[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text] Traces of Violence Exhibition In 2021, Germany formally recognised the genocide of the Herero and Nama People, committed by the German Empire in 1904-1908 in German South West Africa (now Namibia).In the course of the division of Africa by the...
Read MoreRead More[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="19661" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text] Footprints: A selection of films on the Holocaust [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text]The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre is proud to present Footprints, a curated selection of films exploring the Holocaust, with special attention to the history and experiences...
Read MoreRead More[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text] Sweet Home Sweet Exhibition [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_single_image image="19264" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text] On Display from Oct 2025 to January 2026 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]When my father was in the Kraków ghetto he was still taking photos, and those photos were buried in Płaszów and discovered after the war,...
Read MoreRead MoreThe 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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