November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) Remembered
2021-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Online
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Tracy Strong Jr. was a 26-year-old American serving as a relief worker in the Vichy internment camps for foreigners in southern France in 1941-42. When he realised the need to get internees out of the camps rather than improve their conditions in the camps, he worked with Paster Trocme and others to establish the second “safe house” in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and obtained the release of young internees, mostly Jewish refugees from Central Europe, from the notorious camps at Gurs and Rivesaltes. When the deportations from France began, these Jews were able to escape to Switzerland, while those who remained in the camps were deported to Drancy and then on to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Dr. Cristopher Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A specialist on the Holocaust, Browning is the author of nine books, including Ordinary Men (1992) and The Origins of the Final Solution (2004).

8th South Africa - Poland History Conference: On the Edge of Whiteness
2021-11-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
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Conference Details

Dr Andrew Macdonald (University of the Witwatersrand) | “Transoceanic Migration to Southern Africa in the Age of Empires”
This presentation will take listeners through the ‘big picture’ of sea-born migration to Southern Africa, focusing on 1880-1920s. Drawing from unpublished port, shipping and immigration records, we will explore the streams and patterns, and place the “Polish” (or more generally eastern European) experience within wider themes. We will also explore the mechanics of migration and arrival in Southern Africa and show how migrants reshaped the ports and civic life.
Dr Andrew MacDonald is a historian of Southern Africa who, after initial studies in KwaZulu-Natal and India, completed his PhD at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. He first joined Wits in 2012 as a University Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, and in 2014 took up his current post in the History department. He researches a variety of migrant networks moving across the Indian Ocean over the long 19th century, with particular interests in border-control regimes, the history of smuggling and the social history of southern African ports. His work appears in journals such as Past & Present, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, Proceedings of the British Academy, the Journal of Overseas Chinese and Kronos, among others, and he is currently working on a manuscript on transoceanic migrations to South Africa and the making of the region’s borderlands. At Wits, Andrew teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in World History, precolonial and colonial South Africa and Afro-Asian connections since 1700.

Dr Jochen Lingelbach (Bayreuth University, Germany) | “On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa During and After the Second World War”
In this presentation, Dr Lingelbach will present key findings from his book, focusing on the interaction of the Polish refugees with different actors of the hosting colonial societies in East and Central Africa. Despite the intention of colonial officials to isolate the Poles and minimise their interaction with members of the hosting societies, numerous informal encounters with Africans, European settlers and others evolved.
Dr ​​Jochen Lingelbach is a postdoctoral research fellow in African History at the University of Bayreuth. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on Polish refugees in Africa (published in 2020 with Berghahn Books as “On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War”). Currently he works on the project “Africa in the Global History of Refugee Camps” within the University of Bayreuth’s “Africa Multiple. Reconfiguring African Studies” Cluster of Excellence.

Invisible Years: Hiding Places
2021-11-14 21:00 - 22:30 | Online
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Prof. Dienke Hondius will present her “Mapping Hiding Places” project, focusing on hiding in the Netherlands, including the 27 hiding places of the family in Invisible Years. Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth will focus on one hiding place—the Breeplein Church in Rotterdam—where her grandparents risked their lives to hide the grandparents of Daphne Geismar and Sharon Strauss. Brillenburg Wurth will retrace the stories from the perspective of protectors, and from accounts of onderduikers’ (people in hiding), in Invisible Years.

Memory, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent
2021-11-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
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Raphael Lemkin
2021-11-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Dr. Leon Hartwell is the Acting Director of the Transatlantic Leadership Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). His research interests include conflict resolution, genocide, transitional justice, diplomacy, democracy, and the Western Balkans.

