Events

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 […]

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 Pretoria, for a panel discussion with art historian and curator Dr Dorothea Schöne and artist Jessica Ostrowicz. The discussion will explore how curatorial and artistic […]

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 Shade of Pale traces the journey of Jewish families from the Russian Empire to colonial South Africa. Through the story of her grandfather Maurice Posel – […]