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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

Visitors are welcome at the Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre

It is situated at 80 Webb Street, Wellington within the Wellington Jewish Community Centre

Opening hours are 10.00 am to 1.00 pm daily except Saturdays, and Jewish Holidays.

Press the buzzer button by the front door for access.

Phone number 04 801 9480

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To arrange a group visit please phone or email. If you ring outside opening hours please leave a message and we will return your call. We will send you a booking form and arrange a suitable time for your visit.

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Holocaust images

Button Collection

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