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.
Join us for a round table discussion reflecting upon Holocaust memory and education practices during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Click here to go to register Speakers include: Stephen D. Smith (Director of USC Shoah Foundation, California) Heather Blumenthal (Director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide...
Join us for a rountable discussion reflecting upon Holocaust memory and education practices during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Click here to go to register Speakers include: Stephen D. Smith (Director of USC Shoah Foundation, California) Heather Blumenthal (Director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre)...
Please join us on Monday 1 June at 8pm for a Online Webinar with a panel of experts on “The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries Into the Presence and Absence of Men." To receive zoom link via please register using the following link: https://forms.gle/N5g8KxttoFjTsP2F6 The...
Please join us on Monday 1st June at 8pm for a Online Webinar with a panel of experts on “The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries Into the Presence and Absence of Men." To receive Zoom link, please register using the following link: https://forms.gle/N5g8KxttoFjTsP2F6 The webinar...
This talk survey of Jewish history jumping rapidly from Biblical times to the advent of Ashkenaz, more slowly to the rise of Líte (Lita), and in greater detail on Jewish Lithuania itself, from the fourteenth century to 1941. Dovid Katz, a Vilnius-based Yiddish and Holocaust...
Register for the Webinar using the link: https://ctholocaust.co.za/Kaye/ This presentation will raise two major questions that survivors were confronted with after their liberation; Where do we go? What do we do with our lives? A number of survivors will provide their personal answers to these...
This talk looks at the origins of the Yiddish language. It goes on to look at the developments in the Germanic lands, the rise of the major East European dialects and the rise of modern Yiddish literature. Dovid Katz, a Vilnius-based Yiddish and Holocaust scholar,...
Register for the Webinar using the link: https://ctholocaust.co.za/Cohn/ The unique role of Jewish women and mothers during this terrible time is often an opportunity to see powerful sparks of light in the overwhelming darkness that consumed humanity during the war. This presentation will focus on...
Please join us for the 2nd Annual Women's Day Celebration with our special guest speaker the international award winning author Elizabeth Rosner on Sunday 9 August at 2pm (SAST). To receive the zoom webinar link via email, please register using the following link: https://ctholocaust.co.za/womens-day/
The Lithuanian Holocaust and Why It Is So Controversial This talk outlines the history and major chapters of the Lithuanian Holocaust and goes on to question the uniqueness of the Baltics (and western Ukraine) vis-à-vis the outbreak of violence before arrival of the first Nazi...