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)

 
Read more...
 
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
Read more...
 
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.
Read more...
 
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

Support Us

The Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre is a charitable body which relies on donations for its mission of education, remembrance and outreach.

Your gift can be directed to any of our Projects as outlined below 

  1. 1. New exhibitions
  2. 2. Research Projects
  3. 3. Oral history archive
  4. 4. Research Library
  5. 5. Education programme
  6. 6. Remembrance
  7. 7. Database of survivors
    8.  

Any gift over $1000 will be recognised permanently on our “Honour Board”

Please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  if you would like more information about our Gift Programme or send your cheque to

The Director
WRHEC
80 Webb St
Wellington 6011

Or pay direct to our bank account 03 05150507281 00

All donations are tax deductible in New Zealand.

The Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre gratefully acknowledges the support of:

Inaugural donors 

  • The Wellington City Council
  • The Deckston Hebrew Trust
  • The Wellington Jewish Community Centre

Other donors 

  • Wellington Jewish Care of the Aged
  • Wellington Regional Jewish Council
  • Kaye and Maurice Clark
  • Photogr aphy by Woolf Ltd
  • Northland Carpets
  • Anonymous donations
 
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.
© Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre