The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Three Minutes–A Lengthening
2022-07-03 14:30 - 17:00 UTC
Join the JHGC, Encounters Film Festival and the Bioscope for a film screening and panel discussion on Three Minutes–A Lengthening, a unique feature-length documentary consists entirely of three minutes of amateur home movie footage which briefly documents a Jewish community in Nasielsk, Poland, just a year before the Nazis invaded the town, eventually killing nearly everyone we see in the grainy moving images.
More information: https://www.encounters.co.za/film/three-minutes/

Marikana 2012/2022
2022-07-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop, 1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town, 2193, South Africa
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POSTPONED: Coffee & Conversation with Survivor Irene Fainman
2022-06-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Please note this event has been postponed due to stage 6 load shedding.

Fear/Freedom: A Confrontation Between A Bully and His Victim Then and Now
2022-06-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
“An unusual window into the psyche of bullying – one that teachers, parents and children need to see.”
It’s been 40 years since Bryan Schimmel and Clinton Fein matriculated from King David High School, Linksfield. Both have had successful and accomplished careers. FEAR/FREEDOM: A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN A BULLY AND HIS VICTIM – THEN AND NOW is a unique and hard-hitting presentation where Schimmel and Fein recount their school life experiences as both the bullied and the bully. And the powerful reconciliation that took place 35 years later. Unapologetically raw, brutally honest, and moving, FEAR/FREEDOM explores the intricate dynamics behind what drives bullying and its impact on the victims.
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Artist as Witness: The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto
2022-06-26 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
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Walk About: The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim
2022-06-20 17:45 - 20:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
RSVP essential to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za or 011-640-3100

Jewish Writing During the Holocaust: The Jewish World at Ground Zero
2022-06-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Artistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin, 1942- 1944
2022-06-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

The Rise of Open & Hidden Nazism: Polish Jewish Reckonings with Danger & Powerlessness in the 1930s
2022-06-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, the Kaplan Centre and the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilisation for this 3-part series. Our second session is led by Kenneth B. Moss, the Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History at the University of Chicago, who will discuss ‘The Rise of Open & Hidden Nazism: Polish Jewish Reckonings with Danger & Powerlessness in the 1930s’.
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Jewish Culture and Civilisation: The Holocaust
2022-05-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Book Launch: Gagman
2022-05-29 10:30 - 12:00 | Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop, 1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town, 2193, South Africa
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Remembering the Holocaust in Austria
2022-05-26 20:00 - 21:00 | Online

Museum Day
2022-05-18 07:00 - 19:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Checkmate: Making, Playing and Picturing Chess in the Holocaust
2022-05-15 20:00 - 21:00 | Online

Exhibition Walkabout: HEARTSOUNDS
2022-05-15 10:30 - 12:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Film Screening | Nobody Told Me
2022-05-03 20:00 - 21:30 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
Registration essential to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za

The Past is Now: The Holocaust and Antisemitism Explained
2022-04-28 | Online

Yom HaShoah Film Screening: I Am Here
2022-04-27 19:30 - 21:30
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What Happened to the "Never Again!" Ethics?
2022-04-25 20:30 - 22:00 | Online
Join the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Claremont McKenna College and Brown University as we look at “What happened to the “Never Again!” Ethics? Lesson learned from the war in Ukraine for scholars and for the scholarship”.
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The Closed Circle of our Exile: Memory and Commemoration
2022-04-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Walkabout with Artist Barry Saltzman: The Day I Became Another Genocide VictiM
2022-04-10 10:30 - 12:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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"Back in Berlin" Film and Post Screening Discussion
2022-04-07 21:00 - 22:30 | Online
Shortly after his father’s death, Bobby returns to his native England and discovers a suitcase full of documents, letters and photos, documenting the story of his family who perished in the Holocaust – the story his father never told him.
He turns to Manuel, his German-born childhood friend, to translate the documents. Manuel, who hails from a family steeped in cinematic history and whose aunt was married to Stanley Kubrick, reveals that he too has recently uncovered a dark family secret: his father’s uncle was the infamous Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of the film “Jud Suss” – banned from screening to the present day and considered the most notorious anti-Semitic propaganda film in history. Together they embark on a voyage to Berlin to discover more about their respective pasts- a journey which puts their friendship to the test.
For more information or to register: https://classroomswithoutborders.org/back-berlin-post-film-discussion/

Kwibuka 28: Commemoration for the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
2022-04-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
To RSVP for the in-person event at the JHGC email dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za or call 011-640-3100.
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Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union
2022-04-03 21:00 - 22:00 | Online

Voices from the Frontline: The Relevance of Holocaust Sites in the War against Ukraine
2022-03-30 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

Memories & Narratives of “Othering”
2022-03-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Online

Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Transport of 999 Jewish Women to Auschwitz
2022-03-27 21:00 - 22:00 | Online

The Landscape of Memory in Germany
2022-03-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
“The Landscape of Memory in Germany” with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror, and an overview of the landscape of memorials), Dr. Matthias Hass, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference, Dr. Matthias Heyl, Director of Education, Ravensbruck, and Tali Nates, Director of the JHGC.
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Film Screening and Discussion: "I am here"
2022-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Book Launch | The Genocide Against the Tutsi and the Rwandan Churches
2022-03-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
