Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Women in Resistance: Reflections on Nazi Europe and Apartheid South Africa
2021-07-27 19:00 - 20:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online
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This event will include a Tour of the DÖW Exhibition. The special exhibition at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) tells the story of three sisters. They left fascist Austria in the 30s fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco, in the Résistance against the Vichy Regime and against the Nazis. Their great-niece, Sonja Frank, tells a story based on documents, found in an old suitcase.
The second part of this segment will provide insight into women’s roles during Apartheid South Africa.

Panel Discussion: The 600: The Soldiers' Story
2021-07-25 14:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
This will be a discussion with the film makers about their documentary film that showcases the little known story of a surrounded battalion of 600 men and women that started the counter-attack to end the Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.

Educators’ workshop: Reflecting on modern mass crimes and genocides
2021-07-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Online
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Rethinking Womens Narratives: Women’s Agency during Nazism Panel Discussion
2021-07-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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The first panel starts the series by discussing recent trends of how we pass on and narrate women’s roles during National Socialism. It provides a global understanding of the overall topic while also introducing the extensive research of the panellists.
The speakers have done an extensive research in women’s biographies

Nurturing Peace: Building blocks for a more resilient people - A case of Rwanda
2021-07-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Nurturing Peace: Building blocks for a more resilient people – A case of Rwanda

In a country that suffered from war and genocide perpetrated against Tutsi in 1994, in a country where the social fabric seems so broken that no one sees signs of light, a country that inherited so many challenges and each of them seemed to be a priority. Everything was a priority. No State machinery, 3.5 million refugees, orphans and child headed households, wounded people, widows, no shelter, trauma, justice, coexistence, Genocide ideology, children born out of rape, HIV, broken trust etc. Social reconstruction became a dream that many aspired to but seemed unattainable.
It is generally known that teachers have the capacity to build and heal a whole generation. They influence not only their students but also the community at large. They however need content and appropriate methodology. It is against this backdrop that Aegis worked with the Ministry of Education and specifically Rwanda Basic Education Board, where the biggest achievement was to have Peace and Values Education integrated in the school curriculum. Aegis works with parents, youth and Decision Makers & Researchers to support conducive and peaceful environment.
Aegis Peace and Values Education initiatives which are essentially transformative, intend to cultivate the knowledge base, skills, attitudes and values that seek to transform people’s behaviors for better and informed decisions. They are built around the concept of Ubumuntu (Ubuntu) and a mindset that is able to challenge personal and social action to create conditions and systems that portray nonviolence, justice and other peace values.
Through this discussion, we will look at how Peace and values Education is supporting the journey to Peace starting with inner peace, social reconstruction and contribute to never again; in Rwanda and beyond.

Educators’ workshop: How to investigate a crime 80 years later
2021-07-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Online

Srebrenica Memorial Service
2021-07-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join us for a special ceremony to remember the victims and survivors of the Srebrenica genocide that occurred in Bosnia 26 years ago. Register using the link: bit.ly/3hahN6s

Educators' workshop: From the field research to the classroom
2021-07-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Online

Educators' workshop: The Holocaust by bullets, a public genocide
2021-07-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Online

The Rabbi of Buchenwald by Dr Rafael Medoff
2021-06-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Online
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Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a U.S. army chaplain in World War II, was part of the unit that liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald, and remained in the camp for two and a half months to aid the survivors. After the war, Rabbi Schacter helped spearhead a revival of Orthodox Judaism in America, played a significant role in the Soviet Jewry protest movement, and led efforts to secure American support for Israel. He was the first Orthodox rabbi to chair the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Through the prism of Herschel Schacter’s life, The Rabbi of Buchenwald also sheds important new light on how American Jewry grappled with the political, social and racial crises of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond.
Bio
Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C., which focuses on America’s response to Nazism and the Holocaust. He is the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history, and has contributed to the Encyclopedia Judaica and many other reference volumes. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State UnIversity, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and elsewhere, and is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. He is also a winner of the American Jewish Press Association’s Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism.

