Discussion Papers Series
Tali Nates, Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, has lectured internationally about Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. She has presented at numerous conferences, published many articles and was involved in documentary films made for South African Television
. In 2010, Ms. Nates was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa, published in the Mail & Guardian Book of South African Women. Ms. Nates acts as a scholar and leader of many Holocaust education missions to Eastern Europe as well as educational missions in South Africa and Rwanda. She is also one of the founders of ‘Holocaust Survivors Services’ in Johannesburg, an organization that offers social, educational and psychological services for survivors and their families. She comes from a family of Holocaust survivors-- her father and uncle were both saved by Oskar Schindler, but the rest of the family perished.