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SUMMARY:Film screening of Maestro and a performance by Sharon De Kock for International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:In honour of International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria\, the Consulate General of Italy in Johannesburg\, Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura invite you to join us for a screening of the acclaimed film\, Maestro: In Search of the Last Music\, with formal remarks\, a candle lighting ceremony by Holocaust survivors\, and a performance by acclaimed violinist Sharon De Kock. \nThe docu-film Maestro makes use of an extremely evocative footage\, and manages to retrace the memory of a number of musicians who fell victim to the Holocaust (Shoah). He collected\, restored and brought back to life their melodies – sometimes just scribbled on toilet paper – before they vanish within the silence of history. \nSharon De Kock has been a violinist in the Odeion String Quartet and violin lecturer at the University of the Free State since 2008. She has performed and lectured internationally\,  returning to South Africa in 2006 and performs regularly as soloist and chamber musician. In June of 2021\, Sharon graduated with a DMus degree from the North-West University (NWU) in Potchefstroom. As an avid advocate for teaching children who do not have access to lessons and instruments\, Sharon started a community project\, Violins for Peace\, at the St Patrick”s Anglican church (Bloemfontein) in Jan of 2022. Thanks to the Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria\, Barletta (Italy) for access to the music that will be played at the concert. \nRSVP here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-of-maestro-and-a-performance-by-sharon-de-kock-for-international-day-of-remembrance-for-the-victims-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Study Trip to Poland: Encounters & Reflections
DESCRIPTION:Staff from the Cape Town\, Johannesburg and Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centres joined the Austrian Service Abroad and the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies (UCT) for an annual Holocaust Study Tour in Poland. \nJoin us as the delegates reflect on their experiences visiting sites in the context of Jewish life in Poland and the Holocaust\, including synagogues and community centres\, the Warsaw Ghetto\, Treblinka\, Plaszów and Auschwitz- Birkenau. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/holocaust-study-trip-to-poland-encounters-reflections/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:"Bridge over Troubled Waters": Solidarity: A Vital Support System for Female Prisoners in Nazi Camps
DESCRIPTION:This programme will focus on instances of solidarity and compassion among female prisoners in Nazi camps during the Holocaust\, raising questions about the connection between a shared sense of unity and the chances of survival.  Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel will give the opening remarks on the importance of researching and discussing the history of women and their unique experiences during the Holocaust. \nThe first speaker\, Dr. Mehak Burza\, will explore the manifestations of solidarity among female prisoners\, as well as the various strategies used to keep up the struggle for survival in the camps\, while seeking a sense of solidarity and sisterhood. Burza will also trace the role of kashariyot – the young female couriers who played a crucial role in the resistance against Nazi-occupied Europe. \nThe second speaker\, Prof. Yoel Yaari\, will present the unique story of Bela Hazan\, who was born in 1922 in Rozyszcze\, Poland.  She served as a courier in the underground youth movement Dror\, using a Polish false identity. After being arrested\, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yaari will explore Hazan’s remarkable demonstration of devotion and solidarity as she took care of the patients in the Jewish ward\, serving as a nurse. \nThis programme is a partnership between Ghetto Fighters House Museum\, the Remember the Women Institute\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/bridge-over-troubled-waters-solidarity-a-vital-support-system-for-female-prisoners-in-nazi-camps/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240220T180000
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SUMMARY:#GOHOMEGOTA:  Film screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a film screening and Q&A with director Sulochana Peiris. \nThis documentary looks at Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya protests from a protest movement building and mobilisation perspective and centres around interviews with several key core activists-belonging to different ethnic\, linguistic\, and professional backgrounds – who were part of the protest movement since its Galle Face occupation began. The interviews were carried out in two rounds\, the first\, while the Galle Face occupation was ongoing and the second round in January 2023\, several months after the occupation was called off in the face of increasingly brutal state repression. They share their specific movement organisation\, building\, and communication strategies\, the evolution of the movement and the current status amidst a counter-revolutionary repression unleashed  by the Ranil Wickremasinghe administration. These leaders also discuss how they define and are working towards a “system change” which they envisioned to achieve through the aragalaya protest movement. It also contains interviews with Professor Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri\, a political scientist from University of Colombo who frames through and places the aragalaya movement along the continuum of post-independence political/protest movement building and mobilisation process in Sri Lanka\, Dr.Sanjana Hattotuwa\, who discusses the role played by social media during the Galle Face occupation\, and  Ambika Sathkunanadan\, former commissioner of Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission\, who provides a critical analysis of the aragalaya protest movement for its lack of inclusivity across the country’s ethnic divides and an evident failure to platform unaddressed larger issues pertinent to the country’s thirty-year war. \nRSVP is essential: click here to RSVP
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/gohomegota-film-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Featuring Dr Nicole Fox on The Resilience of Female Survivors in the Aftermath of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:In the midst of uncertainty and shadows\, our series on resistance stands as a beacon of hope. Over the course of our 8-part series\, we aim to shed light on the stories of individuals and communities courageously facing prevailing challenges. Our mission is to create a space where narratives of resilience take centre stage\, unveiling the indomitable strength of the human spirit in adversity. \nJoin us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment\, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. \nInaugural Event! Featuring Nicole Fox: \nThe Resilience of Female Survivors in the Aftermath of Genocide: \nMemorialization and Centring Women’s Experiences in Contemporary Rwanda \nNicole Fox\, PhD \nNicole Fox\, PhD is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University Sacramento. Her research centres on how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities\, with a focus on how remembrances of adversity shape social change and collective memory. Her current project examines individuals who conducted acts of rescue during episodes of mass violence\, theorising how social factors shape high-risk actions. Her 2021 book After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press) focuses on how memorials to past atrocity impacts community development and reconciliation for survivors of genocide and genocidal rape. Her work has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Science Foundation\, Andrew Mellon Foundation\, and the American Sociological Society’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline\, among others. She also serves on the United Nations Economic and Social Council and contributes to the UN Commission for the Status of Women held annually at the UN headquarters. \nThe discussion will be moderated by Tali Nates. \nTali Nates is 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)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth 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 Religious Freedom Award. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-featuring-dr-nicole-fox-on-the-resilience-of-female-survivors-in-the-aftermath-of-genocide/
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