The Cape Town Holocaust Centre will hold a ceremony to mark the United Nations International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on Thursday 28 January. The event will also be an opportunity to officially open the Centre’s newly refurbished permanent exhibition.
The evening will include a message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a candle-lighting ceremony with Holocaust survivors and representatives from the Rwandan community.
Professor Dina Porat, chief historian of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, will deliver a keynote address entitled “The Individual in Historic Turning Points: Abba Kovner and Lithuanian Jewry as a test case”.
The permanent exhibition at the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, often considered to be one of the finest of its size, has been experienced by some 375 000 visitors from throughout South Africa and abroad since it opened 16 years ago. We welcome guests to visit this newly renovated space, which includes an upgrade of all visual elements, contemporary multimedia displays and updated content.
Says Michael Wolf, Founder and Creative Director of Formula D interactive, a Cape Town-based interactive design agency that participated in the upgrade: “As we’ve already been involved in design work at the new Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, working on the upgrading of some of the exhibits at the Cape Town Holocaust Centre was a natural fit for us. Creating meaningful and memorable interactive experiences in museums and science centres is the kind of work we love to do and that our company has become known for. We’re honoured to have been entrusted with working on a project about a piece of tragic history that needs to be told so that it is never forgotten.”
The exhibition will be opened by Justice Richard Goldstone.
WHERE: Cape Town Holocaust Centre, 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Thursday 28 January, 2016 at 6pm
For security reasons, please RSVP: 021 462 5553 or admin@holocaust.org.za
