Oct 15 2026
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Righteous Among the Nations

justine

[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="22050" img_size="large"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1792048189658{margin-right: 300px !important;padding-right: 100px !important;}"]This Yad Vashem exhibition explores stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust who came from different countries, religions, genders, ages and social backgrounds. They risked their lives to save Jews despite facing...

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More Important than Life

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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="21346" img_size="large"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1785272190235{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 10px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}"]In an exhibition by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism...

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Traces of Violence

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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 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...

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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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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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Elias
Dec 20 2022
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Elias’ story

justine

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

justine

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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