We pay tribute to the Holocaust survivors who settled in South Africa as part of the Yom HoShoah Commemoration. Please find the recording of the virtual ceremony on our Facebook page....
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Portraits of Holocaust survivors who chose to make Cape Town their home. The portraits were painted by Highlands House artists supervised by Haim Menashehoff....
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Archival Intern Kine Matose explores the emotive topic of memorialisation. Why do we memorialise? We memorialise as a way to show respect and preserve the memory of individuals, whether passed or living, groups of people or events. There are many traditions to honour people: statues, buildings, tombstones,...
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The SAHGF Archive contains archival material related to both World Wars, Jewish life in Europe before the war, the Holocaust and its aftermath. Confronting the global threat of Nazism Jews were especially targeted under vicious Aryan antisemitic doctrines which conceived ‘the Jew’ as the ultimate racial and...
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A powerful and inspiring day in celebration of women It was in a room festooned with an enchantment of pink and green, the colours of spring, life and rebirth, that 200 women from all walks of life gathered for the inaugural Women’s Day Event at the...
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The ‘Porajmos’ – which means ‘devouring’ in the Romani language – is the name given to the genocide of an estimated 500,000 Roma and Sinti people under Nazi rule. Their systematic extermination by both the Nazis and their collaborators is not widely known, only recently...
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This year, Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Centre, the first of its kind in Africa, was opened in 1999 with a vision using Holocaust education to create a more caring and just society in which human rights and...
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The massacre at Srebrenica where up to 8 000 Bosnian teenage boys and adult men were killed proved a sobering moment for the world. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created at the end of World War II. It was comprised of six smaller countries, each...
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American pianist, Mona Golabek, tells the story through words, images and music of Lisa Jura, a young refugee from Austria who left her home and her family on the Kindertransport just before World War II. Listen to Beethoven, Grieg and many more as Mona brings...
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