• Exhibition Opening: The Landscape Archive

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    6 for 6:30 pm Beyond the major killing centres, thousands of Jewish people were murdered in forests, fields and by roadsides across Poland. Many were buried where they fell, in graves that were never marked. Hundreds of these sites remain unmarked to this day. The Landscape Archive reveals a lesser-known landscape of the Holocaust: the […]

  • When the Nazi Past Becomes a Bestseller: the Opportunities and Limits of Popular Fiction

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    For a while now, popular fiction set in the years before 1933 and their long aftermath has been doing very well in Germany. In its own way, it's become part of how the country remembers — and it's quietly reshaping how people picture that history. Drawing on two examples – the Gereon Rath crime novels, […]

  • Representing the Past in 2026: Holocaust History, Memory, and Meaning in a Changing World

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Join us for a roundtable discussion as an archaeologist, a historian, a curator, and a writer for a conversation on how Holocaust history is represented in the 21st century. As societies look back at the past and confront new social, political, and technological realities, how do we create museums, memorials, exhibitions, artworks, and narratives that […]