Events

As we stand on the cusp of history, the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors grow ever more urgent, reminding us of the cost of silence, the value of empathy, […]

Join us for an online book launch of Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide. The co-editors, Prof. Lori Weintrob and Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz, will give a brief introduction to the book, which brings together international scholars to explore new perspectives on women’s rescue and resistance during the Holocaust, as well as […]

Join us for an Online Discussion with Laurence Rees The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History. How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly - often enthusiastically - oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In his […]

In honour of Anne Frank’s birthday and Youth Month, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre by Special Arrangement with the Historic Documentary Film Society, invites you to a screening of the acclaimed documentary Anne Frank: Parallel Stories. Anne Frank who was denied her youth, celebrated her 13th birthday, her last in freedom on June 12th, […]

Join us for the IHRA Webinar Series, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), Eastern European Holocaust Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (EEHS), Ukraina Moderna website (UM), and Austrian Service Abroad (ASA) on the theme of “Othering, Occupation, Violence, and Denial”. Topics that will be engaged with under the central theme […]

Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (EEHS), Ukraina Moderna website (UM), and Austrian Service Abroad (ASA) on the theme of “Othering, Occupation, Violence, and Denial”. Topics that will be engaged with under the central theme include the way in which historical analogies and presentism in studying the history of the Holocaust are used to […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and its partners for a conference focusing on 80 years since the end of World War II and the Holocaust, highlighting memory, responsibility, […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for keynotes by Jens-Christian Wagner (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation), Yohai Cohen (Yad Vashem), Tal Bruttmann (French historian), and ambassadors at the opening […]

Winner of the Maine Literary Award, We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration, is a riveting and awe-inspiring book by author and inaugural Storyteller in Residence for […]

To commemorate Black Ribbon Day, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism you are invited to a screening of SYBERIADA POLSKA (SIBERIAN EXILE) Produced by Mirosław Słowiński over […]

Armand Schmidt’s story is one of survival, courage, and resistance in the face of unthinkable danger. It is the true story of a Jewish child, hidden in a Catholic institution […]

As we stand on the cusp of history, the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors grow ever more urgent, reminding us of the cost of silence, the value of empathy, […]