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SUMMARY:What Gets Seen\, What Gets Silenced: Violence\, Complicity\, and Memory in the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Sylt Foundation for a discussion panel exploring what was seen\, silenced\, and later remembered about the Holocaust. Through three perspectives – sexualised violence\, everyday complicity through stolen homes\, and the shaping of heroic memory – the talks reveal how genocide entered ordinary lives and spaces. Together\, they invite reflection on violence\, responsibility\, resistance\, and how Holocaust memory is constructed. \n\n\n\n“It was everywhere—in Buna\, in Auschwitz […] That’s a shame to tell.”: Sexualised Violence during the Holocaust – Larissa-Marie Lömpel\n\n\n\n“It was everywhere! In Buna\, in Auschwitz … That’s a shame to tell.“ With these words\, Sam Lubat captured both the pervasiveness of sexualised violence during the Holocaust and the silence that long surrounded it. This talk discusses both dimensions. \n\n\n\nDrawing on recent scholarship\, it maps the contexts in which sexualised violence occurred under National Socialist rule: from the mass shootings and pogroms in the occupied East to the ghettos\, hiding spaces\, and concentration camps of Nazi-ruled Europe. It examines the range of perpetrators – SS personnel\, Wehrmacht soldiers\, allied forces\, and civilians – as well as the complexity introduced by cases of victim perpetration. The lecture then turns to historiography\, asking why sexualised violence remained at the margins of Holocaust scholarship for so long. It traces how survivors navigated cultural taboos and institutional barriers when attempting to speak about their experiences\, and how scholars – shaped by similar constraints and by a universalised narrative of the Holocaust that left little room for gendered analysis – were slow to engage with the subject. By examining both the phenomenon and its fraught reception in testimony and scholarship\, the lecture contributes to an ongoing effort to bring sexualised violence into focus as a distinct and indispensable dimension of Holocaust history. \n\n\n\nLarissa-Marie Lömpel holds a BA in History and Gender Studies from the University of Göttingen and is currently completing an MA in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa. Her research interests include gendered violence\, perpetrator–victim relations\, and the intersections of historical scholarship and public memory. Her MA thesis examines sexualised violence in the Auschwitz camp complex. Alongside her studies\, she has been actively involved in Holocaust education and remembrance. During her undergraduate years\, she worked as a guide at the Bergen-Belsen and Moringen memorial sites and completed several internships in Germany and abroad. In 2024/25\, she worked as a researcher at the Anne Frank House. \n\n\n\nStolen Homes\, Taken Lives: Housing Expropriation and Everyday Complicity in the Holocaust – Indra Wussow\n\n\n\nThis seminar is based on Wussow’s PhD research on German Baltic settlers resettled by the Nazi regime into Łódź (Litzmannstadt)\, one of the central administrative sites of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. The talk examines housing expropriation as a key mechanism through which genocide entered everyday life. \n\n\n\nAt the centre of the seminar is a microhistorical case study: the appropriation of a Jewish family’s apartment by Bruno Carlhoff\, a resettled Baltic German who entered the Nazi administration in Łódź. Through archival material including housing files\, administrative records\, and later testimony\, she reconstructs how the Ajzen family was dispossessed of their home\, and how that same space was subsequently occupied and normalised by its new German inhabitants. \n\n\n\nFocusing on one apartment allows us to follow the Holocaust at a human scale: how removal\, reassignment\, and occupation were organised; how violence was translated into paperwork; and how perpetrators learned to live comfortably inside stolen spaces. Housing emerges here not as a marginal detail\, but as a central site of moral and material transformation—where racial entitlement was made tangible through rooms\, furniture\, and everyday routines. \n\n\n\nUsing microhistory as a method\, the seminar shows how complicity developed not primarily through ideological fervour or overt cruelty\, but through institutional permission\, emotional adjustment\, and the acceptance of “normal” advantages produced by persecution. By placing a perpetrator and a victim family in the same spatial frame\, the talk foregrounds the intimate proximity of genocide and challenges abstract understandings of participation in Nazi crimes. \n\n\n\nThe seminar offers an archive-based\, concrete perspective on how the Holocaust was lived\, enacted\, and normalised in cities like Łódź and why attention to stolen homes remains crucial for understanding responsibility\, memory\, and loss. \n\n\n\nIndra Wussow is a psychologist and Holocaust researcher working at the interface of history and psychology\, currently completing a PhD on everyday complicity in Nazi-occupied Łódź. She is the director of the Sylt Foundation\, and holds a MA in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa and a MA in Narrative Therapy from the University of Melbourne. \n\n\n\nZivia Lubetkin: How a Resistance Fighter Became a National Symbol – Andreea-Cristina Stanca\n\n\n\nHow does a young woman who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising become a symbol for an entire nation? And what gets lost when a human life is turned into a heroic myth? \n\n\n\nThis presentation explores how the