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SPEECHES


International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026

Her Excellency The Rt Hon Dame Cindy Kiro, Governor-General
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Hon Chris Bishop, Member for Hutt South
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Dr Stephen Rainbow
Chief Human Rights Commissioner
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Josh Korpus
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Hon Alfred Ngaro
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          Dr Melissa Derby, 
          Race Relations Commissioner
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      Deborah Hart, Chair,
​      Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
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            Carmel Levy
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025
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CLICK TO READ SPEECH HERE
More speeches and presentations can be found on our
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​Remembering Kristallnacht After 7 October
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Speech by Giacomo Lichtner, November 2023
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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...
READ FULL SPEECH HERE

UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 27 January 2022

AUCKLAND
Vera Krukziener
READ SPEECH HERE
Major-General John Boswell
READ SPEECH HERE
WELLINGTON
Hon Grant Robertson Deputy Prime Minister
READ SPEECH HERE
Vicki Soanes, Secretary-General, NZ National Commission for UNESCO
Caleb Howell, descendant of Righteous Among the Nations couple Johanna & Frits Hakkens
CHRISTCHURCH
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Ben Kepes
READ SPEECH HERE
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 Imam Gamal Fouda 
READ SPEECH HERE

Let Me Be Myself - The Life Story of Anne Frank, Nelson opening 1 July, 2021

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H.E. Ambassador Stefan Krawielicki
Deputy Mayor, Nelson, Judene Edgar
David Zwartz ONZM

Anne Frank Memorial Unveiling, Wellington, 13 June 2021

WEGC Principal Gael Ashworth
Matthijs Siljee, designer
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND PHOTOS OF MEMORIAL UNVEILING

​United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2021

Gov. Gen. Speech: Read HERE


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  • Helen Klisser - The story of her father, Holocaust survivor Johan Klisser z"l, UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 21.01.2021

Anzac Day 2019

​Inge Woolf QSO - Address at Havelock North ANZAC Day service
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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
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Wellington
Paul Hunt, Chief Human Rights Commissioner
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Robyn Baker, Chairperson,  NZ National Commission for UNESCO
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Ginny Andersen, MP
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Inge Woolf QSO, Director, HCNZ
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Christchurch
Andrew Turner, Christchurch Deputy Mayor
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