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 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 the Jews of Europe, into reality. SS General Reinhard Heydrich convened the conference to...
Read MoreRead MoreWitnessing Darfur Exhibition The Cape Town Holocaust and 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...
Read MoreRead MoreSeeking Refuge: German Jewish immigration to the Cape in the 1930s The Cape Town Holocaust and 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 and Genocide Centre will be staging an exhibition entitled "Anne Frank: A history for today" from 15 December 2020 until 22 January 2021. The exhibition created by Anne Frank House explores the life of Anne...
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This article was written by Dr Victoria Walden and was originally posted on the Digital Holocaust Memory Project website. Last night, I was very honoured to present some initial ideas related to my research about digital Holocaust memory for The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre....
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Dachau was the first, and longest operating, concentration camp. Built in 1933, just five weeks after Adolf Hitler became the German Chancellor, it initially housed Nazi political opposition. It was in Dachau where the Nazis' political opponents would be exposed to harsh forced labour and...
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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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Why do we celebrate Human Rights day in South Africa on this day? On 21 March 1960, the president of the Pan African Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe organised a peaceful, countrywide uprising against the pass book (dompas), issued only to those in South Africa who had...
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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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