BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20240101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250209T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250209T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110559
CREATED:20250124T085452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T085452Z
UID:10214-1739111400-1739118600@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Film Screening of The Last Time We Were Children
DESCRIPTION:Sunday 9 February\, 14:30 for 15:00 \nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute\, invites you to a screening of The Last Time We Were Children\, directed by Claudio Bisio. \nSummer 1943\, Rome. Four children – Italo\, Cosimo\, Vanda\, and Riccardo – forge a deep bond despite the chaos of war. When Riccardo is taken to the ghetto on October 16th\, his friends\, aided by a nun and Italo’s brother\, risk everything to rescue him. Their perilous journey through war-torn Italy becomes a tale of adventure\, fear\, and the profound impact of life and loss. \nRSVP is essential here \nRunning 1 hour\, 47 minutes
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-of-the-last-time-we-were-children/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The-Last-Time-We-Were-Children-poster-2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250216T210000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250216T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110559
CREATED:20250207T073228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250207T073228Z
UID:10233-1739739600-1739743200@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Jews in the Soviet Union: A Complex Narrative\, Being Jewish in the Soviet Union - The Interwar Years
DESCRIPTION:16 February 2025\, 9pm SAST \nThe Ghetto Fighters’ House recently launched a new permanent exhibition\, “Among the Trees – The Holocaust in the Soviet Union” that commemorates the Jews of the former Soviet Union\, in the interwar years\, through their shared fate under the Nazi occupation\, and after the war. This series will explore these three periods and the experiences of Soviet Jewry. \nThe first programme will focus on the interwar years. The first speaker\, Professor Elissa Bemporad\, will describe the ways in which Jews endured\, adjusted to\, and participated in the Soviet system both as individuals and as part of a Jewish collectivity during the first decades of its existence. Our second speaker\, Liat Margalit\, exhibition curator at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will talk about the challenges and dilemmas she faced while researching and developing the exhibition Among the Trees. \nThis programme is in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/jews-in-the-soviet-union-a-complex-narrative-being-jewish-in-the-soviet-union-the-interwar-years/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jews-in-the-Soviet-Union-A-Complex-Narrative-EMAIL.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250217T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250217T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110559
CREATED:20250212T085928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T085928Z
UID:10239-1739818800-1739824200@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Online book launch of SPACES OF TREBLINKA: Retracing a Death Camp by Jacob Flaws
DESCRIPTION:17 February\, 19:00 SAST \nThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to the launch of SPACES OF TREBLINKA: Retracing a Death Camp by Jacob Flaws\n  \nSpaces of Treblinka utilises testimonies\, oral histories\, and recollections from Jewish\, German\, and Polish witnesses to create a holistic representation of the Treblinka death camp during its operation. This narrative rejects the historical misconception that Treblinka was an isolated Nazi extermination camp with few witnesses and fewer survivors. Rather than the secret\, sanitized site of industrial killing Treblinka was intended to be\, Jacob Flaws argues\, Treblinka’s mass murder was well known to the nearby townspeople who experi- enced the sights\, sounds\, smells\, people\, bodies\, and train cars the camp ejected into the surrounding world. Through spatial reality\, Flaws portrays the conceptions\, fantasies\, ideological assumptions\, and memories of Treblinka from witnesses in the camp and surrounding towns. To do so he identifies six key spaces that once composed the historical site of Treblinka: the ideological space\, the behavioral space\, the space of life and death\, the interactional space\, the sensory space\, and the extended space. By examining these spaces Flaws reveals that there were more witnesses to Treblinka than previously realized\, as the transnational groups near and within the camp overlapped and interacted. Spaces of Treblinka provides a staggering and profound reassessment of the relationship between knowing and not knowing and asks us to confront the timely warning that we\, in our modern\, interconnected world\, can all become witnesses. \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/online-book-launch-of-spaces-of-treblinka-retracing-a-death-camp-by-jacob-flaws/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Flaws-Online-launch.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250219T220000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250219T230000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110559
CREATED:20250207T083434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250207T083434Z
