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Remembering Kristallnacht After 7 October
Speech by Giacomo Lichtner
The postponement of the annual Kristallnacht Commemorative Concert in Wellington and Auckland tells us something about what it means to commemorate the Holocaust at this time. It is a time in which two complementary tasks are more urgent and more fraught than ever: on the one hand, we to protect the memory of the Holocaust from appropriation, exploitation, denial, and from efforts to relativise, subvert or politicise its meanings, whatever their point of origin; on the other hand, we need to ensure that memory is not sterile but able to illuminate patterns of discrimination, new threats, and empower us to act against them.
That’s why when the concert had to be postponed, there was never a question of not marking this day, and why as soon as that decision was made it made sense to gather, consider and study the events and the people we have come to remember...
That’s why when the concert had to be postponed, there was never a question of not marking this day, and why as soon as that decision was made it made sense to gather, consider and study the events and the people we have come to remember...
UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 27 January 2022
AUCKLAND
WELLINGTON
CHRISTCHURCH
Anne Frank Memorial Unveiling, Wellington, 13 June 2021 |
Let Me Be Myself - The Life Story of Anne Frank, Nelson opening 1 July, 2021
United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2021
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Anzac Day 2019
Inge Woolf QSO - Address at Havelock North ANZAC Day service
Speech can be found from minute 24. Whole Video of the event is 1hr & 11 minutes.
United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2019
Auckland
Dianne Davis, Deputy Chair, HCNZ
Wellington
Christchurch
Andrew Turner, Christchurch Deputy Mayor