Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

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

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

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.

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
Please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

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.

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
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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.

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.

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

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.

Their Stories, Our Voices
2022-02-09 19:00 - 20:30
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

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
2022-01-27 21:00 - 23:00
Join the SAHGF and UNIC Pretoria to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a day recognised in 2005 as International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust with the opening of the exhibition In the Country of Numbers: where the men have no names from the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum with keynote address by Dr Astrid Ley.

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Freda Davis Channukah Concert
2021-12-05 21:30 - 23:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Book your ticket for a musical evening as we hold our Annual Freda Davis Channukah Concert on Sunday 5 December at 7:30pm.

In-person ticket: https://bit.ly/3c2JURH
Livestream ticket: https://qkt.io/3md5li

Performances by Ivor Joffe, Aviva Pelham, Evelyn Green, Matthew Reid, Beverley Chiat, Gabriel Shai, Kitty Harris, Zoe Modlinne and Craig Nudelman accompanied by a live band.

Moving Memories
2021-12-05 20:00 - 21:30
Join us on Sunday 5 December at 9pm for a webinar exploring Moving Memories. This is the final lecture in a three part series on Invisible Years: Hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Register using the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsc-2ppj4sEtQ3FtrjnGEqLrjdq7ysOX-3
Invisible Years is an intimate portrait of an extended Jewish family living and hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, written and beautifully designed by Daphne Geismar. Geismar and her cousin Sharon Strauss went on a fourteen-year odyssey after discovering that their mothers both had “Holocaust drawers,” in which they kept letters, journals, documents, and photographs.
Moderated by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Guest speakers:
Kira Dane / Katelyn Rebelo / Carmen Fernald
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, and Professor Emerita at New York University, will engage filmmakers Kira Dane, Katelyn Rebelo, and Carmen Fernald in a conversation about experimental approaches to Holocaust documentaries. Dane and Rebelo are currently working on an experimental documentary short based on Invisible Years, about the survival of a Dutch Jewish family. Fernald is making a documentary about those who hid people in the Breeplein Church and the people they hid for the Dutch Broadcasting Corporation. How are these filmmakers redefining the documentary film and creating a new hybrid genre, as they move away from the conventions of voiceover narration and first-person interview, turning instead to animation and other visual media to represent the Holocaust?
This program is in partnership with the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Rabin Chair Forum, and Classrooms Without Borders.

Book Launch: The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
2021-11-29 18:00 - 19:30
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young Jewish inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau were selected to create beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon established by the camp commandant’s wife. Historian Lucy Adlington has researched their lives and fates to write a powerful chronicle – The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. This virtual presentation, drawn from eyewitness interviews and original garments from the era, is a remarkable tale of resilience, camaraderie and dressmaking in the most extreme circumstances.
Lucy Adlington is a British dress historian with more than twenty years’ experience researching social history. Adlington runs History Wardrobe, a company which presents costume-in-context talks across the UK. Her non-fiction publications include: Women’s Lives and Clothes in WWII: Ready for Action and Stitches in Time – the Story of the Clothes we Wear. Lucy Adlington lives on a farm in Yorkshire.

Hiding Places
2021-11-14 20:00 - 21:30
Join us on Sunday 14 October at 8pm for a webinar looking at Hiding Places by Prof. Dienke Hondius and Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth. This is the second lecture in a three part series on Invisible Years: Hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.
Register using the link: bit.ly/3pZh6Sv
Prof. Dienke Hondius will present her “Mapping Hiding Places” project, focusing on hiding in the Netherlands, including the 27 hiding places of the family in Invisible Years. Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth will focus on one hiding place — the Breeplein Church in Rotterdam — where her grandparents risked their lives to hide two Jewish families, including the grandparents of Daphne Geismar and Sharon Strauss. Brillenburg Wurth will retrace the stories from the perspective of the protectors and from the onderduikers’ (people in hiding) accounts in Invisible Years.
This program is in partnership with the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Rabin Chair Forum, and Classrooms Without Borders.

Kristallnacht Commemoration
2021-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Please join us on Tuesday 9 November at 7:00pm (SAST) as we commemorate the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) with a keynote address from Christopher Browning. To register use the following link: bit.ly/3vQJPK8

Honouring Miriam Lichterman
2021-11-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Sunday 7 November at 3pm as we honour Holocaust survivor Miriam Lichterman for the impact she has had on the community.
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/3pnvW4M

White Rose Creative Project Awards Ceremony
2021-10-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Join us for an online ceremony honouring high school learners who participated in this year’s White Rose Creative Project.

