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Holocaust educator Tali Nates founded the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) in 2008. Now, Germany, the country that led the systematic murder of six million...
When talking about the Holocaust, people often wonder if Jews held onto their faith during humanity’s darkest hour. But Yad Vashem educator Dr David Deutsch says...
Internationally acclaimed Jewish photographer Roger Ballen recently spoke at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre about his 40 years in the industry. The SA Jewish Report...
Hungarian-born Tamas Buchler is doing what he can to dispel the myth that central Europe is all about death camps, encouraging people to recognise that Jews...
“Blumenthal is a vision of vigor and faith” – New York Times. This is the edited version of the show without the documentary movie included –...
After three emigrations in less than two years, 12-year-old Doris “Dossy” Ehrenstein (who became Lurie) arrived in South Africa with her mother. They were destitute, but...
Polish-born Miriam (nee Teitelbaum) Lichterman would have been 100 in September had she not passed away on 18 July. With her long life, she graciously defied...
“We have been fasting for two days now, and we are going to the slaughter. Our yortzheit will be on 29 August, so please observe it.”...
“Ignoble and ill-intentioned”, “brainwashing”, “racist content” that “creeps through a syllabus” and “grand lies fed to impressionable children” are some of the phrases that Madoda Sitshange...
This weekend, the answer to a question that has baffled many for 70 years was finally revealed with the help of a very famous bear –...
Did you know that Holocaust victims used wooden clubs, newspapers, toothpaste tube caps, and bread to create chess sets during World War II? This was revealed...
“Pregnant women tried to kill their own babies. It was better to kill their babies than let the Nazis experiment on them,” says 98-year-old Holocaust survivor...
When Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor who went on to live in South Africa, was liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia in 1945, he was...
Imagine having your house blown up, civilians killed in your neighbourhood, and the organisation you work for attacked. Russian soldiers made this the reality of the...
Seventy-eight years ago, a Jewish man gave his 17-year-old daughter a maroon handkerchief as a way to remember him. She never saw him again – he...
“At this Jewish table, the murders of our families were planned,” says activist Grant Gochin, who has campaigned relentlessly for Lithuania to acknowledge its role in...
Clive Mashishi is a man on a mission. A former construction worker, he left his job to educate local communities about the Holocaust, Israel, antisemitism, and...
Art assumed a central role in helping many Holocaust survivors come to terms with their ordeal and share their harrowing experiences with the world. In their...
“My mother and I sat in the living room and I looked for the last time at our huge grandfather clock. As it struck, we heard...
Renowned Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff has called on South African Jewry to help him identify a woman who may be responsible for unspeakable acts of cruelty...
Most of us are viscerally offended at the thought of Holocaust jokes, but the reality is that such jokes, humour, and satire have existed during and...
On 18 August 2020, the Lithuanian Supreme Court issued a final ruling denying the review of the merits of a complaint alleging that the Lithuanian government...
Many Jews lost treasured heirlooms and assets when they were systematically looted by the Nazi regime. Finally, their descendants have a chance of reclaiming these prized...
A new non-fiction book, described as a detective story and a thriller, explores the life and motivation of a low-ranking SS Nazi officer, whose name would...
Debbie Meyer grew up close to her grandmother, who was fortunate enough to have escaped Nazi Germany before the horrors of the Holocaust. However, when she...
All Jewish people fought to survive and care for their families as their world was ripped asunder when the Nazis rose to power, but Jewish women...
If you ever doubted the ripple effect of one person’s good deeds on the world, a recent webinar featuring the heroic actions of a few individuals...
If the Jewish people could survive centuries of hardship and remain strong, we can be assured that we will emerge from our current difficulties with a...
As the ambulance was about to whisk him away to hospital, Holocaust survivor Henri Meenz watched his beloved wife kiss the mezuzah on their front door...
2021 will mark 80 years since the mass murder of Lithuanian Jewry. 200 000 people- 96 percent of the Lithuanian Jewish population-were killed in 234 places....
Looking for news from the provinces? A husband? Sholem Aleichem’s book tour schedule? Published between 1908 and 1939, Haynt (along with Der Moment) was one of...
UPDATED - As the world marks 70 years since Auschwitz’ liberation, Cape Town’s famed Holocaust Centre will today boast a world first with the simultaneous opening...
The Wheel of Conscience monument commemorates a doomed Holocaust-era voyage sent back to Europe by Canada where 254 of its passengers went on to perish in...
Decades after surviving Holocaust, 5 men & 7 women mark their coming of age in Haifa ceremony. “At the age of 13 I was in Auschwitz,...
A never-before-seen by the public Holocaust documentary made by Alfred Hitchcock has been unearthed. He made it after being traumatised by the images recorded by the...