Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

What Should I read? by Dr Miriam Klein Kassenoff
2022-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online
What Should I read?-What should my Children and grandchildren read? by Dr Miriam Klein Kassenoff

Talk by Chava Erlanger
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:30

Volunteer Open Day
2022-05-19 15:00 - 19:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
If you would like first-hand experience of how you can play a role in creating a more caring and just society, join us for our Volunteer Open Day on Thursday 19 May from 3pm – 7pm. Come and get to know our organisation and how you can get involved.Booking is essential, RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.

Woman’s Day event
2022-08-09 14:00 - 15:30

Bjorn Korndofer
2022-08-10 19:00 - 20:30

The Survivor
2022-11-03 17:30 - 19:30
Please join us for a free screening of the film “The Survivor” on 3 November at the Ster Kinekor V&A Waterfront at 5:45pm.Limited seating. RSVP essential.WhatsApp Message Ilan Herrmann on +27 82 683 4100 to reserve your seats. Please do not call.

Kristallnacht Commemoration
2022-11-09 19:00 - 20:30
Join us on Wednesday 9 November at 7pm as we Commemorate the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) with a keynote addresses from the leading Holocaust Historian Professor Christopher Browning andDeborah Lipstadt.To attend online register using the link: https://bit.ly/3U66v3P

Euthanasia as a Prelude to the Holocaust: Jewish Patients in the Operation T4
2022-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday 16 November at 6pm for a public lecture by the Historian Dr Astrid Ley on Euthanasia as a Prelude to the Holocaust: Jewish Patients in the Operation T4. RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Film screening: Nobody Told Me
2022-12-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Tuesday 13 December at 6pm for an exclusive film screening of Nobody Told Me. This extraordinary film tells the untold story of Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wanda Albinska (nee Rotstein) and her courageous mother, Dr. Halina Rotstein, who was murdered in Trablinka.
RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

Book talk: The remarkable life of Elie Wiesel
2022-12-29 18:00
Join us for a talk by author Joseph Berger on the book “The remarkable life of Elie Wiesel”.
RSVP by emailing events@sajewishmuseum.co.za
DATE: Thursday, 29 December 2022 | Time: 6pm
How did a Hasidic boy from a village in the Carpathian Mountains become the torchbearer for the world’s Holocaust survivors and for the victims of genocide everywhere?

Remembering the Holocaust through personal objects by Paul Salmons
2023-01-22 18:00 - 19:30
Remembering the Holocaust through personal objects
Today, museums and exhibitions across the world collect and display original artefacts from the Holocaust. At first glance, many appear to be rather unremarkable: a shoe, a suitcase, a pair of spectacles. But this is to overlook the fact that these seemingly everyday objects are among the last remnants of a murdered people, and each has its own unique story to tell.
Join Paul Salmons as he shares the stories of artefacts that have touched him most deeply, and asks what meanings they hold for us today.
RSVP by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2023-02-02 19:00 - 21:00
Join us on 2 February at 7pm (SAST) as we mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust with a screening of the film “Questo e’ un uomo” about Primo Levi.

RSVP by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Vilna Ghetto Posters Exhibition Opening
2023-02-07 18:00 - 19:30
Join the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre in partnership with the Embassy of Lithuania for the official launch of the Vilna Ghetto Posters Exhibition.
RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda by Nicky Fox
2023-03-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a public lecture by Nicole Fox, Ph.D.RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Russian-Ukrainian War and the Road to Genocide
2023-04-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a public lecture by Prof. Olixey Haran.RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi
2023-04-23 14:00 - 15:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
29th Commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Sunday 23 April, 2pm

Join us for a special commemoration ceremony.RSVP to attend in person by emailing ambapretoria@minaffet.gov.rw

Sharing Their Stories: Uprisings & Resistance
2023-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us to commemorate
Yom HaShoah and the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Sharing Their Stories: A Story-Infused Lecture
Resistance and Uprisings During the Holocaust

This programme brings together scholars and storytellers, creating a unique evening of history and commemoration.
The lecture will delve in to the historical aspects of Jewish resistance and uprisings in ghettos and camps during the Holocaust. Our historical discussion will be infused with testimony-based stories of Jewish heroines told by four different storytellers from Teach the Shoah and the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre.