World Refugee Day Commemoration 2021
2021-06-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Film Screening: I Am Here
2021-06-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
This screening forms part of the Encounters Film Festival.
This powerful film offers a portrait of 98-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal, whose vibrance and vitality has not been dimmed by either age or the weight of the terrible events she has endured. As Ella recounts her experience of the Holocaust, the corresponding events are rendered in sensitively drawn animation. The film follows Ella, who was a young adult at the time, from her happy life as a Polish teenager to the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto, and on to Auschwitz, where she narrowly escaped the gas chambers. At a time when Holocaust denialism has gained fringe legitimacy, this is an important film and a counter to those who deny the horrors of history. In documenting Ella’s narrative of survival and transcendence, the film provides a viscerally personal account of an historical event that is all too easily abstracted into ideology.

Anne Frank and Her Surprising Global Legacy
2021-06-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

(Nearly) hidden in plain sight: Lesser-known photographic histories and the Holocaust by Professor Michael Berkowitz
2021-05-25 19:00 - 20:00
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Silvia Foti: The Nazi’s Granddaughter
2021-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 | https://youtu.be/qaQd4wFQOmI
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SILVIA FOTI, author of the memoir The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal, is an award-winning investigative journalist in Chicago and a high school literature teacher. She holds master’s degrees in journalism, education, and creative nonfiction.
Silvia made a deathbed promise to her mother to write a book about her famous, WWII hero grandfather, Jonas Noreika twenty-one years ago. Silvia’s grandmother begged her not to write about her husband. “Just let history lie,” she whispered. Silvia had no idea that in keeping her promise to her mother, her discoveries would bring her to a personal crisis, challenge her Catholic faith, unearth Holocaust denial, and expose an official cover-up by the Lithuanian government.
Her goal in writing this story of her grandfather, known as General Storm in Lithuania, is to upend Lithuania’s narrative that Lithuanians had nothing to do with killing Jews, that it was all done by German Nazis.

World Refugee Day Commemoration
2021-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Growing Up Jewish - Art & Storytelling by Jacqueline Kott-Wolle
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:30
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Join Kott-Wolle for a presentation and discussion of “Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling,” a series of 35 oil paintings and stories about Jewish identity in North America and how it transmits from one generation to the next.
“They existed in living color for me – in their printed sundresses, socks and sandals, with numbers tattooed on their arms,” she writes. “Some of them had haunted looks in their eyes and seemed burdened with a profound sadness that kept them at the edge of anger while others were brimming with gratitude and optimism as they rebuilt their lives in Canada. All of them viewed my generation as walking miracles on earth.”

Bio:
Jacqueline Kott-Wolle (b.1969) lives in Highland Park, IL where she paints full time. In 2005, after moving to Chicago from Toronto with her family, Jacqueline fulfilled a long-time goal of developing her ability to paint by studying at The Art Center of Highland Park. Using a fresh palette of color, Kott-Wolle currently paints in oils and focuses on capturing precious moments with her family and friends. Her most recent project, entitled “Growing Up Jewish – Art and Storytelling” is a series of 35 contemporary oil paintings and personal narratives exploring her North American brand of Jewish identity and how it evolved through five generations of her family. Her work has been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions. Jacqueline’s works are in private collections throughout the United States, Canada and Israel.

Liberation75
2021-05-04 00:00 - 2021-05-09 00:00 | Online

24-Hour Virtual Global Vigil to Unite Against Hate
2021-04-29 08:00 - 2021-04-30 08:00
On April 29th, join us for an unprecedented 24-hour global vigil online to conclude Genocide Awareness Month and unite the fight against hate worldwide. With hate on the rise and a global pandemic keeping us apart, it’s essential that we come together virtually across lines of difference. The #TogetherWeRemember Coalition, made up of leading genocide education and human rights organizations, invites you to join us for twenty-four hours of inclusive name-readings, insightful speakers, and inspiring performances that honour the victims of and upstanders to identity-based violence and genocide throughout history. Join us as we remember humanity at its worst to demonstrate what humanity can be at its best.
This global vigil is the culminating event of the #TogetherWeRemember Campaign – thirty days of virtual events organized by museums, schools, and communities to bridge the gap between awareness and action in the fight against hate. On April 30th, we intend to demonstrate the diversity and depth of work being done by incredible organizations around the world to make “never again” a reality – once and for all.
The SAHGF slot is at 2pm (SAST)

