The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Film Screening: Facing Auschwitz
2022-12-01 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2193, South Africa

Mass-Killing in 1942-1943: ‘Operation Reinhardt’ Killing Centres
2022-12-07 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
A Special Series with the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center. Join us for the second programme in the series on 80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: The Industrial Killing of European Jewry:
Mass-Killing in 1942-1943: ‘Operation Reinhardt’ Killing Centres
Guest Speakers:
Chris Webb
Tali Nates
In the second programme of this series, author Chris Webb will explore the history of the Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka death camps. He will look at some of the key SS figures responsible for running the sites and the Jewish prisoners who were deported there. Finally, he will describe the heroic and dramatic revolts that took place in the camps. Tali Nates, director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center (South Africa) will share her family’s history connected to both Treblinka and Belżec death camps.
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Beyond Oneg Shabbat: Groundbreaking Research and Findings in the JHI
2022-12-11 21:00 - 22:30 | Online
Talking Memory Series Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute. Join us for the third and final programme in the series on the Jewish Historical Institute:
Beyond Oneg Shabbat: Groundbreaking Research and Findings in the JHI
In this third and final programme, our speakers will present their research and findings in the JHI that go beyond the Warsaw ghetto.
Guest Speakers:
Dr Ewa Wiatr who will give a talk on The Łódź ghetto’s Legacy at the Jewish Historical Institute and Piotr Nazaruk who will reveal the latest discoveries in a talk entitled: Unburned: The Library of the Lublin Yeshiva.
This series is in partnership with the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Polish Institute in Tel-Aviv, the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre in Lublin, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, Liberation 75, Classrooms without Borders, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
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