The Polish Association of Siberian Deportees in Southeast Africa is collaborating with the Sybir Memorial Museum and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Join us for the 12th conference to launch a series of posters depicting the lived experiences of Polish Siberian Deportees - Sybir - Prison of Nations. The recent unveiling of the memorial […]
The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to the Talking Memory series Conversations that Endure: In the Footsteps of Henry Greenspan and Dori Laub Listening as Witnessing: Dori Laub and the Creation of the Fortunoff Archive Sunday, 14 December 2025 Opening Remarks:Stephen Naron, Director, Fortunoff Archive Guest Filmmaker:Ohad Ufaz You are warmly invited to the second […]
Mike Fisher is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans Cape Town, Santander (Spain), and the United Kingdom. For over four years, he has been deeply engaged in the development of a sustained body of work rooted in Holocaust memory, testimony, and material witness. This practice is driven by extensive research, creative exploration, and profound personal […]
About the Event The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 with an evening of reflection, scholarship, and film. The programme includes formal remarks, a candle-lighting ceremony, a keynote address by Professor Rolf Wolfswinkel, and a screening of the documentary Lost City—a powerful exploration of complicity, memory, and […]
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, invites you to a public talk by historian Prof. Rolf Wolfswinkel. About the event During a research visit to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Prof. Wolfswinkel made an unexpected discovery: a thin folder of letters from the German Occupying Administration detailing how Dutch libraries were […]
As part of our programmes commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the British High Commission in Pretoria, invites you to a screening of the documentary The Commandant’s Shadow. About the Film The film, The Commandant’s Shadow, follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, as […]
As part of the programme marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, invites you to a screening of The Shadow of the Day (L’Ombra del Giorno). About the Film Set in Fascist Italy, the film tells a quiet but gripping love story unfolding in […]
About the Book In Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, readers encounter a powerful and largely untold chapter of Holocaust history, told through one family’s story and a daughter’s enduring quest to understand the past that shaped her life. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to […]
Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation marking the launch of Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025). In this thought-provoking book, Dr Kobi Kabalek examines how postwar German society has grappled with questions […]
Join us online on Tuesday 24 February at 7PM for a screening of the documentary, “I Never Said Goodbye“, tributing the extraordinary life of Holocaust survivor Héléne Joffe. The film documents Héléne’s remarkable journey and is testimony to the endurance of the human spirit. Don’t miss out on this moving story of memory and resilience.