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Watch this space for November 2021 Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert details

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November 9th 2020: Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert

Further details in our Archive

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November 10th 2019
Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert - A concert of unity

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Thank you to the following sponsors and suppliers: Adam Foundation,  Wellington Jewish Community Centre,  Wellington City Council,  Grouse Lighting, Peter Frater, GracePR and Hiremaster.
Photos: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand

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Kristallnacht Concert - November 2018

Music, remembrance and hope

With the theme of “music, remembrance and hope”, the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand’s 2018 Kristallnacht concert met all three qualities to the highest degree.
 
For this 80th anniversary of the horrifying events of 9-10 November 1938, the programme’s eight items covered a range of music by Jewish composers – two of whom perished in the Shoah (Holocaust) – and ranged from Gustav Mahler’s teenage piano quartet to the final piece, “Violins of hope,” by Israeli Ohad Ben-Ari which was first performed in Berlin on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015.
 

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