UID:10236-1740002400-1740006000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Echoes Across Time: Voices of Survival and Lessons for Our Future\, A New World of Remembrance: Insights from Pinchas Gutter
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 19 February\, 22:00 SAST \n“Echoes Across Time: Voices of Survival and Lessons for Our Future”\nAs we stand on the cusp of history\, the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors grow more urgent\, reminding us of the cost of silence\, the value of empathy\, and the power of resilience. “Echoes Across Time” invites audiences to explore the critical lessons these testimonies offer—on values\, democracy\, and the warning signs of oppression. Through monthly episodes\, each centered around a survivor’s testimony about their life experiences\, this series probes the question: Are we truly listening? Join us as we amplify stories from the Holocaust to Rwanda\, Cambodia\, and beyond\, engaging with survivors\, scholars\, and advocates who work tirelessly to preserve these legacies and inspire a more compassionate future. \n“A New World of Remembrance: Insights from Pinchas Gutter” \nFeaturing: Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter\, who will share profound reflections on how the weight of testimony has shifted over time and the ways memory adapts in a world where prejudice and intolerance persist. Pinchas’s story challenges us to think about our responsibility to remember\, and how each of us can confront hate and build resilience within our own communities. This session explores what it means to carry the memories of the Holocaust and rebuilding life after it ended into the future and the lessons that memory can teach us in today’s world. \n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/echoes-across-time-voices-of-survival-and-lessons-for-our-future-a-new-world-of-remembrance-insights-from-pinchas-gutter/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Eail-Promo-2024-11-30T152931.279-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250220T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250220T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110559
CREATED:20250212T090626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T090626Z
UID:10244-1740045600-1740052800@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:Between the Drowned and the Saved: The representation and role of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in commemorative practice with Mirah Langer
DESCRIPTION:20 February 10am SAST \nThis talk examines how the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors navigate private memory within families and sites of collective remembrance. It presents findings from 25 museum case studies on the representation of these descendants in exhibitions\, exploring the impact of extending narratives to include the aftermath across generations. The research also includes results from inviting descendants to reflect on archival testimonies of their survivor family members. The study suggests the need to reconceptualise what the the flow of memory ‘from generation to generation’ might look like after such a catastrophe. \nMirah Langer was a teacher and journalist in Johannesburg for many years before embarking on her new research project. This research is part of a doctoral study at the University of Vienna in Austria. It has been supported by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk\, OeAD – Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation and theEuropean Holocaust Research Infrastructure. \nRSVP is essential Here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/between-the-drowned-and-the-saved-the-representation-and-role-of-children-and-grandchildren-of-holocaust-survivors-in-commemorative-practice-with-mirah-langer/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Mirah-Langer.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250223T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250223T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T110559
CREATED:20250223T140826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250223T141037Z
UID:10276-1740297600-1740330000@jhbholocaust.co.za
SUMMARY:The Intersection of Heroism and Tragedy during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, 9 March\, 9pm SAST \nJoin us for the second programme in our series\, Jews in the Soviet Union: A Complex Narrative. \nThis session\, The Intersection of Heroism and Tragedy during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union\, will explore the complexities of Jewish experiences in the region during World War II. Dr. Yaakov Falkov will provide an overview of Soviet Jews as both victims and fighters between 1941 and 1945. Dr. Marta Havryshko will discuss the survival strategies employed by Jewish women during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Finally\, Marco Gonzalez\, director of Yahad-In Unum\, will examine the organisation’s ongoing work in mapping Jewish killing sites\, collecting evidence and testimonies\, and using a unique investigative methodology based on Soviet and German archives. \nThis programme is presented in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, the Together Plan\, the Jewish Tapestry Project\, and Yahad-In Unum. \nRegister here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/the-intersection-of-heroism-and-tragedy-during-the-holocaust-in-the-soviet-union/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jews_in_the_Soviet_Union_A_Complex_Narrative_6.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR