The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre

81st Commemoration of the Deportation of Jews to Mauritius
2021-12-07 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Online
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Confronting our Past through a Distant Mirror
2021-11-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Raphael Lemkin
2021-11-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Dr. Leon Hartwell is the Acting Director of the Transatlantic Leadership Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). His research interests include conflict resolution, genocide, transitional justice, diplomacy, democracy, and the Western Balkans.

Memory, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent
2021-11-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

Invisible Years: Hiding Places
2021-11-14 21:00 - 22:30 | Online
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Prof. Dienke Hondius will present her “Mapping Hiding Places” project, focusing on hiding in the Netherlands, including the 27 hiding places of the family in Invisible Years. Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth will focus on one hiding place—the Breeplein Church in Rotterdam—where her grandparents risked their lives to hide the grandparents of Daphne Geismar and Sharon Strauss. Brillenburg Wurth will retrace the stories from the perspective of protectors, and from accounts of onderduikers’ (people in hiding), in Invisible Years.

8th South Africa - Poland History Conference: On the Edge of Whiteness
2021-11-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
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Conference Details

Dr Andrew Macdonald (University of the Witwatersrand) | “Transoceanic Migration to Southern Africa in the Age of Empires”
This presentation will take listeners through the ‘big picture’ of sea-born migration to Southern Africa, focusing on 1880-1920s. Drawing from unpublished port, shipping and immigration records, we will explore the streams and patterns, and place the “Polish” (or more generally eastern European) experience within wider themes. We will also explore the mechanics of migration and arrival in Southern Africa and show how migrants reshaped the ports and civic life.
Dr Andrew MacDonald is a historian of Southern Africa who, after initial studies in KwaZulu-Natal and India, completed his PhD at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. He first joined Wits in 2012 as a University Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, and in 2014 took up his current post in the History department. He researches a variety of migrant networks moving across the Indian Ocean over the long 19th century, with particular interests in border-control regimes, the history of smuggling and the social history of southern African ports. His work appears in journals such as Past & Present, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, Proceedings of the British Academy, the Journal of Overseas Chinese and Kronos, among others, and he is currently working on a manuscript on transoceanic migrations to South Africa and the making of the region’s borderlands. At Wits, Andrew teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in World History, precolonial and colonial South Africa and Afro-Asian connections since 1700.

Dr Jochen Lingelbach (Bayreuth University, Germany) | “On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa During and After the Second World War”
In this presentation, Dr Lingelbach will present key findings from his book, focusing on the interaction of the Polish refugees with different actors of the hosting colonial societies in East and Central Africa. Despite the intention of colonial officials to isolate the Poles and minimise their interaction with members of the hosting societies, numerous informal encounters with Africans, European settlers and others evolved.
Dr ​​Jochen Lingelbach is a postdoctoral research fellow in African History at the University of Bayreuth. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on Polish refugees in Africa (published in 2020 with Berghahn Books as “On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War”). Currently he works on the project “Africa in the Global History of Refugee Camps” within the University of Bayreuth’s “Africa Multiple. Reconfiguring African Studies” Cluster of Excellence.

November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) Remembered
2021-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Tracy Strong Jr. was a 26-year-old American serving as a relief worker in the Vichy internment camps for foreigners in southern France in 1941-42. When he realised the need to get internees out of the camps rather than improve their conditions in the camps, he worked with Paster Trocme and others to establish the second “safe house” in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and obtained the release of young internees, mostly Jewish refugees from Central Europe, from the notorious camps at Gurs and Rivesaltes. When the deportations from France began, these Jews were able to escape to Switzerland, while those who remained in the camps were deported to Drancy and then on to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Dr. Cristopher Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A specialist on the Holocaust, Browning is the author of nine books, including Ordinary Men (1992) and The Origins of the Final Solution (2004).

Shifting Boundaries with Lizzie Doron
2021-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Fragile Democracies: Ethnic Violence, Xenophobia and Genocide
2021-11-02 19:00 | Online

Portraits of Moral Choices During the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
2021-10-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
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Visual Images of the Belzec Killing Centre Memorial
2021-10-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
For more information contact mduduzi@jhbholocaust.co.za

Remembering the Killing Sites 80 Years Later
2021-10-25 20:00 - 21:00 | Online
Join the JHGC in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders, for the second in our 10 part series on Holocaust Memory, Museums and Memorials Around the World. Tali Nates will be in conversation with Omer Bartov, Faina Kukliansky and Robert Jan Van Pelt on ‘Remembering the Killing sites 80 years after the Holocaust’.
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Explore the Origins of National Socialism: A Virtual Tour of Nuremberg
2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Jewish Museum in Prague: Lost and Found in the 20th Century
2021-10-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Online

I Have Not Seen A Butterfly Around Here
2021-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Online

What can history teach us about ourselves today?
2021-10-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
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Tracing the Holocaust in Budapest
2021-10-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Confronting Antisemitism
2021-10-17 | Online

Invisible Years: Holocaust Drawers
2021-10-10 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

Israeli Theatre & the Holocaust
2021-10-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Blood Donation Drive
2021-10-02 10:00 - 15:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Spaces of Memory: Creating a memorial museum in the 21st century
2021-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
2021-09-23 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

Holocaust Remembrance Around the World
2021-09-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Online

Virtual Book Launch: Conceptualizing Mass Violence
2021-09-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Online

Commemoration for the 80th Anniversary of the Babyn (Babi) Yar Massacre
2021-09-09 14:30 - 16:00 | Online
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Santa Rosa: Odyssey In the Rhythm of Mariachi
2021-09-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

The Holocaust remembered: Virtual tour of Vienna
2021-08-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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With contributions from JHGC intern, Matthias Igler; an Austrian Gedenkdiener (Holocaust Memorial Servant) with the “Austrian Service Abroad”. Matthias has been working with the JHGC since the start of the year.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - A conversation with Loung Ung
2021-08-29 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
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The Ghetto Fighters’ House in partnership with the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation and Classrooms Without Borders invites you to a special ‘Talking Memory’ event.
Join Loung Ung to learn more about her life surviving the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime in Cambodia. Learn about her bestselling book “First They Killed My Father”, and the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her memoir.
Born in 1970 to a middle-class family in Phnom Penh, Loung Ung was only five years old when the Khmer Rouge Soldiers stormed into her city and her family was forced out of their home in a mass evacuation to the countryside. By 1978, the Khmer Rouge had killed Ung’s parents and two of her siblings. In 1980, she and her older brother escaped by boat to Thailand, where they spent five months in a refugee camp.
Loung’s first memoir, the national best-seller “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” (Harper Perennial), details her survival of Cambodia’s killing fields, one of the bloodiest episodes of the twentieth century. Some two million Cambodians — out of a population of just seven million — died at the hands of the infamous Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime. Of her family of nine, five survived.
Today, she has shared her messages of building resilience, healing from trauma, civic service, activism, and leadership in the U.S. and across the world.

This Murmur of Shards: A conversation and poetry reading with Rainer René Mueller
2021-08-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
