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Recently released on M-Net (DStv Channel 101), The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the bestselling 2018 novel by Heather Morris which tells the true story...
The old understanding of Jews as being passive during the Holocaust has become obsolete with new research, says Wolf Gruner, the Shappel-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies...
As eyewitnesses to the Holocaust become few and far between, new ways to memorialise the Holocaust have been digitised through technology, and are increasingly transmitted through...
Being in Melbourne when an employee at the Elsternwick branch of Officeworks refused to laminate a Jewish newspaper article, citing her “pro-Palestine” stance as the reason,...
From misuse of the word “genocide” to Poland’s relevance to Jews today, Polish-Jewish journalist, educator, author, activist, and former war correspondent Konstanty Gebert has a unique...
Twenty-five years ago Holocaust education didn’t exist in South Africa. Today, it’s an integral part of the national school curriculum, with thousands of pupils and educators...
Following a year of painstaking conservation work at the Auschwitz Museum Conservation Laboratories, more than 3 000 shoes of Jewish children murdered in Auschwitz have returned...
A stack of letters, perfectly preserved for more than 80 years since World War II, have finally made their way home after an extraordinary connection made...
“Remembering the systematic genocide of the European Jews, a crime against humanity on an unprecedented scale, and the horrors and atrocities perpetrated in Germany’s name under...
South African Jews were horrified this week at the erection of a deeply offensive sculpture on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus on 2 April...
When Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia was confronted with a moral dilemma concerning his great-grandfather’s Nazi ties, he sought advice from an unlikely source – the...
Don Krausz, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, and the chairperson of the Johannesburg chapter of the South African Holocaust Survivors Association, has been made a pawn of...
Tali Nates, the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC), received the United States State Department’s International Religious Freedom Award in Washington,...
During 1944 and 1945, when Russian, American, and British soldiers began liberating Nazi death and concentration camps, the sheer horror they encountered left them in shock....
Last Thursday, 23 November, was a day that will remain with me forever, an extraordinary day that vacillated between hope and despair, a day that in...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish global human rights organisation, on 9 November released a statement criticising the South African government’s decision to recall its diplomats...
Most historians consider the Holocaust to have started with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and to have ended after World War II in 1945....
Jewish women faced a “double risk” in trying to survive the Holocaust, Dr Yaron Nir Freisager told the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, citing various testimonials....
A South African family’s determination to retrace its German ancestors’ steps before the Holocaust has unearthed valuable archival material and introduced never-before-seen family members. It all...
The incoming director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC), Jakub Nowakowski, may not be Jewish or South African, but he comes from Poland,...
Nearly 200 000 Holocaust survivors are still being supported by the Conference for Material Claims Against Germany (or Claims Conference), established just more than 70 years ago....
When King David pupil Noa Nerwich wrote a poem about a maroon handkerchief given by a father to his daughter before they were torn apart by...
“Behind the mask of every soldier – German, South African, Jewish – lies a human being. We can never forget what real people went through fighting...
In the early 2000s, two small, round, cement-like disks, with numbers written on them, were donated to the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC). Many...
What does six million actually look like? And what would it be like to contemplate each life extinguished in the Holocaust, marking their loss in some...
It’s almost impossible to comprehend that of the 220 000 Jews brutally killed and dumped in pits in 200 sites across Lithuania, most were killed within six...
In a glimpse of the future, the main speaker at Johannesburg’s Yom Hashoah Holocaust commemoration on 18 April wasn’t there in person. Ella Blumenthal – still...
“We rose from the ashes of the victims, and we continue,” said Israel’s deputy ambassador to South Africa, Adi Cohen-Hazanov, quoting late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,...
JTA – Every Passover for more than 75 years, Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor, has worn a vibrant blue hand-knit sweater to the first...
For some survivors, liberation from the concentration camps by Soviet forces may have been a reprieve from the dehumanising treatment that they faced during the Holocaust....
A little-known Holocaust-era story of rescue, survival, and finding refuge in South Africa will now be remembered in a quiet corner of Africa. On 6 March,...
“Being unseen, unrecognised, invisible to others, is really the most existential form of disrespect,” said German author Carolin Emcke. Emcke was quoted by Dr Mirjam Zadoff,...
When Susan Clapper (nee Eichmann) was a little girl, she was sent away from her parents, never to see them again. That journey saved her life,...
The Holocaust evokes nightmarish imagery: depraved medical experiments, asphyxiation in gas chambers, emaciated walking skeletons. One subject that has been consistently difficult to discuss, however, is...
Human rights across the globe have been threatened by people with ill intentions. We must recognise this, and counteract it appropriately, António Guterres, the United Nations...
Holocaust survivor Herman Rothenberg, who passed away in South Africa at the age of 101 last year, was a sports fan who would have been touched...
On 18 January 1945, the Nazis took tens of thousands of prisoners on a notorious death march towards Germany. Less than 8 000 remained behind in...
JTA – When Yad Vashem was created in 1953 on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance to commemorate the Holocaust, its founders understood that one...
JTA – A recent study of the Dutch population conducted by the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed an alarming lack of education about...
There are just 12 known Holocaust survivors still alive in Johannesburg, a handful in Cape Town, and none left in Durban. Almost all were children during...
