• Jazz Against Apartheid: Beyond Exile

    Jazz Against Apartheid (JAA) was started in 1986 in Berlin by Jürgen Leinhos, now 85 years old, and his Frankfurt-based initiative “Kultur im Ghetto” (Culture in the Ghetto). The first […]

  • Under Beslenei’s Sky: A Tale of Courage

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    In these turbulent times, we find strength in the bonds we share with our friends as well as in our commitment to a mission of education, sharing inspiring stories of […]

  • Post Film Discussion: Resistance: They Fought Back

    Online

    Join the JHGC, Classrooms without Borders and Ghetto Fighters’ House for a post film discussion on the NEW documentary Resistance: They Fought Back Join us for this event as we […]

  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration

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    The online commemoration will include formal remarks, a panel discussion about the symbolism of Auschwitz with Prof. Adam Mendelsohn, Jakub Nowakowski and Iris Singer, moderated by Mary Klug, with a […]

  • Holocaust Study Trip to Poland: Encounters & Reflections

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    Staff from the Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centres joined the Austrian Service Abroad and the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies (UCT) for an annual Holocaust Study […]

  • #GOHOMEGOTA: Film screening and Q&A

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

    Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a film screening and Q&A with director Sulochana Peiris. This documentary looks at Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya protests from a protest movement […]

  • Book launch of Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany

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

    Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung for the Johannesburg launch of Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany. Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is […]

  • Closed event: Workshop with Wolf Gruner #LastSeen

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

    Please join us for an exclusive workshop with Professor Wolf Gruner looking at the #LastSeen Project. Please note that this event is only open to JHGC members, educators, volunteers and […]

  • Members and invitation only: Film Screening of Fritz Bauer’s Legacy

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

    In honour of Human Rights Month, the JHGC and Embassy of the Federal Republic of German Pretoria are hosting a screening of Fritz Bauer's Legacy: Justice has no expiration.  Probably for the last time former SS-guards recently faced trial for their role in German concentration camps, as for many decades Germany’s justice system had difficulty […]