Less Than Human: How dehumanising propaganda can set the landscape for a Genocide Panel Discussion
2021-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVjZ8daQ4xY
As we celebrate the 27th anniversary of South Africa’s transition to democracy, CTHGC has convened a panel of experts moderated by A/Prof Adam Mendelsohn to reflect on the effects of dehumanizing propaganda with case studies from the Holocaust, the Rohingya Genocide and Xenophobia in present day South Africa.
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Commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi
2021-04-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Panel Discussion: How do we make 'Never Again' a reality?
2021-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | https://ctholocaust.co.za/event/panel-discussion-genocide-and-mass-atrocities/

We Were Slaves to Pharaoh in Germany: The Passover Haggadah and the Holocaust by Orli Barnett
2021-03-31 19:00 - 20:30 | https://youtu.be/y3TyuLmVLl0

Virtual tour of the Holocaust History Museum by Dr David Deutsch
2021-03-24 16:00 - 17:00

To be a woman in the Holocaust by Cheryl Ochayon
2021-03-17 16:00 - 17:00 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHwf5fN2MtU

Yad Vashem’s educational philosophy and tools by Dr Noa Mkayton
2021-03-10 16:00 - 17:00 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmRaGzLs6BE

Life Before the Holocaust: Portraits of Character
2021-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 | https://ctholocaust.co.za/event/life-before-the-holocaust-portraits-of-character/
Join us on Thursday 4 March at 1pm (SAST) for an exclusive webinar for Members and Volunteers with photographer Jono David on Life Before the Holocaust: Portraits of Character
Please register using the link below: bit.ly/3aDlBtH

Witnesses of the Witnesses
2021-02-23 19:00 - 20:30 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISdrPcJWwHA
Join the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation in partnership with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute for a fascinating discussion inspired by the film and installation “Witnesses of the witnesses”. This inter-generational conversation includes H.E. Paolo Cuculi (Ambassador of Italy to South Africa), Lina Kantor Amato (Holocaust Survivor, Island of Rhodes), Dr Gary and Dr Linda Kantor (Lina’s children), Rene Pozniak (Leader of March of the Living, South Africa), and Noah Tradonsky (Alumni of March of the Living, 2015 & Emerging Leaders March of the Living Conference, 2019).

Based on the interactive exhibition of the same name displayed in Rome in 2019, this project stems from a group of students who participated in the Journey of Memory to Auschwitz. The group wanted to take charge of the transmission of the memory of witnesses who survived the killing centres, so that the expression “not to forget” is not reduced to a mere formula of consolation. The video document is a choral memory that weaves different viewpoints into a layered fabric, guided by the voices of surviving witnesses, who met the students in the Journeys of Memory.
This event is part of an annual collaboration between the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and the SAHGF, and the project was promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, with the video produced by Studio Azzurro.
Click this link to register and receive a link to the live webinar: http://bit.ly/3jD8ATM
Please note that the film will not be shown during the live webinar and should be watched in advance.
Click this link to watch the film: https://vimeo.com/499141034/3768804aa4
Please be aware that there are some distressing scenes in the film which are not suitable for sensitive viewers.

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
2021-01-27 21:00 - 23:00 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4NrZdzuTv8
Join us on 27 January at 7pm (SAST) to mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust with a keynote address from Professor Aomar Boum on “Revisiting Vichy Forced Labour Camps in the Sahara, 1940-1945“.
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Since the end of World War II (WWII), historical and autobiographical works on Nazi camps throughout Europe have dominated Holocaust and genocide literature. Compared to Nazi history of detention and concentration camps, the relative historical amnesia and historiographical silence toward other camp experiences is largely reflected in the absence of broad historical studies that detail the complexities of camps established by other governments during WWII such as the United States, Japan, Italy, Spain and France.
Despite the growing historical interest in concentration and labour camps across the world today, the memory of WWII is finally becoming a regular topic of academic interest in a few North African and Middle Eastern academic circles. These intellectual conversations promise to break through the walls of taboo in societies where Jews and non-Jews were affected by colonial regulations.
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Aomar Boum is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and faculty fellow at the Université Internationale de Rabat (Morocco). He is the author of ‘Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco’ (2013), and co-editor of ‘The Holocaust and North Africa’ (2019) with Sarah A. Stein.

From Citizens to Outsiders: Burma’s Path to Genocide
2021-01-14 21:00 - 22:30 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ0mI_PQ8U0
Join us for a panel discussion and a virtual tour of the new online exhibit “Burma’s Path to Genocide” with former political prisoner and Rohingya activist Wai Wai Nu, exhibit curator Greg Constantine and policy expert Andrea Gittleman.
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