Leadership Institute\, Tufts\nUniversity. Foreign Policy magazine selected him as a “Top Global Thinker of\n2011.” He is a member of the New York\, District of Columbia\, and Supreme Court\nbars and is a native of Norman\, Oklahoma. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/diplomatic-and-international-law-mechanisms-in-mass-atrocity-and-genocide-prevention/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Closed members only event: In Conversation with Dr Stephen D. Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for an exclusive volunteer and member’s only event: \nIn Conversation with Dr. Stephen D. Smith is a speaker\, scholar\, author\, and creative who has dedicated his career to preserving the memories of Holocaust and genocide survivors through innovative technologies. He is a co-founder of the Aegis Trust and was project director during the development of the Kigali Genocide Memorial. \nDr. Smith’s expertise in oral history and his theological background have uniquely positioned him to document and share the stories of those who witnessed the atrocities of the Holocaust and other genocides. His ground-breaking work with Dimensions in Testimony has garnered global recognition. As the Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation\, Dr. Smith has played a crucial role in preserving invaluable testimonies for future generations. \nRSVP to shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/closed-members-only-event-in-conversation-with-dr-stephen-d-smith/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240812T184500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240812T193000
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SUMMARY:"The Son of a Survivor": Luc Albinski in conversation with Rob Katz
DESCRIPTION:The JHGC in partnership with the BASE presents Luc Albinski in conversation with Rob Katz:\n“The Son of a Survivor” \nThe story and perspective of the son of Warsaw ghetto survivor Wanda Albinski and grandson of Dr. Halina Rotstein\, murdered in Treblinka. \nRegister here 
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/the-son-of-a-survivor-luc-albinski-in-conversation-with-rob-katz/
LOCATION:The Base\, 32 Sunny Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2192\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240814T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240814T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
CREATED:20240719T063933Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Concert of the Still Searching for Memory and Justice Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening concert of the Still Searching for Memory and Justice Conference featuring a variety of performances commemorating and celebrating through music from South Africa\, Rwanda\, and the Holocaust. Artists include Leigh Nudelman\, Music is a Great Investment trio (MIAGI)\, Adriana Altaras\, Music for Humanity Collaboration directed by Jazz Against Apartheid\, Prince Umana Niwenshuti and Dr Sharon de Kock. \n16:30 – 19:00 \nRSVP Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/opening-concert-of-the-still-searching-for-memory-and-justice-conference-2/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240814T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240816T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
CREATED:20240719T064131Z
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SUMMARY:Still Searching for Memory and Justice Conference
DESCRIPTION:In 1998\, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies\, together with Yale’s Schell Center for International Human Rights\, held an international conference titled Searching for Memory and Justice\, a groundbreaking effort to examine the commonalities and differences between the work of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa and efforts to document witnesses of the Holocaust. \nNow\, 30 years after the end of Apartheid\, and 45 years since Fortunoff Archive recorded its first testimony\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Fortunoff Archive are inviting scholars and activists to revisit these topics and more in a series of panels\, screenings\, concerts and an accompanying exhibit. Speakers include Prof Shirli Gilbert\, Prof David Simon\, Konstanty Gebert\, Prof William Gumede\, and many more. The event will also solemnly mark 30 years since the end of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda with a keynote by Carl Wilkens. \nAll conference events will be free\, open to the public and held at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. A detailed programme will be available on registration. \nJoin us in deepening our understanding of memory culture\, justice\, and the key role of testimonies in documenting mass atrocities. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/still-searching-for-memory-and-justice-conference/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240819T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240819T113000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:Fearless Females Monday Reading Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a social book club that reflects the values of the space: memory\, education\, dialogue\, and lessons for humanity. This month’s theme is Fearless Females. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/fearless-females-monday-reading-club/
LOCATION:Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop\, 1 Duncombe Road\, Forest Town\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240822T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240822T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:Film screening of Memory is Our Homeland
