Episodes 17 - 20

Episode 17 - Continuing with Holocaust Education

We continue with our discussion on the importance of Holocaust & Genocide education.

In Part Two of Episode 2, we discuss why it's so complex and highly politicized to teach Holocaust education in Palestine. Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi shares his own personal journey when visiting the death camps in Poland as well as the severe repercussions he faced for taking a group of 25 Palestinian students to Auschwitz.

"Before visiting Auschwitz for the first time, I did not pay attention to the holocaust. It was part of Jewish history, that we never opened that page. Visiting Auschwitz was my first encounter with the holocaust. I was so shocked. The environment there was so cold. It made us think how these people were living." Prof. Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, Founder & Executive Director, Wasatia.

Tali Nates the Founder & Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre explains what antisemitism is and adds some valuable insights about peace and war.

"If we can teach more about peace and if we can look more at the pain of the other, if we can put ourselves inside others shoes, and walk a little bit in those shoes, I think that will be so much more beneficial than learning about war and war and war. " Tali Nates, Founder & Director, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.

There are some powerful and valuable insights shared in this episode so be sure to tune in.

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Episode 18 - A Virtual Tour of the JHB Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Just in time for Human Rights Day in South Africa which is 21st March 2021.

This is an extra special season of Give Peace A Chance as in this season we are spreading messages of the importance of holocaust and genocide education.

We have more on the way!

It is important to learn from the past.

Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.

Hate leads to prejudice and disastrous consequences.

The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre is truly doing amazing work and engaging in dialogue necessary to present day challenges.

Here is a virtual tour of the Museum at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Learn more about their "Butterfly project" and how you can make a difference. Visit their website www.jhbholocaust.co.za

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Episode 19 - The Importance of Nakba Education & Understanding why it is not taught in Israel

Hyam Tannous shares with us her emotional experience at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland and how it changed her as a person. She also explains why in Israel talking about the Nakba and teaching the lessons learned and pain experienced during the 1948 catastrophe is avoided.

"It is sad that our children don't learn about the Nakba, and I think that it comes from a very emotional history, and both sides feel for the land. I think the logic is, around how can they teach the children that the state of Israel was built on the catastrophe of another nation? They want to give the impression that Israel belongs to the Jewish people. They want to introduce that there were no Arabs living there." Hyam Tannous, Peace Activist, Women Wage Peace.

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Episode 20 - Have you Learned from Rwanda?

Rwanda is regarded as a miracle today.

This East African country is hardly a dot on the map anymore sharing a history of colonization and war, with so many other countries.

The spectacular recovery from the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, is not just a page-turner in their history but an inspiring example to the rest of the world of what can be achieved and what is truly possible when a commitment and pledge is made by the survivors to restore hope, economic prosperity, and sustainable peaceful co-existence.

No other country in the world today has a large number of perpetrators of the genocide living in such close proximity to the victim's families.

In this episode, we remember the victims and pay tribute to the resilience and strength of the survivors. Meet Freddy Mutanguha, a survivor of the genocide who lost both parents, four sisters, and 80 members of his family at the hands of the Interahamwe, Hutu extremists who mobilised quickly after the assassination of Rwandan President Juvenal Habriyamana. The Interahamwe showed no mercy and went on a mass killing spree to wipe out the Tutsis.

"The moments Rwandans chose the road of reconciliation the survivors and people in the country started the healing process. That was really the starting point. The moment we chose reconciliation and peace is the moment that economic growth started. So when you make the right choice you are going in the right direction. What I realized as well is that people who make the choice to hate and to commit genocide, I have never seen any genocide that doesn't have survivors, that means you are a failure because you did not succeed to wipe out a whole ethnic group, that means you are a failure to yourself. And the consequences is equal or even bigger than what you caused. Both sides suffer from the consequences of what you just did and they suffer from the bad choice that you made of hate.

But I have never seen any consequences and bad consequences of making the choice for peace. You may not see it, you may make great sacrifices for peace to go beyond your emotions and feelings, but you are sure that the next generations will enjoy it! This is really the best way of putting it Making the choice for peace is making a choice for all generations to come." Freddy Mutanguha, Survivor, Kigali Genocide Memorial.

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