A word from the Director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide centre.
The start of any year is always a hive of activity at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre (CTHGC) and the beginning of 2020 was no different.
The team was refreshed from their leave and busy finalising all the arrangements to welcome school learners to our daily education workshops, educators were traveling to facilitate teacher training workshops across the Western Cape, hosting of weekly talks at the Centre, tourists were visiting our permanent exhibition and then… COVID-19 hit our shores.
Like most organisations, we were forced to rethink how we would continue with the offerings of our Centre. Guided by the vision and mission of the CTHGC, our team embraced a new way of working and were enthused by the plethora of opportunities that allowed us to think creatively and use the resources we had at hand. The development of on-line education resources and teaching, lectures and panel discussions through webinars have been very successful. This hybrid method of working, we believe, will continue in conjunction with our physical offerings in the future. We have greatly extended our reach to local, national and international audiences which under normal circumstances would not have been possible.
During this time of social upheaval we have been working closely with our sister centres in Johannesburg and Durban under the umbrella of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. We have included a message from Tali Nates which outlines a number of collaborations over the past year.
It is with deep gratitude that we thank our trustees, our generous benefactors who believe in and support the work we do, our dedicated group of volunteers who give so selflessly of their time and last but not least you, our Friends of the CTGHC, for participating in the many physical or virtual programmes we have hosted this year.
Wishing you all a safe and healthy year and we look forward to seeing you, either in person or virtually, in 2021.
Warm wishes, Heather Blumenthal and the CTHGC Team
Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre: https://ctholocaust.co.za/, admin@holocaust.org.za
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