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SA Jewish community lights candles in memory of Holocaust victims 2h ago Share South Africa’s Jewish community joined the rest of the world yesterday in remembering the 6 million European Jews who were killed during the Holocaust. Held virtually by the South African Board of Deputies because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) commemorations dispensed with a single keynote speaker in favour of testimonies from six survivors who each lit a candle of remembrance...

Chilling tales of SA’s Holocaust survivors remembered Survivors are dwindling, with 11 from SA having died since the 2020 ceremony. The need to hear those who remain has become more essential. Students and teachers of Bar Ilan School visit an authentic German train, that transported Jews to extermination camps, on the Holocaust Remembrance...

6 Holocaust survivors to give their testimonies at annual Yom HaShoah ceremony Share “If we forget, the dead will die a second time,” said Nobel prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel. As the world prepares to remember the Holocaust on Friday, it is a very real issue in South Africa where the community of those who survived the Nazi German genocide of 6 million Jews is dwindling. The handful of survivors who remain from the death camps are old. They were children when they were in...