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“Echoes Across Time: Voices of Survival and Lessons for Our Future” Session 1

Wednesday, February 19 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST

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“Echoes Across Time: Voices of Survival and Lessons for Our Future”

In collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre


As we stand on the cusp of history, the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors grow more urgent, reminding us of the cost of silence, the value of empathy, and the power of resilience. “Echoes Across Time” invites audiences to explore the critical lessons these testimonies offer—on values, democracy, and the warning signs of oppression. Through monthly episodes, each centered around a survivor’s testimony about their life experiences, this series probes the question: Are we truly listening? Join us as we amplify stories from the Holocaust to Rwanda, Cambodia, and beyond, engaging with survivors, scholars, and advocates who work tirelessly to preserve these legacies and inspire a more compassionate future.

“A New World of Remembrance: Insights from Pinchas Gutter” 

Featuring: Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, who will share profound reflections on how the weight of testimony has shifted over time and the ways memory adapts in a world where prejudice and intolerance persist. Pinchas’s story challenges us to think about our responsibility to remember, and how each of us can confront hate and build resilience within our own communities. This session explores what it means to carry the memories of the Holocaust and rebuilding life after it ended into the future and the lessons that memory can teach us in today’s world.

Tali Nates


Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education, memory, reconciliation, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015), Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018), Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023).

In 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences, Monash University (IIEMSA), South Africa.

In 2010, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in

South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015), the Gratias Agit Award (2020, Czech Republic), the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022, Germany).

Pinchas Gutter was born to a Hasidic family in Lodz, Poland on July 21, 1932. Alongside his twin sister Sabina, he grew up in a religious Jewish community. Within a month of the Nazis’ 1939 invasion of Poland, the Gutter family, under false Christian identity, moved to Warsaw to avoid danger in their hometown. The family was interned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where they hid in a bunker during the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

They were eventually discovered and deported to the Majdanek concentration camp, where Pinchas’ parents and sister were murdered. Pinchas was then transferred to forced labour camps in Skarzysko-Kamienna and Tschenstochau-Rakow, Poland and later to the Buchenwald and Colditz concentration camps in Germany. From Colditz, he was sent on a death march to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

Pinchas was liberated from Theresienstadt by the Red Army in May 1945. After the war, Pinchas lived briefly in the United Kingdom, where he married his wife Dorothy, and then in Israel, before settling in South Africa for many years. He then immigrated to Canada in 1985 where he served as a lay chaplain at the Baycrest Jewish Home for the Aged in Toronto and as an honorary cantor at his local congregation.

Pinchas and his wife had three children and three grandchildren. Pinchas’ story became the film Political, Polish Jew: The Story of Pinchas Gutter. In April 2014, he was also the inaugural participant in USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony project. Pinchas was first interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation in Toronto, Canada on January 12, 1995, and subsequently interviewed again by The Azrieli Foundation in Toronto on July 12, 2017.

Upcoming Events in this series:

  • March 2025: Memory as a Democratic Tool: Michael Berenbaum on Survivor Testimonies and the Future
  • April 2025: Generations of the Shoah: Passing the Torch
  • May 2025: Legacy of the Ghetto Fighters: Research and Resilience of the Survivors Who Created the GFH
  • June 2025: Resisting Rising Antisemitism: Lessons from the USC Shoah Foundation
  • September 2025: Srebrenica: Capturing Memories in the Face of Denial
  • October 2025: From Tragedy to Healing: Rwanda’s Path to Restorative Justice
  • November 2025: After the Genocide in Cambodia: Rebuilding from Devastation

Details

Date:
Wednesday, February 19
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST
Cost:
Free
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