Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre

MA Program in Holocaust Studies

The University of Haifa, Israel, will be starting a new MA program in Holocaust Studies in October 2012. For details visit http://holocaust-center.haifa.ac.il/

Languageland - Elisabeth Augustin

Elisabeth Augustin, German born Dutch novelist and poet left a vast number of manuscripts to her daughter living in Whangarei, New Zealand. These included of her novels and radio plays, and also of many hundreds of poems, both published and still unpublished ones.Her son-in-law, Leo Cappel, himself a Holocaust survivor, translated some 80 of her poems from the original German and Dutch into English. These poems were selected from her entire career, from her first published poem at age 18, to work she wrote when she was 96.

The book was published under the title of Languageland and is available for NZ$45 (incl. postage within New Zealand) from leo.cappel@xtra.co.nz

Odessa

If you are from Odessa you may be

interested in the website of

World-Wide Club of Odessites

http://www.odessitclub.org/

archive/index.php?fname=welcome

The Violinist

The book by Sarah Gaitanos about Clare Galambos Winter, past member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz, is now available from the Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre

$40 plus $4.50 postage, $44.50 (NZ)

Are your origins in Austria?

Inge Woolf is collecting material for a Symposium in Vienna on Austrian Jewish migration to New Zealand and the work of the Holocaust Centre. If you would like to contribute your story please fill in this survey

Holocaust survivors

Holocaust survivors Freda Narev (hidden by a Catholic family in Poland) and Bob Narev (survivor of the Concentration Camp of Theresienstadt) are prepared, by arrangement, to speak of their experiences to secondary schools in the Greater Auckland area. They can be contacted by email fabnarev@clear.net.nz

March of the living

THE MARCH OF THE LIVING is an international, educational programme that brings Jewish teens (16 year olds) from around the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex built during World War II, and then to Israel to observe Yom Hazikaron, Israel Memorial Day, and Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day.

Anne Frank

The Anne Frank travelling exhibition tells the story of Anne Frank and the Holocaust to people who are not able to visit the Anne Frank Museum in The Netherlands. The exhibition will tour throughout New Zealand for three years, visiting museums and community centres to teach people the story of Anne Frank and the Holocaust.

Click here for more information.

Holocaust research

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2012

Holocaust Remebrance Day will be commemorated

at the Holocaust Memorial

Makara Cemetery, Karori

on Friday, 27 January 2012

at 1.00 pm

Nazi war criminals tracked on NZ film

Acclaimed producer John Keir was "currently completing a documentary film" onNew Zealand's role in the ongoing global Nazi hunt. Up to 46 wanted Nazi war criminalswere believed to have fled to New Zealand after World War II.

Sunday Star Times

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/5876440/Nazi-war-criminals-tracked-on-NZ-film

New Zealand Holocaust centre honored

The Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Center, founded in 2006, received one of 12 New Zealand Diversity Awards, which recognize projects that have made a difference in understanding diversity.

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Inge Woolf, Tuheitia Paki, the Maori King, and Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner.

The Holocaust and the New Zealand school curriculum

The Holocaust can be studied as part of the Social Studies curriculum. The topic fits in with a number of conceptual strands, 1. Identity, Culture and Organisation, 2. Place and Environment, 3. Continuity and Change 4. The Economic World. The guidelines on how to fit these into Achievement objectives are under Education at the top of the page.

The Holocaust can also be included in the Senior History curriculum. The topic raises some searching questions about the significance of the past, change over time, and continuity in times of change, and Cause and effect. There are useful lesson ideas on this website under the Education heading.

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Holocaust images

Two Holocaust survivors

The current display at the Holocaust Centre describes the lives of two Holocaust survivors, their Holocaust experiences, their lives before and their lives after the Holocaust. One is from Rakovic, the Czech Republic, the other from Szobathely, Hungary. The two stories are two book ends of the Holocaust. The persecution of the Jews of the Czech lands was the beginning of the total annihilation of the Jews of European, the deportation and mass murder of Hungarian Jews was the final act.