• Unwelcome Arrivals: The Stuttgart Generation, Ninety Years On

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

    On 26 October 1936 the Stuttgart docked in Cape Town, carrying 537 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. They were among roughly 6,000 German-speaking Jews who eventually found refuge in South […]

  • Before the Door Closed: Rescue, Refuge and Family Memory

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

    In 1936, the SS Stuttgart was chartered to bring 545 German Jewish refugees to Cape Town, the last ship carrying German Jewish immigrants permitted to land on South African soil […]