Join us for the next installment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide featuring Wolf Gruner Wolf Gruner: Resisters: How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany Wolf Gruner holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, is Professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles […]
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 the 1970s, descendants have returned, seeking traces of this lost world. This trend grew as Eastern European nations joined the EU, spurring interest in reclaiming […]
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 In which direction should German state policies of memory develop? What is the future of Holocaust remembrance in an increasingly multi-ethnic, post-migrant society and […]
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). […]