Eastern Europe once had one of the world's largest Jewish communities, now among the smallest. Its history reflects vibrant pre-war life, the devastation of war, post-war antisemitism, and emigration. Since the 1970s, descendants have returned, seeking traces of this lost world. This trend grew as Eastern European nations joined the EU, spurring interest in reclaiming […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg for a talk on Colonial Violence, the Holocaust, and Contested Politics of Memory in Germany with Prof Carola Lentz   In which direction should German state policies of memory develop? What is the future of Holocaust remembrance in an increasingly multi-ethnic, post-migrant society and […]

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Rosa Luxemberg Foundation for a film screening of Family Treasures Lost & Found   This documentary tracks journalist Karen A. Frenkel investigates her parents’ unspoken WWII stories. She knew little about their lives before and during the Holocaust, but her detective work leads to astonishing revelations of […]

The event is on 25 September at 8pm SAST Join us for the next instalment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Asya Darbinyan   The Remarkable Resilience of the Armenian Genocide Refugees The Armenian genocide—orchestrated and systematically implemented by the Ottoman government against its Armenian subjects under the […]

29 September at 15:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Pretoria for the opening of the new temporary exhibition, The Righteous Among the Nations. The opening will include formal remarks from Ambassador of the Czech Republic to South Africa Ambassador Tomáš Uličný, a presentation by Zuzana […]