A Talk by Dr David Simon 17:30 for 18:00 The rise of AI-generated and enhanced mass violence materials – often (mis)using recorded testimonies that are central to historical memory and social repair – presents a crisis for mass atrocity memory. While AI could revolutionise the field of memorialisation, it also risks amplifying distorted and denialist […]
Join the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation for an online film screening of Among Neighbors. Decades after the Holocaust, award-winning American filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime, Sundance Film Festival) unearths the haunting mysteries of a small Polish town where people of two different faiths lived side by side for centuries. At its heart, […]
Join us as we mark 31 years since the genocide in Srebrenica, remembering the women who endured the Bosnian War and carry its memory. Aimée Mica Komorowsky playwright, actress, and South African […]
Following our screening of Among Neighbors on 11 August, we invite you to join an exclusive online conversation with the film's award-winning writer, director, and producer, Yoav Potash, in discussion […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Gertie Kessler Memorial Concert This Women’s Month, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre presents a concert celebrating women through Yiddish song. Singers Caely-Jo Levy and Leigh Nudelman weave together […]
Join us as Cathy Wilson shares an inside view of the Father Desbois Summer Academy on Genocide, Justice and Remembrance at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she was […]
Join us for the first in a series of three events marking 90 years since the arrival of the SS Stuttgart in South Africa, and honouring the Jewish refugees from […]
On 27 October 1936 the Stuttgart docked in Cape Town, carrying 537 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. They were among roughly 6,000 German-speaking Jews who eventually found refuge in South […]
In 1936, the SS Stuttgart was chartered to bring 545 German Jewish refugees to Cape Town, the last ship carrying German Jewish immigrants permitted to land on South African soil […]