Confronting our Past through a Distant Mirror
2021-11-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

81st Commemoration of the Deportation of Jews to Mauritius
2021-12-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

The Wannsee Conference: 90 Minutes of Bureaucratic Evil
2022-01-16 21:00 - 22:30 | Online
Join the JHGC in partnership with Ghetto Fighters House for the first in our new series Rethinking the “Final Solution” and the Wannsee Conference 80 Years later.
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Remembering The Holocaust in Poland
2022-01-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
Join the JHGC in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders for the next instalment in our series on Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2022-01-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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FILM: A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto
2022-02-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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Belzec Death Camp - The Genesis Of Genocide
2022-02-06 21:00 - 22:30 | Online
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The Belzec Death Camp was the first of the three Operation Reinhard camps. As the first camp, Belzec served as the prototype for the two subsequent camps, Sobibor and Treblinka. Belzec has been called the “forgotten camp”. One of the main reasons is that only three Jews survived. Two gave testimony about their experience at Belzec immediately after the war, and one of them was murdered right after giving his testimony. Chris Webb is one of the only researchers in the world that has extensively investigated the unique story behind the Belzec Death Camp.
During his talk, he will present sources that were discovered in recent years and help us to better understand how the camp where over half a million Jews were killed actually operated. Tali Nates, Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center, will share her family’s Holocaust history, their life in Nowy Targ before the war and their fate during Nazi occupation. Drawing on documents, family photos, testimonies and more, she will explore the story of one family who was murdered in Belzec.
This program is in partnership with Liberation 75, Remember the Women Institute, the Rabin Chair Forum, Classrooms Without Borders, the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center.

Film Screening and Discussion: Nobody Told Me
2022-02-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Book Launch: Not Just A Survivor – a Portrait of My Mother
2022-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Coffee and Conversation with Survivor Irene Klass
2022-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
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Museums In Context: Creating a new Museum and Memorial
2022-02-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

History, Archeology and Memory: The 80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Death Camps
2022-02-27 21:00 - 22:30 | Online

I have not seen a butterfly around here: Children’s drawings from the Terezin Ghetto
2022-03-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

A significant impact on the memory: Memory pictures of childhood among Libyan Jews, 1938-1945 presented by Dr Nava Barazani
2022-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Dr. Nava T. Barazani is an artist, cultural researcher, writer on art and visual culture. She is gallery director and curator at David Yellin Academic College. Her most recent book, Once Upon a Time, is about the visual memories of Holocaust survivors who were children in Libya. Her article “Hide-and-Seek” was recently published in the Journal Studies in Contemporary Jewry (Oxford University Press, NY). Her artworks inspired by her mother’s memories of Giado are in the Yad Vashem Art Museum collection.

Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies
2022-03-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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Kerry Whigham is Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP). He is the Communications Officer and a member of the executive board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). In addition to his academic work, he is the Director of Research and Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. More information at www.kerrywhigham.com.

Book Launch | The Genocide Against the Tutsi and the Rwandan Churches
2022-03-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Film Screening and Discussion: "I am here"
2022-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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The Landscape of Memory in Germany
2022-03-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
“The Landscape of Memory in Germany” with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror, and an overview of the landscape of memorials), Dr. Matthias Hass, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference, Dr. Matthias Heyl, Director of Education, Ravensbruck, and Tali Nates, Director of the JHGC.
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Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Transport of 999 Jewish Women to Auschwitz
2022-03-27 21:00 - 22:00 | Online

Memories & Narratives of “Othering”
2022-03-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Online

Voices from the Frontline: The Relevance of Holocaust Sites in the War against Ukraine
2022-03-30 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union
2022-04-03 21:00 - 22:00 | Online

Kwibuka 28: Commemoration for the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
2022-04-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
To RSVP for the in-person event at the JHGC email dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za or call 011-640-3100.
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"Back in Berlin" Film and Post Screening Discussion
2022-04-07 21:00 - 22:30 | Online
Shortly after his father’s death, Bobby returns to his native England and discovers a suitcase full of documents, letters and photos, documenting the story of his family who perished in the Holocaust – the story his father never told him.
He turns to Manuel, his German-born childhood friend, to translate the documents. Manuel, who hails from a family steeped in cinematic history and whose aunt was married to Stanley Kubrick, reveals that he too has recently uncovered a dark family secret: his father’s uncle was the infamous Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of the film “Jud Suss” – banned from screening to the present day and considered the most notorious anti-Semitic propaganda film in history. Together they embark on a voyage to Berlin to discover more about their respective pasts- a journey which puts their friendship to the test.
For more information or to register: https://classroomswithoutborders.org/back-berlin-post-film-discussion/

Walkabout with Artist Barry Saltzman: The Day I Became Another Genocide VictiM
2022-04-10 10:30 - 12:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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