Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Their Stories, Our Voices
2022-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 (Africa/Johannesburg)
Please join us on Wednesday 9 February at 7:00pm (SAST) for a Holocaust Storytelling Workshop featuring CTHGC Education Director Linda Hackner and facilitated by Storyteller, Educator, Poet, and Storytelling Coach Jennifer Zunikoff. Register for this talk using the link: bit.ly/3zTs8LV

Book launch: Not just a Survivor – a Portrait of my Mother
2022-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | https://youtube.com/watch?v=22Wj4DFs-iE
The camp is getting fuller and fuller. I talk to the Sanitater – an SS guard, who collects the sick from all the other camps and brings them here – and he tells me that when there are over a thousand inmates, they are sent away. And I see that the camp is filling up and filling up and filling up. So I decided – I am not going away with them to Auschwitz. I have to get out of here
My mother was a Holocaust survivor. She embodied the Holocaust. She experienced it physically, lived it emotionally and studied it intellectually. She spent her entire life trying to make logical sense of an inexplicable trauma that ruled her life and decimated her past.
But being a Survivor was never all of who she was. She was so much more – somebody truly special who survived and enriched people’s lives not because of the Holocaust, but despite it.
Filled with the many stories of love, loss, hope, friendship, and food, told and retold – some by her, and some about her – this book creates a composite of the warm, intelligent, and amazing person that she was.
These are her stories.

Rochy Miller is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor – Lea Leibowitz. Not Just a Survivor – a portrait of my mother is her mother’s story. This memoir has been a lifetime in the making.
Rochy is a retired medical doctor, who, like her mother, holds a swathe of other qualifications, and dabbles a little in each! She has studied creative writing, and holds both Medical Journalism and Master of Journalism degrees. She has published numerous short stories and articles, as well as a series of Text Books in the field of aesthetics education. Originally from South Africa, she now lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband.

Raoul Wallenberg
2022-02-23 19:00 - 20:30

Holocaust Education In India
2022-03-02 19:00 - 20:30
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Our speakers will introduce us to Holocaust education in India, in all its facets. They will focus on their work at their respective universities, and will discuss the importance of Holocaust education in the national curriculum, and its relevance in India today.

Anne Frank and the recent Cold Case Investigation by Dr Rolf Wolfswinkel
2022-03-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Register for this event by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za
Please that this will be an in-person event held at the CTHGC.
Please join us on Wednesday 9 March at 7:00pm (SAST) for a public lecture by Professor Rolf Wolfswinkel looking at Anne Frank and the recent Cold Case Investigation. RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.
The outcome of the recent Cold Case investigation into the betrayal of the Frank Family in 1944 has caused much debate worldwide. Professor Wolfswinkel will look at what is held up as ‘a breakthrough’ in the matter of the betrayal and discuss whether earlier theories have now become obsolete.
Rolf Wolfswinkel was born in Amsterdam, where he studied History and Literature. In 1988 he came to Cape Town, where he lectured at UCT. His dissertation “Between Treason and Patriotism’’ analyzed how Dutch literature has dealt with Nazi collaboration. Together with Dick van Galen Last he published: ‘Anne Frank and After: Dutch Holocaust literature in historical perspective’. In 2001 he was appointed at New York University as Professor of Holocaust Studies. He is now retired and lives in an old farmhouse in Connecticut.

Cattle Grazed Among the Bones of our Sacred Martyrs: Covering Babyn Yar through the Decades
2022-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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It took two years for the Forward to first cover the 1941 massacre at Babyn Yar, a ravine in Ukraine, where the Nazis massacred more than 33,000 Jews over two days. Years after Forward’s initial report, their kept readers connected to Babyn Yar, with witness accounts at a Nazi war crimes trial, a detailed history of the event Kyiv Jews shared with a delegation of New York rabbis visiting in the 1950s, and dispatches from their Paris correspondent.
With eyewitnesses to the atrocities largely gone, the Forverts back issues are an invaluable source bearing witness to what we cannot even imagine. This walk through the highlights of that coverage, its content and its tone, may offer today’s readers a deeper understanding of events unfolding there in our time.

Commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi
2022-04-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
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Yom HaShoah Commemoration
2022-04-28 12:45 - 14:00
Please join us on Thursday 28 April at 12:45pm as we commemorate Yom HaShoah virtually. The Yom HaShoah virtual commemoration recording can be found on our Facebook page.

In the Country of Numbers where Men have no Names Exhibition Opening
2022-05-04 18:00 - 20:30

What Should I read? by Dr Miriam Klein Kassenoff
2022-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Online
What Should I read?-What should my Children and grandchildren read? by Dr Miriam Klein Kassenoff

Talk by Chava Erlanger
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:30

Volunteer Open Day
2022-05-19 15:00 - 19:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
If you would like first-hand experience of how you can play a role in creating a more caring and just society, join us for our Volunteer Open Day on Thursday 19 May from 3pm – 7pm. Come and get to know our organisation and how you can get involved.Booking is essential, RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.

