Meet Aleks who is going to be the intern in the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre for the next year. ...
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Q&A: New research to map Holocaust denial and distortion online Selected files from the Arolsen Archives which contain over 30 million pages of Holocaust-era documents relating to the experiences of over 17.5 million people. © Johanna Gross/Arolsen Archives This article was originally posted on the UNESCO website. Experts...
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Aria's Journey My name is Aria Askari and I am completing a masters in History and German Philology at the University of Vienna. I mostly grew up in Vienna and have strong family ties to Graz in southern Styria, but also spent significant parts of my childhood...
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The Wannsee Conference Image: "The Final Solution" section of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre's permanent exhibition. The Wannsee Conference, held in Berlin in January 1942, was the last step in transforming the concept of the “Final Solution” which was the codename for the annihilation of...
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Witnessing Darfur Exhibition The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre will be staging an exhibition entitled “Genocide and Darfur” created by the Aegis Trust from the 15th of December 2020 until the 22nd of January 2021. The exhibition raises awareness of the humanitarian crisis in the...
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Seeking Refuge: German Jewish immigration to the Cape in the 1930s The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre will be staging an exhibition entitled "Seeking Refuge: German-Jewish immigration to South Africa in the 1930s" from the 15th of December 2020 until the 22nd of January 2021....
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Anne Frank: A history for Today Exhibition The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre will be staging an exhibition entitled "Anne Frank: A history for today" from 15 December 2020 until 31 March 2021. The exhibition created by Anne Frank House explores the life of Anne...
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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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