Events

A Special Series with the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center. Join us for the second programme in the series on 80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: […]

Talking Memory Series Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute. Join us for the third and final programme in the series on the Jewish Historical Institute: Beyond Oneg […]

80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: The Industrial Killing of European Jewry: Resistance in Treblinka: The Tangible Witnesses In the third programme of this series, resistance in Treblinka is examined. The […]

Join us for a special film preview of "I am Here", Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal’s story. The preview including remarks by Holocaust education expert Paul Salmons, followed by a Q&A […]

Paul Salmons is Chief Curator of Seeing Auschwitz (produced by Musealia for UNESCO and the United Nations), and co-curator of Musealia’s international award-winning Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away. Recently he was consulting […]

  The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and the United Nations Information Centre Pretoria invite you to their annual commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the […]

  In this series, we have invited four leading experts who will discuss one of the most difficult and less-researched topics: sexual violence against Jewish women and children both during and after the Holocaust, including the continuing brutality against survivors seeking to return home after liberation. The challenges involved in studying female and child sex […]

  In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, the Consulate General of Italy in Johannesburg, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invite you to join us for a screening of the acclaimed film, Questo ê un Uomo (This Is a Man, 2021),with […]

  The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in collaboration with GALA Queer Archive (GALA), invite you to a special lecture by Dr Mirjam Zadoff on What we’ve lost: On the History and Presence of Queer Lives. Dr Zadoff, the director of Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism will discuss the successful exhibition […]

2022 marks the 80th anniversary of “Aktion Reinhard” - the German plan to murder all the Jews of Poland living in the General Government. To mark this anniversary, the Galicia Jewish Museum, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Ghetto Fighters House invite you to a programme titled, 80 Years After “Aktion Reinhard”: The […]

You are invited to join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a unique opportunity to explore the world acclaimed exhibition: SEEING AUSCHWITZ Visit the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a guided tour of rare images captured by perpetrators, victims, and liberators present at Auschwitz. Seeing Auschwitz invites us to critically reflect on the […]

  Dr. Beverley Chalmers will present on how the Nazis abused reproduction and sexuality to create an ideological ‘Master Race.’ They prohibited those deemed ‘Life unworthy of life’ from having sex or reproducing while promoting these among those deemed ‘worthy of life.’ Holocaust literature gives exhaustive attention to ‘direct’ means of exterminating Jews, by using […]