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Eighteen for Life
Eighteen for life. Surviving the Holocaust
NZ$45.00
Helen Schamroth
“There are secrets I will take to my grave,” Martha Ash told her daughters.
“I don’t want you to think I am a hero,” declared their father Feliks.
The past in Poland was to be left behind. Martha and Feliks were determined they would create a future in Melbourne and a loving family environment. It was time to enjoy the good life they could only dare to dream of as they struggled to survive the Holocaust.
Helen Schamroth and her sister Eve unraveled fragments of their parents’ harrowing experiences that were endured and overcome with extraordinary courage. Helen’s eighteen connected stories tell of unspeakable loss, cultural dislocation, chutzpah, hope, creativity, deception, and love.
About the Author: Helen Schamroth
Born in Poland, Helen Schamroth arrived in Melbourne with her parents in 1949 and has lived in Auckland, New Zealand since 1968. She has written extensively for national and international publications about craft and design, including her award-winning book "100 New Zealand Craft Artists". Her writing has evolved in parallel with her visual arts career, and she has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Triennale of Tapestry in Lodz, Poland.
Working as an arts writer, arts consultant, curator and arts advocate, Helen has served on the Arts Board of Creative New Zealand and is a Life Member of the Designers' Institute of New Zealand. In 2005 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts.
Critic Reviews
"Written with compassion and wit, propelled by a daughter's need to know, Eighteen for Life bears firsthand witness to the unfathomable inhumanity of the Holocaust while unravelling family mysteries taken to the grave. It's a quest that becomes a celebration of life lived against the odds, the power of art to process the past and, through it all, the stubborn, sometimes painful persistence of love."
-Diana Wichtel, author of the award-winning 'Driving to Treblinka'
Product Details
Author: Helen Schamroth
Release Date: 23 July 2025
ISBN-13: 9789493418257
ISBN-10: 9493418251
Format: Paperback with flaps | 232 pages, 570g
Dimensions: 240 x 170mm, portrait
Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
Imprint: Amsterdam Publishers
Publication Country: Netherlands
Category: Biography & Memoir
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The Violinist: Clare Galambos Winter - Holocaust Survivor
NZ$40.00
Sarah Gaitanos
Klára Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Arrested and thrown into jail in the first days after the German occupation, she later managed to get home to Szombathely, was in the ghetto there, and was transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. After five weeks she and her aunt were among the thousand Hungarian women selected for slave labour at Allendorf. They returned to Hungary after the war, and in 1948 they both left Hungary for New Zealand, where Clare joined the fledgling national orchestra. As a long-serving member of the NZSO, she made a significant contribution to the musical life of this country. Clare passed away in 2014 and is buried in a Wellington cemetery. The Violinist draws on memoir, interviews, and historical research to tell a compelling story.
Product Details
Author: Gaitanos, Sarah
Year: January 2011
ISBN: 9780864736451
Format: Paperback | 280 pages
Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Publication City/Country: Wellington, New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs
Klára Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Arrested and thrown into jail in the first days after the German occupation, she later managed to get home to Szombathely, was in the ghetto there, and was transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. After five weeks she and her aunt were among the thousand Hungarian women selected for slave labour at Allendorf. They returned to Hungary after the war, and in 1948 they both left Hungary for New Zealand, where Clare joined the fledgling national orchestra. As a long-serving member of the NZSO, she made a significant contribution to the musical life of this country. Clare passed away in 2014 and is buried in a Wellington cemetery. The Violinist draws on memoir, interviews, and historical research to tell a compelling story.
Product Details
Author: Gaitanos, Sarah
Year: January 2011
ISBN: 9780864736451
Format: Paperback | 280 pages
Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Publication City/Country: Wellington, New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs
Resilience
NZ$35.00
Inge Woolf
Resilience is a Holocaust story and a New Zealand story.
Born to a prosperous family, Inge Woolf witnessed the Nazis marching into Vienna in March 1938 and fled with her family to England, escaping certain death. Hiding their Jewish identity until after World War II, Inge and her family were impoverished refugees.
A move to New Zealand signaled new beginnings. Inge met the love of her life, Ronald Woolf, and together they created the country's pre-eminent photographic studio – before catastrophe struck.
