VISIT OUR CENTRE
Opening Hours
The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand is open to the public Sunday to Friday 10am – 1pm, and outside of these hours by prior arrangement. We are closed to the public when school and adult group booked sessions are taking place, and on Saturdays and some public and Jewish Holidays. To see when we are closed, click HERE
Admission
General entry is free. However we appreciate donations. The Centre is a registered charity and donations over $5 are tax-deductible.
There is a charge per person for school and group bookings. (See school and group booking information links below).
The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand is open to the public Sunday to Friday 10am – 1pm, and outside of these hours by prior arrangement. We are closed to the public when school and adult group booked sessions are taking place, and on Saturdays and some public and Jewish Holidays. To see when we are closed, click HERE
Admission
General entry is free. However we appreciate donations. The Centre is a registered charity and donations over $5 are tax-deductible.
There is a charge per person for school and group bookings. (See school and group booking information links below).
Our Exhibition
Our core exhibition focuses on the Holocaust and the uniquely New Zealand connection, including:
Our core exhibition focuses on the Holocaust and the uniquely New Zealand connection, including:
- 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 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 for the Children's Holocaust Memorial, created to remember & honour the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust. A scale model is at the Centre.
- A map of Europe's Jewish population pre and post WWII, showing the impact of the Holocaust on the population.
- 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.
Temporary Exhibits
We often stage temporary exhibitions, for example:
Finding Hope: Seeking Refuge in Aotearoa New Zealand by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
Eight pull-up banners in a graphic novel style, that explore New Zealand’s response to the Holocaust and the significance of this event on our history.
The exhibit addresses questions such as, did New Zealand do enough before and during the Holocaust, what the was response of the New Zealand government and population to Jews seeking refuge in the country, what impact have Jewish refugees made in New Zealand society and how does New Zealand remember this time in world history?
This exhibition can be loaned to schools.
To have the exhibit in your school, email us: [email protected]
Auschwitz to Aotearoa: Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps by Dr Simone Gigliotti & Anna Chapman
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.
Anguish of Liberation - As Reflected in Art by Yad Vashem
This exhibition features 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.
SPOTS OF LIGHT: To be a Woman in the Holocaust by Yad Vashem
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.
Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This exhibit addresses one of the central questions about the Holocaust: How was it possible? The central role of Hitler and other Nazi Party leaders is indisputable. However, the dependence of these perpetrators on countless others for the execution of Nazi racial policies is less understood. Within Nazi Germany and across German-dominated Europe, circles of collaboration and complicity rippled throughout governments and societies wherever victims of persecution and mass murder lived. Some Were Neighbors examines a variety of motives and pressures that influenced individual choices to act. These influences often reflect fear, indifference, antisemitism, career concerns, community standing, peer pressure, or chances for material gain. It also looks at individuals who did not give in to the opportunities and temptations to betray their fellow human beings, reminding us that there is an alternative to complicity in evil acts—even in extraordinary times.
We often stage temporary exhibitions, for example:
Finding Hope: Seeking Refuge in Aotearoa New Zealand by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
Eight pull-up banners in a graphic novel style, that explore New Zealand’s response to the Holocaust and the significance of this event on our history.
The exhibit addresses questions such as, did New Zealand do enough before and during the Holocaust, what the was response of the New Zealand government and population to Jews seeking refuge in the country, what impact have Jewish refugees made in New Zealand society and how does New Zealand remember this time in world history?
This exhibition can be loaned to schools.
To have the exhibit in your school, email us: [email protected]
Auschwitz to Aotearoa: Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps by Dr Simone Gigliotti & Anna Chapman
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.
Anguish of Liberation - As Reflected in Art by Yad Vashem
This exhibition features 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.
SPOTS OF LIGHT: To be a Woman in the Holocaust by Yad Vashem
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.
Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This exhibit addresses one of the central questions about the Holocaust: How was it possible? The central role of Hitler and other Nazi Party leaders is indisputable. However, the dependence of these perpetrators on countless others for the execution of Nazi racial policies is less understood. Within Nazi Germany and across German-dominated Europe, circles of collaboration and complicity rippled throughout governments and societies wherever victims of persecution and mass murder lived. Some Were Neighbors examines a variety of motives and pressures that influenced individual choices to act. These influences often reflect fear, indifference, antisemitism, career concerns, community standing, peer pressure, or chances for material gain. It also looks at individuals who did not give in to the opportunities and temptations to betray their fellow human beings, reminding us that there is an alternative to complicity in evil acts—even in extraordinary times.
Group and School Bookings
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. It aims to inspire young people to walk for their physical and mental wellbeing.
- Wellington Mayor, Celia Wade-Brown (2010 - 2016) agreed Wellington should be home to the first Commonwealth Walkway in New Zealand to mark 150 years since the city became the capital city.
- The Walkway connects 32 significant monuments, parks, buildings and historic places, including the Holocaust Centre, along a 9km loop in the capital, and takes approximately two hours to complete.
- The Walkway is identified by bronze markers installed in the ground to identify each point of significance. They feature Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's EIIR cypher.
- For more information, click HERE
Chair of the Commonwealth Foundation Sir Anand Satyanand places the first Commonwealth Walkway marker at Wai-Titi landing with Jim Walker and Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.
25 July 2015. Wellington CIty Council.
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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 on access and closure dates, click HERE |
