Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for keynotes by Jens-Christian Wagner (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation), Yohai Cohen (Yad Vashem), Tal Bruttmann (French historian), and ambassadors at the opening of the powerful new temporary exhibition from NSDoku München and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute with the support of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland: More Important Than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.

On display for the first time in Africa, the exhibit explores rare images and documents from the hidden archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, known today as the Ringelblum Archive. This collective of academics, writers, and activists worked secretly to document the mass murder of European Jews as it was happening.

The exhibition tells the story of this act of resistance: a never-ending, arduous, harrowing but ultimately successful attempt to write the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of its victims.