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  • An Unexpected Find in Amsterdam

    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 […]

  • Film Screening: The Commandant’s Shadow

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    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 […]

  • Film Screening: The Shadow of the Day (L’Ombra del Giorno)

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    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 […]

  • Webinar: Hidden in Plain Sight: A Conversation with Julie Brill

    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 […]

  • Talking Memory Book Launch

    Online

    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 […]

  • Film screening: I Never Said Goodbye

    Online

    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.

  • What Gets Seen, What Gets Silenced: Violence, Complicity, and Memory in the Holocaust

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    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, […]

  • ZAPP Fest Performance Showcase

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    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 […]

  • POSTPONED Talking Memory Book Launch

    Online

    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 […]

  • Film Screening of AMAZEZE (Fleas)

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    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 […]

  • Exhibition opening: Some Were Neighbours

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Choice, Human Behaviour & the Holocaust 2:30 for 3pm Some Were Neighbours: Choice, Human Behaviour, and the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), explores one of the central questions of the Holocaust: how it was possible. While Nazi leaders planned and directed the genocide of the Jews of Europe, circles of collaboration and complicity […]