BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230604T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230604T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230523T035921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T035921Z UID:9445-1685890800-1685898000@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:Members only walkabout of Eva’s Story: The Promise (closed event) DESCRIPTION: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 video testimony by Eva Schloss. \nYou are invited to explore the story of Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss and her brother Heinz and his artwork. Born in Vienna in 1929\, Eva’s family fled after the Anschluss to Holland and after it too was occupied\, went into hiding. During his time in hiding\, Heinz quelled his fears by writing poetry and painting. They were all betrayed and deported to Auschwitz. Eva and her mother survived but her father and brother were killed just weeks before liberation. \nPlease note that this event is only open to JHGC Members\, contact Shirley Sapire on shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za before the event to find out more about membership. \nRSVP to shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/members-only-walkabout-of-evas-story-the-promise-closed-event/ LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/members-only-the-promise-final-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230606T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230606T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230523T040106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T040106Z UID:9448-1686076200-1686081600@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:Ethics and Education as Practices of Freedom with Professor Pedro Tabensky DESCRIPTION: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 it in her report on his trial in Jerusalem\, he was thoughtless; the inner dialogue central to agential existence was largely absent from his life. Had he been born today\, he may have become a successful CEO\, banker\, politician\, or whatnot. \nI will argue that mainstream educational institutions globally\, and South Africa is no exception\, are fostering the mass production of potential mini-Eichmanns. Why so? Because they are\, for the most part\, training individuals to cater to the needs of the status quo thoughtlessly. We must reconsider what it means to be truly educated. Following John Dewey and others\, I will argue that education is the practice of freedom. Eichmann may have been good at making the trains run on time\, but he lived a machine-like existence\, lacking the reflective capacities that make us truly human. \nPedro Tabensky was born in Santiago\, Chile\, to refugee parents. His mother is a Holocaust survivor born in Hungary two weeks before the final stage of the final solution. His father\, of Polish Jewish ancestry\, is a refugee of the Chinese revolution. He has lived a peripatetic life since the age of three\, ending up in South Africa in 2001 and meeting his wife\, with whom he has two children. Tabensky is the founding director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGLE)\, Department of Philosophy\, Rhodes University (South Africa). He is the author of Happiness: Personhood\, Community\, Purpose and of several articles and book chapters. Tabensky is also the editor of and contributor to Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will\, Narrative\, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation; The Positive Function of Evil; and\, coedited with Sally Matthews (his wife)\, Being at Home: Race\, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions. He has a book\, published in 2023 by Routledge\, titled Fanon and Camus on the Algerian Question: An Ethics of Rebellion\, and is commencing work on another book provisionally titled Ethics and Education as Practices of Freedom coming out with Lexington\, probably in 2026. \nRSVP: dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/ethics-and-education-as-practices-of-freedom-with-professor-pedro-tabensky/ LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Pedro-Tabensky-d2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230611T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230611T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230605T141300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230605T141300Z UID:9452-1686484800-1686492000@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:Uncovering Memory - Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa\, Germany\, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina \nHow can we remember events that we have not experienced but are somehow intertwined in our DNA? How can we go back to actual places of memory and engage with the act of remembering? How can we make the invisible memory that is locked in space and place visible? Hence the tool\, the camera. How can we use a still or moving image to translate our experiences\, emotions and interactions with the past? \nUncovering Memory is about the role of film in memory and remembering\, and how to uncover memories. It takes you on a journey of interactions with historical\, political\, cultural and personal memory. \nTanja Sakota is an artistic researcher\, writer\, filmmaker and Associate Professor at the School of Arts\, Film and Television Department\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg.  \nTerry Kurgan is an artist and a writer based in Johannesburg. Her book\, Everyone is Present\, was shortlisted for the Photo Arles Book Prize (in France\, 2019)\, selected as a Finalist for the  National Jewish Book Awards (New York\, 2019) and won South Africa’s premier non-fiction literary prize\, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award (2019). \nRSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/uncovering-memory-book-launch/ LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/uncovering-memory-invitation-final-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230615T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230615T213000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230609T093119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T093119Z UID:9455-1686859200-1686864600@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:German Professionals and the Holocaust with Dr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. DESCRIPTION:5th programme in the series ‘The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry’:\nGerman Professionals and the Holocaust with Dr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. \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 most significant perpetrators of the crimes committed during the Holocaust are well known: Hitler\, Himmler\, and Heydrich\, as well as the SS\, among others. But less known are the contributions of “ordinary” people—doctors\, lawyers\, teachers\, civil servants\, officers\, and other professionals throughout German society—whose individual actions\, when taken together\, resulted in dire consequences. Put simply\, the Holocaust could not have happened without them. This programme will explore the motives and contribution of ordinary German professionals and their contribution to the Nazi racial agenda and to Nazi crimes. \nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. The title of his dissertation was\, Conflicting Loyalties: The Supreme Court in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1945. In 1992\, he joined the staff of the Wexner Learning Centre of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC\, working on a number of programmes and books. In June 2000 he joined the staff of Museum’s Education Division. For the last twenty years Meinecke Jr has worked with law enforcement officers\, judges\, prosecutors and attorneys in the Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust training programme. He is currently working in the Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education on programming for the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership. \nThis programme is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Generations of the Shoah\, and Liberation75. \nRegister Here. URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/german-professionals-and-the-holocaust-with-dr-william-frederick-meinecke-jr/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/23-2-web73.