DESCRIPTION:August 23 is the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism created by the European Parliament in 2008. This day is also the day on which in 1939 the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed. A Pact that allowed for Germany under Hitler and Soviet Union under Stalin to divide much of Europe. To commemorate this day\, you are invited to a screening of the film “Memory is our Homeland”. \nProduced by Jonathan Durand\, this film charts the lost story of Polish refugees in Africa during WWII – a journey that brought a group of children to labour camps in Siberia\, onward to Iran\, India\, and East Africa\, to new lives across the global Polish diaspora. It follows the story of Kazia Kolodziej (née Gerech)\, the filmmaker’s grandmother\, and other Polish refugees\, as they meditate on the meaning of memory\, identity\, and homeland. Grappling with memories of a traumatic exile in the Soviet Union\, followed by an adolescence full of discovery in a Polish refugee camp near the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro\, we see how these children’s lives have been shaped by early years fraught with insecurity and change. \nRSVP here or to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za \nTHURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2024\, 7PM (SAST)
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-of-memory-is-our-homeland/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240828T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240828T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
CREATED:20240531T113408Z
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide featuring Wolf Gruner Resisters. How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next installment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide featuring Wolf Gruner\n  \nWolf Gruner: Resisters: How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany\n  \nWolf Gruner holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies\, is Professor of History at the University of Southern California\, Los Angeles since 2008 and the Founding Director of the USC Dornsife Centre for Advanced Genocide Research (previously USC Dornsife Shoah Foundation Centre for Advanced Genocide Research) since 2014. He is a specialist in the history of the Holocaust and in comparative genocide studies. He received his PhD in History from the Technical University Berlin in 1994 as well as his Habilitation in 2006. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University\, Yad Vashem Jerusalem\, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum\, Women’s Christian University Tokyo\, and the Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg\, as well as the Desmond E. Lee Visiting Professor for Global Awareness at Webster University in St. Louis. \nHe is an appointed member of the Academic Committee of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (since 2017)\, the executive committee of the Consortium of Higher Education Centres of Holocaust\, Genocide and Human Rights Studies (since 2018)\, the International Academic Advisory board of the Centre for the Research on the Holocaust in Germany at Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research\, Jerusalem (since 2012)\, and the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Genocide Research (since 2010). \nHe is the author of ten books on the Holocaust\, among them Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims with Cambridge University Press (2006). His 2016 prizewinning German book was published in 2019 as The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Initiatives\, German Policies\, Jewish Responses with Berghahn in English\, as well as in Czech\, and is forthcoming in Hebrew. \nHe coedited four books\, including Resisting Persecution. Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust (Berghahn 2020)\, New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years\, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison (Purdue UP 2019)\, and The Greater German Reich and the Jews. Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945 (Berghahn 2015). \nHis new book Resisters. How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany (Yale University Press 2023) is written for a wider audience and features the life stories of five Jewish men and women who resisted in different ways against persecution in Nazi Germany. By discussing many of such courageous acts\, the book demonstrates the wide range of Jewish resistance in Nazi Germany\, challenges the myth of Jewish passivity and illuminates individual Jewish agency during the Holocaust. \nProf. Gruner will be in conversation with Tali Nates\, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualising Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021)\, the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany)\, and the US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Award (2023). \nRegister here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-featuring-wolf-gruner-resisters-how-ordinary-jews-fought-persecution-in-hitlers-germany/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240905T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240905T193000
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SUMMARY:Restoring Roots: Reclaiming Polish\, Lithuanian and German Citizenship with Eva Hussain
