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 still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in the Nazi occupied East, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. Resisters is based […]

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 staff.   More than 200,000 people were deported from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. Photographs of this have survived. Photos that show the […]

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 […]

Join us for the fourth programme in the “Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis webinar series.   After the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis, numerous Jews settled on the "Aryan" side of the city, under assumed non-Jewish identities. Many managed to survive this way after the destruction […]

In honour of Human Rights Day, join the JHGC for A Conversation with HRH Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia & Tali Nates Confronting the Past ... Memory and Responsibility HRH Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia is the great-great grandson of the last Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm II. He relinquished part of a family inheritance due […]

Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. In the second installment of this series Carl Wilkens discusses Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships in conversation with Tali Nates. For over […]

The Katyn Massacre, a tragic event during World War II, involved the mass execution of thousands of Polish military officers, intelligentsia, and other prominent figures by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, in 1940. The victims were captured following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and were held in various prisoner-of-war camps. In April […]

Come celebrate and enjoy the performances of an exciting group of young South African poets as they explore themes of community, human rights, and identity inspired by the JHGC exhibition. The poems which will be performed are the product of a one-day poetry workshop facilitated by Mandi Vundla, a celebrated live poet. This workshop is […]

April 2024 marks 30 years since the start of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the first democratic elections in South Africa. To mark this historically significant month, join the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation for a webinar reflecting back on April 1994 in both countries, through the perspective of members of […]

Join Issy's and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for Healing Our Past Celebrating Our Future in Conversation with Nosipho Hani   For Freedom Day, the JHGC and Issy's are proud to launch Nosipho Hani's new book Healing through Literature. The launch will include a panel on intergenerational trauma with experts including Tali Nates, Hazel […]

Join us for the next installment in the Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Featuring Joanna Sliwa   An Unlikely Rescue: A Jewish Woman Who Helped Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust   Dr. Joanna Sliwa is a historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York, […]

Join us for cheese, wine, and a talk on Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past: Germany’s Confrontation with its History with Prof Monika Grütters   Professor Monika Grütters is a German politician and academic. She has been a member of the German Bundestag under the CDU since 2005. From 2013 to 2021, she was […]