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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The Exhibition examines the personal objects left behind by Holocaust victims in the concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen, Germany. Photographed by Richard Wiesel and inspired by the stories of his cousin, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize writer Elie Wiesel, these images depict the...
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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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The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre works towards creating a more just and caring society, in which human rights and diversity are respected and valued. Our South African Constitution stipulates that our country belongs to all those living within it. We have, however, witnessed unprecedented...
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The SAHGF Archive contains archival material related to both World Wars, Jewish life in Europe before the war, the Holocaust and its aftermath. Confronting the global threat of Nazism Jews were especially targeted under vicious Aryan antisemitic doctrines which conceived ‘the Jew’ as the ultimate racial and...
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In honour of International Teacher’s Day, the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre honours Dr. Janusz Korczak, the renowned Polish pedagogue, doctor educator, essayist, children’s author and pioneering proponent for children’s rights. Korczak was born Henryk Goldszmit, on 22 July 1878 in Warsaw. He adopted the...
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A powerful and inspiring day in celebration of women It was in a room festooned with an enchantment of pink and green, the colours of spring, life and rebirth, that 200 women from all walks of life gathered for the inaugural Women’s Day Event at the...
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South Africa is facing an epidemic of hate. From the scourge of gender-based violence to the current wave of xenophobic attacks, our country is in crisis. These acts of hate can only happen in a society where attitudes of prejudice have become acceptable. Every day the South...
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The ‘Porajmos’ – which means ‘devouring’ in the Romani language – is the name given to the genocide of an estimated 500,000 Roma and Sinti people under Nazi rule. Their systematic extermination by both the Nazis and their collaborators is not widely known, only recently...
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