Recording and preserving Holocaust survivor testimony
French-American journalist and filmmaker Leslie Benitah recently visited Cape Town to attend a family bar mitzvah. While here, she shared her documentary film, The Last Ones, at an event hosted...
From Iraq to Israel: the extraordinary journey of Noga and Zaki Sharon
By LIBA NEU-NER
For thousands of years, Jewish life flourished in what was once ancient Babylonia – modern-day Iraq. Jewish scholars composed the Babylonian Talmud...
Art as a powerful tool of activism
A fleeting visit to Cape Town late last year gave us insight into the way in which internationally-recognised Argentinian artist uses art to convey...
From Auschwitz to Sea Point: the astonishing journey of Rudolf Höss’s confession
BY KAREN MILLER
By any measure, it is an extraordinary twist of history that one of the most chilling confessions of the Holocaust should resurface...
A man of many passions: Albie Sachs shares his passion for art
Humble, yet forceful, and with a clear sense of purpose. Hugely successful – but with none of the arrogance so often associated with success....
Rediscovering rebels: Wolf Kibel and Lippy Lipshitz at the Cape Town Jewish Museum
By KAREN MILLER
Nearly a century after they shared a cramped studio and a fierce belief in their distinctive artistic voices, Wolf Kibel and Lippy...