public memory of Zivia Lubetkin was shaped in the first decades of the State of Israel\, and how her story became central to a heroic model of Holocaust remembrance. Drawing on Lubetkin’s memoir and scholarship on Holocaust memory and Israeli nation-building\, the lecture shows how her image was mobilised to promote ideals of resistance\, strength\, and Zionist renewal at a moment when Israeli society was seeking unifying symbols. In this process\, armed resistance was elevated as a moral ideal\, while many other survivors experiences marked by vulnerability\, coercion\, and “choiceless choices” remained marginalised. \n\n\n\nThe conversation also traces the shift brought about by the Eichmann Trial\, when survivor testimonies reshaped public understanding of the Holocaust and complicated earlier myths of heroism. By returning to Lubetkin not only as a fighter but also as a woman who resisted the Nazis\, becoming a public icon and carrying her trauma into postwar life\, this talk argues for a more honest and humane memory culture\, one that remembers courage without erasing suffering and resistance without turning people into symbols. \n\n\n\nAndreea Stanca is engaged in her MA in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University\, focusing on Zionism\, Holocaust education\, antisemitism\, and Holocaust memory. She has published widely and is currently working on an article on political antisemitism in Romania. She is currently an intern at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/what-gets-seen-what-gets-silenced-violence-complicity-and-memory-in-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:ZAPP Fest Performance Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, in collaboration with the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP)\, invites you to the 2026 ZAPP Fest Performance Showcase \n\n\n\nCome celebrate and enjoy the performances of an exciting group of young South African poets as they explore themes of community\, identity\, and human and animal rights. The poems which will be performed are the product of a one-day poetry workshop facilitated by the South African Poetry (ZAPP)\, a group of educators and professional poets who are dedicated to fostering a love of reading and writing poetry in schools.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/zapp-fest-performance-showcase-2/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Talking Memory Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDue to unforeseen circumstances\, the Talking Memory book launch event\, \n\n\n\nThe Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War\, \n\n\n\nscheduled for March 15th\, has been postponed. \n\n\n\nA new date will be announced\, and invitations will be resent accordingly. \n\n\n\nIn the meantime\, the Ghetto Fighters’ House extends its heartfelt thanks for your continued support of the Talking Memory programmes. \n\n\n\nThe Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory program marking the launch of The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War. \n\n\n\nIn this conversation\, Dr. Shay A. Pilnik examines how Babyn Yar—where more than 100\,000 people\, the vast majority Jews\, were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators—has been remembered\, reshaped\, and at times silenced in Soviet literature and culture. Drawing on Russian and Yiddish sources\, he revisits both well-known and lesser-known texts to show how Babyn Yar became a contested symbolic site\, revealing the tensions between official narratives\, suppressed Jewish memory\, and acts of cultural resistance. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr. Shay A. PilnikDirector\, Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide StudiesYeshiva University \n\n\n\nDr. Pilnik will discuss the central arguments of his book\, focusing on memory\, forgetting\, and representation in Soviet responses to Babyn Yar\, and the ways literature became a space for mourning\, testimony\, and moral reckoning. \n\n\n\nOpening Remarks:Dr. Arkadi ZeltserDirector\, Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet UnionInternational Institute for Holocaust Research\, Yad Vashem \n\n\n\nDr. Zeltser will reflect on the historiography of Babyn Yar and its place within Soviet Holocaust history\, addressing how politics\, ideology\, and archival silences have shaped public understanding of the site. \n\n\n\nGuest Speaker:Dr. Marta HavryshkoHistorian and Dr. Thomas Zand Visiting Assistant Professor in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism StudiesStrassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Clark University \n\n\n\nDr. Havryshko will speak about her research on Babyn Yar\, the challenges of commemorating mass violence in contemporary Ukraine\, and the ethical and political complexities involved in researching and memorialising the site today. \n\n\n\nThis programme is in partnership with the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University\, The Zekelman Holocaust Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of AMAZEZE (Fleas)
DESCRIPTION:In honour of Human Rights Day\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Sanktuary Films invite you to join us for a film screening of Amazeze (Fleas). \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion on documenting and representing dehumanisation\, and xenophobic violence in South Africa. Speakers include writer and director Jordy Sank\, cast members\, and award-winning photojournalist James Oatway\, whose work is featured in the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre’s permanent exhibition. \n\n\n\nAbout the film\n\n\n\nTonderai\, a young Zimbabwean boy living in a South African township\, anxiously awaits his mother’s return from work at nightfall. He fears the worst for her due to a xenophobic mob running rampant that night. He watches over his gravely ill and bedridden younger brother\, who becomes desperate for drinking water. With no running water in their shack\, Tonderai must lurk like a rodent in the shadows to the communal tap to bring his brother back safe drinking water – In doing so\, he must risk his life as his neighbours are attacking foreigners. \n\n\n\nRuntime: 16 minutes
