On the occasion of the commemoration of the 1938 November Pogroms in Germany, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, the Goethe-Institut and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation invites you to a lecture by Fumiko Ishioka, Executive Director of the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Centre.
A few thousand Jews escaped from German and Soviet occupied Poland to the Far East during World War Two. Among them was Dora Grynberg from Warsaw, seven-months pregnant. She was determined to give her child a life of freedom. In order to cross international borders, she, her husband Oskar, and other Polish Jewish refugees received rare assistance from representatives of the Dutch government-in-exile, and Nazi Germany's ally, Japan.
Fumiko Ishioka will talk in particular about the Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara and the Jewish refugees who landed in Japan.
Fumiko Ishioka is an educator and the Executive Director of the Tokyo
Holocaust Education Resource Centre, an organisation that teaches children
about the dangers of prejudice, intolerance and discrimination. She has
been instrumental in Holocaust education for primary school learners.
She has given workshops at over 1,200 schools and also lectures at Kobe Gakuin University and Aichi University of Education.
RSVP for this event is essential. Please contact
dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
or call Dowi Bele on 011-640-3100 to RSVP
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