The webinar will include a round table discussion about Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel with guest speakers: Tamar Herzberg from Yad Mordechai, Noam Leibman from Moreshet, and Anat Bratman-Elhalel from Ghetto Fighters' House. This will be followed by keynote speaker, Dr. Avinoam Patt discussing The Battle of Warsaw's Jews: The Afterlife of the […]
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Jonathan Ball Publishers, and Book Dealers for a launch of Jonny Steinberg’s newest book Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage. The scholar and award-winning author of Midlands and The Number, will be in conversation with Professor and researcher at WISER Hlonipha Mokoena, about his latest book. Jonny […]
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Kwela Books, and Issy’s Coffee & Gifts invite you to join author Joanne Jowell in conversation with third generation Holocaust survivor Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein, in launching I am Ella. Ella Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in faraway South Africa is a lesson in resilience, […]
It’s been said that it felt as if the souls of the six million who were murdered during the Holocaust were in the room with them when the meetings began. They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide the world had ever known. Survivors were […]
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to an exclusive walkabout of our returning temporary exhibition Eva’s Story: The Promise led by JHGC Founder and Director, Tali Nates, with […]
Adolf Eichmann was a good careerist and a terrible human being. He understood what was demanded of him to succeed professionally in his time. But as Hannah Arendt famously put […]
Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina How can we remember events that we have not experienced but are somehow intertwined in our DNA? How can we […]
5th programme in the series ‘The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry’: German Professionals and the Holocaust with Dr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an […]
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Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom: Yitzhak Benditer's Synagogue Memorial Plaques and The Iasi Pogrom One of the Most Brutal Chapters in the History of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust […]
Curating and Graphic Novels: Using approachable media in curating forced labour and the Holocaust with Professor Ruth Leiserowitz The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the German Historical Institute in […]
Book Discussion: Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915 Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915 brings together the multifarious publications of the scholars in the […]