Please join us as Tali Nates presents the Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture, entitled "Finding Hope Underground" in conjunction with the 56th Annual Scholars' Conference. There will be a pre-event reception at 6:30pm.

As the Holocaust recedes into history, responsibility for remembrance shifts to descendants, educators and museums. The talk explores intergenerational witnessing through Tali Nates, daughter of a survivor rescued by Oskar Schindler. Combining scholarship with family narrative, it examines how descendants inherit stories, silences, emotional imprints, and ethical obligations. Speaking from South Africa, a place at the margins of Holocaust history, the talk highlights overlooked narratives of survival, displacement, and postwar life and asking how remembrance can remain dynamic, relevant, and inclusive in the 21st century.

Tali is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. She has published many articles and contributed chapters to several 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). Tali has 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), the Goethe Medal (2022, Germany) and the Secretary of State International Religious Freedom Award (2023, USA). She serves on many Advisory Boards including that of 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. Tali was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered.

This event is being presented free of charge, but registration is requested via this link.

PARKING
Parking is available at PS1. Follow the white "Ackerman Center Event" signs from the main entrance of the University. When you enter the parking garage, park on the opposite side of where you come in - the venue "Davidson-Gundy Almuni Center" will be directly across from there.
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