Eva’s Story: The Promise
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More Important than Life
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Read MoreRead MoreAnn Frank: A history for today
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Read MoreRead MoreTraces of Violence
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Read MoreRead MoreFootprints film festival
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Read MoreRead MoreWarsaw Rising Exhibition
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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Elias’ story
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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Apr
12
2022
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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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Mar
29
2022
Meet Merentia
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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Mar
24
2022
Jacob’s Story
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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