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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  • The Mervyn Smith Memorial Lecture by David Fishman

    Online

    Join us on Wednesday 28 June at 8pm for the Mervyn Smith Memorial Lecture by Prof. David Fishman on Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto: The Story of the "Paper Brigade".To attend the event at the centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za and to register for the Zoom livestream, use the link: bit.ly/44dhoFT

  • Better Don’t Talk

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

    Join for a screening of the documentary film Better Don't Talk Date: Sunday 2 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za Naava Piatka’s internationally acclaimed musical performance piece about the remarkable life and times of her mother, Holocaust survivor and...

  • Searching for Papas Secrets in Hitler’s Berlin

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

    Join us for a talk by Egonne Roth on her book Searching for Papas Secrets in Hitler's Berlin. Date: Wednesday 5 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

  • The World was Ours

    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

    Free
  • The Paper Brigade

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

    RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za An award winning documentary that tells the moving story of the resistance group “The Paper Brigade”, a group of Jewish writers, scholars, and librarians who desperately tried to rescue Jewish cultural treasures in Vilnius during the...

  • Rethinking Yiddish Theatre – Now and Then

    Join us for a panel discussion on Rethinking Yiddish Theatre - Now and Then. Date: Sunday 16 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za This discussion will give an overview of local Yiddish Theatre, Chayela Rosenthal’s contribution, and the influence...

  • The World was Ours

    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

    Free
  • The World was Ours

    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

    Free
  • Leah, Teddy and the Mandolin

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

    Join us a screening of the documentary film Leah, Teddy and the Mandolin. Date: Sunday 30 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

  • Creative Project Awards Ceremony

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

    Join us for an awards ceremony honouring high school learners who participated in this year’s Creative Project.

    Free