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.
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...
Join us on Thursday 5 February at 7PM for the book launch of Looted! The Nazi Art Plunder of Jewish Families in France by author Peter Elliott. Discover the gripping story of four prominent French Jewish families whose art collections were confiscated during the Nazi...
Rescuing Memory (USA Documentary 2024 32 min.) Rescuing Memory chronicles my ancestors, the Sephardic Jews, who were expelled by the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in the 15th century and found refuge on the Island of Rhodes, when it was controlled by the Ottoman Turks....
Join us online on Tuesday 24 February at 7PM for a screening of the documentary, "I Never Said Goodbye", tributing the extraordinary life of Holocaust survivor Héléne Joffe. The film documents Héléne's remarkable journey and is testimony to the endurance of the human spirit. Don't miss out on...
