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Tali Nates is a historian and the founder and executive director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre since 2008 and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation, an association of the three Holocaust & Genocide Centres in the country, since 2019. She also directed the curatorial team of the permanent exhibition of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler.

Work Life
Ms Nates is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. After completing her BA at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she moved to South Africa where she continued her post-graduate studies in history at the University of the Witwatersrand. Ms Nates lectures internationally including at the United Nations in New York (2016 & 2020) and is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar (2014-2021) as well as the first Summer Education Academy of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (2016). 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 regarding the content of the programme on Holocaust remembrance, education and for actions to combat antisemitism. She also serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences, Monash University (IIEMSA), South Africa.

Films
Ms Nates has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films made for TV as well as for the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She served as the historical consultant for the award winning documentary "I am here" about the life of Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal and the short documentary ‘Nobody Told Me’ about Holocaust survivor Wanda Albinski.

Publications
Ms Nates 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations. (2021)

Awards
In 2010, Ms Nates was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015), the Gratias Agit Award (2020, Czech Republic) and the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award of the Austrian Service Abroad (2021).

Weblinks
Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre: https://www.jhbholocaust.co.za/