DESCRIPTION:Eastern Europe once had one of the world’s largest Jewish communities\, now among the smallest. Its history reflects vibrant pre-war life\, the devastation of war\, post-war antisemitism\, and emigration. Since the 1970s\, descendants have returned\, seeking traces of this lost world. This trend grew as Eastern European nations joined the EU\, spurring interest in reclaiming citizenship. In this session\, Eva Hussain\, CEO of Polaron\, will discuss helping people reclaim Polish\, German or Lithuanian citizenship\, shedding light on the emotional and legal aspects of reconnecting with ancestral lands. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on heritage\, identity\, and citizenship in Eastern Europe. \nEva Hussain\, founder of Polaron\, is an expert in language services and European citizenship. She actively contributes to the company’s global growth and serves on several boards\, including Creativity Australia and the Association of Polish Jews.  InMarch 2022\, Eva was appointed Honorary Consul General of Austria in Victoria. A recipient of multiple business and equity awards\, her experience as a Polish refugee drives her passion for community work and the translation industry. \n5 September at 18:00 \nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/restoring-roots-reclaiming-polish-lithuanian-and-german-citizenship-with-eva-hussain/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240916T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
CREATED:20240828T041724Z
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SUMMARY:Colonial Violence\, the Holocaust\, and Contested Politics of Memory in Germany with Prof Carola Lentz
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg for a talk on \nColonial Violence\, the Holocaust\, and Contested Politics of Memory in Germany with Prof Carola Lentz\n  \nIn which direction should German state policies of memory develop? What is the future of Holocaust remembrance in an increasingly multi-ethnic\, post-migrant society and in the face of the death of the last survivors of the Shoah? Which place should colonial crimes have in public remembrance? These and related questions have been\, and continue to be\, subject of intense debate in Germany. Tracing important stages of the politics of memory since the Second World War\, the presentation will focus on the contestations surrounding recent attempts to engage with Germany’s colonial past. \n  \nCarola Lentz is a Senior Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz\, and the President of the Goethe-Institut. Her current research interests include ethnicity and nationalism\, colonialism and decolonisation\, politics of remembrance\, middle classes in the Global South and educational biographies. She conducted field research first in South America and\, since 1987\, regularly in West Africa. Carola Lentz is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She is also a member of the advisory board of the German Federal Cultural Foundation\, the German Language Council\, the board of trustees of the German Academy for Language and Poetry\, the board of #1014 New York\, the board of trustees of the Giesecke & Devrient Foundation and the board of trustees of the Anne Frank Education Centre. \nRSVP is essential here \n16 September\, 17:30 for 18:00
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/colonial-violence-the-holocaust-and-contested-politics-of-memory-in-germany-with-prof-carola-lentz-2/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240919T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240919T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:Film screening of Family Treasures Lost & Found and virtual Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Rosa Luxemberg Foundation for a film screening of \nFamily Treasures Lost & Found\n  \nThis documentary tracks journalist Karen A. Frenkel investigates her parents’ unspoken WWII stories. She knew little about their lives before and during the Holocaust\, but her detective work leads to astonishing revelations of her parents’ and one grandparent’s journeys to freedom. Karen shares steps in family history research such as using digital and real-world archives to fills gaps in what she was told. A family archive of portraits\, photos\, documents\, and artefacts also reveals the cultural life of pre-war urban assimilated Polish Jews. The process deepens Karen’s appreciation for her relatives’ resistance to fascism\, luck\, altruism\, and the reasons for their silence. She honours her parents\, sole surviving grandfather\, and lost relatives\, who cease to be mere names. Ultimately\, Karen ensures that memories of a vanished culture will endure and shows why filling in the blanks of lives lost is important not only to her\, but to the history of the Jewish people and society as a whole. \nLearn more about the film here \nThe screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with Karen A. Frenkel and director Marcia Rock. \n19 September 18:00 \nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-of-family-treasures-lost-found-and-virtual-qa/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240925T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240925T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
CREATED:20240903T143024Z
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Asya Darbinyan: The Remarkable Resilience of the Armenian Genocide Refugees
