Jewish Museum and Holocaust Centre

The Jewish Museum, housed in a modern granite complex, covers the history of immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe to South Africa and displays include religious art, a stain glass window depicting the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, and a reconstruction of a Lithuanian village. The adjoining and moving Holocaust Centre tells the story, in multimedia format using videos, photography and personal recordings of survivors, of the Nazi occupation of Germany in the WWII. Towards the end it draws comparisons to some aspects of apartheid by looking at the consequences of racism and oppression, and there are video interviews of Jews who moved to Cape Town to escape Nazi Germany.

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