World Refugee Day Commemoration
2021-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online

Silvia Foti: The Nazi’s Granddaughter
2021-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 | https://youtu.be/qaQd4wFQOmI
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SILVIA FOTI, author of the memoir The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal, is an award-winning investigative journalist in Chicago and a high school literature teacher. She holds master’s degrees in journalism, education, and creative nonfiction.
Silvia made a deathbed promise to her mother to write a book about her famous, WWII hero grandfather, Jonas Noreika twenty-one years ago. Silvia’s grandmother begged her not to write about her husband. “Just let history lie,” she whispered. Silvia had no idea that in keeping her promise to her mother, her discoveries would bring her to a personal crisis, challenge her Catholic faith, unearth Holocaust denial, and expose an official cover-up by the Lithuanian government.
Her goal in writing this story of her grandfather, known as General Storm in Lithuania, is to upend Lithuania’s narrative that Lithuanians had nothing to do with killing Jews, that it was all done by German Nazis.

(Nearly) hidden in plain sight: Lesser-known photographic histories and the Holocaust by Professor Michael Berkowitz
2021-05-25 19:00 - 20:00
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Anne Frank and Her Surprising Global Legacy
2021-06-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Film Screening: I Am Here
2021-06-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
This screening forms part of the Encounters Film Festival.
This powerful film offers a portrait of 98-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal, whose vibrance and vitality has not been dimmed by either age or the weight of the terrible events she has endured. As Ella recounts her experience of the Holocaust, the corresponding events are rendered in sensitively drawn animation. The film follows Ella, who was a young adult at the time, from her happy life as a Polish teenager to the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto, and on to Auschwitz, where she narrowly escaped the gas chambers. At a time when Holocaust denialism has gained fringe legitimacy, this is an important film and a counter to those who deny the horrors of history. In documenting Ella’s narrative of survival and transcendence, the film provides a viscerally personal account of an historical event that is all too easily abstracted into ideology.

World Refugee Day Commemoration 2021
2021-06-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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The Rabbi of Buchenwald by Dr Rafael Medoff
2021-06-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Online
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Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a U.S. army chaplain in World War II, was part of the unit that liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald, and remained in the camp for two and a half months to aid the survivors. After the war, Rabbi Schacter helped spearhead a revival of Orthodox Judaism in America, played a significant role in the Soviet Jewry protest movement, and led efforts to secure American support for Israel. He was the first Orthodox rabbi to chair the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Through the prism of Herschel Schacter’s life, The Rabbi of Buchenwald also sheds important new light on how American Jewry grappled with the political, social and racial crises of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond.
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Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C., which focuses on America’s response to Nazism and the Holocaust. He is the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history, and has contributed to the Encyclopedia Judaica and many other reference volumes. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State UnIversity, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and elsewhere, and is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. He is also a winner of the American Jewish Press Association’s Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism.

Educators' workshop: The Holocaust by bullets, a public genocide
2021-07-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Online

Educators' workshop: From the field research to the classroom
2021-07-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Online
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Srebrenica Memorial Service
2021-07-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join us for a special ceremony to remember the victims and survivors of the Srebrenica genocide that occurred in Bosnia 26 years ago. Register using the link: bit.ly/3hahN6s

Educators’ workshop: How to investigate a crime 80 years later
2021-07-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Online

Nurturing Peace: Building blocks for a more resilient people - A case of Rwanda
2021-07-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Nurturing Peace: Building blocks for a more resilient people – A case of Rwanda

In a country that suffered from war and genocide perpetrated against Tutsi in 1994, in a country where the social fabric seems so broken that no one sees signs of light, a country that inherited so many challenges and each of them seemed to be a priority. Everything was a priority. No State machinery, 3.5 million refugees, orphans and child headed households, wounded people, widows, no shelter, trauma, justice, coexistence, Genocide ideology, children born out of rape, HIV, broken trust etc. Social reconstruction became a dream that many aspired to but seemed unattainable.
It is generally known that teachers have the capacity to build and heal a whole generation. They influence not only their students but also the community at large. They however need content and appropriate methodology. It is against this backdrop that Aegis worked with the Ministry of Education and specifically Rwanda Basic Education Board, where the biggest achievement was to have Peace and Values Education integrated in the school curriculum. Aegis works with parents, youth and Decision Makers & Researchers to support conducive and peaceful environment.
Aegis Peace and Values Education initiatives which are essentially transformative, intend to cultivate the knowledge base, skills, attitudes and values that seek to transform people’s behaviors for better and informed decisions. They are built around the concept of Ubumuntu (Ubuntu) and a mindset that is able to challenge personal and social action to create conditions and systems that portray nonviolence, justice and other peace values.
Through this discussion, we will look at how Peace and values Education is supporting the journey to Peace starting with inner peace, social reconstruction and contribute to never again; in Rwanda and beyond.

Rethinking Womens Narratives: Women’s Agency during Nazism Panel Discussion
2021-07-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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The first panel starts the series by discussing recent trends of how we pass on and narrate women’s roles during National Socialism. It provides a global understanding of the overall topic while also introducing the extensive research of the panellists.
The speakers have done an extensive research in women’s biographies

Educators’ workshop: Reflecting on modern mass crimes and genocides
2021-07-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Online

Panel Discussion: The 600: The Soldiers' Story
2021-07-25 14:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
This will be a discussion with the film makers about their documentary film that showcases the little known story of a surrounded battalion of 600 men and women that started the counter-attack to end the Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.

Women in Resistance: Reflections on Nazi Europe and Apartheid South Africa
2021-07-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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This event will include a Tour of the DÖW Exhibition. The special exhibition at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) tells the story of three sisters. They left fascist Austria in the 30s fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco, in the Résistance against the Vichy Regime and against the Nazis. Their great-niece, Sonja Frank, tells a story based on documents, found in an old suitcase.
The second part of this segment will provide insight into women’s roles during Apartheid South Africa.

