Richard Freedman

 

Richard Freedman taught History and English in Cape Town high schools and was appointed principal of Herzlia Weizmann School in 1990, a position he held until 2005. He was a founding board member of Mothers to Mothers (an NGO which serves to provide counselling, mentoring and support to pregnant mothers living with HIV), and serves on the board of Union International de la Marionette (SA) He is a council member of the Federation of International Human Rights Museums.In 2006 he was appointed director of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre and in 2007 Director of The South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. He holds both positions.

 

In 2013 the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation launched a groundbreaking exhibition telling the little known story of the fate of sexual minorities under Nazi rule. The exhibition also examined the gap between the South African constitution and the lived reality of LGBTI people in South Africa. The presentation is a 324 second insight into this exhibition and the responses it received.