Joburg City launches Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

The City of Johannesburg officially launched the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre on 14 March.

The centre is situated at 1 Duncombe Road.

The City said the centre was a place of learning where it teaches people about the consequences of prejudice, racism, homophobia, xenophobia and the dangers of apathy and silence.

Today we official open the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, where visitors are able to explore history & moral choices through the voices of various role players- victims, resistors, rescuers, bystanders #JHGCOpening ^NS pic.twitter.com/wJ7faJkbnS

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) March 14, 2019

The Holocaust and Genocide centre is a place of learning, it teaches the consequences of prejudice, racism, ‘othering’, homophobia, xenophobia and the dangers of indifference, apathy, and silence #JHGCOpening ^NS pic.twitter.com/5LHoWfvE3G

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) March 14, 2019

The City added that the exhibitions at the entre followed the history of genocide from the early destruction of the Herero and Nama people in Namibia in 1904, to the Holocaust and genocide that occurred in Rwanda

The centre follows the history of genocide from the early destruction of the Herero and Nama people in Namibia (1904), to the Holocaust and genocide that occurred in Rwanda #JHGCOpening ^NS pic.twitter.com/k9e23BLEJI

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) March 14, 2019

The road to genocide begins with hatred of the ‘other’ on the basis of race, religion, or ideology. groups are targeted for genocide not because of something they have done but simply because of who they are #JHGCOpening ^NS pic.twitter.com/EPHhLtWST0

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) March 14, 2019

Telling my story has always been difficult, I didn’t want to be reminded of what happened during the genocide, nobody would wish to remember: Sylvestre Sendacyeye, Rwanda genocide survivor #JHGCOpening ^NS pic.twitter.com/gNOIcwtHnA

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) March 14, 2019

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