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 […]
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 […]
Ph.D Dissertation presentation by DaQuan Lawrence (Howard University) In honour of Human Rights Month, Howard University Ph.D. candidate DaQuan Lawrence, presents research findings from his dissertation entitled, "Urban Class Structure in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Case Studies from Johannesburg and Tshwane”. Amid the 32nd anniversary of South Africa’s transition to a democratic and post-apartheid society, Lawrence […]
Pilates | 7:45–8:30am Chair Pilates | 10:00–10:45am Eltiar Wellness in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Issy's Coffee & Gift Shop invite you to join us for a complimentary trial session. Issy's Coffee & Gift Shop will be offering a free cappuccino and bulka to each participant! Pilates | 7:45–8:30am A guided […]
5 for 5:30pm Please join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pretoria and the British High Commission in […]
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Issy's Coffee & Gift Shop invite you to a book launch for Darker Shade of Pale: Shtetl to Colony by Deborah Posel. Darker […]
The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation with acclaimed writer and translator Goldie Morgentaler as she […]