The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre

The Rise of Open & Hidden Nazism: Polish Jewish Reckonings with Danger & Powerlessness in the 1930s
2022-06-07 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | 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
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Book Launch: Gagman
2022-05-29 10:30 - 12:00 | Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop, 1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town, 2193, South Africa
RSVP essential to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za

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

Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies
2022-03-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa
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Kerry Whigham is Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP). He is the Communications Officer and a member of the executive board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). In addition to his academic work, he is the Director of Research and Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. More information at www.kerrywhigham.com.

A significant impact on the memory: Memory pictures of childhood among Libyan Jews, 1938-1945 presented by Dr Nava Barazani
2022-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Dr. Nava T. Barazani is an artist, cultural researcher, writer on art and visual culture. She is gallery director and curator at David Yellin Academic College. Her most recent book, Once Upon a Time, is about the visual memories of Holocaust survivors who were children in Libya. Her article “Hide-and-Seek” was recently published in the Journal Studies in Contemporary Jewry (Oxford University Press, NY). Her artworks inspired by her mother’s memories of Giado are in the Yad Vashem Art Museum collection.

I have not seen a butterfly around here: Children’s drawings from the Terezin Ghetto
2022-03-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

History, Archeology and Memory: The 80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Death Camps
2022-02-27 21:00 - 22:30 | Online

Museums In Context: Creating a new Museum and Memorial
2022-02-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Online

Coffee and Conversation with Survivor Irene Klass
2022-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Contact shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za or 011-640-3100 to register or become a member.

Book Launch: Not Just A Survivor – a Portrait of My Mother
2022-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Film Screening and Discussion: Nobody Told Me
2022-02-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
