A creative engagement with your family stories The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Sylt Foundation, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to an interactive art workshop and memory discussion with artist Elias Mendel. The workshop will include a guided tour of his current exhibition, Letters to Yesterday – a collection of work that examines the […]

In celebration of International Museum Day 2023, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre  is offering a free tour of our permanent and temporary exhibitions. RSVP to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za

4th programme in the series ‘The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry’ “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8 part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. Our experts will challenge us […]

Join the JHGC and Sylt Foundation for a talk by Elias Mendel about his art and creative process, and a presentation of his artworks made throughout his residency with the Sylt Foundation in May 2023. This collection of work examines the artist's German Jewish history through his interventions in an extensive family archive. In recent […]

The webinar will include a round table discussion about Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel with guest speakers: Tamar Herzberg from Yad Mordechai, Noam Leibman from Moreshet, and Anat Bratman-Elhalel from Ghetto Fighters' House. This will be followed by keynote speaker, Dr. Avinoam Patt discussing The Battle of Warsaw's Jews: The Afterlife of the […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Jonathan Ball Publishers, and Book Dealers for a launch of Jonny Steinberg’s newest book Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage. The scholar and award-winning author of Midlands and The Number, will be in conversation with Professor and researcher at WISER Hlonipha Mokoena, about his latest book. Jonny […]

The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Kwela Books, and Issy’s Coffee & Gifts invite you to join author Joanne Jowell in conversation with third generation Holocaust survivor Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein, in launching I am Ella. Ella Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in faraway South Africa is a lesson in resilience, […]

It’s been said that it felt as if the souls of the six million who were murdered during the Holocaust were in the room with them when the meetings began. They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide the world had ever known. Survivors were […]

The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to an exclusive walkabout of our returning temporary exhibition Eva’s Story: The Promise led by JHGC Founder and Director, Tali Nates, with video testimony by Eva Schloss. You are invited to explore the story of Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss and her brother Heinz and his artwork. Born […]

Adolf Eichmann was a good careerist and a terrible human being. He understood what was demanded of him to succeed professionally in his time. But as Hannah Arendt famously put it in her report on his trial in Jerusalem, he was thoughtless; the inner dialogue central to agential existence was largely absent from his life. […]

Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina How can we remember events that we have not experienced but are somehow intertwined in our DNA? How can we go back to actual places of memory and engage with the act of remembering? How can we make the invisible memory that is locked in […]

5th programme in the series ‘The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry’: German Professionals and the Holocaust with Dr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8-part series that will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of […]