Anne Frank - Aotearoa New Zealand
Anne Frank Memorial, Wellington, New Zealand
On a cold, windy Wellington day about 200 people gathered in a park – a former quarry – to see the Deputy Prime Minister unveil a challenging new Anne Frank memorial.
The creation of university design lecturer Matthijs Siljee consists of three chairs – two facing each other, the third facing away, excluded.
Wording on the chairs and plaque, in te reo Māori and English, explains how depicting prejudice and exclusion links to Anne Frank and the Holocaust. Siljee spoke of the frightening speed with which Anne Frank was overtaken by Nazi Germany’s genocide of the Jews: “Within 15 years she was born into democracy and died in barbarity.”
He also commented that, as the chairs are made of not only steel, but a tough recycled plastic, “You have all contributed by handing in your soft plastic bags.”
Unveiling the memorial, Deputy PM Grant Robertson told the audience that the Holocaust was the worst example in our times of discrimination and hatred. “Yet we see examples of that around us every single day. So every single day it’s our job to call that out, to say it’s unacceptable. We have to stand up for the values that Anne Frank wrote about – a world of hope, courage, respect and inclusion.”
The creation of university design lecturer Matthijs Siljee consists of three chairs – two facing each other, the third facing away, excluded.
Wording on the chairs and plaque, in te reo Māori and English, explains how depicting prejudice and exclusion links to Anne Frank and the Holocaust. Siljee spoke of the frightening speed with which Anne Frank was overtaken by Nazi Germany’s genocide of the Jews: “Within 15 years she was born into democracy and died in barbarity.”
He also commented that, as the chairs are made of not only steel, but a tough recycled plastic, “You have all contributed by handing in your soft plastic bags.”
Unveiling the memorial, Deputy PM Grant Robertson told the audience that the Holocaust was the worst example in our times of discrimination and hatred. “Yet we see examples of that around us every single day. So every single day it’s our job to call that out, to say it’s unacceptable. We have to stand up for the values that Anne Frank wrote about – a world of hope, courage, respect and inclusion.”
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Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine
(The Diary of a Young Girl, in te reo Māori), Anne Frank, translated by Te Haumihiata Mason, 2019
Available in paper back and e-book
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Anne Frank Diary translation launch - June 12 2019The commemoration of what would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday, had she survived Bergen-Belsen, was a double event for the Wellington Jewish community.
As well as planting the first 15 trees in a planned Grove of Remembrance for Anne, close to the capital’s centre, there was the launch of the first translation of her Diary of a young girl into the Māori language. Over 200 guests packed into Rongomaraeroa, the Māori marae at the national museum Te Papa, for a heartwarming coming-together of the Jewish, Māori and Dutch aspects of the diary, its translation and its publication. To purchase go to SHOP |
Left & Middle: Photo Credit Simon Woolf
Right: Photo credit Sara Tansy
Right: Photo credit Sara Tansy
Media Links
Newshub: 12/6/19 Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has been translated into Te Reo Maori
Stuff: 23/4/19 Anne Frank's Diary translated into te reo Māori
NZ Herald: 11/6/19 Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl to be launched in te reo Māori
Stuff/DomPost: 13/6/19 Wellington remembers Anne Frank - and the years she could have lived
Online Listener - NOTED: 11/6/19 Why it's significant Anne Frank's diary has been translated into Te Reo Māori
Māori Television - Te Ao Māori News: 13/6/19 World's most well-known autobiography translated into te reo Māori
Excellent comments by the translator, with video footage.
Te Hiku Radio: 7/6/19 Whaea Girlie Clarke speaks with Rotorua based kaiwhakamāori (translator)Te Haumihiata Mason. (6 min 24 sec)
Stuff: 23/4/19 Anne Frank's Diary translated into te reo Māori
NZ Herald: 11/6/19 Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl to be launched in te reo Māori
Stuff/DomPost: 13/6/19 Wellington remembers Anne Frank - and the years she could have lived
Online Listener - NOTED: 11/6/19 Why it's significant Anne Frank's diary has been translated into Te Reo Māori
Māori Television - Te Ao Māori News: 13/6/19 World's most well-known autobiography translated into te reo Māori
Excellent comments by the translator, with video footage.
Te Hiku Radio: 7/6/19 Whaea Girlie Clarke speaks with Rotorua based kaiwhakamāori (translator)Te Haumihiata Mason. (6 min 24 sec)
Anne Frank "Let me be myself" Exhibition - Touring New Zealand 2018 - 2022
Created by Anne Frank House (Amsterdam). The exhibition considers what happened in occupied Central Europe during the 1930s and 40s. It shows how antisemitism and prejudice affected Anne's family. It explores discrimination and prejudice today, teaching us tolerance #Upstander
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2022 The exhibition will be in Timaru, Rotorua and Gisborne
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Commissioned in 2010 as part of the previous Anne Frank Exhibition, this documentary features interviews interspersed with images from the Anne Frank House archive.
Interviewer Ian Fraser speaks with Holocaust survivors: Bob & Freda Narev (Germany / Poland) Steven Sedley (Hungary) Dora Suuring - a member of the Dutch resistance whose rescue efforts involved forging identity cards (The Netherlands) Also interviews with Hermina (Mieke) van der Schaaf (Righteous Among the Nations) the Netherlands), and Joel Porus (Bob & Freda Narev's grandson) |
