Aprica to salvation in Switzerland 1943

By Alan Poletti

More than 200 foreign Jews who had been interned in the small Italian town of Aprica not far from the Italian-Swiss border fled successfully from almost certain annihilation in 1943.

Child survivor of Terezin

Vera Egermayer's speech

UN Holocaust Remembrance Day - Wellington, 27 January 2013

The Moriah School button collection in memory of the children killed
Last December, 20 young children were shot dead in a school in the United States. The world reacted with dismay- horror-outrage-shock- disgust-it was literally sickening.

The Deckston Story

The story of Annie and Max Deckston, Jewish philanthropists, who saved twenty Polish Jewish children from the Holocaust

Steven Sedley

The Deckston Story, a booklet of 32 pages is now available from the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand

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

Open Day

The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand and the Wellington Jewish Community Centre will be open to the publc on Sunday, 26th May, from 10 am to 5 pm

Holocaust Centre of New Zealand

The Holocaust Centre is open every day except public and Jewish Holidays Opening hours: Daily 10.00 am to 1.00 pm or by appointment

One and a half million buttons in memory of children killed in the Holocaust

Justine Hitchcock, former principal of Moriah College, who initiated the Button Project, spoke about it at the UN Holocaust Remeberance Day reception. She described how the project evolved in her small Jewish school, the enthusiastic paricipation of the children and the great education benefits they gained from it. The children themselves managed the project and designed the memorial that would house the buttons, a reminder of the million and a half children murdered during the Holocaust.

Donations towards the Buttons Memorial can be made through givealittle.co.nz.

New Zealand Children's Holocaust Memorial

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Nicholas Winton and Joy Cowley

Nicholas Winton, responsible for saving the lives of 669 Jewish children in Czechoslovakia, and eminent New Zealand writer, author of very many much loved books for children, have agreed to be patrons of the New Zealand Children's Holocaust Memorial project.

The children of Moriah School had collected 1.5 million buttons in memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children killed during the Holocaust. The buttons came from all over the world, many with moving personal covering notes.

The plan is to incorporated these buttons in a memorial structure to be erected in a Wellington public space. To support this project make your donation towards the New Zealand Children's Holocaust Memorialr

See the short video on YouTube in which children of Moriah College talk about their project and present the memorial design they propose for Wellington City

Click here for YouTube Video

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Visit the Centre

The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand is open to the public daily from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm and outside these hours by special arrangement. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

The displays focus on Holocaust and New Zealand

You will see

Jewish life before and after the Holocaust.
Two parallel Timelines, events in Europe and the New Zealand response to these.
The experience of the Holocaust told through the st;ories of New Zealand Holocaust survivors.
A powerful video of a Holocaust survivor telling her story.
The story of philanthropists Annie and Max Deckston and the 20 Jewish orphans they brought to New Zealand in the 1930s.

Remember the dead and read the testimonies of survivors

Take time out to read the stories of Holocaust survivors in New Zealand.

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BECOME A FRIEND

Become a friend of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand

We have launched our wonderful new exhibition and learning centre, which has been enthusiastically received. If you have not already visited us we invite you to do so. We are sure you will find plenty to see and do here.

Download application form here