VISIT OUR CENTRE  - General Information

Opening Hours
The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand (“HCNZ”) is open to the public Sunday to Friday 10am – 1pm,  10 am - 4pm on the last Sunday of each month, and outside of these hours by prior arrangement.  We are closed to the public when school sessions are taking place, and on Saturdays and some public and Jewish Holidays. (Closed Dates)

Admission
General Entry is free - however we appreciate any and all donations.  HCNZ is a registered charitable entity and donations over $5 are tax-deductible. 

There is a charge per person for school and group bookings (see forms below)

Key Features of our Core Exhibition
 
Our core exhibition focuses on the Holocaust and the uniquely New Zealand connection, specifically:

•  Learn about the challenges Holocaust Survivors and refugees from Nazi occupied-Europe faced in New Zealand  
• Jewish life before, during,  and after the Holocaust
•  ​Two parallel Timelines showing events in Europe and the New Zealand responses  
• The experience of the Holocaust - as told through first-hand account testimonies of Holocaust survivors who came to New Zealand to make a new life. Our display panels feature explanatory texts, interspersed with personal stories of survivors, quotes, original photographs and images, artefacts and video interviews.
• The story of the collection of 1.5 million buttons, and the Children's Holocaust Memorial, created to remember & honour the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust (scale model on-site, the memorial is travelling New Zealand) 
• A map of Europe's Jewish population pre and post WWII, showing the impact of the Holocaust on the population.
• Panels devoted to the story of the Deckston Orphanage 
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created in response to the atrocities of the Holocaust and WWll, setting out the fundamental human rights for all people and all nations.

During the year, we often stage temporary exhibitions; for example:

'Auschwitz to Aotearoa: Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps'
This exhibition is about nine Jewish women from different countries and backgrounds, who have in common their survival of Auschwitz and later settling in New Zealand.
 (By Dr Simone Gigliotti & Anna Chapman)

‘Anguish of Liberation -  As Reflected in Art’
This exhibition featured 11 artworks (and the personal stories behind each) created immediately after the liberation and up to 1947. The exhibition looks at how survivors reacted to the liberation through art. (By Yad Vashem)

'SPOTS OF LIGHT: To be a Woman in the Holocaust'
This exhibition gives expression to the unique voice of Jewish women in the Holocaust: their choices and responses in the face of the evil, brutality and relentless hardship that they were forced to grapple with. (By Yad Vashem)

Group and School Booking Forms

School Booking Form

Group Booking Form

Did You Know the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand Features on the Commonwealth-Walkway?

• The Commonwealth Walkway forms part of a group of walkways in the main cities of Commonwealth nations and territories.
  
• The Commonwealth Walkway connects 32 significant monuments, parks, buildings and historic places along a 9km loop in the capital, and takes approximately two hours to complete. The route was developed by a Commonwealth Walkway representative and suggestions from Wellingtonians.
• The Commonwealth Walkway is identified by bronze markers that will be installed in the ground to identify each point of significance. They feature Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth's EIIR cypher.
• More info at Wellington City Council website
  

Commonwealth-walkway Brochure

Map / Location

The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand is located at the Wellington Jewish Community Centre,

80 Webb Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011.

For more information go to PLANNING YOUR VISIT