Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung for the Johannesburg launch of Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany. Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in the Nazi occupied East, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. Resisters is based […]

Please join us for an exclusive workshop with Professor Wolf Gruner looking at the #LastSeen Project. Please note that this event is only open to JHGC members, educators, volunteers and staff.   More than 200,000 people were deported from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. Photographs of this have survived. Photos that show the […]

In honour of Human Rights Month, the JHGC and Embassy of the Federal Republic of German Pretoria are hosting a screening of Fritz Bauer's Legacy: Justice has no expiration.  Probably for the last time former SS-guards recently faced trial for their role in German concentration camps, as for many decades Germany’s justice system had difficulty […]

Join us for the fourth programme in the “Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis webinar series.   After the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis, numerous Jews settled on the "Aryan" side of the city, under assumed non-Jewish identities. Many managed to survive this way after the destruction […]

In honour of Human Rights Day, join the JHGC for A Conversation with HRH Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia & Tali Nates Confronting the Past ... Memory and Responsibility HRH Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia is the great-great grandson of the last Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm II. He relinquished part of a family inheritance due […]

Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. In the second installment of this series Carl Wilkens discusses Rwanda’s community approach to rebuilding trust: restorative strategies for healing relationships in conversation with Tali Nates. For over […]