CTHGC Events Calendar

We have regular events throughout each month. Please ensure that you register for any event you intend to attend. While our events are free of charge, donations are welcome in support of our ongoing events.

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Reconciliation and Remembrance: Restoring the Kutno Jewish Cemetery

Online

Register using this link Join us for a compelling panel discussion on the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Kutno, Poland. Totally destroyed by the Nazis during World War II and subsequently misused, this sacred site is now undergoing a profound transformation. Led by a...

Free

Voices from The Auschwitz Album

Online

Voices from The Auschwitz Album: Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of Jews from Hungary Register for this event From May to July 1944, the Nazis deported over 420,000 Jews from Hungary to the death camp of Auschwitz II Birkenau. Most we murdered shortly...

Free

Official Opening of the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Official Opening with a keynote message by Dr Stephen Smith on "New Challenges - Old Solutions? Why it is time for Holocaust Education to Change" Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education...

Free

Ignorance or calculation? Holocaust terminology as a political weapon

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Keynote Session 2: Ignorance or calculation? Holocaust terminology as a political weapon Speaker: Prof. Adam Mendelsohn, Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education...

Free

Perpetrators perspective. Genocidaire as a moral person

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Keynote Session 3: Perpetrators perspective. Genocidaire as a moral person Speaker: Konstanty Gebert Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators. To attend this event in-person, please Register using...

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Why Should We Care?

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Keynote Session 4: Why Should We Care? Incorporating the story of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda into the narrative of the Holocaust museum Speaker: Tali Nates, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying...

Free

Why Should They Care? Holocaust education in post-Apartheid South Africa

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Keynote Session 5: Why Should They Care? Holocaust education in post-Apartheid South Africa Speaker: Richard Freedman, Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum...

Free

New realities of Holocaust education

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Keynote Session 6: New realities of Holocaust education Speaker: Dr. Rocco Giansante, Yad Vashem Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators. To attend this event in-person, please Register...

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Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference Closing event

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Closing Keynote Session Speaker: Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, U.S. Dept. of State Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators. To attend this event in-person, please...

Free

Post-Jewish: Uncomfortable Memory

Online
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join us on Wednesday, August 21, at 7 p.m. for a discussion with author Agnieszka Dobkiewicz on her book Post-Jewish: Uncomfortable Memory. In this compelling work, she explores the deep intertwining of Jewish heritage within Polish identity. To attend this event on Zoom, register using...

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