Cape Town Holocaust Centre

Founded in 1999 as Africa's first Holocaust centre, the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, now known as the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, teaches the history of the Holocaust within a South African context and links it to lessons on racism and apartheid. It commemorates the victims and survivors of the Nazi regime and of the many genocides before and since.

The permanent exhibition combines text, archival photographs, film footage, documents, multimedia displays and recreated environments. The centre also runs events, workshops and educational programmes for groups such as students and educators. Its parent body, the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation, is the country's only accredited provider of in-service training in Holocaust education and has trained more than 5,000 teachers. It also oversees sister centres in Johannesburg and Durban.

The museum stands in the grounds of Gardens Shul in the Gardens neighbourhood. It shares a complex with the South African Jewish Museum and the Gardens Jewish Community Centre, close to the Iziko South African National Gallery and the Houses of Parliament.