Telling The Stories
Defending the history
The Holocaust Foundation supports the recent call for the appointment of a special envoy to combat antisemitism. Quoting a recent media release by NZJC and HCNZ, it is time for New Zealand to get “serious about battling the world’s oldest hatred – antisemitism. We call on the government to appoint a special envoy…”
Antisemitism is surging throughout the world and nowhere is this more evident than on university campuses. Yad Vashem Chairman, Dani Dayan, has written to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik urging her to show leadership and moral clarity in the face of unveiled Jew hatred on her campus.
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 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 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 nineteen 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. recently completed an extended season 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.
“Holocaust education was the best cure for antisemitism,” he stated in an interview with Australian actor Nathaniel Buzolic, who has been vocal in his support of Israel since October 7. He immediately followed that statement and said, “It turns out it’s not true.”