Eastern Europe once had one of the world's largest Jewish communities, now among the smallest. Its history reflects vibrant pre-war life, the devastation of war, post-war antisemitism, and emigration. Since […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg for a talk on Colonial Violence, the Holocaust, and Contested Politics of Memory in Germany with Prof Carola Lentz […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Rosa Luxemberg Foundation for a film screening of Family Treasures Lost & Found   This documentary tracks journalist Karen A. Frenkel investigates […]

The event is on 25 September at 8pm SAST Join us for the next instalment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Asya Darbinyan […]

29 September at 15:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Pretoria for the opening of the new temporary exhibition, The Righteous […]

14 October 17:30 for 18:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in South Africa for an evening exploring the life and […]

On September 26, 1943 about 240 Jews accomplished a daring escape from the Novogrudok (Navardok) labour camp in Belarus (White Russia) via an underground tunnel dug by the inmates over […]

Monday 28 October, 16:00 Join us for a one-hour workshop focusing on the History of Holocaust Literature, with some examples, and discussion of Dan Jacobson’s novel, Heshel’s Kingdom. Jacobson was […]

Thursday 31 October, 18:00 This talk will explore how at birth we are all handed a bag that someone else packed. We carry it without questions for a long time […]

WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 18:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a special talk by Lorenz Völker, as he shares his personal journey of discovering his late grandfather’s hidden […]

SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER, 2PM (SAST) The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, the Goethe-Institut, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to their annual commemoration of the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). […]

SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 21:00 Join us for a special event marking the launch of Arbeit Macht Frei, the final book in Dr. Batya Brutin’s trilogy on Holocaust icons in visual […]