After three years it is time to refurbish the displays in the Holocaust Centre. The present displays will be preserved, but placed in their historical context, showing how the persecution of the Jews of the Czech lands was the beginning in 1938 and that of the Jews of Hungary in 1944 the final stage of the deportation and mass murder of Jews.

There will be a new display devoted to the story of the children brought to Wellington in the 1930s  from orphanages in and around Bialystok  by the Jewish philanthropists Max and Annie Deckston. It will tell the story of the Deckstons coming to New Zealand from Russia in 1900, the children they brought to Wellington and saved from the Holocaust, and the descendants pf these children, and the story in detail of three of these children, their lives in Poland and New Zealand, and the fate of the families they left behind.

The new refurbished displays will show visitors to the Holocaust Centre the reality of the Holocaust in a relevant meaningful way.

We are at present raising funds for this project. To make a donation please send cheque to

WRHEC
80 Webb St
Wellington 6011

Or pay direct to our bank account 03 05150507281 00

All donations are tax deductible in New Zealand.