DESCRIPTION:The event is on 25 September at 8pm SAST \nJoin us for the next instalment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Asya Darbinyan\n  \nThe Remarkable Resilience of the Armenian Genocide Refugees\nThe Armenian genocide—orchestrated and systematically implemented by the Ottoman government against its Armenian subjects under the cover of the First World War—was a disaster that inflicted tremendous suffering and pain upon a people. The genocide took over 1.5 million lives\, triggered huge population movements\, and left hundreds of thousands of Armenians\, as well as Assyrians and Greeks\, without home and hope. In her talk\, Dr. Darbinyan reflects on the successful attempt of refugee-survivors\, including women and children\, to self-organise and help each other during the Armenian Genocide. The tremendous operations of Armenian volunteers to liberate abducted Armenian women and children from captivity\, the willingness and strength of exhausted and famished children to overcome endless obstacles and even find their way back home\, the efforts of refugees in classrooms and workshops to teach and train children survivors are testimony to the remarkable resilience in a time of catastrophe. The decisions made and the actions taken by those individuals constitute critical examples of agency\, self-help\, and self-organisation. \nDr. Asya Darbinyan is the Executive Director of Chhange (Centre for Holocaust\, Human Rights & Genocide Education) at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft\, NJ. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the Strassler Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University\, Worcester\, MA. Darbinyan’s research and teaching expertise stand at the intersection of genocide\, refugees\, and humanitarian interventions\, with a focus on the agency and actions of refugees in addressing their suffering and plight. Prior to joining Chhange\, Darbinyan worked as a Visiting Professor at the Strassler Centre at Clark\, where she taught courses on Genocide and Women\, the Armenian Genocide\, and the History of Genocide. Darbinyan has also served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University (NAU)\, and a Fellow in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. She was the Deputy Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia\, prior to pursuing her doctoral degree in the USA. \nDr. Darbinyan will be in conversation with Tali Nates\, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualising Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021)\, the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany)\, the US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Award (2023)\, and the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) 2024 Impact Award. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-with-asya-darbinyan-the-remarkable-resilience-of-the-armenian-genocide-refugees/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240929T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240929T170000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition opening: The Righteous Among the Nations
DESCRIPTION:29 September at 15:00 \nJoin the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Pretoria for the opening of the new temporary exhibition\, The Righteous Among the Nations. The opening will include formal remarks from Ambassador of the Czech Republic to South Africa Ambassador Tomáš Uličný\, a presentation by Zuzana Pavlovská\, Ph.D from the Jewish Museum in Prague\, and a walkabout. \nThis Yad Vashem exhibition explores stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust who came from different countries\, religions\, genders\, ages and social backgrounds. They risked their lives to save Jews despite facing danger and even death. Yad Vashem recognises rescuers by awarding them the title of ‘Righteous Among the Nations’. \nGuest speaker\, Zuzana Pavlovská has been the Head of the Department for Education and Culture of the Jewish Museum in Prague since 2011. The Department collaborates with some leading universities and educational institutions – including the Terezín Memorial\, the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences\, Charles University in Prague\, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Yad Vashem Memorial – as well as with independent historians\, experts in Jewish studies\, literary scholars\, scientists and teachers. Zuzana has been involved in several educational projects and gives lectures on Jewish studies and Modern Hebrew both in the Czech Republic and internationally\, at the Charles University\, the Johannesburg Holocaust Genocide Centre and their branches in Durban and Cape Town as well as Bejt Terezin in Israel. \nZuzana studied at the Charles University in Prague and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2019\, she concluded her Ph.D. studies and wrote her thesis on the topic of women´s role in the Haskalah. Currently she is representing the Czech Republic in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and in 2020 she was the Chair of its Educational Working Group. From 2021 until 2023 she was the Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum in Prague. \nRSVP is essential Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/exhibition-opening-the-righteous-among-the-nations/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241014T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241014T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
CREATED:20241002T073211Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Life and Art of Samuel Bak
