Telling The Stories
Defending the history
The Holocaust or Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, “the catastrophe”) was the Nazi perpetrated genocide of six million Jews from 1941 to 1945.
Capturing, archiving and conveying the stories of the Holocaust is the core of our work. We also stand for the integrity of Holocaust memory and oppose the mounting challenges of denial, distortion and universalisation.
Our Shadows of Shoah stories communicate the reality of the Holocaust to a new generation. Excerpts of Holocaust survivors' accounts are presented along with black and white portraiture and original music.
Our acclaimed exhibitions have toured widely. From its launch in 2013 by NZ Prime Minister John Key, our first exhibition was staged in museums, galleries, and public spaces throughout New Zealand. January 2020 saw the launch of our latest exhibition “Auschwitz. Now.” at a UNIHRD event attended by 500. The exhibition was staged at NZ’s Parliament immediately prior to Covid-19 lockdown and later in Auckland in partnership with AUT University and then Elim College. Auschwitz. Now. is now open at the National Army Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand. Some of our work was shown in Dubai and Berlin in 2022 and is presently on show in Australia.
Glazer specifically said that he refutes his Jewish ancestry and secondly accuses Israel (whom he doesn’t mention by name) of “hijacking the Holocaust by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many, for so many, innocent people.”
Retired Associate Judge of the High Court, David Robinson, writes: “If the press is to avoid having blood on its hands it must be very careful not to inflame a very volatile situation and go down in history as causing a pogrom.”
In response to the antisemitic thuggery of Hamas supporters, Auckland Museum has now apologised for the lighting of its building in expression of solidarity with the Jewish nation. This is shameful.
Our grief is further compounded by the equivocation of several New Zealand leaders, in their response to Hamas’ attack… This is a time for moral clarity. Antisemitism is virulent and knows a multitude of expressions. It must be called out.
A pogrom is conventionally defined as a mob attack resulting in a massacre, with the approval of authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national group. As the details of the barbaric acts against Israelis become clear, the leadership of Hamas, the Iranian Regime, and the Hamas paymasters, the Qatari Regime, are guilty of carrying out and supporting a pogrom, and actually celebrating these unspeakable crimes…
Narratives that prevail in academia soon filter down to politics, media and culture more broadly. The founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, Dr Charles Asher Small, recently spoke of his findings concerning Muslim Brotherhood funding of many of the world’s finest universities. The implications for antisemitism are significant.
David L. Bernstein is the author of Woke Antisemitism: How Progressive Ideology Harms Jews. The Holocaust Foundation interviewed David at a course on curriculum development at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy at the University of Oxford.
…Koniuchowsky survived the Kovno Ghetto and decided to record the testimonies of all the (few) Jews who had miraculously survived in the small shtetlach (villages with Jewish communities) in the provinces. Of the 220,000 Jews who lived under the Nazi occupation in Lithuania, only about 8,000 survived.
Dr Rawiri Taonui, who is part of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission’s National Anti-Racism Taskforce (despite a history of bullying and discrimination), claimed that the Holocaust, which killed 6,000,000 Jews was “equal & opposite” to the situation of the Arab Palestinians today…
…the same countries which are the worst offenders when it comes to distortion, such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Croatia, Poland, Hungary and Romania cannot be punished, or expelled from IHRA.
Roald was aware of the incredible danger that lay beyond his hiding place. Although he was confined in difficult circumstances Roald remembers being surrounded by family and cocooned in an atmosphere of love.
The late monarch used her royal powers for justice, against strong opposition, by making it possible to prosecute war criminals who escaped to the UK.
With the exception of one case in Poland, not a single Holocaust perpetrator has been convicted and punished in any of these countries since independence… …they have totally failed to confront their crimes, and have failed in every aspect of dealing with the Shoah.
The Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation welcomes the recent announcement that New Zealand has been accepted as an Observer by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Enemies have been many and friends have been few. And the character of friends like those of Le Chambon is ultimately only proven in times of peril. The Shoah taught us that those considered friends are worse than irrelevant if they will not act.
The Holocaust Foundation contributed to the Survey of Antisemitism in New Zealand 2021, conducted by the New Zealand Jewish Council. Download the report.