The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in collaboration with the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP), invites you to the 2026 ZAPP Fest Performance Showcase Come celebrate and enjoy the performances of an exciting group of young South African poets as they explore themes of community, identity, and human and animal rights. The poems which will […]
The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Talking Memory book launch event, The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War, scheduled for March 15th, has been postponed. A new date will be announced, and invitations will be […]
In honour of Human Rights Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Sanktuary Films invite you to join us for a film screening of Amazeze (Fleas). The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on documenting and representing dehumanisation, and xenophobic violence in South Africa. Speakers include writer and director Jordy Sank, cast […]
Choice, Human Behaviour & the Holocaust 2:30 for 3pm Some Were Neighbours: Choice, Human Behaviour, and the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), explores one of the central questions of the Holocaust: how it was possible. While Nazi leaders planned and directed the genocide of the Jews of Europe, circles of collaboration and complicity […]
Ph.D Dissertation presentation by DaQuan Lawrence (Howard University) In honour of Human Rights Month, Howard University Ph.D. candidate DaQuan Lawrence, presents research findings from his dissertation entitled, "Urban Class Structure in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Case Studies from Johannesburg and Tshwane”. Amid the 32nd anniversary of South Africa’s transition to a democratic and post-apartheid society, Lawrence […]
Pilates | 7:45–8:30am Chair Pilates | 10:00–10:45am Eltiar Wellness in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Issy's Coffee & Gift Shop invite you to join us for […]
5 for 5:30pm Please join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pretoria and the British High Commission in […]
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Issy's Coffee & Gift Shop invite you to a book launch for Darker Shade of Pale: Shtetl to Colony by Deborah Posel. Darker […]
The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation with acclaimed writer and translator Goldie Morgentaler as she […]
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to a participatory workshop to open the exhibition Sweet Home Sweet. In 1942, Richard Ores buried a jar of photographs in the […]
Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe with the Author Matti Friedman The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation marking the launch of Out of the […]
Join a free community Breathwork session in partnership with ELTIAR Wellness and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre holds space for remembrance, reflection and […]