Latest Past Events

“I am Ella” Book Launch at Issy’s Café and Gifts

Issy's Coffee & Gift Shop 1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town

The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Kwela Books, and Issy’s Coffee & Gifts invite you to join author Joanne Jowell in conversation with third generation Holocaust survivor Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein, in launching I am Ella. Ella Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in faraway South Africa is a lesson in resilience, […]

Book Launch: Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre 1 Duncombe Rd, Johannesburg

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Jonathan Ball Publishers, and Book Dealers for a launch of Jonny Steinberg’s newest book Winnie & Nelson Portrait of a Marriage. The scholar and award-winning author of Midlands and The Number, will be in conversation with Professor and researcher at WISER Hlonipha Mokoena, about his latest book. Jonny […]

Special Talking Memory programme marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Online

The webinar will include a round table discussion about Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel with guest speakers: Tamar Herzberg from Yad Mordechai, Noam Leibman from Moreshet, and Anat Bratman-Elhalel from Ghetto Fighters' House. This will be followed by keynote speaker, Dr. Avinoam Patt discussing The Battle of Warsaw's Jews: The Afterlife of the […]