Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for an exclusive volunteer and member's only event: In Conversation with Dr. Stephen D. Smith is a speaker, scholar, author, and creative who has dedicated his career to preserving the memories of Holocaust and genocide survivors through innovative technologies. He is a co-founder of the Aegis Trust and […]
The JHGC in partnership with the BASE presents Luc Albinski in conversation with Rob Katz: "The Son of a Survivor" The story and perspective of the son of Warsaw ghetto survivor Wanda Albinski and grandson of Dr. Halina Rotstein, murdered in Treblinka. Register here
Join us for the opening concert of the Still Searching for Memory and Justice Conference featuring a variety of performances commemorating and celebrating through music from South Africa, Rwanda, and the Holocaust. Artists include Leigh Nudelman, Music is a Great Investment trio (MIAGI), Adriana Altaras, Music for Humanity Collaboration directed by Jazz Against Apartheid, Prince […]
In 1998, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, together with Yale's Schell Center for International Human Rights, held an international conference titled Searching for Memory and Justice, a groundbreaking effort to examine the commonalities and differences between the work of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa and efforts to document witnesses of the […]
Join us for a social book club that reflects the values of the space: memory, education, dialogue, and lessons for humanity. This month's theme is Fearless Females. RSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za
August 23 is the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism created by the European Parliament in 2008. This day is also the day on which in 1939 the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed. A Pact that allowed for Germany under Hitler and Soviet Union under Stalin to divide much of Europe. To […]
Join us for the next installment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide featuring Wolf Gruner Wolf Gruner: Resisters: How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution […]
Eastern Europe once had one of the world's largest Jewish communities, now among the smallest. Its history reflects vibrant pre-war life, the devastation of war, post-war antisemitism, and emigration. Since […]
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg for a talk on Colonial Violence, the Holocaust, and Contested Politics of Memory in Germany with Prof Carola Lentz […]
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Rosa Luxemberg Foundation for a film screening of Family Treasures Lost & Found This documentary tracks journalist Karen A. Frenkel investigates […]
The event is on 25 September at 8pm SAST Join us for the next instalment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Asya Darbinyan […]
29 September at 15:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Pretoria for the opening of the new temporary exhibition, The Righteous […]