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19-798: The museum is situated in the downtown neighbourhood of Gardens in Cape Town . It is located in the grounds of Gardens Shul , and is in the same complex as the South African Jewish Museum and the Gardens Jewish Community Centre . It is also close to the Iziko South African National Gallery and Houses of Parliament . The centre works towards creating a more caring and just society in which human rights and diversity are respected and valued. Through exhibitions, events and workshops, they endeavour to commemorate

38-466: A South African context; lessons on racism and apartheid are mixed together. The origins of the centre can be traced back to the major public interest in an Anne Frank exhibition that opened in Johannesburg in 1994. President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu attended the opening on 15 August. The Diary of Anne Frank had also been of the books available to Robben Island prisoners. At

57-562: A beloved independent art house cinema. The main thoroughfare is Kloof Street , known for its fashion stores, second-hand furniture stores, restaurants and art galleries. It also houses Leeuwenhof estate, the official residence of the Premier of the Western Cape . It is a hub for the Cape Town creative industry, home to e.tv at Longkloof Studios and many modelling agencies, production and publishing companies and associated industries. In

76-485: A large historic hotel, The International Hotel situated on Upper Mill Street. The South Africa national rugby union team (Springboks) usually stayed there when they were playing in Cape Town. The hotel also hosted bands and concerts over the weekends. Kloof Street mostly consisted of boarding houses for most of the twentieth century, many have now been converted into restaurants, cafes, boutiques and hotels. The suburb

95-626: A public park and heritage site is a focal point of the suburb. The area is also home to the oldest synagogue in Southern Africa, the Old Shul (now occupied by the South African Jewish Museum ) and its successor, the Gardens Shul , "The Mother Synagogue of South Africa." It is also home to the storied Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel , a luxury hotel dating back to 1899, as well as the Labia Theatre ,

114-684: Is frequently visited by school groups. In 2007, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 's Darfur exhibition was shown at the Centre and the Centre has also showcased an exhibition of the Rwandan Genocide . The permanent exhibition is made up of three different galleries. The first is dedicated to Racism and Discrimination , the second to the Third Reich and the third to Ghettos . Racism and Discrimination deals with

133-448: Is home to Southern Africa's oldest Jewish congregation. The first Jewish services in the country were held on the day preceding Yom Kippur in 1841, known as Erev Yom Kippur at Benjamin Norden's home, Helmsley Place. The Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel purchased Norden's former home in 1996 and it is now guest accommodation for the hotel. In the early twentieth century, a Jewish primary school

152-586: Is served by the MyCiTi bus rapid transit system. The 101 route takes passengers to Vredehoek and the Cape Town Civic Centre in central Cape Town. The 113 route takes passengers to Adderley Street and the V&;A Waterfront . The 107 route goes to Camps Bay . Michaelis School of Fine Art The Michaelis School of Fine Art is a public tertiary art school in the Cape Town suburb of Gardens . It

171-533: The Group Areas Act . The Gardens Centre Tower was built in the 1970s in response to a " white housing crisis" in racially segregated Cape Town. In the 1970s the National Party initiated several planning interventions, including the suspension of the city's zoning rules with regards to building height for developers willing to build housing in white Group Areas . The residential tower and shopping mall replaced

190-682: The Company's master gardener, on a site close to the Fresh River (near to the Grand Parade). Later that year, the garden crossed the Fresh River (where Adderley Street is today), and included a medicine garden. Within a few years it was 18 hectares in size. As more produce became available from the Company's gardens at Newlands and from the Free Burghers who had settled along the Liesbeeck River ,

209-542: The Jews of Europe, Deportation and the Death Camps and Seeking Justice. Ghettos deals with: Segregation and isolation, The Warsaw Ghetto , Mass murder begins The permanent exhibition also includes a Collection on Anne Frank and a video testimony from Holocaust survivors that emigrated to South Africa. Gardens, Cape Town Gardens (or The Gardens ) is an affluent inner-city suburb of Cape Town located just to

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228-512: The early years, the Cape was used as an anchorage for Portuguese, Dutch and British ships. No permanent settlement existed until the Dutch East India Company issued a mandate to Jan van Riebeeck , a ship's surgeon, to establish a settlement which could provide passing ships with fruit, vegetables and fresh meat (traded from the locals). In 1652 the first garden was laid out by Hendrik Boom,

247-481: The launch, Mandela said: "During the many years my comrades and I spent in prison, we derived inspiration from the courage and tenacity of those who challenge injustice even under the most difficult circumstances. . . . Some of us read Anne Frank's Diary on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it." Since 2007, "The Holocaust and Human Rights" — has been a required part of South Africa's ninth grade social sciences (history) curriculum since 2007. Therefore, it

266-498: The south of the city centre located in the higher elevations of the " City Bowl " and directly beneath Table Mountain and Lion's Head . It is home to several national museums such as Iziko South African National Gallery and the Iziko South African Museum . The University of Cape Town also houses its Fine Arts department in the suburb, at Michaelis School of Fine Art . Company's Garden , South Africa's oldest garden,

285-674: The themes: Racism , Antisemitism in South Africa , Apartheid , The Final Solution , Rescue, Resistance and liberation. The Third Reich includes the themes; Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust, Germany and the rise of Nazism 1919-1933, The Third Reich 1933-1939, The power of propaganda (masses), The power of propaganda (youth), Antisemitic policies, They too were victims, The Nazi concentration camp universe, Nazi camps, Seeking refuge, Kristallnacht -The night of broken glass, Nazism engulfs

304-443: The town garden was slowly converted into a botanical and ornamental garden, although the growing of vegetables did continue for a number of years. The famous kilometre-long Government Avenue, which runs from the top of Adderley Street , also known as 'The Gardens', was originally planted with lemon trees and in 1700 with orange trees. During the time of Simon van der Stel , it was lined with oak trees, which remain today. The suburb

323-449: The victims and survivors of the Nazi regime and the numerous genocides that happened before and since the Holocaust. The museum has a permanent exhibition that combines text, archival photographs, film footage, documents, multimedia displays and recreated environments. They also offer educational programmes of various types, for groups such as students or educators. The Holocaust is taught within

342-474: Was established on Hope Street, United Hebrew Schools' . A purpose-built school was built at the same site in 1937, replacing the large house that had previously housed the school. The school later became known as Herzlia School and relocated to its current campus in Vredehoek in the 1950s, where a high school was also established. During apartheid , Vredehoek was designated as a “whites-only” area as part of

361-734: Was founded in 1925 and is named after its benefactor, Max Michaelis . It is the Fine Arts department of the University of Cape Town . There are three research institutions associated with the school, namely The Lucy Lloyd Archive, Research and Exhibition Centre (LLAREC), the Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) and the Katrine Harries Print Cabinet, which has been instrumental in promoting printmaking as well as conserving and exhibiting prints in

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