• 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 […]