On September 26, 1943 about 230 Jews accomplished a daring escape from the Novogrudok (Navardok) labor camp in Belarus (White Russia) via an underground tunnel dug by the inmates over […]

Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry series: Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials with Dr Mirjam Zadoff  “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry” is an 8 part series that engages with scholars […]

You are invited to a special commemoration of the June 1941 lasi Pogrom. The programme will feature testimony by lasi pogrom survivor, Lyonell Fliss, as well as a conversation with […]

“Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis Session 1: A Nation Takes Action: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Rescue of the Jews in Denmark […]

Please join Khulu Radebe and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for the launch of their book, Comrade King, which will include a conversation between Khulu […]

This book describes the narratives of child Holocaust survivors and their experiences of complex trauma, complicated bereavement, ageing, resilience and existential loneliness. The work is unique in that it describes […]

The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in collaboration with the Association of Siberian Deportees, Sol Plaatje University, and the Embassy of Poland in South Africa invite you to the 10th […]

The Holocaust was a catastrophe for its direct Jewish victims in Europe. For the non-Jewish and non-European “distant observers” of the Holocaust in sub-Saharan Africa, the Nazi anti-Jewish campaign in […]

Jazz Against Apartheid (JAA) was started in 1986 in Berlin by Jürgen Leinhos, now 85 years old, and his Frankfurt-based initiative “Kultur im Ghetto” (Culture in the Ghetto). The first […]

In these turbulent times, we find strength in the bonds we share with our friends as well as in our commitment to a mission of education, sharing inspiring stories of […]

Join the JHGC, Classrooms without Borders and Ghetto Fighters’ House for a post film discussion on the NEW documentary Resistance: They Fought Back Join us for this event as we […]

The online commemoration will include formal remarks, a panel discussion about the symbolism of Auschwitz with Prof. Adam Mendelsohn, Jakub Nowakowski and Iris Singer, moderated by Mary Klug, with a […]