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-of-amazeze-fleas/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Exhibition opening: Some Were Neighbours
DESCRIPTION:Choice\, Human Behaviour & the Holocaust\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:30 for 3pm \n\n\n\nSome Were Neighbours: Choice\, Human Behaviour\, and the Holocaust\, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)\, explores one of the central questions of the Holocaust: how it was possible. While Nazi leaders planned and directed the genocide of the Jews of Europe\, circles of collaboration and complicity rippled throughout governments and societies wherever victims of persecution and mass murder lived. \n\n\n\nFocusing on human behaviour\, the exhibition examines the motives and pressures that shaped individual choices – including fear\, indifference\, antisemitism\, peer pressure\, and the prospect of personal gain. At the same time\, it highlights those individuals who did not betray their fellow human beings\, reminding us that there is an alternative to complicity in evil acts\, even in extraordinary times. \n\n\n\nRomanian Holocaust survivor Lyonell Fliss\, who survived the Iași Pogrom\, will deliver the keynote speech\, sharing his insights on collaborators and rescuers.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/exhibition-opening-some-were-neighbours/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Urban Class Structure in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Case Studies from Johannesburg and Tshwane
DESCRIPTION:Ph.D Dissertation presentation by DaQuan Lawrence (Howard University)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn honour of Human Rights Month\, Howard University Ph.D. candidate DaQuan Lawrence\, presents research findings from his dissertation entitled\, “Urban Class Structure in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Case Studies from Johannesburg and Tshwane”. \n\n\n\nAmid the 32nd anniversary of South Africa’s transition to a democratic and post-apartheid society\, Lawrence research consists of an investigation of the class structure in post-apartheid South Africa’s municipalities of Johannesburg and Pretoria. The study seeks to discover how race continues to shape urban class constructions in South Africa\, and how the middle class defined in urban South Africa. \n\n\n\nLawrence seeks to construct rudimentary but sophisticated class categories that are informed by South Africans. Utilizing class analysis tools provided by African diaspora scholars the theoretical bases of class in advanced industrialized societies of Western civilization are revised in order to allow application to 21st century\, urban South African conditions. \n\n\n\nDaQuan Lawrence is an international human rights activist and Sasakawa Young Leaders Foundation Fellow who hails from Harlem\, New York. Lawrence currently works as a middle school educator\, international freelance journalist and an African Studies Ph.D. candidate at Howard University. With a background in NYC foster homes and experience in urban poverty\, he uses public policy research and human rights advocacy to equip young people\, marginalized communities\, nonprofit practitioners\, as well as public and private sector representatives with the tools to change social and economic conditions.  \n\n\n\nHis current research focuses on public policy in Africa\, and his dissertation is a qualitative mixed methods study that investigates class and urban segregation through a Marxist\, Weberian\, and pro- and pan-African conceptual framework. Lawrence seeks to develop new post-Marxist\, international class categories based on an African perspective of the global political economy\, that can be utilized in both developed and underdeveloped nations. He utilizes his experience to lead the nonprofit he cofounded\, Strong Men Overcoming Obstacles Through Hard-work\, (SMOOTH) Inc.\, which is a mentoring\, professional development and community service organization for Black males. He is also the founder and CEO of the business consulting firm Lawrence International\, and creator of GlobalBlackForum.com\, a network that connects the African diaspora across nations\, sectors and generations. \n\n\n\nLawrence has worked for Washington D.C.-based nonprofits and international nongovernment organizations such as the Urban Institute and the Center for African Studies at Howard University on policy programs\, research\, and human rights advocacy.  He has experience working on public policy research in Haiti\, Indonesia\, the Dominican Republic\, Liberia\, South Africa and in the United States. Lawrence is a graduate of Morgan State University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies\, and a delegate for the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.  \n\n\n\nThe event will also be livestreamed here and here
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/urban-class-structure-in-post-apartheid-south-africa-case-studies-from-johannesburg-and-tshwane/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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