In her later years, Inge was pivotal in establishing the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand and was its founding director. She was dedicated to educating thousands on the Holocaust and the dangers of racism and prejudice, often observing that hate start small.
After experiencing so much loss, Inge's life is a testament to the power of resilience.
Product Details
Author: Woolf, Inge, 1934 - 2021
Editor: David Zwartz
Year: 2023
ISBN: 978-0-473-66208-0
Format: Paperback with flaps | 200 pages, 570g
Dimensions: 240 x 170mm, portrait
Publisher: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
Publication Country: China
Illustrations: full colour throughout - photographs, source documents, timeline and family tree.
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'A remarkable story about a remarkable woman whose legacy will live on forever' - Dame Susan Devoy.
'A chapter heading in Inge Woolf's memoir, Resilience, offers up the essence of her valiant approach to an extraordinary life: “Disaster, Grief and my Mission". Escape from Hitler's Europe, starting again in New Zealand, the country she came to love and to which she contributed so much: her story is a memorial candle lit in the darkness.' - Diana Wichtel.
‘An understated and moving account of a life resolutely refusing to be defined by the catastrophe of the Shoah. Both exceptional and paradigmatic, Inge's story reminds us of how personal stories can illuminate history and its impacts’ - Associate Professor Giacomo Lichtner, Victoria University of Wellington.
The Deckston Story
NZ$15.00
Steven Sedley
The story of Annie and Max Deckston, Jewish philanthropists, who saved twenty Polish Jewish children from the Holocaust. Annie and Max Deckston, originally from Russia, arrived in New Zealand in 1900. They farmed in the Hutt Valley for ten years, then moved to Wellington where they were engaged in several businesses and property development. By the 1920s they had accumulated a considerable fortune, which enabled them to help their relatives move to Wellington. In the 1930s, the Deckstons brought out twenty Jewish orphans from Bialystok and set up a home for Jewish children in Berhampore, Wellington. The Deckstons saved these children from the fate of their families, most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust. When the children grew up and there was no longer a need for a children's home, the estate of Max and Annie Deckston was used to fund a Jewish old age home in Naenae, Lower Hutt. When this home ceased catering to Jewish residents, the funds were used to support elderly Jewish people and to foster Jewish education. Many of the orphaned Deckston children later moved to Melbourne, but others stayed in New Zealand and became successful, assimilated New Zealanders.
Product Details
Author: Sedley, Steven, 1934 -
Year: Published 2014
ISBN: 978-0-473-29426-7
Format: Paperback | 36 pages
Dimensions: 21cm
Publisher: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
Publication City/Country: Wellington, New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs, maps
The story of Annie and Max Deckston, Jewish philanthropists, who saved twenty Polish Jewish children from the Holocaust. Annie and Max Deckston, originally from Russia, arrived in New Zealand in 1900. They farmed in the Hutt Valley for ten years, then moved to Wellington where they were engaged in several businesses and property development. By the 1920s they had accumulated a considerable fortune, which enabled them to help their relatives move to Wellington. In the 1930s, the Deckstons brought out twenty Jewish orphans from Bialystok and set up a home for Jewish children in Berhampore, Wellington. The Deckstons saved these children from the fate of their families, most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust. When the children grew up and there was no longer a need for a children's home, the estate of Max and Annie Deckston was used to fund a Jewish old age home in Naenae, Lower Hutt. When this home ceased catering to Jewish residents, the funds were used to support elderly Jewish people and to foster Jewish education. Many of the orphaned Deckston children later moved to Melbourne, but others stayed in New Zealand and became successful, assimilated New Zealanders.
Product Details
Author: Sedley, Steven, 1934 -
Year: Published 2014
ISBN: 978-0-473-29426-7
Format: Paperback | 36 pages
Dimensions: 21cm
Publisher: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
Publication City/Country: Wellington, New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs, maps
Ebook - Te Rataka a Tetahi Kohine
NZ$16.99
Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl' in Te Reo Māori
The Te Reo translation of a classic provides this vivid, moving story with a Māori voice.
The story of Anne Frank, a teenage Jewish girl who had to hide from the Nazis in occupied Holland during the Second World War, is known around the world.
This iconic book of a young girl's diary chronicling her family’s struggle to survive Nazi persecution continues to be as relevant as ever to new generations of readers.
