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 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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre is honoured to invite you to the opening of a new international exhibition. We are delighted that Dr Lara Lempert (Lempertienė), one of the exhibition’s curators and the Head of the Judaica Research Centre at the National Library...
