The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and the United Nations Information Centre Pretoria invite you to their annual commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 78th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. The commemoration will include formal remarks from foreign dignitaries, candle-lighting by Holocaust survivors, and a commemoration lecture: ‘Remembering […]
In this series, we have invited four leading experts who will discuss one of the most difficult and less-researched topics: sexual violence against Jewish women and children both during and after the Holocaust, including the continuing brutality against survivors seeking to return home after liberation. The challenges involved in studying female and child sex […]
In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, the Consulate General of Italy in Johannesburg, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invite you to join us for a screening of the acclaimed film, Questo ê un Uomo (This Is a Man, 2021),with […]
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in collaboration with GALA Queer Archive (GALA), invite you to a special lecture by Dr Mirjam Zadoff on What we’ve lost: On the History and Presence of Queer Lives. Dr Zadoff, the director of Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism will discuss the successful exhibition […]
2022 marks the 80th anniversary of “Aktion Reinhard” - the German plan to murder all the Jews of Poland living in the General Government. To mark this anniversary, the Galicia Jewish Museum, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Ghetto Fighters House invite you to a programme titled, 80 Years After “Aktion Reinhard”: The […]
You are invited to join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a unique opportunity to explore the world acclaimed exhibition: SEEING AUSCHWITZ Visit the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a guided tour of rare images captured by perpetrators, victims, and liberators present at Auschwitz. Seeing Auschwitz invites us to critically reflect on the […]
Dr. Beverley Chalmers will present on how the Nazis abused reproduction and sexuality to create an ideological ‘Master Race.’ They prohibited those deemed ‘Life unworthy of life’ from having sex or reproducing while promoting these among those deemed ‘worthy of life.’ Holocaust literature gives exhaustive attention to ‘direct’ means of exterminating Jews, by using […]
The 1st session will feature Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust Classrooms Without Borders, in coordination with Tali Nates, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Madene Shachar, Director, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House, Esther Toporek Finder, member of the […]
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In the wake of unthinkable atrocities, it is reasonable to ask how any population can move on from the experience of genocide. Simply remembering the past can, in the shadow of mass death, be re-traumatising. So how can such momentous events be memorialised in a way that is productive and even healing for survivors? Nicole […]
The complexity of history and memories of Auschwitz When we talk about Auschwitz today as a memorial site we need to remember that this is a place where many different memories coexist. This is the result of a very complex history of the German Nazi camp. Initially the prisoners and victims of the camp were […]
Paweł Sawicki is a press officer and an educator at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Memorial. He is responsible for the Memorial’s social media, which is followed by over 2 million people on different platforms. He is also the editor-in-chief of the monthly online magazine Memoria & coordinator of the “Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away” exhibition project on behalf of the Museum. Sawicki […]