14 October 17:30 for 18:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in South Africa for an evening exploring the life and art of great contemporary artist, Samuel Bak in remembrance of the Holocaust in Lithuania. The event will include formal remarks from ambassador of Lithuania to […]

On September 26, 1943 about 240 Jews accomplished a daring escape from the Novogrudok (Navardok) labour camp in Belarus (White Russia) via an underground tunnel dug by the inmates over a period of several months. In this programme, we will focus on this little-known escape, which, according to research carried out by Dr. Betty Cohen, […]

Monday 28 October, 16:00 Join us for a one-hour workshop focusing on the History of Holocaust Literature, with some examples, and discussion of Dan Jacobson’s novel, Heshel’s Kingdom. Jacobson was a South African writer who wrote about his grandfather’s origins in Lithuania and his own visit to that country to visit sites of mass extermination. […]

Thursday 31 October, 18:00 This talk will explore how at birth we are all handed a bag that someone else packed. We carry it without questions for a long time until about middle age, at which point we have collected so much baggage of our own we begin wondering why this bag is so heavy. […]