Starting on 14 August, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre will host a remarkable exhibition: More Important Than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. This is the latest edition of a display first prepared in 2023 by the Jewish Historical Institute and the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, with the support of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.
The exhibition has already been shown in Munich and Melbourne, and now it will arrive in Johannesburg before travelling on to Durban and Cape Town.
It tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat group, who during the war created the priceless Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The exhibition offers a perspective on the ghetto seen through Jewish eyes, placing the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto at the very heart of the narrative.
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre – From 14 August 2025 until the end of the year
More Important Than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto – An exhibition at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, developed by the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, with the support of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.
Curators: Piotr Rypson, Ulla-Britta Vollhardt, Mirjam Zadoff
Academic Supervision: Katarzyna Person
Translation: Jan Cleave, Melanie Newton