Click here to register. Tracy Strong Jr. was a 26-year-old American serving as a relief worker in the Vichy internment camps for foreigners in southern France in 1941-42.  When he realised the need to get internees out of the camps rather than improve their conditions in the camps, he worked with Paster Trocme and […]

Click here to register.   Conference Details   Dr Andrew Macdonald (University of the Witwatersrand) | "Transoceanic Migration to Southern Africa in the Age of Empires” This presentation will take listeners through the ‘big picture’ of sea-born migration to Southern Africa, focusing on 1880-1920s.  Drawing from unpublished port, shipping and immigration records, we will explore […]

  Click here to register. Prof. Dienke Hondius will present her “Mapping Hiding Places” project, focusing on hiding in the Netherlands, including the 27 hiding places of the family in Invisible Years. Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth will focus on one hiding place—the Breeplein Church in Rotterdam—where her grandparents risked their lives to hide the grandparents […]

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Click here to register.   Dr. Leon Hartwell is the Acting Director of the Transatlantic Leadership Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). His research interests include conflict resolution, genocide, transitional justice, diplomacy, democracy, and the Western Balkans.      

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Join the JHGC in partnership with Ghetto Fighters House for the first in our new series Rethinking the “Final Solution” and the Wannsee Conference 80 Years later. Click here to register.    

Join the JHGC in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders for the next instalment in our series on Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World. Click here to register.

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Click here to register. - The Belzec Death Camp was the first of the three Operation Reinhard camps. As the first camp, Belzec served as the prototype for the two subsequent camps, Sobibor and Treblinka. Belzec has been called the "forgotten camp". One of the main reasons is that only three Jews survived. Two gave […]