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Mini conference: 80 Years On: Memory, Responsibility, and the Future of Remembrance

Mini conference: 80 Years On: Memory, Responsibility, and the Future of Remembrance

14 August @ 2:00 pm 5:30 pm

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and its partners for a conference focusing on 80 years since the end of World War II and the Holocaust, highlighting memory, responsibility, and the future of remembrance.

Learn from experts Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner (historian and director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation), Dr. Yohai Cohen (director of Yad Vashem’s guiding department), Tal Bruttmann (French historian and writer on the Auschwitz Photographs) with participation of Sylt Foundation’s director, Indra Wussow and JHGC’s director, Tali Nates.

The conference will be followed by the opening of More Important than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition at 6pm.