Woman’s Day event
2022-08-09 14:00 - 15:30

Bjorn Korndofer
2022-08-10 19:00 - 20:30

The Survivor
2022-11-03 17:30 - 19:30
Please join us for a free screening of the film “The Survivor” on 3 November at the Ster Kinekor V&A Waterfront at 5:45pm.Limited seating. RSVP essential.WhatsApp Message Ilan Herrmann on +27 82 683 4100 to reserve your seats. Please do not call.

Kristallnacht Commemoration
2022-11-09 19:00 - 20:30
Join us on Wednesday 9 November at 7pm as we Commemorate the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) with a keynote addresses from the leading Holocaust Historian Professor Christopher Browning andDeborah Lipstadt.To attend online register using the link: https://bit.ly/3U66v3P

Euthanasia as a Prelude to the Holocaust: Jewish Patients in the Operation T4
2022-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday 16 November at 6pm for a public lecture by the Historian Dr Astrid Ley on Euthanasia as a Prelude to the Holocaust: Jewish Patients in the Operation T4. RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Film screening: Nobody Told Me
2022-12-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Tuesday 13 December at 6pm for an exclusive film screening of Nobody Told Me. This extraordinary film tells the untold story of Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wanda Albinska (nee Rotstein) and her courageous mother, Dr. Halina Rotstein, who was murdered in Trablinka.
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Book talk: The remarkable life of Elie Wiesel
2022-12-29 18:00
Join us for a talk by author Joseph Berger on the book “The remarkable life of Elie Wiesel”.
RSVP by emailing events@sajewishmuseum.co.za
DATE: Thursday, 29 December 2022 | Time: 6pm
How did a Hasidic boy from a village in the Carpathian Mountains become the torchbearer for the world’s Holocaust survivors and for the victims of genocide everywhere?

Remembering the Holocaust through personal objects by Paul Salmons
2023-01-22 18:00 - 19:30
Remembering the Holocaust through personal objects
Today, museums and exhibitions across the world collect and display original artefacts from the Holocaust. At first glance, many appear to be rather unremarkable: a shoe, a suitcase, a pair of spectacles. But this is to overlook the fact that these seemingly everyday objects are among the last remnants of a murdered people, and each has its own unique story to tell.
Join Paul Salmons as he shares the stories of artefacts that have touched him most deeply, and asks what meanings they hold for us today.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2023-02-02 19:00 - 21:00
Join us on 2 February at 7pm (SAST) as we mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust with a screening of the film “Questo e’ un uomo” about Primo Levi.

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Vilna Ghetto Posters Exhibition Opening
2023-02-07 18:00 - 19:30
Join the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre in partnership with the Embassy of Lithuania for the official launch of the Vilna Ghetto Posters Exhibition.
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After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda by Nicky Fox
2023-03-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a public lecture by Nicole Fox, Ph.D.RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Russian-Ukrainian War and the Road to Genocide
2023-04-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a public lecture by Prof. Olixey Haran.RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi
2023-04-23 14:00 - 15:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
29th Commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Sunday 23 April, 2pm

Join us for a special commemoration ceremony.RSVP to attend in person by emailing ambapretoria@minaffet.gov.rw

Sharing Their Stories: Uprisings & Resistance
2023-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us to commemorate
Yom HaShoah and the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Sharing Their Stories: A Story-Infused Lecture
Resistance and Uprisings During the Holocaust

This programme brings together scholars and storytellers, creating a unique evening of history and commemoration.
The lecture will delve in to the historical aspects of Jewish resistance and uprisings in ghettos and camps during the Holocaust. Our historical discussion will be infused with testimony-based stories of Jewish heroines told by four different storytellers from Teach the Shoah and the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre.

Featuring lecturer Lynne Feldman, storytellers Orli Barnet (CTHGC), Joanne Gilbert, Deborah Fripp, and Violet Neff-Helms, along with the poetry of Karen Webber.
Register here: TheirStories.org/Apr23STS
This programme is on Zoom. All are welcome.
For assistance, please contact the CTHGC: 021 462 5553 / admin@holocaust.org.za
info@teachtheshoah.org

Its Complicated: Polish-Jewish Relations in Contemporary Polandby Jakub Nowakowski
2023-05-07 17:00 - 18:30
Join us for a public lecture on Polish-Jewish Relations in Contemporary Poland by Jakub Nowakowski on Sunday 7 May at 5pm.
RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Book launch: I am Ella
2023-06-11 15:00 - 17:00
Join us for the in-person book launch of “I am Ella” on Sunday 11 June, 3pm.

RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

The World was Ours
2023-06-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
A documentary chronicling the rich, vibrant history of the Jewish community of Vilna (then Poland, now Lithuania,) known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania”, before its destruction in World War II
Please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

Celebrating Chayela in Song
2023-06-25 17:00 - 21:00
Sunday 25 June 5pm or 7:30pm| Ticket: R180 In-person ticket
Join Bervely Chiat, Ivor Joffe, Caely-Jo Levy and Zola for musical evening. Tickets go for R180 per person. Space is limited, book now to avoid disappointment.
To book a Celebrating Chayela in Song Concert ticket for the 5pm or the 7:30pm slot, simply email danielle@holocaust.org.za for the 5pm slot or admin@holocaust.org.za for the 7:30pm slot with your full name, mobile number and number of tickets. You will contacted to confirm the booking and to arrange for payment.
