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SUMMARY:Exploring the Life and Art of Samuel Bak
DESCRIPTION:14 October 17:30 for 18:00 \nJoin 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. \nThe event will include formal remarks from ambassador of Lithuania to South Africa\, Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaitė\, a screening of the acclaimed film Samuel Bak: Painter of Questions\, and a presentation by Dr Ute Ben Yosef\, author of Art and Life: The Story of Samuel Bak. \nSamuel Bak was born in 1933 in Vilna. His artistic talent was first recognised at an exhibition in the Vilna Ghetto when he was just nine. While he and his mother found refuge in a convent\, his father and all four grandparents were killed by the Nazis and their local collaborators. \nAt the end of World War II\, he fled with his mother to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp\, where he enrolled in painting lessons. Bak studied art in Munich and later at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem after immigrating to the newly formed state of Israel with his mother in 1948. In 1956\, he went to Paris to continue his education. He received a grant from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation to pursue his artistic studies. In 1959\, he moved to Rome where his first exhibition of abstract paintings was met with considerable success. Since 1959\, the artist has had numerous exhibitions in major museums\, galleries\, and universities throughout Europe\, Israel\, and the United States\, including retrospectives at Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem\, and the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town. He has lived and worked in Tel Aviv\, Paris\, Rome\, New York\, and Luasanne. In 1993\, he settled in Massachusetts and became an American citizen. \nRSVP is Essential Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/exploring-the-life-and-art-of-samuel-bak/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:From Darkness to Freedom: Honouring the 80th Anniversary of the Courageous Tunnel Escape  from the Novogrudok Ghetto
DESCRIPTION: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\, was the greatest prisoner escape of Jews during the Holocaust. \nWe are honoured to have Lady Gilbert give the opening remarks.  Afterwards\, Dr. Silberklang will present the broader picture of Jewish resistance in the ghettos.  Dr. Betty Cohen\, whose mother\, Fania Dunetz Brodsky\, was one of the escapees\, will examine the survivors’ choice to rebuild their lives\, where they did so\, the legacies they left behind\, and the families they created. She will also discuss her newly released book:  Tunnel of Hope:  Escape from the Novogrudok Forced Labour Camp\, with a Forward by Prof. Yehuda Bauer. Tamara Vershitskaya\, founder of the Jewish Resistance Museum in Novogrudok\, will take us on a virtual tour of the exhibition. Our final speaker\, Debra Brunner\, CEO of the Together Plan\, will discuss the organisation’s work in Belarus\, including the “Making History Together” project that promotes Holocaust commemoration. \nThis programme is in partnership with The Together Plan\, the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain\, Jewish Small Communities Network\, Qesher\, the Jewish Tapestry Project\, DIALOG International Charitable Organisation\, Jewish Religious Union (Belarus)\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. \nRegistration is essential here: \n 
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/from-darkness-to-freedom-honouring-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-courageous-tunnel-escape-from-the-novogrudok-ghetto-2/
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SUMMARY:Workshop on the History of Holocaust Literature with Prof Stuart Taberner
DESCRIPTION:Monday 28 October\, 16:00 \nJoin 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. \nStuart Taberner is from the University of Leeds is the Principal Investigator on ‘Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts\, Canons\, Circulations’ project\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and bringing together over forty scholars from around the world to examine eighty plus years of Holocaust literature across languages and cultures. (See https://sites.wustl.edu/rethinkingholocaustliterature/ ). Stuart’s own research focuses on German and German Jewish literature\, thought and culture\, and on Holocaust memory. His latest book on contemporary German Jewish fiction is forthcoming in 2025. \nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/workshop-on-the-history-of-holocaust-literature-with-prof-stuart-taberner/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me: Unpacking the Suitcase\, Exploring our Stories with Gina Roitman
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 31 October\, 18:00 \nThis 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. Why are we carrying it? If we’re lucky\, there’s someone left to ask about the contents. Author Gina Roitman will discuss her own stories and impulse to explore them\, including a discussion of the 2013 award-winning documentary of which she was the subject\, My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me. \nThe author of the literary thriller\, Don’t Ask and the short story collection\, Tell Me a Story\, Tell Me the Truth\, Gina Roitman co-authored the biography Midway to China and Beyond\, as well as the memoirs of several child survivors of the Holocaust. Her essays and poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines including Poetica\, Wherever I Find Myself\, Moment\, the Forward and OftheBook Press.  \nIn 2013\, she was the subject of the award-winning documentary\, My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me (available free on YouTube). Since 2017\, Gina has led continuous workshops on memoir writing for Generations After of Greater Washington\, DC and the Quebec Writers Federation. For more about Gina\, go to www.ginaroitman.com \nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/unpacking-the-suitcase-exploring-our-stories-with-gina-roitman/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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