Featuring lecturer Lynne Feldman, storytellers Orli Barnet (CTHGC), Joanne Gilbert, Deborah Fripp, and Violet Neff-Helms, along with the poetry of Karen Webber.
Register here: TheirStories.org/Apr23STS
This programme is on Zoom. All are welcome.
For assistance, please contact the CTHGC: 021 462 5553 / admin@holocaust.org.za
info@teachtheshoah.org

Its Complicated: Polish-Jewish Relations in Contemporary Polandby Jakub Nowakowski
2023-05-07 17:00 - 18:30
Join us for a public lecture on Polish-Jewish Relations in Contemporary Poland by Jakub Nowakowski on Sunday 7 May at 5pm.
RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

Book launch: I am Ella
2023-06-11 15:00 - 17:00
Join us for the in-person book launch of “I am Ella” on Sunday 11 June, 3pm.

RSVP to attend in person by emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

The World was Ours
2023-06-21 18:00 - 19:30, 2023-07-09 11:00 - 12:30, 2023-07-23 11:00 - 12:30, 2023-07-30 11:00 - 12:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
A documentary chronicling the rich, vibrant history of the Jewish community of Vilna (then Poland, now Lithuania,) known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania”, before its destruction in World War II
Please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

Celebrating Chayela in Song
2023-06-25 17:00 - 21:00
Sunday 25 June 5pm or 7:30pm| Ticket: R180 In-person ticket
Join Bervely Chiat, Ivor Joffe, Caely-Jo Levy and Zola for musical evening. Tickets go for R180 per person. Space is limited, book now to avoid disappointment.
To book a Celebrating Chayela in Song Concert ticket for the 5pm or the 7:30pm slot, simply email danielle@holocaust.org.za for the 5pm slot or admin@holocaust.org.za for the 7:30pm slot with your full name, mobile number and number of tickets. You will contacted to confirm the booking and to arrange for payment.

The Mervyn Smith Memorial Lecture by David Fishman
2023-06-28 20:00 - 21:30 | Online
Join us on Wednesday 28 June at 8pm for the Mervyn Smith Memorial Lecture by Prof. David Fishman on Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto: The Story of the “Paper Brigade”.To attend the event at the centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za and to register for the Zoom livestream, use the link: bit.ly/44dhoFT

Better Don't Talk
2023-07-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join for a screening of the documentary film Better Don’t Talk Date: Sunday 2 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za
Naava Piatka’s internationally acclaimed musical performance piece about the remarkable life and times of her mother, Holocaust survivor and actress, Chayela.

Searching for Papas Secrets in Hitler's Berlin
2023-07-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a talk by Egonne Roth on her book Searching for Papas Secrets in Hitler’s Berlin. Date: Wednesday 5 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za

The Paper Brigade
2023-07-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za
An award winning documentary that tells the moving story of the resistance group “The Paper Brigade”, a group of Jewish writers, scholars, and librarians who desperately tried to rescue Jewish cultural treasures in Vilnius during the Nazi occupation.

Rethinking Yiddish Theatre - Now and Then
2023-07-16 18:00 - 19:30
Join us for a panel discussion on Rethinking Yiddish Theatre – Now and Then. Date: Sunday 16 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za
This discussion will give an overview of local Yiddish Theatre, Chayela Rosenthal’s contribution, and the influence still apparent today.

Leah, Teddy and the Mandolin
2023-07-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us a screening of the documentary film Leah, Teddy and the Mandolin. Date: Sunday 30 July. Time: 6pm. RSVP by calling 021 462 5553 or emailing admin@holocaust.org.za
