World Refugee Day
2019-06-23 16:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Film screening: Birds are singing in Kigali
2019-07-16 20:00 - 21:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
A film about a Polish ornithologist who saves a Tutsi girl from certain death in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. After a few years they both revisit Africa on an emotional journey full of painful memories.

White Rose Creative Project Awards Evening
2019-07-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Film Screening: Murer: Anatomy of a Trial
2019-08-10 21:00 - 22:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, although the evidence is overwhelming, the desire to close this obscure chapter of history seems to surpass the desire for justice.

The Children of Willesden Lane (Musical Recital)
2019-08-13 21:30 - 23:30 | Cape Town City Hall
American pianist Mona Golabek tells the story through words, images and music of Lisa Jura, a young refugee from Austria who left her home and her family on the Kindertransport just before World War II. Listen to Beethoven, Grieg and many more as Mona brings her concert pianist mother’s story to life, a story that has inspired thousands throughout the world.
One night only. A portion of the cost of each ticket sponsors one child who cannot afford transport to the City Hall to attend a school’s performance of The Children of Willesden Lane.
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Accountant of Auschwitz
2019-08-21 20:00 - 21:30 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Srebrenica Memorial
2019-08-29 21:00 - 23:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
The theme of the commemoration is “Bridging the Gap”. The event includes a short film, candle lighting ceremony and a theatrical performance of “Sarajevo.”
“Sarajevo” is a play about a South African photo journalist recording a soon-to-be-taboo love affair between a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman at the dawn of the Yugoslavian war.

In My Father's Words - film and discussion by Richard Lowy
2019-09-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Leo’s Journey
Narrated by Christopher Plummer, this 60-minute documentary chronicles the first hand story of Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele and his “medical experiments” on Jewish twins in Auschwitz during World War II. Survivor Leo Lowy’s heart-wrenching journey is interwoven with historical footage and interviews that include: a surviving Jewish slave doctor at Auschwitz; the world’s leading expert on Nazi medicine, Dr. Benno Muler-Hill; and the grandson of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer – Mengele’s twin project sponsor and mentor. This film reveals the absolute disregard for human life that occurred when medical science sacrificed its ethics to serve a perverse political ideology.

Film screening: Murer: Anatomy of a Trial
2019-09-10 21:00 - 23:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
MURER: ANATOMY OF A TRIAL reconstructs the 1963 proceedings against Franz Murer, a respected local politician and family man who was in charge of the Vilnius ghetto from 1941 to 1943, where its residents called him the “Butcher of Vilnius”. Only 600 of the 80,000 Jews who originally lived there survived Nazi rule, and Survivors came from around the world to testify at the trial, leaving little doubt of Murer’s guilt.
The film shows how little weight truth and justice possess when competing with the interests of political power

Commemoration: 75th Anniversary of the Rhodes Island deportations
2019-09-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the deportation of the Rhodeslis from Rhodes Island. The keynote speaker will be Milena Cosentino and her talk is entitled “Trauma and Memory.”
Milena’s talk discusses the trauma and memory of the Holocaust in Rhodes and Cos, considering historical and contemporary issues related to genocide, antisemitism, collective memory and identity. In addition, how trauma, memory and nostalgia can be correlated and transmitted across generations. The link between history and psychology has a significant part to play in helping people around the world to come to terms with their very difficult past involving traumatic events.
Milena’s Bio:
Milena Callegari Cosentino is a PhD Teaching Fellow at University of Limerick (Ireland) – Post-Graduation Program in History and Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS). Her preview academic experience was at the Department of Psychology, University of Sao Paulo (USP – Brazil). Also, she has experience working as clinic psychologist. Milena does research in Clinical and Social Psychology, and History. Her current research project is “Rhodes and the Holocaust: repercussions and legacies for later generations.”

Book Launch: Epitaph of no words by Jeanine Hack
2019-10-03 12:30 - 14:00 | Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
Join us for the special book launch by Jeanine Hack of the book “Epitaph Of No Words.”
The book details Emil and Martha Galliner struggles as they fled Nazi Germany through Shanghai, United States before moving to South West Africa (Namibia), and finally to Johannesburg. This book records their trauma and recognizes their attempts to restore their dignity.
Jeanine Hack
Jeanine is the great-granddaughter of Emil and Martha Galliner whom this book is about. She grew up in Windhoek, and has lived in Cape Town for thirty-six years. It was her grandmother Dodi who gave the postcards to Jeanine which formed the basis for this book. As a direct descendent, Jeanine felt compelled to respond to how the lives of her great-grandparents were affected by the forced expulsion from Nazi Germany in June 1941.
