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SUMMARY:Was my Grandfather a Nazi? A question that did not even arise with Lorenz Völker
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 18:00 \nJoin the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a special talk by Lorenz Völker\, as he shares his personal journey of discovering his late grandfather’s hidden past. Through years of research\, Völker also uncovered the legal history of the Third Reich and brought together families of both perpetrators and Jewish victims. This moving exploration of German-Jewish history during National Socialism offers a message of reconciliation and hope. \nLorenz Völker was born in 1970 and teaches history and sports at the German International School in Johannesburg (DSJ) since 2024. German contemporary history is one of his main research interests. He was the co-founder of the Centre of German Sports history Berlin-Brandenburg in 2004 and has published mainly in the field of contemporary German sports history. His investigations into the fate of the Lehman family\, who played an important role in the career of his grandfather led to memorial plaques\, the so called Stopersteine\, being laid for the Lehmans in 2014. \nRSVP Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/was-my-grandfather-a-nazi-a-question-that-did-not-even-arise-with-lorenz-volker/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241110T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241110T160000
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SUMMARY:86th Commemoration of the November Pogrom
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER\, 2PM (SAST) \nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, the Goethe-Institut\, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to their annual commemoration of the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). \nThe commemoration will include formal remarks\, a candle lighting ceremony\, a performance by violinist Sharon De Kock\, and a keynote address from Prof Hanna Yablonka\, an internationally renowned Holocaust historian who among her numerous accolades pioneered the research field dealing with the survivors of the Holocaust after 1945. She will present a talk on Kristallnacht 1938: The final accord in a fateful year. \nRSVP here \nProf. Hanna Yablonka is affiliated with the History Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, as well as currently being a member of the Yad Vashem Council and was the academic advisor of Yad Vashem’s exhibition marking the 50th and 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. Hanna Yablonka is the chair of Governors of the Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry in Safed and the chief Historian of the Ghetto Fighters Museum for the last 25 years. Her acadmeic research has focused on the cultural and social impact of the Shoah on Israeli society. She pioneered the research field dealing with the survivors of the Holocaust after 1945. In her research\, she has emphasised the resilience and activism of the survivors. Hanna Yablonka is the author of over 40 scientific articles\, The editor of 4 books\, and the author of six books including: Survivors of the Holocaust (1999) awarded the Ish Shalom prize Yad Ben Zvi\, The History of the War Veterans Association (1999\,) The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (2004) awarded the Buchman prize Yad Vashem\, Off the beaten track: the Mizrahim and the Shoah (2008). Her last book: Yeladim Besseder Gamur (children by the book) became a best seller.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/86th-commemoration-of-the-november-pogrom/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241117T210000
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Book Launch ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’: Representations and Meanings in Art
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 21:00 \nJoin us for a special event marking the launch of Arbeit Macht Frei\, the final book in Dr. Batya Brutin’s trilogy on Holocaust icons in visual art. \nThe programme opens with remarks from Yigal Cohen\, CEO of Ghetto Fighters’ House. Prof. Shelley Hornstein will then explore how visual art—through sculptures\, photographs\, and paintings—helps preserve Holocaust history\, sharing insights from her work on The Evidence Room\, an exhibition using Auschwitz archives to challenge perceptions of reality through art. \nDr. Batya Brutin will then discuss her journey in writing the trilogy and examine how both Jewish and non-Jewish artists employ Holocaust symbols\, such as the raised hands of the Warsaw Ghetto boy\, Auschwitz serial numbers\, and “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate signs\, to convey messages on social and political issues. She will explore how these powerful images continue to shape historical memory through art. \nThis programme is held in partnership with Remember the Women Institute\, Women in the Holocaust International Study Centre\, Moreshet Holocaust and Study Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. \nRegistration is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch-arbeit-macht-frei-representations-and-meanings-in-art/
LOCATION:Online
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241120T193000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Dariusz Popiela
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER : Film screening at 16:30 and Talk at 18:30 \nJoin us for a conversation with Dariusz Popiela\, a Polish Olympic athlete\, who in 2018\, founded the Popiela Family Foundation “Centrum”. It’s focus is on the “People\, not numbers” project to commemorate victims by name and restore their memory. He also co-organises events in Poland honouring Holocaust victims and promoting Jewish culture and has spearheaded the construction of monuments that name the Jewish Holocaust victims from small towns and villages across southern Poland. \nA screening of the film “Edge of Light\,” highlighting his memory work\, will precede his talk at 16:30 for interested viewers. Refreshments will be served between the screening and the talk. \nRSVP is essential here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/in-conversation-with-dariusz-popiela/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241124T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241124T160000
