Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Film Screening: Facing Auschwitz
2023-10-30 18:00 - 19:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Monday 30 October at 6pm for a film screening of Facing Auschwitz with producer, Iris Singer.
This film screening is part of an event series accompanying the Seeing Auschwitz exhibition.
To attend this event in-person, please RSVP to admin@holocalocast.org.za

In the Country of Numbers Where the Men Have No Names exhibition opening
2023-11-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us in-person on Sunday 5 November at 6pm for the official opening of the In the Country of Numbers Where the Men Have No Names exhibition with a keynote address from the curator Dr. Astrid Ley. RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

November Pogroms Commemoration Ceremony
2023-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us online on Thursday 9 November at 7pm for the 85th Commemoration Ceremony of the November Pogrom. The event with a keynote address from Holocaust survivor and environmentalist Nat Shaffir.
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Commemoration of the 90 Anniversary of Ukraine’s Great Famine of 1932-33
2023-11-27 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Monday 27 November at 6pm as we commemorate the 90 Anniversary of Ukraine’s Great Famine of 1932-33. The event will include remarks by the Ukrainian Ambassador HE Ms. Liubov Abravitova, the official opening of Yuliya Fedorovych’s Holodomor exhibition and a panel discussion on Communicating Trauma via Art.
RSVP for this event by emaling admin@holocaust.org.za.

Catastrophic Grief, Trauma and Resilience in Child Concentration Camp Survivors
2023-12-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Sunday 3 December at 3pm for the launch of Catastrophic Grief, Trauma and Resilience in Child Concentration Camp Survivors by Dr. Tracey Farber, Prof. Gill Eagle and Prof. Cora SmithThis book talk will be accompanying the Seeing Aushwitz exhibition on display at our Centre until the end of February 2024.To attend the event in person, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.

The Auschwitz Album
2023-12-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday 6 December at 7pm for a webinar by Liz Elsby on The Auschwitz AlbumThis talk will be accompanying the Seeing Aushwitz exhibition on display at our Centre until the end of February 2024.To register for this event on zoom, please use the link https://bit.ly/3G5p6rWVP

Still forgotten victims since Nazi-times
2024-01-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday 18 January at 6pm for a talk by Dr Lutz van Dijk commemorating gay men and other sexual minorities who were victims of the Nazi regime.This talk will be accompanying the Seeing Auschwitz exhibition on display at our Centre until the 23 February 2024.To attend the event in person, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.

Beneath the skin exhibition opening
2024-01-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Sunday 28 January for the opening of the “Beneath the Skin” exhibition. The exhibition created by Mike Fischer reflects on the horrors and potential genocide of Jews across Europe. Through site-specific works that include ceramics, sculpture and wall hangings, Fisher seeks to honour the memory of those who perished and convey the incomprehensible suffering and trauma experienced by survivors.

2024-01-28 19:00 - 20:30
Join us for an online ceremony to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2024-01-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us online on Sunday 28 January at 7pm as we commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz- International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Film screening: Facing windows
2024-02-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Holocaust study trip to Poland
2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday 15 February at 7pm for a webinar by staff members from the Holocaust and Genocide Centres in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg as they discuss their recent Holocaust study trip to Poland.This talk will be accompanying the Seeing Auschwitz exhibition on display at our Centre until the 23 February 2024.To attend the event on zoom, please register using the link: bit.ly/3w1WvBP

Blind Love
2024-02-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday 28 February at 3pm for the closing event of the international travelling exhibition Seeing Auschwitz.The screening of Blind Love will be followed by a panel discussion.
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Film screening: Behind These Walls
2024-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Sunday 3 March at 3pm for the screening of the exclusive documentary Behind These Walls followed by a Q&A session with Isaac Habib.
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History as Spectacle: The Triumph of Will Revisited
2024-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Resisters with Prof Wolf Gruner
2024-03-17 15:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a presentation by Prof Wolf Gruner on Resisters – How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany.

Not Entirely Forgotten
2024-04-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday 4 April at 6pm (SAST) for a discussion by Luc Albinski and Giora Bar Nir on the Polish-Jewish officers murdered in the Katyn Massacre.
To attend this event on Zoom, please register using the link: https://bit.ly/49bcAms

April 1994: Reflections on South Africa and Rwanda Through the Eyes of Reporters
2024-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Thursday 18 April at 7pm (SAST) for a online discussion by Christoph Plate and William Gumede chaired by JHGC Director Tali Nates
To attend this event on Zoom, please register using the link: https://rb.gy/fpkex6

Exhibition Opening: The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim
2024-04-28 10:30 - 12:00 | 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 opening remarks by the Ambassador of Rwanda to South Africa, H.E. Emmanuel Hategeka.
To attend this event in-person, please email admin@holocaust.org.za

Understanding the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in Colonial South Africa
2024-05-09 18:00 - 19:30 | 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

Four Winters: A story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII
2024-05-16 18:00 - 19:30 | 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

Rescuing the Repertoire of the Yiddish Shoah Song
2024-06-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
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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 collecting songs, believing they were unique historical documentation and a memorial to Nazi genocide victims. His major contribution, the 1948 anthology Lider fun di getos und lagern (Songs from the Ghettos and Camps), remains a key reference in Holocaust-era Jewish music folklore. The presentation will feature recordings from this collection and other Shoah song preservation efforts.

Reconciliation and Remembrance: Restoring the Kutno Jewish Cemetery
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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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 dedicated group of activists from South Africa, Israel, and Poland, all with deep ties to Kutno, this restoration project symbolizes a powerful journey of remembrance, reconciliation, and resilience. The panelists: Yosef Kutner (Israel), Luc Albinski (South Africa), NAMES NAMES will share their perspectives, insights, and personal connections to this restoration effort. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the profound impact of restoring heritage and fostering understanding across borders.

Voices from The Auschwitz Album
2024-07-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
Voices from The Auschwitz Album: Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of Jews from Hungary
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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 after arrival.
Join us as we hear two stories of survival, as well as how this history is incorporated into the core exhibition at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Rachel Herczl, who at 15 years old was deported to Auschwitz, and whose life was saved on the ‘selection’ platform by a Polish-Jewish prisoner. Rachel will be joined by her daughter Tova Herzl.
Holocaust Museum LA docent Mitch Kreitenberg, who discovered photographs of his father’s family in the Auschwitz Album. The album depicts the Hungarian deportations and is the only known visual evidence of the ‘selection’ process towards mass murder at Auschwitz II Birkenau.

Official Opening of the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference
2024-08-05 10:00 - 12:00 | 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 Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Ignorance or calculation? Holocaust terminology as a political weapon
2024-08-05 14:00 - 15:30 | 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 Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Perpetrators perspective. Genocidaire as a moral person
2024-08-06 10:00 - 11:30 | 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 the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Why Should We Care?
2024-08-07 09:00 - 10:00 | 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 the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Why Should They Care? Holocaust education in post-Apartheid South Africa
2024-08-07 13:30 - 14:30 | 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 educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

New realities of Holocaust education
2024-08-08 09:00 - 10:00 | 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 using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37
