• Online Book Launch: The Three Graves of Anna Szenes

    Online

    To mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of Anikó (Anna) Szenes, please join us for the international online book launch of The Three Graves of Anna Szenes: Memory and Body Politics in Hungary and Israel This volume seeks answers to the question of why Anikó Szenes (1921–1944), a Jewish girl born and assimilated in Budapest who […]

  • Lunch & Learn: What Makes a Neighbour? with Lyonell Fliss

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Join us for an afternoon with Holocaust survivor Lyonell Fliss, who will share his story and reflect on the theme of neighbours. This Lunch & Learn marks the closing of our temporary exhibition Some Were Neighbours, which features Lyonell's own story and photographs. Afterwards, you are warmly invited to stay for lunch at Issy's Coffee […]

  • AI and Holocaust Testimony: Possibilities, Perils, and Principles

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    A Talk by Dr David Simon 17:30 for 18:00 The rise of AI-generated and enhanced mass violence materials – often (mis)using recorded testimonies that are central to historical memory and social repair – presents a crisis for mass atrocity memory. While AI could revolutionise the field of memorialisation, it also risks amplifying distorted and denialist […]