Events

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 […]

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 […]

Join 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In 1936, the SS Stuttgart was chartered to bring 545 German Jewish refugees to Cape Town, the last ship carrying German Jewish immigrants permitted to land on South African soil […]