The exhibition opens with a quote "We wanted to be free and owe this freedom to nobody" – Jan Stanisław Jankowski’s, Deputy Prime Minister of the Polish Government, statement made on 1 September 1944. These words express the essence of the Warsaw Rising. “Warsaw Rising 1944”...
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Visit our latest temporary exhibition Seeing Auschwitz. Seeing Auschwitz is an exhibition that incorporates 100 photographs, sketches and testimonies of the German Nazi camp Auschwitz and the Holocaust. It encourages us to look beyond the four edges of the photograph and through the veil of...
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Visit our latest temporary exhibition Chayela Rosenthal: Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre which looks at the life of Singer, Actress & Comedienne Holocaust survivor Chayela Rosenthal. Admission is free, donations always appreciated. Opening times: Sunday - Thursday: 10am - 5pm Friday: 10am - 2pm ...
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Visit our latest temporary exhibition Vilna Ghetto Posters from the collections of the Vilna Gaon State Museum of Jewish History which highlights some of the posters chronicling the cultural and spiritual life of the ghetto. Admission is free, donations always appreciated. Opening times: Sunday - Thursday: 10am -...
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Elias' story I am Elias Zorn and I have the honour to serve my Gedenkdienst here in Cape Town at the Holocaust and Genocide Centre. I was born in Wels, Upper-Austria and lived my whole life on the countryside in a district called Gmunden. Gmunden is on...
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Understating the Process of Seeking Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa My previous blogs have rather been academic, as I’ve been trying to wrap my head around concepts which help us understand contentious moral issues concerning the history of the Holocaust. Allow me to be somewhat...
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Merentia’s story My name is Merentia Schwartz and I am doing a one year Internship at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in order to obtain my diploma in Tourism Management which I studied at South Cape College, Oudtshoorn campus in the Western Cape. I mostly...
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Jacob’s Story Hello world, my name is Jacob Anthony Bauer, I am 20 years old and from Austria. At only 19 years old, I made the decision to come Cape Town as part of my “Gedenkdienst”/Service Board to continue an ongoing journey that so far brought...
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If you would you like first-hand experience of how you can play a role in creating a more caring and just society, join us for our Volunteer Open Day on Thursday 19 May from 3pm - 7pm. Come and get to know our organisation and how...
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The Eichmann Trial 60 years ago, on the 15th of December 1961, Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in an historical trial in Jerusalem. Hannah Arendt, one of the most famous thinkers of the 20th century, was asked to write a report on the trial by...
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