Telling The Stories
Defending the history

I cannot of course testify from personal knowledge that six million of our people were murdered during the Holocaust. I leave that to the records which the Nazis themselves largely kept.

Eighty years. So much has changed. And yet nothing has changed. Today there are many entities eager to resume the task interrupted by the allied victory in 1945. And just as a cooperative general populace in Europe was essential to the success of the Nazi death scheme, antisemitic ideas and actions proliferate today because so few are willing to speak up.

First came the ‘Holocaust by bullets’ – where Jews were herded into forests and fields and shot.  Others were packed into sealed trucks and gassed to death by carbon monoxide. But all this was not efficient enough.  So in January 1942, high-ranking officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to coordinate the implementation of what they called ‘The Final Solution of the Jewish Question’. 

It was heartening to see a full Community Centre in Wellsford, New Zealand, as the local community and wider district gathered to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Prof Wayne Horowitz recently visited NZ. Wayne has worked for 30 years at the Hebrew University, as a teacher of Sumerian and Akkadian texts and traditions.

Wayne agreed to be filmed by the Holocaust Foundation as he described the way his family was impacted by the Holocaust. Watch.

Dr Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary left antisemitism. We interviewed Izabella and asked her to comment on antisemitism since October 7 and the current state of academia.

“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.”

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.