Anne's diary, translated into more than 70 languages and published in 60 countries, is now joined by this edition in te reo Māori, one of New Zealand’s three official languages. Kia kaha te reo Māori!
Translator Te Haumihiata Mason, who was herself discriminated against as a young Māori and very much identified with Anne’s life, has turned this edition of the diary into a vivid, moving story with a Māori ‘voice’.
The Te Reo translation of a classic provides this vivid, moving story with a Māori voice.
The story of Anne Frank, a teenage Jewish girl who had to hide from the Nazis in occupied Holland during the Second World War, is known around the world.
This iconic book of a young girl's diary chronicling her family’s struggle to survive Nazi persecution continues to be as relevant as ever to new generations of readers.
Anne's diary, translated into more than 70 languages and published in 60 countries, is now joined by this edition in te reo Māori, one of New Zealand’s three official languages. Kia kaha te reo Māori!
Translator Te Haumihiata Mason, who was herself discriminated against as a young Māori and very much identified with Anne’s life, has turned this edition of the diary into a vivid, moving story with a Māori ‘voice’.
Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine
NZ$25.00
By Anne Frank, translated by Te Haumihiata Mason
Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine
(The Diary of a Young Girl, in te reo Māori), by Anne Frank, translated by Te Haumihiata Mason, 2019
The world-famous Diary of a Young Girl was written by a German Jewish teenager hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during WWII.
Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. More than 30 million copies have been sold and it has been translated into over 70 languages, now including into te reo Māori.
Anne Frank and her family, along with four other Jews, hid in the back of her father's Amsterdam office building for two years. This is Anne’s record of that time. She was thirteen when the family went into the “Secret Annex." Tragically they were all found in August 1944 and transported to concentration and extermination camps, from which only Anne's father Otto was to survive.
This iconic book of a young girl's diary chronicling her family’s struggle to survive Nazi-occupied Europe continues to be as relevant as ever to new generations of readers.
Product Details
Author: Frank, Anne, 1929 - 1945
Editor: David Zwartz
Translator: Te Haumihiata Mason
Year: 2019
ISBN: 9780473478247
Format: Paperback | 264 pages
Dimensions: 230mm x 21mm x 155mm | 355g
Publisher: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
Publication City/Country: New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs
Te Rātaka a Tētahi Kōhine
(The Diary of a Young Girl, in te reo Māori), by Anne Frank, translated by Te Haumihiata Mason, 2019
The world-famous Diary of a Young Girl was written by a German Jewish teenager hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during WWII.
Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. More than 30 million copies have been sold and it has been translated into over 70 languages, now including into te reo Māori.
Anne Frank and her family, along with four other Jews, hid in the back of her father's Amsterdam office building for two years. This is Anne’s record of that time. She was thirteen when the family went into the “Secret Annex." Tragically they were all found in August 1944 and transported to concentration and extermination camps, from which only Anne's father Otto was to survive.
This iconic book of a young girl's diary chronicling her family’s struggle to survive Nazi-occupied Europe continues to be as relevant as ever to new generations of readers.
Product Details
Author: Frank, Anne, 1929 - 1945
Editor: David Zwartz
Translator: Te Haumihiata Mason
Year: 2019
ISBN: 9780473478247
Format: Paperback | 264 pages
Dimensions: 230mm x 21mm x 155mm | 355g
Publisher: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
Publication City/Country: New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs
"One and a Half Million Buttons: A tribute to the lost children of the Holocaust "
NZ$20.00
Joy Cowley
Joy Cowley was inspired by the "button project" undertaken by the children of Moriah school and their message of diversity and acceptance.
The project began back in 2008 when the children (aged 5 - 12 years) collected 1.5 million buttons to represent, and remember, the children killed in the Holocaust. When the school closed in 2012 the button collection was handed over to the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand to further the children's vision of a memorial. The Children's Holocaust Memorial launched on 15 November 2018. This book documents the journey from idea to full travelling exhibition.
Product Details
Author: Cowley, Joy,
Year: 24 March 2019
ISBN: 9780995115552
Format: Paperback | 30 pages
Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm
Publisher: The Copy Press
Publication City/Country: Nelson, New Zealand
Illustrations: Colour photos and illustrations
Reading Age: 7 - 9 years
Joy Cowley was inspired by the "button project" undertaken by the children of Moriah school and their message of diversity and acceptance.
