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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Exhibition Opening: The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim

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

Join us on Sunday, April 28th, for the opening of Barry Salzman's exhibition The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim, as we mark the 30th anniversary of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda with a video keynote address by award-winning artist Barry Salzman and...

Free

Understanding the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in Colonial South Africa

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

Join us on Thursday, May 9, for a public lecture by CTHGC Archivist Dmitri Abrahams on understanding the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in Colonial South Africa. To attend this event in-person, please email admin@holocaust.org.za

Free

Four Winters: A story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII

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

Join us on Thursday, May 16, for this captivating and profound film, followed by an exclusive conversation with the film maker Julia Mintz. To attend this event in-person, please email admin@holocaust.org.za

Free

Rescuing the Repertoire of the Yiddish Shoah Song

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

RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za This presentation highlights the life and career of Vilna-born poet and anthologist Shmerke Kaczerginski. Known for his pre-war revolutionary folksongs, Kaczerginski was a vital creative force in the Vilna ghetto and later joined an underground partisan unit. During the war, he began...

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...

Free

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