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)

 

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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

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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.

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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.

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Holocaust research

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.

 
Survivors, Righteous Gentiles, and Second Generation
An account of the Holocaust has to consider the experience of the Holocaust survivors, the role of those who did their best to resist the perpetrators by helping and saving victims, and the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors, the second and even third generation. The link to Holocaust stories at the top of the page describes the impact of the Holocaust on the lives of a number of New Zealanders who are Holocaust survivors, children of Holocaust survivors and those who helped and saved Jews during the Holocaust