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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Red Land
DESCRIPTION:A film by Maximiliano Hernando Bruno that concentrates on Istria after the armistice of 8 September 1943. Norma Cossetto emerges as a key figure – a young Istrian woman\, daughter of a fascist official\, student of the University of Padua\, barbarically raped and murdered by Tito’s partisans – chosen for this brutal crime only because she was guilty of being Italian. \nThe film screening will be preceded by a virtual address by Dr Stefano Pilotto\, Professor of International Relations at the MIB Trieste School of Management. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-red-land/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230517T100000
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SUMMARY:Art workshop with Elias Mendel: Touching the Archive
DESCRIPTION:A creative engagement with your family stories \nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Sylt Foundation\, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to an interactive art workshop and memory discussion with artist Elias Mendel. The workshop will include a guided tour of his current exhibition\, Letters to Yesterday – a collection of work that examines the artist’s German Jewish history through his interventions in an extensive family archive. This will be followed with the opportunity to explore your own family archive through a creative engagement with bought material. \nPlease bring a story\, song\, recipe or photo from your family – something that reminds you of ‘home’- to work with. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/art-workshop-with-elias-mendel-touching-the-archive/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230518T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230518T140000
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SUMMARY:International Museum Day 2023 tour of the JHGC permanent and temporary exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of International Museum Day 2023\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre  is offering a free tour of our permanent and temporary exhibitions. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/international-museum-day-2023-tour-of-the-jhgc-permanent-and-temporary-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230518T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230518T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T020149
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SUMMARY:“Holocaust Cinema: How ‘A Film Unfinished’ Questions Archival Footage” with Annette Insdorf
DESCRIPTION:4th programme in the series ‘The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry’ \n“The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8 part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nThe growing genre of Holocaust Cinema includes films made by members of the third generation of survivors in Israel. Annette Insdorf will discuss two exemplary documentaries: “Numbered” (2012\, Dana Doron & Uriel Sinai\, Israel\, 55 minutes) focuses on the tattoos of Auschwitz survivors – who view their numbers in unique ways – as well as the process of recording and representing survivors. “A Film Unfinished” is directed by Yael Hersonski (2010\, Israel\, 88 minutes). She juxtaposes archival footage of the Warsaw Ghetto – taken by Nazis throughout May 1942 – with a contemporary interrogation of whether images can be trusted. \nAnnette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and Moderator of the popular “Reel Pieces” series at Manhattan’s 92Y\, where she has interviewed almost 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study\, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives\, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut\, a study of the French director’s work; Philip Kaufman\, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes\, currently in its fourth printing. \nThis programme is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Generations of the Shoah\, and Liberation75. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/holocaust-cinema-how-a-film-unfinished-questions-archival-footage-with-annette-insdorf/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230521T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230521T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T020149
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SUMMARY:Elias Mendel's "Letters to Yesterday"
DESCRIPTION:Join the JHGC and Sylt Foundation for a talk by Elias Mendel about his art and creative process\, and a presentation of his artworks made throughout his residency with the Sylt Foundation in May 2023. \nThis collection of work examines the artist’s German Jewish history through his interventions in an extensive family archive. In recent years Elias and his father Gideon Mendel have become the custodians of a vast collection of documents\, letters\, objects\, and photographs. \nIn response to the uncovering of his family history\, Mendel embarked on a photographic interrogation of Germany’s Holocaust memorial culture. This journey through personal family history is multifaceted and tragic. It deals with the spaces in between: the silences\, the complications\, and the unspoken. This is a story of one family but is a universal tale\, written in different languages\, in various documents\, across disparate continents and fractured peoples. \nThis archive traces the Mendel family history in Germany – from the 18th Century through to the Franco-Prussian War\, the First World War\, bourgeois life in the Weimar Republic\, the Holocaust – and then life in apartheid-era South Africa. \nElias Mendel is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across mediums of photography\, animation\, and drawing. His practice delves into identity\, migration\, and generational trauma\, and emerges from his own personal family archive. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/elias-mendels-letters-to-yesterday/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230521T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230521T220000