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SUMMARY:11th Annual South Africa-Poland Heritage Conference: Remembering the 85th Anniversary of Russia Invading Poland and the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 14:00 \nJoin the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in collaboration with the Association of Siberian Deportees\, Sol Plaatje University\, and the Embassy of Poland for the 11th Annual South Africa-Poland Heritage Conference: Remembering the 85th Anniversary of Russia Invading Poland and the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. \nSpeakers include: \n\nStefan Szewczuk: PhD candidate University of the Witwatersrand; President of the Polish Association of Siberian Deportees in Southeast Africa; Vice-President of the Polish Heritage Foundation in Southern Africa\, who will present on Berling’s Army and my grandparent’s role in the Warsaw Uprising \n\nDr Pieter L. Möller: Former Senior Lecturer in the department of History at North West University\, and former lecturer in History at the University of Stellenbosch who will present The South African Air Force and the Warsaw Airlift: Examples of Bravery \n\nDr Cobus Rademeyer: Senior Lecturer in History at the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley who will presentThe Polish orphans of Oudtshoorn (1943 to 1947): the Jan Smuts factor \n\n\nJarryd Clark: Masters candidate at the University of Pretoria who will present An Enigma within Enigma: The Underrepresented History of Polish Codebreakers during the Second World War \nRSVP is Essential HERE
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/1th-annual-south-africa-poland-heritage-conference-remembering-the-85th-anniversary-of-russia-invading-poland-and-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-uprising/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Working with Perpetrator Images: Exploring Propaganda Photographs held at Documentation Obersalzberg
DESCRIPTION:MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 14:00 SAST \nJoin us for an online workshop on \nWorking with Perpetrator Images: Exploring Propaganda Photographs held at Documentation Obersalzberg\nThe workshop will be opened by Sebastian Peters\, an expert on Heinrich Hoffmann\, Adolf Hitler’s official photographer. Peters will introduce the material and work of the centre and this will be followed by a discussion on selected propaganda photographs lead by one of their Museum Educators\, Leonie Zangerl. \nSebastian Peters\, Researcher and Curator and Leonie Zangerl\, Museum Educator\, are both from Documentation Obersalzberg\, a place to learn about and remember the history of Obersalzberg and the Nazi dictatorship. Learn more about their work here. \nRegister Here \n 
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/working-with-perpetrator-images-exploring-propaganda-photographs-held-at-documentation-obersalzberg/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241126T210000
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Stories of Resilience: Learning from Survivors of the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda with Dr Sara Brown
DESCRIPTION:26 NOVEMBER 21:00 \nJoin us for the next instalment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide featuring Dr Sara Brown\nStories of Resilience: Learning from Survivors of the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda\n  \nDr. Brown will focus on testimony excerpts of survivors who describe life after their traumatic experiences of the Holocaust and genocide\, and connect to how those lessons of resilience resonate even today. \nSara E. Brown\, Ph.D. is the Regional Director of American Jewish Committee San Diego. She holds the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies from the Strassler Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She was a director of Chhange\, a Holocaust\, human rights\, and genocide education non-profit and managed post-secondary education programming for USC Shoah Foundation. Sara has taught courses on history\, human rights\, and mass violence\, conducted genocide-related research in Rwanda\, and served as a project coordinator in refugee camps in Tanzania. Sara is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Religion\, Mass Atrocity\, and Genocide. She has consulted for a number of international organisations\, including the United Nations. \nDr Brown will be in conversation with Tali Nates\, 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)\, Conceptualising Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). South 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)\, the US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Award (2023)\, and the International Network of Genocide Scholar’s Impact Award (2024). \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lessons-in-resilience-from-the-holocaust-and-genocide-stories-of-resilience-learning-from-survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-the-1994-genocide-in-rwanda-with-dr-sara-brown/
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SUMMARY:Opening of FC Bayern Munich During National Socialism: Victims\, Followers\, Perpetrators
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 17:30 for 18:00 \nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, FC Bayern Museum\, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\, and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pretoria would like to invite you to join us at the opening event of FC Bayern Munich During National Socialism: Victims\, Followers\, Perpetrators. \nThe opening will feature an address by the Ambassador of Germany to South Africa H.E. Mr Andreas Peschke\, and a keynote by Fabian Raabe\, curator of the FC Bayern Museum and a walkabout of the exhibition. \nThis exhibition looks at the history of FC Bayern Munich during the Nazi period. It examines the role played by the club and its members in National Socialism\, and explores the fate of those who were deported or fled for being Jewish or politically opposing the Nazi regime. \nPlease note that numbers are limited due to space constraints \nRSVP is essential HERE
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/opening-of-fc-bayern-munich-during-national-socialism-victims-followers-perpetrators/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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