Cape Town Holocaust Centre
Established | 1999 |
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Location | 88 Hatfield St Gardens Cape Town |
Coordinates | 33°55′49″S 18°25′00″E / 33.9302989°S 18.4166267°E |
Type | Holocaust museum |
Director | Heather Blumenthal |
Website | ctholocaust |
The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre began as
The museum is situated in the downtown neighbourhood of Gardens in Cape Town. It is located in the grounds of Gardens Shul, and is in the same complex as the South African Jewish Museum and the Gardens Jewish Community Centre. It is also close to the Iziko South African National Gallery and Houses of Parliament.[5] The centre works towards creating a more caring and just society in which human rights and diversity are respected and valued.[6] Through exhibitions, events and workshops, they endeavour to commemorate the victims and survivors of the Nazi regime and the numerous genocides that happened before and since the Holocaust.[7]
The museum has a permanent exhibition that combines text, archival photographs, film footage, documents, multimedia displays and recreated environments.[8] They also offer educational programmes of various types, for groups such as students or educators. The Holocaust is taught within a South African context; lessons on racism and apartheid are mixed together.
History
The origins of the centre can be traced back to the major public interest in an
Since 2007, "The Holocaust and Human Rights" — has been a required part of South Africa's ninth grade social sciences (history) curriculum since 2007.
Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition is made up of three different galleries. The first is dedicated to Racism and Discrimination, the second to the
Racism and Discrimination deals with the themes:
The Third Reich includes the themes; Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust, Germany and the rise of Nazism 1919-1933, The Third Reich 1933-1939, The power of propaganda (masses), The power of propaganda (youth), Antisemitic policies, They too were victims, The Nazi concentration camp universe, Nazi camps, Seeking refuge, Kristallnacht-The night of broken glass, Nazism engulfs the Jews of Europe, Deportation and the Death Camps and Seeking Justice.
Ghettos deals with: Segregation and isolation, The Warsaw Ghetto, Mass murder begins
The permanent exhibition also includes a Collection on Anne Frank and a video testimony from Holocaust survivors that emigrated to South Africa.
Patrons
- Justice Richard J Goldstone
- Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein
- Professor Jonathan Jansen
- Desmond M Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus
Trustees
- (chairman)Gerald Diamond
- Philip Krawitz
- Natalie Barnett
- Ann Harris
- Myra Osrin
- Ernest Kajabo
- Beverley Cohen
- Prof Milton Shain
- Prof Tim Murithi
See also
- List of Holocaust museums
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Yad Vashem
- Yom HaShoah
References
- ^ Tali Nates. Holocaust Education in South Africa https://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/docs/paper12.shtml Retrieved 2020-10-13
- ^ About Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. Retrieved on 29 October 2023
- ^ S. African museum to juxtapose Holocaust with Rwandan genocide Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 5 October 2010
- ^ 20 years on, Africa’s first Holocaust center has a universal message on genocide Times of Israel. 8 June 2019
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Memory Going Global: The Jewish Museum and Holocaust Centre in Cape Town AJS Perspectives. Spring 2010
- ^ Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre https://ctholocaust.co.za/about/ Retrieved 2020-10-13
- ^ Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre https://ctholocaust.co.za/about/ Retrieved 2020-10-13
- ^ Cape Town Holocaust Centre>Our Centre http://www.ctholocaust.co.za/cape-town/cape_town-main.htm Archived 2018-08-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2013-07-05
- ^ Anne Frank Through a Prism Of The Present Mail & Guardian. 19 August 1994
- ^ "Exhibition". Archived from the original on 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2013-05-21.