The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Kwela Books, and Issy’s Coffee & Gifts invite you to join author Joanne Jowell in conversation with third generation Holocaust survivor Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein, in launching I am Ella. Ella Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in faraway South Africa is a lesson in resilience, […]

It’s been said that it felt as if the souls of the six million who were murdered during the Holocaust were in the room with them when the meetings began. They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide the world had ever known. Survivors were […]

The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to an exclusive walkabout of our returning temporary exhibition Eva’s Story: The Promise led by JHGC Founder and Director, Tali Nates, with video testimony by Eva Schloss. You are invited to explore the story of Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss and her brother Heinz and his artwork. Born […]

Adolf Eichmann was a good careerist and a terrible human being. He understood what was demanded of him to succeed professionally in his time. But as Hannah Arendt famously put it in her report on his trial in Jerusalem, he was thoughtless; the inner dialogue central to agential existence was largely absent from his life. […]

Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina How can we remember events that we have not experienced but are somehow intertwined in our DNA? How can we go back to actual places of memory and engage with the act of remembering? How can we make the invisible memory that is locked in […]

5th programme in the series ‘The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry’: German Professionals and the Holocaust with Dr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8-part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of […]

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Wartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom: Yitzhak Benditer's Synagogue Memorial Plaques and The Iasi Pogrom One of the Most Brutal Chapters in the History of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust With H.E. Dr. Radu Ioanid, Ambassador of Romania in the State of Israel, Greta Barak, Ghetto Fighters House, and Lyonell Fliss, Holocaust child survivor of […]

Curating and Graphic Novels: Using approachable media in curating forced labour and the Holocaust with Professor Ruth Leiserowitz The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw invite you to a talk by Professor Ruth Leiserowitz where she will explore the curation of the new Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue’s […]

Book Discussion: Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915 Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915 brings together the multifarious publications of the scholars in the network "Workshop of Armenian-Turkish Scholarship (WATS)". The book will be published in August and the following book discussion will be significant in contextualising the book within […]

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