On September 26, 1943 about 240 Jews accomplished a daring escape from the Novogrudok (Navardok) labour camp in Belarus (White Russia) via an underground tunnel dug by the inmates over […]
Monday 28 October, 16:00 Join us for a one-hour workshop focusing on the History of Holocaust Literature, with some examples, and discussion of Dan Jacobson’s novel, Heshel’s Kingdom. Jacobson was […]
Thursday 31 October, 18:00 This talk will explore how at birth we are all handed a bag that someone else packed. We carry it without questions for a long time […]
WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 18:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a special talk by Lorenz Völker, as he shares his personal journey of discovering his late grandfather’s hidden […]
SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER, 2PM (SAST) The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, the Goethe-Institut, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to their annual commemoration of the 1938 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). […]
SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 21:00 Join us for a special event marking the launch of Arbeit Macht Frei, the final book in Dr. Batya Brutin’s trilogy on Holocaust icons in visual […]
WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER : Film screening at 16:30 and Talk at 18:30 Join us for a conversation with Dariusz Popiela, a Polish Olympic athlete, who in 2018, founded the Popiela […]
SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 14:00 Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in collaboration with the Association of Siberian Deportees, Sol Plaatje University, and the Embassy of Poland for the 11th […]
MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 14:00 SAST Join us for an online workshop on Working with Perpetrator Images: Exploring Propaganda Photographs held at Documentation Obersalzberg The workshop will be opened by Sebastian […]
26 NOVEMBER 21:00 Join us for the next instalment in the webinar series Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide featuring Dr Sara Brown Stories of Resilience: Learning from […]
THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 17:30 for 18:00 The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, FC Bayern Museum, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pretoria would […]
SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 9PM SAST Join Us for a Special Programme The Impact of Animation in Holocaust Remembrance Animation has emerged as a powerful tool in Holocaust remembrance, blending art […]