DESCRIPTION:14 October 17:30 for 18:00 \nJoin the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in South Africa for an evening exploring the life and art of great contemporary artist\, Samuel Bak in remembrance of the Holocaust in Lithuania. \nThe event will include formal remarks from ambassador of Lithuania to South Africa\, Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaitė\, a screening of the acclaimed film Samuel Bak: Painter of Questions\, and a presentation by Dr Ute Ben Yosef\, author of Art and Life: The Story of Samuel Bak. \nSamuel Bak was born in 1933 in Vilna. His artistic talent was first recognised at an exhibition in the Vilna Ghetto when he was just nine. While he and his mother found refuge in a convent\, his father and all four grandparents were killed by the Nazis and their local collaborators. \nAt the end of World War II\, he fled with his mother to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp\, where he enrolled in painting lessons. Bak studied art in Munich and later at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem after immigrating to the newly formed state of Israel with his mother in 1948. In 1956\, he went to Paris to continue his education. He received a grant from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation to pursue his artistic studies. In 1959\, he moved to Rome where his first exhibition of abstract paintings was met with considerable success. Since 1959\, the artist has had numerous exhibitions in major museums\, galleries\, and universities throughout Europe\, Israel\, and the United States\, including retrospectives at Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem\, and the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town. He has lived and worked in Tel Aviv\, Paris\, Rome\, New York\, and Luasanne. In 1993\, he settled in Massachusetts and became an American citizen. \nRSVP is Essential Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/exploring-the-life-and-art-of-samuel-bak/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241027T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
CREATED:20241009T134823Z
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SUMMARY:From Darkness to Freedom: Honouring the 80th Anniversary of the Courageous Tunnel Escape  from the Novogrudok Ghetto
DESCRIPTION:On September 26\, 1943 about 240 Jews accomplished a daring escape from the Novogrudok (Navardok) labour 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 little-known escape\, which\, according to research carried out by Dr. Betty Cohen\, was the greatest prisoner escape of Jews during the Holocaust. \nWe are honoured to have Lady Gilbert give the opening remarks.  Afterwards\, Dr. Silberklang will present the broader picture of Jewish resistance in the ghettos.  Dr. 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. She will also discuss her newly released book:  Tunnel of Hope:  Escape from the Novogrudok Forced Labour Camp\, with a Forward by Prof. Yehuda Bauer. Tamara Vershitskaya\, founder of the Jewish Resistance Museum in Novogrudok\, will take us on a virtual tour of the exhibition. Our final speaker\, 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. \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 Organisation\, Jewish Religious Union (Belarus)\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. \nRegistration is essential here: \n 
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/from-darkness-to-freedom-honouring-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-courageous-tunnel-escape-from-the-novogrudok-ghetto-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Workshop on the History of Holocaust Literature with Prof Stuart Taberner
DESCRIPTION:Monday 28 October\, 16:00 \nJoin us for a one-hour workshop focusing on the History of Holocaust Literature\, with some examples\, and discussion of Dan Jacobson’s novel\, Heshel’s Kingdom. Jacobson was a South African writer who wrote about his grandfather’s origins in Lithuania and his own visit to that country to visit sites of mass extermination. \nStuart Taberner is from the University of Leeds is the Principal Investigator on ‘Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts\, Canons\, Circulations’ project\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and bringing together over forty scholars from around the world to examine eighty plus years of Holocaust literature across languages and cultures. (See https://sites.wustl.edu/rethinkingholocaustliterature/ ). Stuart’s own research focuses on German and German Jewish literature\, thought and culture\, and on Holocaust memory. His latest book on contemporary German Jewish fiction is forthcoming in 2025. \nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/workshop-on-the-history-of-holocaust-literature-with-prof-stuart-taberner/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241031T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241031T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me: Unpacking the Suitcase\, Exploring our Stories with Gina Roitman
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 31 October\, 18:00 \nThis talk will explore how at birth we are all handed a bag that someone else packed. We carry it without questions for a long time until about middle age\, at which point we have collected so much baggage of our own we begin wondering why this bag is so heavy. Why are we carrying it? If we’re lucky\, there’s someone left to ask about the contents. Author Gina Roitman will discuss her own stories and impulse to explore them\, including a discussion of the 2013 award-winning documentary of which she was the subject\, My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me. \nThe author of the literary thriller\, Don’t Ask and the short story collection\, Tell Me a Story\, Tell Me the Truth\, Gina Roitman co-authored the biography Midway to China and Beyond\, as well as the memoirs of several child survivors of the Holocaust. Her essays and poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines including Poetica\, Wherever I Find Myself\, Moment\, the Forward and OftheBook Press.  \nIn 2013\, she was the subject of the award-winning documentary\, My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me (available free on YouTube). Since 2017\, Gina has led continuous workshops on memoir writing for Generations After of Greater Washington\, DC and the Quebec Writers Federation. For more about Gina\, go to www.ginaroitman.com \nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/unpacking-the-suitcase-exploring-our-stories-with-gina-roitman/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241106T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241106T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:Was my Grandfather a Nazi? A question that did not even arise with Lorenz Völker
