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 Nazism who rebuilt their lives here and around the world. During the Second World War, geography and politics shaped very different fates for Jews in […]
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 Africa amid a climate of rising Afrikaner nationalism and antisemitism. Drawing on archival materials and hundreds of personal accounts, this talk will follow the refugees' […]
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 before restrictive immigration legislation came into effect four days later and the gates closed. On arrival, these benighted passengers discovered they had landed in a […]