Educators workshop: New Recommendations in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust
2021-10-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
To attend RSVP to danielle@holocaust.org.za
Register using the link: link is https://bit.ly/3AAanzG

Jewish Museum in Prague
2021-10-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Join us on Thursday 21 October at 6pm for a public lecture exploring the Jewish Museum in Prague by Dr. Zuzana Pavlovská.
To attend the lecture at our Centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za and to register for the Zoom livestream, use the link: bit.ly/3lbRdfm

I Have Not Seen A Butterfly Around Here Exhibition Opening
2021-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Wednesday 20 October at 6pm for the Official Opening of the Exhibition I Have Not Seen A Butterfly Around Here. The opening address will be given by the Ambassador of the Czech Republic
H.E. Dr. Pavel Řezáč and the keynote address will be given by Dr. Zuzana Pavlovská.
To attend the opening at the centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za and to register for the Zoom livestream, use the link:https://bit.ly/3D9C2t1

Holocaust Drawers
2021-10-10 20:00 - 21:30 | https://youtu.be/esVn2QEsMaM
Join us on Sunday 10 October at 8pm for a webinar exploring the Holocaust Drawers by Prof. Robert Jan van Pelt, Daphne Geismar and Sharon Strauss. This is the first lecture in a three part series on Invisible Years: Hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Register using the link: bit.ly/3ijUcjM
Invisible Years is an intimate portrait of an extended Jewish family living and hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, written and beautifully designed by Daphne Geismar. Geismar and her cousin Sharon Strauss went on a fourteen-year odyssey after discovering that their mothers both had “Holocaust drawers,” in which they kept letters, journals, documents, and photographs.

Israeli Theatre & the Holocaust by Roy Horowitz
2021-10-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Tuesday 5 October at 7pm for a webinar looking at Israeli Theatre & the Holocaust by actor, director and dramaturge, Dr. Roy Horovitz. Register using the link: bit.ly/3FbzjRU

An Intimate Conversation
2021-09-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Sunday 26 September at 7pm for An Intimate Conversation between Two Descendants of Stutthof Concentration Camp Prisoners, Dr. Marylin Kingston and Silvia Foti.
Marylin & Silvia will compare how their family members were treated and the reasons they were in Stutthof Concentration Camp at the same time. They will address the fraud by the Lithuanian government to declare Silvia’s grandfather Noreika innocent of crimes of genocide, and how his detention in Stutthof has been used as a misleading political tool for Lithuanian Holocaust deception.
Register using the link: https://bit.ly/2XbLvkt

The Table of Truth
2021-09-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Learn about the extraordinary connection to one chess table between Faina Kukliansky, Lithuanian Jewish Community Chair, Shulamit Rabinovich, San Franciscan engineer, Dudu Fisher, Israeli world-renowned entertainer, Grant Gochin, South African Wealth Manager, and Silvia Foti, Chicagoan journalist.
We will reveal recently discovered facts about the Holocaust in Lithuania, Holocaust denial by the Lithuanian Government, and present new paths to education about the horrors of the past.
We will conclude the program with Dudu Fisher chanting Kaddish.

The Holocaust remembered: Virtual tour of Vienna
2021-08-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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A virtual Walking Tour of Vienna with Boston based Kate Melchior will allow a visit to the Vienna of the 1930s – 1940s and its memorialisation today.

Commemoration of the Cambodian Genocide
2021-08-29 20:00 - 21:30 | https://ctholocaust.co.za/event/cambodian-genocide-commemoration/
The Ghetto Fighters’ House in partnership with SAHGF and Classrooms Without Borders invites you to a special ‘Talking Memory’ event in honor of the National Day of Remembrance in Cambodia –First They First Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. A conversation with Loung Ung
Join Loung Ung to learn more about her life surviving the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime in Cambodia. Learn about her bestselling book First They Killed My Father, and the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her memoir. Do not miss the opportunity to learn more about the genocide in Cambodia from one of its survivors.

Post Holocaust and Apartheid Memories: Confronting Traumatic Pasts Panel Discussion
2021-08-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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This discussion panel intends to provide a more detailed understanding of the topic from a mainly 3rd generation perspective. It will examine the generational shifts and provide an outlook into future memory construction.
It will provide a contemporary link to memory culture about 1930s Europe and the recent South African History. A main topic will be how far the 3rd generation is diverging from the past memorialisations and what new narratives are available and developing.
This panel will also provide a conclusion to the series.

Stories of Peace and Resistance through Dance
2021-08-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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This segment will explore the memory culture of political arts – specifically dance and the passing on of its practices and memories. Renowned dancer Eva-Maria Schaller will provide insight into her work on Hanna Berger. This will be accompanied by two keynote addresses from Andrea Amort, professor at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, and Rebecca Davis, founder of MindLeaps who will speak about dance and its functionality towards youth engagement and peace work.

Women's Day Celebration
2021-08-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Please join us for the 3rd Annual Women’s Day Celebration event.
