Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Kristallnacht 1938: The final Accord in a Fateful Year
2024-11-12 18:00 - 19:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Tuesday, 12 November, at 6pm as we commemorate the 86th Anniversary of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) with a lecture by Professor Hanna Yablonka.
To attend the event at the Centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

Unpacking The Suitcase
2024-11-04 18:00 - 19:30
Join us on Monday, 4 November, at 6 p.m. for a talk by author Gina Roitman on exploring our stories.
To attend this event, please RSVP to
events@sajewishmuseum.co.za

Film screening: Family Treasures: Lost & Found
2024-09-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday 19 September, 6pm for an in person film screening of Family Treasures: Lost & Found and a Q&A with Karen A. Frenkel and director Marcia Rock
To attend the event at the Centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

Exhibition opening: The Holocaust in Senegal
2024-09-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre for the launch of our latest temporary exhibition The Holocaust in Senegal: An Artist’s Response by artist Joe Turpin.
During his time in Senegal, Joe Turpin produced seven powerful artworks. Each work has a story behind it, inspired by historical events, archive records, and real or imagined stories. The works link to history, antisemitism, and colonial oppression at Sébikotane Camp.
RSVP by emailling admin@holocaust.org.za

Responses to 7 October
2024-09-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a book talk by David Hirsch on his publication Responses to 7 October. RSVP to sajbd2@ctjc.co.za.

Restoring Roots: Reclaiming Polish and Lithuanian Citizenship
2024-09-08 14:30 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Sunday, 8 September, at 2.30 p.m. for a talk with Eva Hussain, who will explore the rising trend of people reclaiming Polish or Lithuanian citizenship. She will share valuable insights into the legal and emotional journeys of reconnecting with ancestral lands, while discussing the complex and evolving relationship between heritage, identity, and citizenship in Eastern Europe.
To attend the event at the Centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

Warsaw Rising 1944 Exhibition
2024-09-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday, 4 September, at 6 p.m. for a Meeting with Paweł Ukielski, Deputy Director of the Warsaw Rising Museum and preview of the “Warsaw Rising 1944” exhibition. The program will feature a presentation of “The City of Ruins”, a short film featuring a bird’s-eye view of Warsaw created with precise computer animation that simulates the city’s grim, abandoned remains as seen in the spring of 1945.
To attend the event at the Centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za

CTHGC Annual Creative Project Awards Evening & Exhibition
2024-08-25 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Join us for a ceremony on Sunday 25 August at 5pm honouring high school learners who participated in this year’s Creative Project.
To attend the event at the Centre, please RSVP to admin@holocaust.org.za.

Post-Jewish: Uncomfortable Memory
2024-08-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Wednesday, August 21, at 7 p.m. for a discussion with author Agnieszka Dobkiewicz on her book Post-Jewish: Uncomfortable Memory. In this compelling work, she explores the deep intertwining of Jewish heritage within Polish identity.
To attend this event on Zoom, register using the link https://bit.ly/4cqQlLc

Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference Closing event
2024-08-09 09:30 - 10:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Closing Keynote Session
Speaker: Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, U.S. Dept. of State

Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

New realities of Holocaust education
2024-08-08 09:00 - 10:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Keynote Session 6: New realities of Holocaust education
Speaker: Dr. Rocco Giansante, Yad Vashem
Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Why Should They Care? Holocaust education in post-Apartheid South Africa
2024-08-07 13:30 - 14:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Keynote Session 5: Why Should They Care? Holocaust education in post-Apartheid South Africa
Speaker: Richard Freedman, Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Why Should We Care?
2024-08-07 09:00 - 10:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Keynote Session 4: Why Should We Care? Incorporating the story of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda into the narrative of the Holocaust museum
Speaker: Tali Nates, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Perpetrators perspective. Genocidaire as a moral person
2024-08-06 10:00 - 11:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Keynote Session 3: Perpetrators perspective. Genocidaire as a moral person
Speaker: Konstanty Gebert
Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Ignorance or calculation? Holocaust terminology as a political weapon
2024-08-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Keynote Session 2: Ignorance or calculation? Holocaust terminology as a political weapon
Speaker: Prof. Adam Mendelsohn, Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town
Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Official Opening of the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference
2024-08-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Official Opening with a keynote message by Dr Stephen Smith on “New Challenges – Old Solutions? Why it is time for Holocaust Education to Change”
Join us from 5-9 August for a series of public events accompanying the Building Resilience Through Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference for museum educators.
To attend this event in-person, please Register using the link: https://forms.gle/QpJxCNU7cBsZoys37

