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Dr. Eleonora Bergman joined the Jewish Historical Institute in 1991, serving as its deputy director between 1996-1997 and 2001-2006. She was director from 2007 to 2011.  In this programme, our guest speaker will discuss her involvement in the recently published volume on clandestine education and children that reflects not only their fate but is a […]

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Event Details During and after WWII, Russia forcibly uprooted millions of Poles from the Kresy of eastern Poland. Those Kresovians who survived the deportations to Siberia were scattered around the globe. In South Africa, 500 children and their caregivers found safety and refuge in Oudtshoorn. These Polish children of Oudtshoorn went on to form the […]

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A Special Series with the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center. Join us for the second programme in the series on 80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: The Industrial Killing of European Jewry: Mass-Killing in 1942-1943: ‘Operation Reinhardt’ Killing Centres Guest Speakers: Chris Webb Tali Nates In the second programme of this […]

Talking Memory Series Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute. Join us for the third and final programme in the series on the Jewish Historical Institute: Beyond Oneg Shabbat:  Groundbreaking Research and Findings in the JHI In this third and final programme, our speakers will present their research and findings in the JHI […]

80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: The Industrial Killing of European Jewry: Resistance in Treblinka: The Tangible Witnesses In the third programme of this series, resistance in Treblinka is examined. The systematic murder on the Treblinka extermination camp began in July 1942 with the arrival of the first transport from the Warsaw Ghetto. By the time […]