Events

Please join Khulu Radebe and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for the launch of their book, Comrade King, which will include a conversation between Khulu […]

This book describes the narratives of child Holocaust survivors and their experiences of complex trauma, complicated bereavement, ageing, resilience and existential loneliness. The work is unique in that it describes […]

The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in collaboration with the Association of Siberian Deportees, Sol Plaatje University, and the Embassy of Poland in South Africa invite you to the 10th […]

The Holocaust was a catastrophe for its direct Jewish victims in Europe. For the non-Jewish and non-European “distant observers” of the Holocaust in sub-Saharan Africa, the Nazi anti-Jewish campaign in […]

Jazz Against Apartheid (JAA) was started in 1986 in Berlin by Jürgen Leinhos, now 85 years old, and his Frankfurt-based initiative “Kultur im Ghetto” (Culture in the Ghetto). The first […]

In these turbulent times, we find strength in the bonds we share with our friends as well as in our commitment to a mission of education, sharing inspiring stories of […]

Join the JHGC, Classrooms without Borders and Ghetto Fighters’ House for a post film discussion on the NEW documentary Resistance: They Fought Back Join us for this event as we […]

The online commemoration will include formal remarks, a panel discussion about the symbolism of Auschwitz with Prof. Adam Mendelsohn, Jakub Nowakowski and Iris Singer, moderated by Mary Klug, with a […]

In honour of International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, the Consulate General of Italy […]

Staff from the Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centres joined the Austrian Service Abroad and the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies (UCT) for an annual Holocaust Study Tour in Poland. Join us as the delegates reflect on their experiences visiting sites in the context of Jewish life in Poland and the Holocaust, […]

This programme will focus on instances of solidarity and compassion among female prisoners in Nazi camps during the Holocaust, raising questions about the connection between a shared sense of unity […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a film screening and Q&A with director Sulochana Peiris. This documentary looks at Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya protests from a protest movement […]