MISSION & VISION

The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand is the country’s national Holocaust education and remembrance centre.

Our Vision

“Through testimony, experience and advocacy, the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand inspires and empowers individuals to stand against prejudice, discrimination and apathy”.

Our Mission

1. Ensure that the memory of the Holocaust remains in the present and shapes our future
2. Work and converse with all of NZ society
3. Teach and encourage people to take individual responsibility for opposing prejudice and discrimination in all of its forms
4. Guard against attempts to make any group a target of mass prejudice or discrimination
5. Encourage respect for diversity.

 We will achieve our mission through:

• Recording, collecting and sharing survivor testimonies
• Archiving survivor artefacts
• Research, teaching, publishing and advocacy
• Fostering national and international partnerships
• Promoting human rights education as the cornerstone of a liberal, democratic and inclusive society.