Cape Town Holocaust Centre
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Location within Cape Town | |
Established | 1999 |
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Location | 88 Hatfield St, Cape Town, South Africa |
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 Africa's first Holocaust centre founded in 1999.[1] The Centre works towards creating a more caring and just society in which human rights and diversity are respected and valued.[2] 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.[3]
The museum has a permanent exhibition that combines text, archival photographs, film footage, documents, multimedia displays and recreated environments.[4] 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 the apartheid are mixed together.
History[]
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Gallery[]
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Tourist Information[]
The Centre is open from 10 am to 4 pm from Sunday-Thursday and 10-2 on Friday. Admission is free. Visitors can contact the centre at 021-462 5553 or admin@holocaust.co.za.[5]
Exhibition[]
The permanent exhibition is made up of three different galleries. The first is dedicated to Racism and Discrimination, the second to the Third Reich and the third to Ghettos.[6] Racism and Discrimination (Gallery 1) includes the following sections:
- Racism
- Antisemitism in South Africa
- Apartheid
- Collection on The Final Solution
- Collection on Rescue, Resistance and liberation
The Third Reich (Gallery 2) includes[]
- 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
- Collection on Deportation and the Death Camps
- Collection on Seeking Justice
Ghettos (Gallery 3) includes[]
- Segregation and isolation
- The Warsaw Ghetto
- Mass murder begins
Highlights Include:
- Collection on Anne Frank
- 20 minute video of Local survivors' Testimony
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
- ^ 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
- ^ Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre Retrieved 2020-10-13
- ^ "Exhibition". Archived from the original on 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
External links[]
- Jews and Judaism in Cape Town
- Museums in Cape Town
- Holocaust museums
- 1999 establishments in South Africa
- Museums established in 1999