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 18:00 \nJoin the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a special talk by Lorenz Völker\, as he shares his personal journey of discovering his late grandfather’s hidden past. Through years of research\, Völker also uncovered the legal history of the Third Reich and brought together families of both perpetrators and Jewish victims. This moving exploration of German-Jewish history during National Socialism offers a message of reconciliation and hope. \nLorenz Völker was born in 1970 and teaches history and sports at the German International School in Johannesburg (DSJ) since 2024. German contemporary history is one of his main research interests. He was the co-founder of the Centre of German Sports history Berlin-Brandenburg in 2004 and has published mainly in the field of contemporary German sports history. His investigations into the fate of the Lehman family\, who played an important role in the career of his grandfather led to memorial plaques\, the so called Stopersteine\, being laid for the Lehmans in 2014. \nRSVP Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/was-my-grandfather-a-nazi-a-question-that-did-not-even-arise-with-lorenz-volker/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241110T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T170403
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SUMMARY:86th Commemoration of the November Pogrom
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER\, 2PM (SAST) \nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Goethe-Institut\, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to their annual commemoration of the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). \nThe commemoration will include formal remarks\, a candle lighting ceremony\, a performance by violinist Sharon De Kock\, and a keynote address from Prof Hanna Yablonka\, an internationally renowned Holocaust historian who among her numerous accolades pioneered the research field dealing with the survivors of the Holocaust after 1945. She will present a talk on Kristallnacht 1938: The final accord in a fateful year. \nRSVP here \nProf. Hanna Yablonka is affiliated with the History Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, as well as currently being a member of the Yad Vashem Council and was the academic advisor of Yad Vashem’s exhibition marking the 50th and 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. Hanna Yablonka is the chair of Governors of the Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry in Safed and the chief Historian of the Ghetto Fighters Museum for the last 25 years. Her acadmeic research has focused on the cultural and social impact of the Shoah on Israeli society. She pioneered the research field dealing with the survivors of the Holocaust after 1945. In her research\, she has emphasised the resilience and activism of the survivors. Hanna Yablonka is the author of over 40 scientific articles\, The editor of 4 books\, and the author of six books including: Survivors of the Holocaust (1999) awarded the Ish Shalom prize Yad Ben Zvi\, The History of the War Veterans Association (1999\,) The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (2004) awarded the Buchman prize Yad Vashem\, Off the beaten track: the Mizrahim and the Shoah (2008). Her last book: Yeladim Besseder Gamur (children by the book) became a best seller.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/86th-commemoration-of-the-november-pogrom/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241117T210000
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Book Launch ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’: Representations and Meanings in Art
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 21:00 \nJoin us for a special event marking the launch of Arbeit Macht Frei\, the final book in Dr. Batya Brutin’s trilogy on Holocaust icons in visual art. \nThe programme opens with remarks from Yigal Cohen\, CEO of Ghetto Fighters’ House. Prof. Shelley Hornstein will then explore how visual art—through sculptures\, photographs\, and paintings—helps preserve Holocaust history\, sharing insights from her work on The Evidence Room\, an exhibition using Auschwitz archives to challenge perceptions of reality through art. \nDr. Batya Brutin will then discuss her journey in writing the trilogy and examine how both Jewish and non-Jewish artists employ Holocaust symbols\, such as the raised hands of the Warsaw Ghetto boy\, Auschwitz serial numbers\, and “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate signs\, to convey messages on social and political issues. She will explore how these powerful images continue to shape historical memory through art. \nThis programme is held in partnership with Remember the Women Institute\, Women in the Holocaust International Study Centre\, Moreshet Holocaust and Study Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. \nRegistration is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch-arbeit-macht-frei-representations-and-meanings-in-art/
LOCATION:Online
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