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With films like Nuremberg explicitly tackling the Holocaust and the trial that followed, and Oscar contender Marty Supreme reflecting on post-Holocaust Jewish pride, it’s clear that it remains a compelling topic for filmmakers. But in a post-7 October 2023 world characterised by a...
For decades after World War II, Europe tried to move on. Collaboration was minimised, silence became habitual, and questions about stolen Jewish property were postponed or...
When second-generation Holocaust survivor Luc Albinski approached Bulgarian director Ilina Perianova to direct the play he wrote about his family’s experience, she jumped at the chance...
JTA – I’ve never read a Holocaust chronicle quite like Lore Segal’s autobiographical 1964 novel, Other People’s Houses. Mordant, unsentimental, and sometimes painfully honest, it’s the story of an Austrian girl...
Ady Wander, who passed away on 12 November at the age of 89, leaves only 15 remaining Holocaust survivors in Johannesburg, and only 12 still active enough to participate in Holocaust...
JTA – An auction house in Germany cancelled the sale of hundreds of items that belonged to Holocaust victims a day before it was set to...
JTA – Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, says it has reached a major milestone in its efforts to uncover the identities of all of the Jews...
Eighty years to the day that World War II ended, Jews are once again fighting for their survival, South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) Chairperson Craig Pantanowitz...
If it weren’t for Armand Schmidt’s disabled sister, there would be little chance that he would have survived World War II. This is because before Schmidt...
JTA – Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution organisation determined that they had been looted from a...
JTA -Amid sharp criticism, Los Angeles’ Holocaust museum deleted an Instagram post over the weekend that proclaimed, “‘Never again’ can’t only mean never again for Jews.”...
Someone brought to my attention your recent article by Rob Katz contrasting Lithuania and Poland in 1941 during the Holocaust. The destruction of Lithuanian Jewry was...
JTA – Holocaust survivors say the hostage videos published in recent days recall for them their own torture and deprivation under the Nazis eight decades ago....
Despite all the trauma that Jews went through during World War II, they were still able to joke and create humour. Professor Anna Shternshis from the...
With only 22 Holocaust survivors left in South Africa, it was all the more poignant to gather together to celebrate their lives and how far they...
JTA – A probe into a Latvian officer who led mass killings of Jews during World War II has been dropped – for a third time....
JTA – At Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living, Maggie Megidish and her daughter, Ori, a released hostage, stood among a delegation of survivors...
I recently participated in the March of the Living, a journey of remembrance and reflection that takes thousands of Jews and others on the walk from...
Luc Albinski – who had been raised as a Catholic – was shocked when in his twenties he found out that he was a second-generation Holocaust...
For many Jewish people, having a Pesach seder is guaranteed. However, for more than 100 people in Israel, it wouldn’t have been possible without the effort...
I’ve always been a storyteller: someone who picks up a camera to capture what I see to bring experiences to life. Growing up, it was never...
The recent signing of an agreement between the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History in Vilnius and the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation creates huge...
More than 900 000 mostly Jewish people were murdered in Treblinka Death Camp, and there are no physical remnants of this hell hole. However, historian Jacob...
The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC) marked the International Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust on Monday, 27 January, and the 80th anniversary of...
JTA – As the world marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, one of Germany’s most prominent Holocaust scholars says twisting the facts about the...
JTA – In a fraught moment in the film A Real Pain, Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go...
Released in local cinemas just days before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this week, A Real Pain tells the story of cousins who...
Ella Blumenthal is a Holocaust survivor and at 103 years old, lives in Cape Town. She was born in Poland, and survived the Holocaust and three...
I’m in Poland to attend the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. It has been an absolute honour and privilege to represent the South African...
“We look at our survivors who were liberated from camps in 1945 and the Israeli hostages – our survivors today – and we see similar things,”...
Forty Afrika Tikkun delegates visited the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre last week to build awareness of the history and identity of their organisation’s Jewish...
It’s football prowess that comes to mind when hearing the name FC Bayern Munich, not a rich Holocaust history peppered with Jewish people. In fact, the...
One of the great Afrikaner philosophers of the previous century, NP van Wyk Louw, remarked that the love and respect we develop for a nation isn’t...
It’s never easy for young Germans to confront their family’s World War II past, but German author Lorenz Völker decided 20 years after his grandfather had...
While award-winning writer Gina Roitman was trying to help other daughters of Holocaust survivors to deal with their trauma, she found solace and understanding in meeting...
Dr Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter for the past 38 years, announced recently that he was stepping down from his position as director of the Simon...
“In today’s world, shining a light on those who risked their lives to save others is important,” said Tali Nates, the director of the Johannesburg Holocaust...
“Our world is composed of broken things, with bruises, cracks, and missing parts, but we must learn to live with it.” These are the words of...
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...