The Unknown Story of Hedy Lamarr
2021-08-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Hedy Lamarr has been described as one of the greatest Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 1940s. But she was also the inventor of frequency hopping, the technology on which Bluetooth and WLAN work.
Danielle Spera, director of the Jewish Museum Vienna, will give insight into Hedy Lamarr’s life and the different roles and mantles she took on.
Heather Massie, writer and solo performer of “HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr”, will give a Keynote Address on her long-running act and the upcoming world tour.

Film screening: The 600: The Soldiers' Story
2021-08-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
This documentary film showcases the little known story of a surrounded battalion of 600 men and women that started the counterattack to end the Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. This is the second part of the screening.

Women's Day Celebration
2021-08-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Please join us for the 3rd Annual Women’s Day Celebration event.

Stories of Peace and Resistance through Dance
2021-08-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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This segment will explore the memory culture of political arts – specifically dance and the passing on of its practices and memories. Renowned dancer Eva-Maria Schaller will provide insight into her work on Hanna Berger. This will be accompanied by two keynote addresses from Andrea Amort, professor at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, and Rebecca Davis, founder of MindLeaps who will speak about dance and its functionality towards youth engagement and peace work.

Post Holocaust and Apartheid Memories: Confronting Traumatic Pasts Panel Discussion
2021-08-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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This discussion panel intends to provide a more detailed understanding of the topic from a mainly 3rd generation perspective. It will examine the generational shifts and provide an outlook into future memory construction.
It will provide a contemporary link to memory culture about 1930s Europe and the recent South African History. A main topic will be how far the 3rd generation is diverging from the past memorialisations and what new narratives are available and developing.
This panel will also provide a conclusion to the series.

Commemoration of the Cambodian Genocide
2021-08-29 20:00 - 21:30 | https://ctholocaust.co.za/event/cambodian-genocide-commemoration/
The Ghetto Fighters’ House in partnership with SAHGF and Classrooms Without Borders invites you to a special ‘Talking Memory’ event in honor of the National Day of Remembrance in Cambodia –First They First Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. A conversation with Loung Ung
Join Loung Ung to learn more about her life surviving the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime in Cambodia. Learn about her bestselling book First They Killed My Father, and the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her memoir. Do not miss the opportunity to learn more about the genocide in Cambodia from one of its survivors.

The Holocaust remembered: Virtual tour of Vienna
2021-08-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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A virtual Walking Tour of Vienna with Boston based Kate Melchior will allow a visit to the Vienna of the 1930s – 1940s and its memorialisation today.

The Table of Truth
2021-09-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Learn about the extraordinary connection to one chess table between Faina Kukliansky, Lithuanian Jewish Community Chair, Shulamit Rabinovich, San Franciscan engineer, Dudu Fisher, Israeli world-renowned entertainer, Grant Gochin, South African Wealth Manager, and Silvia Foti, Chicagoan journalist.
We will reveal recently discovered facts about the Holocaust in Lithuania, Holocaust denial by the Lithuanian Government, and present new paths to education about the horrors of the past.
We will conclude the program with Dudu Fisher chanting Kaddish.

An Intimate Conversation
2021-09-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Sunday 26 September at 7pm for An Intimate Conversation between Two Descendants of Stutthof Concentration Camp Prisoners, Dr. Marylin Kingston and Silvia Foti.
Marylin & Silvia will compare how their family members were treated and the reasons they were in Stutthof Concentration Camp at the same time. They will address the fraud by the Lithuanian government to declare Silvia’s grandfather Noreika innocent of crimes of genocide, and how his detention in Stutthof has been used as a misleading political tool for Lithuanian Holocaust deception.
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Israeli Theatre & the Holocaust by Roy Horowitz
2021-10-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Tuesday 5 October at 7pm for a webinar looking at Israeli Theatre & the Holocaust by actor, director and dramaturge, Dr. Roy Horovitz. Register using the link: bit.ly/3FbzjRU

Holocaust Drawers
2021-10-10 20:00 - 21:30 | https://youtu.be/esVn2QEsMaM
Join us on Sunday 10 October at 8pm for a webinar exploring the Holocaust Drawers by Prof. Robert Jan van Pelt, Daphne Geismar and Sharon Strauss. This is the first lecture in a three part series on Invisible Years: Hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Register using the link: bit.ly/3ijUcjM
Invisible Years is an intimate portrait of an extended Jewish family living and hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, written and beautifully designed by Daphne Geismar. Geismar and her cousin Sharon Strauss went on a fourteen-year odyssey after discovering that their mothers both had “Holocaust drawers,” in which they kept letters, journals, documents, and photographs.

I Have Not Seen A Butterfly Around Here Exhibition Opening
2021-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Wednesday 20 October at 6pm for the Official Opening of the Exhibition I Have Not Seen A Butterfly Around Here. The opening address will be given by the Ambassador of the Czech Republic
H.E. Dr. Pavel Řezáč and the keynote address will be given by Dr. Zuzana Pavlovská.
To attend the opening at the centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za and to register for the Zoom livestream, use the link:https://bit.ly/3D9C2t1

Jewish Museum in Prague
2021-10-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Join us on Thursday 21 October at 6pm for a public lecture exploring the Jewish Museum in Prague by Dr. Zuzana Pavlovská.
To attend the lecture at our Centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za and to register for the Zoom livestream, use the link: bit.ly/3lbRdfm

Educators workshop: New Recommendations in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust
2021-10-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
To attend RSVP to danielle@holocaust.org.za
Register using the link: link is https://bit.ly/3AAanzG
