When the Nazi Past Becomes a Bestseller: the Opportunities and Limits of Popular Fiction
For a while now, popular fiction set in the years before 1933 and their long aftermath has been doing very well in Germany. In its own way, it's become part […]
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Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Representing the Past in 2026: Holocaust History, Memory, and Meaning in a Changing World
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaJoin us for a roundtable discussion as an archaeologist, a historian, a curator, and a writer for a conversation on how Holocaust history is represented in the 21st century. As […]
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From Lullabies to Resistance: Women in Yiddish Song
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaThe Gertie Kessler Memorial Concert This Women’s Month, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre presents a concert celebrating women through Yiddish song. Singers Caely-Jo Levy and Leigh Nudelman weave together […]
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Lunch & Learn Reflections from Dallas: Genocide, Justice and Remembrance with Cathy Wilson
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaJoin us as Cathy Wilson shares an inside view of the Father Desbois Summer Academy on Genocide, Justice and Remembrance at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she was […]
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Film Screening: Passage to Sweden
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaJoin us for the first in a series of three events marking 90 years since the arrival of the SS Stuttgart in South Africa, and honouring the Jewish refugees from […]
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Unwelcome Arrivals: The Stuttgart Generation, Ninety Years On
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaOn 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 […]
