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Ninety percent of the remaining Holocaust survivors globally will be gone within 15 years. While there are still almost 200 000 Holocaust survivors, nearly half of...
“Despite my great-grandfather being in hiding, both he and my great-grandmother showed incredible resilience and bravery to get through such a difficult time,” Benayahu Wesseloo told a packed...
Karen Tolman’s mother and grandmother were on the very last ship of Holocaust-surviving Jews allowed into South Africa in 1938. They were onboard the Duilio, which docked in...
JTA – The formulaic question we should be adapting from the Passover seder and asking ourselves as we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust this year...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies is undertaking a significant archival project in partnership with the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel. Its...
Ralene Brasg, the daughter of Celia Boruchowitz, a violinist child prodigy who survived the Holocaust, was the keynote speaker at the Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO)...
Last week, our South African Jewish community solemnly commemorated Yom Hashoah in Johannesburg. Adverse weather prompted a difficult but necessary decision to relocate the commemoration from...
The Holocaust stands alone in the scale and systematisation of its cruelty, Gary Nowosenetz, the chairperson of the Pretoria Council, told a crowd of diplomats, dignitaries,...
The Yom Hashoah Vehagevurah memorial ceremony in Cape Town on Thursday, 24 April, focused on youth in recognition of how important it is for the next...
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...
Miriam Lazarus is one of the few remaining Lithuanian Holocaust survivors in South Africa, but she wouldn’t have been born if the Nazis had their way....
On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of 44 000 Jews from Hungary and 1 900 Jews from Rhodes, this year’s Yom Hashoah ceremony in Cape Town...
As six lamps were lit by the heads of Pretoria’s Jewish community on Monday evening, 6 May, to remember the six million who died and commemorate...
On Monday, Yom Hashoah ceremonies were held under the auspices of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, and Durban....
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,...
For decades, the testimony of Holocaust survivors has been the most common tool to teach the younger generation around the world about the Holocaust. However, until...
I had a conversation with an Israeli grandson of a Holocaust survivor this week. It gave substance to thoughts that were ruminating in my head all...
“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...
“I can’t remember her face for some reason.” So said Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter of his pain at the fragmented memory of his twin sister, Sabine,...
There is a new international initiative to start a family tradition on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), in which families will gather to light six memorial...
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