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Cape Town Holocaust Centre marks United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day Holocaust survivor Shmuel Keren lights a candle in a spirit of remembrance and hope, to mark the fourth United Nations International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Read more...
Surviving History - Protraits from Vilna presents the life stories of ten individuals who survived the Holocaust in Lithuania Read more...	Visions & Voices, Rights & Realities - Children in South Africa On loan from the Children’s Rights Centre in Durban, this exhibition highlights the abuse of children’s rights in South Africa. Children from around the country learned to use cameras to take photographs of their life situations, showing what is real to them. Read more...
The Ernest & Renee Samson 9th Anniversary Lecture in association with The Ralph and Sue Stern Visiting Scholars Programme. Presents a lecture By Dr Tim Cole Wednesday 6th August 8pm, Albow Centre	Through the Eyes of Children An exhibition of Children's Art from Terezin, Darfur and South Africa. Read more...
The Children's Story - Children's drawings from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944 These drawings represent thousands of Jewish children held prisoner by the Nazi’s at the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Read more...	Drawings of Genocide On exhibition in South Africa for the first time will be a collection of drawings by Darfuri children who escaped war-torn Sudan and have been living in refugee camps in neighbouring Chad. Read more...
Historical Detectives The remarkable and poignant story of Hana’s Suitcase August 4 2008, 8pm Albow Centre Presented by Fumiko Ishioka (curator-Tokyo Holocaust Education Centre) and Lara Brady (Niece of Hana Brady) Read more..	Absence and Loss: An Exhibition of Photographs at the Holocaust Centre 'Absence and Loss' focuses on the remarkable number of Holocaust memorials in Berlin; on the sculptures, art installations, unusual plaques and signs that can be found in public places. Read more...
Rwanda: 13 Years After Genocide The 7th of April 1994 saw the start of genocide in Rwanda, which saw a million people killed in 100 days. Read more...	March of the Living - National Adult Programme It aims to challenge a new generation of Jews with two of the most significant events of Jewish history - the Shoah (The Holocaust) and the birth of the State of Israel (which will be celebrating 60 years next April). Read more...
Ernest & Renee Samson 8th Anniversary Lecture- A CRISIS OF TRUST: Law and the Judiciary in Nazi Germany In association with the Ralph & Sue Stern Visiting Scholars Programe, the Holocaust Centre presents the Ernest & Renee Samson 8th Anniversary Lecture: A CRISIS OF TRUST: Law and the Judiciary in Nazi Germany. Read more...	IMAGINARY WITNESS: Hollywood and the Holocaust An audience favorite at more than 50 film festivals around the world, and the centerpiece of dozens of panels and conferences at theaters, universities, and museums from Warsaw to Washington, DC, IMAGINARY WITNESS tells a provocative and mostly unknown story of the 60-year relationship between Hollywood and the atrocities of Nazi Germany. Read more...
WITNESSING DARFUR. Witnessing Darfur, a multimedia expo to raise awareness about the current humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan. Read more...	Freud: Unveiling the 21st Century The Exhibition - Freud: Unveiling the 21st Century Cape Town Holocaust Centre - Seminar Room 21 November – 21 December 2006 SPONSORED BY THE AUSTRIAN CONSULATE, CAPE TOWN
LECTURE BY DR MICHAEL WACHHOLZ THE CAPE TOWN HOLOCAUST CENTRE presents a lecture: Germany post-World War II. How has the country of the perpetrators dealt with their guilt? A personal perspective by Dr MICHAEL WACHHOLZ Dr Wachholz has worked and studied extensively in the United States. Since January 2005 he has been involved as a researcher, translator and editor for the New York-based Rosemary Reed Film Productions, Inc. He presently has a teaching fellowship at Humboldt University, Berlin.	LECTURE BY SYLVAIN BRACHFELD Cape Town Holocaust Centre Lecture by Sylvain Brachfeld Sylvain Brachfeld, a Holocaust survivor, is a well-known journalist for the Belgian and Israeli press and is an expert on Belgian Jewry. Read more...
Presentation by Stephan Kramer on 23 February, 8pm at Cape Town Holocaust Centre Cape Town Holocaust Centre The Jewish Community In Germany Today - What does the Future Hold? by Stephan Kramer. Read more...	DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAMME Read more...