CTHGC Events Calendar

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.

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Sweet Home Sweet exhibition opening

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

It is our honour to invite you to the opening of “Sweet Home Sweet: A Story of Survival, Memory, and Return”, a temporary exhibition dedicated to three generations of the Ores family and their relationship with Poland. The exhibition examines how Holocaust memory and narratives...

Free

Where They Settled: Holocaust Survivors in South Africa

Event hosted by Holocaust Museum LA Exploring different communities that Holocaust survivors built after liberation, this program focuses on the city of Cape Town, South Africa. For more details visit the website.

Free

Memory Works

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Join us on Monday 27 October at 6pm for an exclusive presentation by renowned Argentine artist and activist Marcelo Brodsky at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Brodsky will present Memory Works — a curated selection of his most acclaimed projects, weaving together personal...

Film screening: Letters from Brno

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Join us on Tuesday 4 November at 6PM for a powerful screening of "Letters from BRNO". This moving film tells the story of Jeffery L. Gary's grandfather, a Holocaust survivor who fled Czechoslovakia, and his poignant connection to a young girl in Brno through letters and shared...

Free

Film screening: I Never Said Goodbye

We invite you to join us for the premiere of the documentary, "I Never Said Goodbye", a poignant tribute to the extraordinary life of Holocaust survivor, Hélène Joffe. The film documents Hélène’s remarkable journey and is testimony to the endurance of the human spirit. To attend the...

Film screening: The Diary of Anne Frank

We invite you to join us on Sunday 16 November at 5PM for an evening of remembrance as we mark the 87th anniversary of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). We are screening the award-winning film 'The Diary of Anne Frank', followed by a discussion with filmmaker Hans Steinbichler....

Film screening: Treasure

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Treasure follows a father-daugther road trip through post-socialist Poland, exploring family, identity, and the past. Ruth (Lena Dunham) accompanies her father, Holocaust survivor Edek ( Stephen Fry), as he returns to the places tied to his most painful memories, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Blending humour, emotion, and...

Free

Film screening: Where are you are going

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Halina Birenbaun, a Holocaust survivor and acclaimed author, embarks on her annual journey to Poland, this time accompanied by her son, Yakov Gilad, Through this journey, Yakov comes to understand the lifelong trauma haunting his mother and discovers new insights into Jewish-Polish relations and the treatment...

Free

Film screening: RENIA SPIEGEL’S DIARY

Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

The diary of Renia Spiegel (1924-1942), written in Przemysl from January 1939 to July 1942, offers an extraordinary testimony of the last years of this young, talented woman. Preserved and later published through the efforts of her family, Renia's diary has inspired a series of...

Free

Film screening: Bedrock

Bedrock is a psychological journey across today's Poland that weaves together stories of Poles living on Holocaust sites. Through a series of intimate encounters, this poetic film looks at the unsettling contradictions people learn to live with. To attend the event at the Centre, RSVP to...