ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the history of Holocaust memory and education in South Africa and the inclusion of the Holocaust in the national curriculum of the country in the post-Apartheid period. It looks at the support the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation’s Centres offers teachers and students confronting this history, and examines the creation and development of the newest centre in Africa, the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. Until 1994, interest in Holocaust education and Holocaust memory was mainly confined to the small Jewish community of the country. The inclusion of the Holocaust in the national curriculum represents commitment to protecting and educating about human rights. Social sciences educators are required to teach it across the country for a recommended fifteen hours in the first term of Grade 9. Learning from the Holocaust, which has some parallels to South Africa’s difficult past, is less threatening and intimidating.
