The South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation is dedicated to creating a more caring and just society in which human rights and diversity are respected and valued.

Mission

The South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation strives to further Holocaust education in order to:

• Support the building of a human rights culture and to encourage respect for diversity
• Develop an understanding of the past so that the moral and ethical issues raised can be instructive in dealing with
  contemporary human rights abuses, for example, xenophobia, racism and bigotry
• Teaches about the consequences of prejudice, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia and homophobia,
  and the dangers of indifference, apathy and silence
• Encourage social activism and a greater individual responsibility to building the community
• Encourage empathy and compassion and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human