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SUMMARY:Special Talking Memory programme marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis will be followed by keynote speaker\, Dr. Avinoam Patt discussing The Battle of Warsaw’s Jews: The Afterlife of the Revolt. \nOn April 23\, 1943\, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency delivered the news of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt\, relaying a report received in Stockholm the day before with the headline “Nazis Start Mass-Execution of Warsaw Jews on Passover; Victims Broadcast S.O.S.” The timing of the revolt\, taking place in the spring of 1943\, the deadliest year of WWII for European Jewry\, influenced the manner in which it was reported\, interpreted\, and understood. Through an examination of the ways in which the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was reported in April and May of 1943\, we can begin to understand how and why the event was transformed into both a symbol of Jewish resistance\, Jewish sacrifice\, and Jewish martyrdom during and after World War II. Soon after the revolt was suppressed in May 1943\, representatives from the Jewish Labor Bund in New York and the Zionist movement in the Yishuv began to dispute both the heroes of the revolt and its true political and ideological significance. While historians have generally seen the politicisation of the revolt occurring after the war\, with the first encounter of the survivors with their new homes\, the polemics of 1944 between the Bund and the Labor Zionists (with the role of the Revisionists left out of early narratives) makes clear that within one year of the revolt\, the battle for credit in Jewish public opinion meant the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was too great a symbol to relinquish to the political enemy. By the first anniversary after the Uprising (April 19\, 1944) Jewish communities organized solemn commemorations in New York\, London\, Tel Aviv and elsewhere to recall Warsaw as a “fortress of freedom” and as the “Masada of Warsaw.” Responding to this politicization during the war\, it was the surviving ghetto fighters themselves who would play a critical role in writing their own “three lines in history.” \nThis programme is in partnership with the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Centre\, Yad Mordechai Museum\, \nClassrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/special-talking-memory-programme-marking-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230525T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230525T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJonny Steinberg (born 22 March 1970) is a South African writer and scholar. He is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. Two of them\, Midlands (2002)\, about the murder of a white South African farmer\, and The Number (2004)\, a biography of a prison gangster\, won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.  In 2013\, Steinberg was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. \nAbout the book: One of the most celebrated political leaders of our time\, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area\, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. \nDuring his years in prison\, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife\, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie\, every bit his political equal\, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband’s politics. \nBehind his back\, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power\, a path he feared would lead to an endless war. Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage – its longings\, its obsessions\, its deceits – making South African history a page-turning political biography. \nWinnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just the couple at its centre\, but an entire nation. It is also a Shakespearean drama in which bonds of love and commitment mingle with timeless questions of revolution\, such as whether to seek retribution or a negotiated peace. \nSteinberg reveals\, with power and tender emotional insight\, how far these forever-entwined leaders would go for each other and where they drew the line. For in the end\, both knew theirs was not simply a marriage\, but a struggle to define anti-apartheid policy itself. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/book-launch-winnie-nelson-portrait-of-a-marriage-by-jonny-steinberg/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230528T140000
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SUMMARY:"I am Ella" Book Launch at Issy’s Café and Gifts
DESCRIPTION: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. \nElla Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in faraway South Africa is a lesson in resilience\, attitude and – perhaps unexpectedly – joy. From the dying embers of the Warsaw Ghetto to the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps; from Poland to Paris\, Palestine and eventually Cape Town; from stateless refugee to community pillar\, Ella’s 100 years of life have been nothing short of herculean. “I am Ella” is the staggering tale of a real-life superheroine. \nJoanne Jowell is the author of the bestselling biographies\, On the Other Side of Shame: An Extraordinary Account of Adoption and Reunion (Macmillan\, 2008) and Zephany: Two mothers\, one daughter. An astonishing true story (Tafelberg\, 2019). She lives in Cape Town with her husband and three children. I am Ella: A remarkable story of survival\, from Auschwitz to Africa is her seventh book. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/i-am-ella-book-launch-at-issys-cafe-and-gifts/
LOCATION:Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop\, 1 Duncombe Road\, Forest Town\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230530T200000
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SUMMARY:Reckonings | Film Screening
DESCRIPTION: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 in urgent need of help\, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction of a people and atrocities suffered by millions? Reckonings explores this fascinating true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust and leading to the ground-breaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman (Who Will Write Our History) and commissioned by the German Ministry of Finance and the Claims Conference\, the film is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process of negotiating German reparations for the Jewish people. It takes viewers from the halls of power in Bonn\, West Germany\, where fierce debate raged over how to pay wartime debts\, to the streets of Jerusalem\, where horror about any talks with Germany led to violent protests and a mob storming the Knesset. It profiles Jewish and German leaders who risked their lives to meet in a hidden castle near the Hague to negotiate the impossible . It captures the anger on one side\, the shame on the other\, and the anguish for all as talks broke down and failure seemed imminent. And it honours the behind-the-scenes figures who forged ahead to continue negotiations\, knowing the compensation would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement\, a recognition and a step toward healing. \nFilmed in six countries and featuring new interviews with Holocaust survivors\, world-renowned scholars and dignitaries and the last surviving member of the negotiating delegations\, Reckonings powerfully illustrates how political will and a moral imperative can join forces to bridge an impossible divide. By confronting the past\, the German and Jewish leaders charted a better future for a desperate and traumatised people. Their actions led to the first time in history that individual victims of persecution received material compensation from the perpetrators. \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/reckonings-film-screening/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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