Cape Town Holocaust Centre, Holocaust education museum in Gardens district, Cape Town, South Africa.

The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre occupies a building in the Gardens, on the grounds of Gardens Shul and in the same complex as the South African Jewish Museum. Its permanent exhibition fills three galleries: Racism and Discrimination, the Third Reich, and Ghettos. Displays combine archival photographs, documents, film footage, multimedia and recreated environments, with a collection on Anne Frank and video testimony from survivors who settled in South Africa.

The centre traces its origins to a 1994 Anne Frank exhibition in Johannesburg, opened on 15 August by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu; Mandela noted that he and fellow Robben Island prisoners had read Anne Frank's Diary. Africa's first Holocaust centre opened in Cape Town in 1999, and since 2007 the Holocaust and Human Rights has been a required part of the ninth-grade social sciences curriculum.

The centre's name and mission tie the Holocaust to other genocides, including the Rwandan Genocide, whose exhibition it hosted, and the Darfur exhibition shown there in 2007 by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Its Anne Frank collection recalls that Robben Island prisoners, Nelson Mandela among them, read The Diary of Anne Frank; Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened an Anne Frank exhibition in Johannesburg on 15 August 1994, the impulse behind the centre.

The centre sits in the Gardens, on the grounds of Gardens Shul in the same complex as the South African Jewish Museum, near the Iziko South African National Gallery and the Houses of Parliament. It is open Sunday to Thursday 10am to 4pm and Friday 10am to 2pm, with free entry. Because "The Holocaust and Human Rights" is a required part of the ninth grade history curriculum, school groups visit often, so mornings can be crowded.

The centre opened in 1999 after an Anne Frank exhibition drew crowds in Johannesburg in 1994, where Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu spoke at the launch on 15 August. Mandela noted that he and fellow Robben Island prisoners had read The Diary of Anne Frank and drawn encouragement from it.