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/

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

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

Austrians

Inge Woolf would like to hear from you if you or your family came to New Zealand from Austria.

She is collecting material prior to speaking at a Symposium in Vienna on Austrian Jewish migration to New Zealand and the work of the Holocaust Centre.

If you would like to take part in this survey please send the information to Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre, 80 Webb St,Wellington. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it before the 10^th September 2010.All information will be treated as confidential. Phone 801 9480 if you have any questions.

Here are some questions to answer

Name(s)
How many people came
Where did they live in NZ
What year did they come
How did they gain entry to NZ .-Relatives here? Specialised work skills? Other?
Place of origin.
Reason for leaving Austria.
List the people in your family that did not survive.
Contribution to NZ
Anything you would like to say?

Please enclose your contact details so we can send you the results of the survey.

Inge would be grateful if you could pass this on to anyone whose family originates from Austria.

Many thanks in advance for your co-operation.

Links

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.