Tali Nates 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) and "Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations" (2021). Tali has 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 (2021). She serves on many Advisory Boards, including for 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, South Africa. Tali was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Her father and uncle were saved from the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler. 

IVLP Impact Award Project: Change Makers Program – Ensuring Sustainability for Youth Leaders of the Future

The Change Makers Program built resilience and resistance to violence by organizing a youth leadership program for student leaders and their teachers. It helped develop the necessary skills to challenge the ideas of extremism and encouraged participants to become upstanders and change-makers in society. This 3-dayinteractive educational program promoted tolerance, pluralism and democracy. It encouraged learning from history’s difficult past through the 3 case studies of the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and Apartheid in South Africa. Thirty educators participated in a 'train the trainer' workshop where they were provided with support in preparing their own youth training workshops. The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre has offered continuous support to the new trainees in implementing the youth workshops in their schools and communities.

"This workshop has given me the time to self-introspect and see the importance of preparing for lessons using various methods." - Project Participant

IVLP Exchange Experience 

Tali participated in the IVLP Project Fundraising for Historical and Cultural Institutions before COVID-19 and in the present organized by the U.S. Department of State and CRDF Global, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State Office of International Visitors program branch in New York City, Global Ties Detroit, Charleston Council for International Visitors, WorldOrlando and Global Ties San Francisco.

Tali's exchange experience led to the development of her IVLP Impact Award Project: "My IVLP experience in 2021 was a wonderful one! I interacted with inspiring colleagues in South Africa and the USA and established long term partnerships which I cherish."

U.S. Communities Visited Virtually 

San Francisco, CA; Orlando, FL; Detroit, MI; New York City, NY; Charleston, SC

Country: South Africa

Click here to go back to the IVLP Impact Awards Main Page