Mike Fisher is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans Cape Town, Santander (Spain), and the United Kingdom. For over four years, he has been deeply engaged in the development of a sustained body of work rooted in Holocaust memory, testimony, and material witness. This practice is driven by extensive research, creative exploration, and profound personal […]
About the Event The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 with an evening of reflection, scholarship, and film. The programme includes formal remarks, a candle-lighting ceremony, a keynote address by Professor Rolf Wolfswinkel, and a screening of the documentary Lost City—a powerful exploration of complicity, memory, and […]
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, invites you to a public talk by historian Prof. Rolf Wolfswinkel. About the event During a research visit to the Netherlands […]
As part of our programmes commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the British High Commission in Pretoria, invites you to a screening […]
As part of the programme marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, invites you to a screening of The […]
About the Book In Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, readers encounter a powerful and largely untold chapter of Holocaust history, told through one family’s story and a daughter’s enduring quest to understand the past that shaped her life. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to […]
Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation marking the launch of Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025). In this thought-provoking book, Dr Kobi Kabalek examines how postwar German society has grappled with questions […]
Join us online on Tuesday 24 February at 7PM for a screening of the documentary, “I Never Said Goodbye“, tributing the extraordinary life of Holocaust survivor Héléne Joffe. The film documents Héléne’s remarkable journey and is testimony to the endurance of the human spirit. Don’t miss out on this moving story of memory and resilience.
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Sylt Foundation for a discussion panel exploring what was seen, silenced, and later remembered about the Holocaust. Through three perspectives – sexualised violence, everyday complicity through stolen homes, and the shaping of heroic memory – the talks reveal how genocide entered ordinary lives and spaces. Together, […]
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in collaboration with the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP), invites you to the 2026 ZAPP Fest Performance Showcase Come celebrate and enjoy the performances of an exciting group of young South African poets as they explore themes of community, identity, and human and animal rights. The poems which will […]
The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Talking Memory book launch event, The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War, scheduled for March 15th, has been postponed. A new date will be announced, and invitations will be […]
In honour of Human Rights Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Sanktuary Films invite you to join us for a film screening of Amazeze (Fleas). The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on documenting and representing dehumanisation, and xenophobic violence in South Africa. Speakers include writer and director Jordy Sank, cast […]