Voices from The Auschwitz Album
2024-07-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
Voices from The Auschwitz Album: Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of Jews from Hungary
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From May to July 1944, the Nazis deported over 420,000 Jews from Hungary to the death camp of Auschwitz II Birkenau. Most we murdered shortly after arrival.
Join us as we hear two stories of survival, as well as how this history is incorporated into the core exhibition at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Rachel Herczl, who at 15 years old was deported to Auschwitz, and whose life was saved on the ‘selection’ platform by a Polish-Jewish prisoner. Rachel will be joined by her daughter Tova Herzl.
Holocaust Museum LA docent Mitch Kreitenberg, who discovered photographs of his father’s family in the Auschwitz Album. The album depicts the Hungarian deportations and is the only known visual evidence of the ‘selection’ process towards mass murder at Auschwitz II Birkenau.

Reconciliation and Remembrance: Restoring the Kutno Jewish Cemetery
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
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Join us for a compelling panel discussion on the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Kutno, Poland. Totally destroyed by the Nazis during World War II and subsequently misused, this sacred site is now undergoing a profound transformation. Led by a dedicated group of activists from South Africa, Israel, and Poland, all with deep ties to Kutno, this restoration project symbolizes a powerful journey of remembrance, reconciliation, and resilience. The panelists: Yosef Kutner (Israel), Luc Albinski (South Africa), NAMES NAMES will share their perspectives, insights, and personal connections to this restoration effort. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the profound impact of restoring heritage and fostering understanding across borders.

Rescuing the Repertoire of the Yiddish Shoah Song
2024-06-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
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This presentation highlights the life and career of Vilna-born poet and anthologist Shmerke Kaczerginski. Known for his pre-war revolutionary folksongs, Kaczerginski was a vital creative force in the Vilna ghetto and later joined an underground partisan unit. During the war, he began collecting songs, believing they were unique historical documentation and a memorial to Nazi genocide victims. His major contribution, the 1948 anthology Lider fun di getos und lagern (Songs from the Ghettos and Camps), remains a key reference in Holocaust-era Jewish music folklore. The presentation will feature recordings from this collection and other Shoah song preservation efforts.

Four Winters: A story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII
2024-05-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday, May 16, for this captivating and profound film, followed by an exclusive conversation with the film maker Julia Mintz.
To attend this event in-person, please email admin@holocaust.org.za

Understanding the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in Colonial South Africa
2024-05-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday, May 9, for a public lecture by CTHGC Archivist Dmitri Abrahams on understanding the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in Colonial South Africa.
To attend this event in-person, please email admin@holocaust.org.za

Exhibition Opening: The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim
2024-04-28 10:30 - 12:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Sunday, April 28th, for the opening of Barry Salzman’s exhibition The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim, as we mark the 30th anniversary of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda with a video keynote address by award-winning artist Barry Salzman and opening remarks by the Ambassador of Rwanda to South Africa, H.E. Emmanuel Hategeka.
To attend this event in-person, please email admin@holocaust.org.za

April 1994: Reflections on South Africa and Rwanda Through the Eyes of Reporters
2024-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join us on Thursday 18 April at 7pm (SAST) for a online discussion by Christoph Plate and William Gumede chaired by JHGC Director Tali Nates
To attend this event on Zoom, please register using the link: https://rb.gy/fpkex6

Not Entirely Forgotten
2024-04-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday 4 April at 6pm (SAST) for a discussion by Luc Albinski and Giora Bar Nir on the Polish-Jewish officers murdered in the Katyn Massacre.
To attend this event on Zoom, please register using the link: https://bit.ly/49bcAms

Resisters with Prof Wolf Gruner
2024-03-17 15:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for a presentation by Prof Wolf Gruner on Resisters – How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany.

History as Spectacle: The Triumph of Will Revisited
2024-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Film screening: Behind These Walls
2024-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Sunday 3 March at 3pm for the screening of the exclusive documentary Behind These Walls followed by a Q&A session with Isaac Habib.
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Blind Love
2024-02-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Wednesday 28 February at 3pm for the closing event of the international travelling exhibition Seeing Auschwitz.The screening of Blind Love will be followed by a panel discussion.
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Holocaust study trip to Poland
2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us on Thursday 15 February at 7pm for a webinar by staff members from the Holocaust and Genocide Centres in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg as they discuss their recent Holocaust study trip to Poland.This talk will be accompanying the Seeing Auschwitz exhibition on display at our Centre until the 23 February 2024.To attend the event on zoom, please register using the link: bit.ly/3w1WvBP

Film screening: Facing windows
2024-02-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
