Talking Memory Series Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute. Join us for the third and final programme in the series on the Jewish Historical Institute: Beyond Oneg Shabbat:  Groundbreaking Research and Findings in the JHI In this third and final programme, our speakers will present their research and findings in the JHI […]

80 Years After Aktion Reinhard: The Industrial Killing of European Jewry: Resistance in Treblinka: The Tangible Witnesses In the third programme of this series, resistance in Treblinka is examined. The systematic murder on the Treblinka extermination camp began in July 1942 with the arrival of the first transport from the Warsaw Ghetto. By the time […]

Join us for a special film preview of "I am Here", Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal’s story. The preview including remarks by Holocaust education expert Paul Salmons, followed by a Q&A with the producer and director of the film. Book your tickets directly with Ster Kinekor here.

Paul Salmons is Chief Curator of Seeing Auschwitz (produced by Musealia for UNESCO and the United Nations), and co-curator of Musealia’s international award-winning Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away. Recently he was consulting curator on two new permanent Holocaust exhibitions that opened in New York City and St Louis, Missouri, and he currently is working on a major […]

  The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and the United Nations Information Centre Pretoria invite you to their annual commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 78th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. The commemoration will include formal remarks from foreign dignitaries, candle-lighting by Holocaust survivors, and a commemoration lecture: ‘Remembering […]

  In this series, we have invited four leading experts who will discuss one of the most difficult and less-researched topics: sexual violence against Jewish women and children both during and after the Holocaust, including the continuing brutality against survivors seeking to return home after liberation. The challenges involved in studying female and child sex […]

  In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, the Consulate General of Italy in Johannesburg, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invite you to join us for a screening of the acclaimed film, Questo ê un Uomo (This Is a Man, 2021),with […]

  The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in collaboration with GALA Queer Archive (GALA), invite you to a special lecture by Dr Mirjam Zadoff on What we’ve lost: On the History and Presence of Queer Lives. Dr Zadoff, the director of Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism will discuss the successful exhibition […]

2022 marks the 80th anniversary of “Aktion Reinhard” - the German plan to murder all the Jews of Poland living in the General Government. To mark this anniversary, the Galicia Jewish Museum, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Ghetto Fighters House invite you to a programme titled, 80 Years After “Aktion Reinhard”: The […]

You are invited to join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a unique opportunity to explore the world acclaimed exhibition: SEEING AUSCHWITZ Visit the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a guided tour of rare images captured by perpetrators, victims, and liberators present at Auschwitz. Seeing Auschwitz invites us to critically reflect on the […]

  Dr. Beverley Chalmers will present on how the Nazis abused reproduction and sexuality to create an ideological ‘Master Race.’ They prohibited those deemed ‘Life unworthy of life’ from having sex or reproducing while promoting these among those deemed ‘worthy of life.’ Holocaust literature gives exhaustive attention to ‘direct’ means of exterminating Jews, by using […]

  The 1st session will feature Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust Classrooms Without Borders, in coordination with Tali Nates, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Madene Shachar, Director, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House, Esther Toporek Finder, member of the […]