The project began back in 2008 when the children (aged 5 - 12 years) collected 1.5 million buttons to represent, and remember, the children killed in the Holocaust. When the school closed in 2012 the button collection was handed over to the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand to further the children's vision of a memorial. The Children's Holocaust Memorial launched on 15 November 2018. This book documents the journey from idea to full travelling exhibition.
Product Details
Author: Cowley, Joy,
Year: 24 March 2019
ISBN: 9780995115552
Format: Paperback | 30 pages
Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm
Publisher: The Copy Press
Publication City/Country: Nelson, New Zealand
Illustrations: Colour photos and illustrations
Reading Age: 7 - 9 years
Refuge New Zealand: A nation's response to refugees and asylum seekers
NZ$35.00
by Ann Beaglehole
Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping war and persecution because of their ethnicity, their religion or their political beliefs. Since 1840, New Zealand has given refuge to thousands of people from Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Refuge New Zealand examines New Zealand's response to refugees and asylum seekers in an historical context. Which groups and categories have been chosen, and why? Who has been kept out and why? How has public policy governing refugee immigration changed over time? Aspects of New Zealand's response to refugees and asylum seekers considered in the book include: the careful selection of refugee settlers to ensure they will 'fit in'; the preference for 'people like us' and the exclusion of so-called 'race aliens'; the desire for children, especially orphans; responses to the increasing diversity of refugee intakes; the balance between humanitarian, economic and political considerations; and the refugee-like situation of Maori. As the book also shows, refugees and asylum seekers from overseas have not been the country's only refugees. War, land confiscations and European settlement had made refugees of Maori in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, with displacement and land loss contributing to subsequent Maori social and economic deprivation.
Product Details
Author: Beaglehole, Ann
Publication Date: 1 January 2013
ISBN: 978 1 877578502
Format: Paperback | 263 pages
Dimensions: 150x230x17mm
Publisher: Otago University Press
Publication City/Country: Dunedin, New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs and cartoons
How to be an Alien: A sort of Memoir
NZ$37.50
by Ann Beaglehole
Description
The book is a humorous memoir, with reflections on refugee policy and being ‘not quite one of us.’ A purpose of the book is to delve into how refugees survive and thrive in a strange new country and to better understand the long-term impact of historic trauma. The book also aims to shed light on shifting perceptions of being Jewish in Aotearoa. It moves between the personal and the political; the ridiculous and the profoundly serious, and between past and present.
The book is Beaglehole’s family’s story and her community’s. However, in several sections, she turns to history and to her imagination to fill in gaps in her memory of events and people of long ago. How to be an Alien begins amidst the chaos of revolution and counter-revolution. A family must make an urgent decision to leave, or not to leave, their country. On a winter night in 1956, a mother, father, and their daughter step over the barbed wire fences at the border in Hungary and make their way to Austria. No one knows what the future holds, not for the family who have escaped a tyrannous regime, not for the grief-stricken grandmother left behind.
The Author
Ann Beaglehole, historian and former public servant, was born in Hungary. By the age of eight, when she settled in Aotearoa with her family, she had experience of two totalitarian regimes: Hitler’s indirectly, through her traumatised family, and Stalin’s. more directly, as a young child already subject to brainwashing at school and in her communist youth group. Over the years, she has evolved into an almost Kiwi historian and writer. Her parents left Hungary so that she (their only child) could live in safety and freedom and receive a good education. In writing this book, Beaglehole’s purpose is to say to them: ‘Look what I have become! See how I turned out! Are you pleased?’
Ann Beaglehole is the author of Refuge New Zealand: A nation’s response to refugees and asylum seekers. Her first book was A Small Price to Pay: Refugees from Hitler in New Zealand, 1936-1946. Ann Beaglehole was short-listed for the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Prize in 2025.
Product Details
Author: Beaglehole, Ann
ISBN: 9781991164483
Format: Paperback with flaps | 266 pages
Dimensions: 150 mm x 210 mm
Publisher: Fraser Books
Publication Country: New Zealand
Publication Date: 1 November 2025
Illustrations: Photographs
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