About the Event The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 with an evening of reflection, scholarship, and film. The programme includes formal remarks, a candle-lighting ceremony, a keynote address by Professor Rolf Wolfswinkel, and a screening of the documentary Lost City—a powerful exploration of complicity, memory, and […]
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, invites you to a public talk by historian Prof. Rolf Wolfswinkel. About the event During a research visit to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Prof. Wolfswinkel made an unexpected discovery: a thin folder of letters from the German Occupying Administration detailing how Dutch libraries were […]
As part of our programmes commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the British High Commission in Pretoria, invites you to a screening of the documentary The Commandant’s Shadow. About the Film The film, The Commandant’s Shadow, follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, as […]
As part of the programme marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, invites you to a screening of The Shadow of the Day (L’Ombra del Giorno). About the Film Set in Fascist Italy, the film tells a quiet but gripping love story unfolding in […]
About the Book In Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, readers encounter a powerful and largely untold chapter of Holocaust history, told through one family’s story and a daughter’s enduring quest to understand the past that shaped her life. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to […]