• Online Film Screening: Among Neighbors

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    Join the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation for an online film screening of Among Neighbors. Decades after the Holocaust, award-winning American filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime, Sundance Film […]

  • Lunch & Learn: We Are Here; Women’s Voices, Memory, and Srebrenica

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Join us as we mark 31 years since the genocide in Srebrenica, remembering the women who endured the Bosnian War and carry its memory. Aimée Mica Komorowsky playwright, actress, and South African […]

  • Among Neighbors: In Conversation with Yoav Potash

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    Following our screening of Among Neighbors on 11 August, we invite you to join an exclusive online conversation with the film's award-winning writer, director, and producer, Yoav Potash, in discussion […]

  • Exhibition Opening: The Landscape Archive

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    6 for 6:30 pm Beyond the major killing centres, thousands of Jewish people were murdered in forests, fields and by roadsides across Poland. Many were buried where they fell, in […]

  • From Lullabies to Resistance: Women in Yiddish Song

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    The 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 […]

  • Film Screening: Passage to Sweden

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Join 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 […]

  • Unwelcome Arrivals: The Stuttgart Generation, Ninety Years On

    Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    On 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 […]