Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), 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, curated exhibitions, published articles and contributed chapters to many books. She is a sought after international speaker who lectured at the United Nations (2016 & 2020), UNESCO (2025) and many other places and is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar (2014-2024) as well as the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (2016 and 2022). She won many awards in South Africa (2010 and 2015) and globally, the latest were the Gratias Agit Award (Czech Republic, 2020), the Goethe Medal (2022, Germany), the Secretary of State International Religious Freedom Award (2023, USA) and the International Network of Genocide Scholars’ Impact Award (2024).
