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SUMMARY:Jewish Forced Labour in Romania\, 1940-1944
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar on Jewish Forced Labour in Romania\, 1940-1944 as part of our new series on the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps \nThe third programme in the series will focus on Jewish forced labour in Romania during the Holocaust.  Between 1941 and 1944\, more than 100\,000 Romanian Jews were conscripted into forced labour under the auspices of the Romanian military’s labour service system. Dr. Dallas Michelbacher’s presentation will look at how these labourers worked in a wide variety of contexts\, including forced labour camps\, mobile forced labour battalions\, and forced labour units raised within Romanian cities. They performed numerous types of labour in the interest of the Romanian state\, including road and railroad construction\, clearing snow from streets and railroad tracks\, work in war-related industry\, and tasks of direct military significance like building and repairing fortifications. The forced labour system was part of a larger programme of persecution directed against Romanian Jews as part of the “Romanianization” policy pursued by Ion Antonescu’s regime\, the goal of which was the complete removal of Jews from the Romanian social and economic life. \nGreta Barak\, an archivist at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will present a war-time document stored in the GFH Archive: a note of the 89th Infantry Division of the Romanian Army concerning a group of 14 Jews sent to forced labour in October 1943. \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: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf-usqjkuHNGbyMMVn8kJUXf5bAvRHu6t
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/jewish-forced-labor-in-romania-1940-1944/
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SUMMARY:Closed Event for members only: The legalities behind the crimes: war crimes\, crimes against humanity\, and genocide
DESCRIPTION:The JHGC invites members to this informative workshop\, facilitated by the JHGC Education and Research Specialist\, Dr Mispa Roux. She will explore the legal definitions and various elements of the three core international crimes listed in the title. Against the backdrop of international criminal law\, Dr Roux will draw on examples of prosecution efforts at international criminal courts and tribunals. The aim of the workshop is to equip participants with a better understanding of the relevant law behind terminology used\, in the context of both historic\, and ongoing global mass atrocities. \nDr Mispa Roux joined the JHGC in April 2024 as an Education and Research Specialist in the fields of international criminal\, human rights\, and humanitarian law. Before joining the JHGC\, Mispa was a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Johannesburg\, and a project coordinator at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights. Mispa’s research and writing concentrate and analyse early warning indicators of genocide and crimes against humanity\, the prevention and prosecution hereof\, the question of state responsibility for these crimes\, as well as methods that may achieve justice for victims of international crimes. \nMembers can RSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za to receive the registration link. Become a member for only R360 a year by clicking here\, after which you can email dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za for the registration link.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/closed-event-for-members-only-the-legalities-behind-the-crimes-war-crimes-crimes-against-humanity-and-genocide/
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SUMMARY:Survival Strategies of Children:  The Case of Jewish Orphans in Transnistria
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar on Survival Strategies of Children:  The Case of Jewish Orphans in Transnistria\, the fourth programme in our series the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps  \nThis programme will focus on the experiences of Jewish children during the Holocaust. The study of children is a history in microcosm:  it is the story of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes\, and fates\, of its youngest victims.  Eyal Fabian\, COO of The Association of Romanian Jewry in Israel will give the opening remarks and share with us the activities of the organization. \nDr. Patricia Heberer Rice will explore the world of the child:  examining the ways in which youngsters managed the menacing world around them and illustrating their experiences through their own voices. By examining how children coped with the events of the Holocaust\, not through adult eyes\, but through their own\, we learn how young people were able to transcend the physical and emotional traumas they experienced and cling to their hopes for survival. \nDr. Ionela Ana Dăsculțu will explore the complexity of the experiences of Jewish orphans who survived the dreadful conditions in Transnistria. The talk provides an overview of the factors that influenced the survival of these young people. The presentation will then focus on the daily lives of Jewish orphans in the Bershad ghetto\, located in the Balta district. The Bershad ghetto\, which consisted of dilapidated houses and ruins\, lost about 60-75% of its inhabitants in the winter of 1941-1942. Some of the orphans living in this ghetto were sheltered in an orphanage\, while others roamed the streets. As we shall see\, both groups of orphans employed a variety of survival strategies and coping mechanisms while defying death in Transnistria. \nOur final speaker\, Greta Barak\, will talk about Hersh Segal collection that was donated to the Ghetto Fighters’ House. While working as a mathematics schoolteacher\, Segal encouraged child Holocaust survivors he was teaching to write about their war-time experiences in Transnistria. Some of these testimonies were collected in 1946 at the Jewish orphanage in Bacau\, and the rest in 1947\, at the Jewish school in Gura Humorului\, Romania\, with the help of Rachel Hasenfratz. \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/survival-strategies-of-children-the-case-of-jewish-orphans-in-transnistria/
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Providence Nkurunziza
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar in honour of the 100 Days of Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.\nProvidence Nkurunziza is an author\, speaker\, an advocate for women and children\, and a Commissioner at the Texas Holocaust Genocide and Antisemitism Advisory Commission. Five of her siblings and her parents\, along with the rest of her extended family members were murdered during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in a span of about 100 days. She was only 11. She published her story in her memoir\, Next Couple Hours. As a survivor\, Providence considers it her responsibility to bear witness to the atrocities of genocide. She wants to save the next generation from falling into the same trap of experiencing such sinister events\, as nobody is immune to genocide. She considers it a privilege to share the stories of the well lived lives of her entire family\, as well as all those families\, who were completely wiped out with no one to remember them.  She does all with a thankful heart to preserve their memory and restore their values.  She believes silence is complicity in the face of such atrocities and terror. As an advocate\, she is also proud to be a voice for women survivors living with HIV/AIDS and other long-term illnesses contracted through rape and other violence during the genocide. Providence has spoken at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva\, New York\, and Vienna\, the Swedish parliament\, three of the four Holocaust museums in Texas\, Universities\, Holocaust centres and Synagogues in New Jersey and New York. She was recently one of the 4 honourees at the Wagner College for leadership in Holocaust\, Genocide and Anti Bias Education for the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the 30th Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. She is attending an intensive program on fighting antisemitism in Oxford\, UK starting in July 2024. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/in-conversation-with-providence-nkurunziza/
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar on Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania\, the fifth and final programme in our series the Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps  \nOur first speaker\, Dr. Ana Bărbulescu\, will introduce our audience to the inconsistency that characterises the public memory of the Holocaust within the Romanian society\, focusing on why the Romanian society has difficulties acknowledging the Holocaust of the Romanian Jews.  As the founder of the transnational platform\, Olga Stefan\, the second speaker\, will discuss the mission and activities of the platform\, the research and documentaries undertaken and produced\, and what the future might hold as so many countries in the West slide to the right. Our final speaker is Anat Bratman-Elhalel\, Director of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Archives.  She will discuss the transcription project of audio and video testimonies that have been collected over the years. This project represents a significant step in making these valuable materials accessible to the public. Included in these testimonies are accounts from survivors from Romania. The lecture will disclose these testimonies. \nThere will be an exclusive screening of Olga Stefan’s film Gestures of Resistance.  This documentary connects the personal testimonies of some of the last survivors of the Holocaust from Romania\, Czech Republic and Slovakia through their presentations of antifascist resistance and their relevance in today’s society. A link to watch the documentary will be sent to registrants close to the date of the webinar. \nThe series is in collaboration with A.M.I.R. Organisation\, 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/holocaust-public-memory-in-post-communist-romania/
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