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Refurbishment of the Holocaust Centre

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.

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
 
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Button Collection

Two years after Moriah College embarked on the project of collecting 1.5 million buttons in memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children killed in the Holocaust it achieved its target. 

We've done it!  We are very excited to announce that today we counted our 1.5millionth button.  Thank you so much to all the people who supported us, we could not have done it without your help.

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