The World was Ours
2023-07-09 11:00 - 12:30, 2023-07-23 11:00 - 12:30, 2023-07-30 11:00 - 12:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | 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

The Paper Brigade
2023-07-12 18:00 - 19:30 | 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 Nazi occupation.

Rethinking Yiddish Theatre - Now and Then
2023-07-16 18:00 - 19:30
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 still apparent today.

Leah, Teddy and the Mandolin
2023-07-30 18:00 - 19:30 | 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
2023-08-13 17:00 - 18:30 | 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.

Samuel Bak and the Art of his Time
2023-08-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
As part of the lecture series around the Chayela Rosenthal – Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto exhibition, The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre is proud to announce the forthcoming launch, two days after his 90th birthday, of the biography, SAMUEL BAK AND THE ART OF HIS TIME, another world famous survivor of the Vilna GhettoTo attend the event in person, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.

Seeing Auschwitz Exhibition Opening
2023-09-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday 20 September at 6pm for the Official Opening of the Seeing Auschwitz Exhibition. The opening address will include an address by German Consul General Tanja Werheit and a panel discussion with Paweł Sawicki, Jakub Nowakowski and Orli Barnett on the Symbolism of Auschwitz.
To attend the event in person, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.

Stories from the Vilna Ghetto
2023-09-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday 27 September at 7pm for a storytelling webinar looking at Stories from the Vilna Ghetto followed by a panel discussion on the power of storytelling and the importance of preserving Holocaust testimonies.
Register to attend on Zoom using the link https://bit.ly/45GtFnA

Book talk: Final Solutions by Konstanty Gebert
2023-10-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Monday 23 October at 7pm for an online discussion with author Konstanty Gebert on his book Final Solutions: Genocide Perpetrators and their Work.
This webinar is part of an event series accompanying the Seeing Auschwitz exhibition.
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This event will serve as an introduction to Konstanty Gebert’s latest book, Final Solutions: Genocide Perpetrators and their Work, which was published in Polish earlier this year. The discussion will be framed around the concept of genocide from a legal perspective, and the book provides a comprehensive global history of mass murder spanning the last 120 years.

Film Screening: Facing Auschwitz
2023-10-30 18:00 - 19:30 | 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.
Register using this link

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