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230621T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230621T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230614T035121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T035340Z UID:9461-1687338000-1687348800@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:International Day Countering Hate Speech DESCRIPTION:To RSVP click here URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/international-day-countering-hate-speech/ LOCATION:Apartheid Museum\, South Africa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-14-at-07.44.49.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230625T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230625T213000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230609T093404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T093404Z UID:9457-1687723200-1687728600@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom DESCRIPTION:Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom: Yitzhak Benditer’s Synagogue Memorial Plaques and The Iasi Pogrom\nOne of the Most Brutal Chapters in the History of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust \nWith H.E. Dr. Radu Ioanid\, Ambassador of Romania in the State of Israel\, Greta Barak\, Ghetto Fighters House\, and Lyonell Fliss\, Holocaust child survivor of the Iasi pogrom. \nThe first programme in this series will focus on the pogrom of Iasi that took place on June 29\, 1941. Greta Barak from the Ghetto Fighters’ House will present a memorial tablet from the museum’s archive that commemorates the names of the worshippers at one of the synagogues in Iasi (Jassy) who were massacred in the pogrom that took place there. \nDr. Radu Ioanid\, Ambassador of Romania in the State of Israel\, will give a presentation on why the Holocaust in Eastern Europe is still a forgotten one\, including the pogrom in Iasi. As he will show\, this pogrom was a major outbreak of violent anti-semitism\, yet it was neither isolated nor fortuitous; rather\, it was part of a long series of mass murders committed by Romanian fascists. The pogrom was organized by the SSI (the Romanian Intelligence Service) in co-ordination with the General Staff of the Romanian Army. At least 6\,000 Jews were murdered in the town of Iasi and another 2\,600 perished in two death trains. The perpetrators were Romanian soldiers\, gendarmes and police mobs from Iasi\, and German soldiers. The Iasi pogrom was followed by the systematic deportation and extermination of the Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina\, and by the extermination of Ukrainian Jews from Transnistria. \nThe programme will conclude with the personal testimony of Lyonell Fliss\, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Johannesburg today. He was 6 years old at the time of the pogrom in Iasi. His relatives were murdered there and on the death trains. Last year\, he received the highest medal of honour from the Romanian government. \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/wartime-commemoration-of-the-iasi-pogrom/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1-32-6-25-event-cover-fb-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230626T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230626T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230620T105630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T105630Z UID:9465-1687784400-1687791600@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:Curating and Graphic Novels DESCRIPTION:Curating and Graphic Novels:\nUsing approachable media in curating forced labour and the Holocaust with Professor Ruth Leiserowitz \nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw invite you to a talk by Professor Ruth Leiserowitz where she will explore the curation of the new Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue’s permanent exhibition. This will include examples of how the events of forced labour and the Holocaust could be transposed understandably through media such as graphic novels. \nProfessor Ruth Leiserowitz is Deputy Director at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and professor for East European History at the Humboldt University\, Berlin. She is also the curator of the permanent exhibition in the new Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue. \nClick here to register  URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/curating-and-graphic-novels/ LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ruth-Leiserowitz-final-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230627T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230627T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031655 CREATED:20230620T105923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T105923Z UID:9468-1687892400-1687899600@jhbholocaust.co.za SUMMARY:Critical Approaches to Genocide: History\, Politics\, and Aesthetics of 1915 DESCRIPTION:Book Discussion: Critical Approaches to Genocide: History\, Politics\, and Aesthetics of 1915 \nCritical Approaches to Genocide: History\, Politics\, and Aesthetics of 1915 brings together the multifarious publications of the scholars in the network “Workshop of Armenian-Turkish Scholarship (WATS)”. \nThe book will be published in August and the following book discussion will be significant in contextualising the book within contemporary debates in memory\, trauma and genocide studies. \nModerator:  \nTali Nates is the Director/ Founder of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). \nPresenters: \nElyse Semerdjian is currently Professor of History at Whitman College and the incoming Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. \nElisa Von Joeden-Forgey is an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and the Co-President of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. \nAndrea Petö is a Professor in Gender Studies at the Central European University and a Doctor of Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. \nHülya Adak is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at Sabancı University and works on trauma and memory studies. \nFatma Müge Göçek who was born and raised in Istanbul\, Turkey is a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan where she works on violence and social change in the Middle East and the world at large. \nArlene Avakian is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian American Memoir among other publications. \nDavid Kazanjian is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. \nEgemen Özbek is the Academic Coordinator at the Academy in Exile at Universität Duisburg-Essen. \nDeanna Cachoian-Schanz  is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. \n\nClick here to register URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/critical-approaches-to-genocide-history-politics-and-aesthetics-of-1915/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/final-critical-approaches-to-genocide-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR