Join us for an Online Discussion with Laurence Rees The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History. How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly - often enthusiastically - oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In his […]
In honour of Anne Frank’s birthday and Youth Month, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre by Special Arrangement with the Historic Documentary Film Society, invites you to a screening of the acclaimed documentary Anne Frank: Parallel Stories. Anne Frank who was denied her youth, celebrated her 13th birthday, her last in freedom on June 12th, […]
Join us for the IHRA Webinar Series, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), Eastern European Holocaust Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (EEHS), Ukraina Moderna website (UM), and Austrian Service Abroad (ASA) on the theme of “Othering, Occupation, Violence, and Denial”. Topics that will be engaged with under the central theme […]
Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (EEHS), Ukraina Moderna website (UM), and Austrian Service Abroad (ASA) on the theme of “Othering, Occupation, Violence, and Denial”. Topics that will be engaged with under the central theme include the way in which historical analogies and presentism in studying the history of the Holocaust are used to […]
Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and its partners for a conference focusing on 80 years since the end of World War II and the Holocaust, highlighting memory, responsibility, and the future of remembrance. Learn from experts Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner (historian and director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation), Dr. Yohai Cohen (director […]
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 MĂĽnchen and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute with the support of the Association of the Jewish […]
Winner of the Maine Literary Award, We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration, is a riveting and awe-inspiring book by author and inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation, Rachael Cerrotti. Cerrotti had always known her grandmother Hana was a Holocaust survivor, but what she discovered – an entire archive of her […]
To commemorate Black Ribbon Day, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism you are invited to a screening of SYBERIADA POLSKA (SIBERIAN EXILE) Produced by MirosĹ‚aw SĹ‚owiĹ„ski over seven long, difficult years this film depicts the fates of Poles deported to Siberia by the Soviet Union during WWII. The film portrays the harsh […]
Armand Schmidt’s story is one of survival, courage, and resistance in the face of unthinkable danger. It is the true story of a Jewish child, hidden in a Catholic institution during the Holocaust to escape persecution, deportation and death. He will explore life before, during and after World War II and the Holocaust, using original […]
As we stand on the cusp of history, the voices of Holocaust and genocide survivors grow ever more urgent, reminding us of the cost of silence, the value of empathy, and the power of resilience. Echoes Across Time invites audiences to explore the crucial lessons these testimonies offer—on values, democracy, and the warning signs of oppression. Through […]
Please join us to remember and celebrate the life of our beloved colleague, Dowi Bele.
In 2021, Germany formally recognised the genocide of the Herero and Nama People, committed by the German Empire in 1904-1908 in German South West Africa (now Namibia).In the course of the division of Africa by the European powers in the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885, the German Empire acquired the right to colonise South West Africa. […]