Footprints film festival

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[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...

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Sweet Home Sweet Exhibition

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[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,...

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Warsaw Rising Exhibition

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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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Sep 22 2023
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Seeing Auschwitz

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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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Vilna Ghetto exhibition poster
Jan 04 2023
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Vilna Ghetto Posters

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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
Dec 20 2022
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Elias’ story

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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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Picture Truth & reconciliation commission
Apr 12 2022
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TRC intro

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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 Schwartz CTHGC
Mar 29 2022
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Meet Merentia

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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 Bauer CTHGC
Mar 24 2022
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Jacob’s Story

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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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