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Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand
Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Bethlehem, Tauranga
An event to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz will be staged in Bethlehem College’s beautiful Performing Arts Centre on 25 January 2020.
An interview with Theresienstadt survivor Bob Narev MNZM
Bob Narev MNZM is a survivor of Theresienstadt. He was recently interviewed by Gary Hoogvliet for Shine TV.
Saving The Shoah: A Brief Survey of Denial and Distortion
“Too often the Holocaust is considered as a standalone event, almost as though the Jews of Europe were simply unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But the events of 1940s did not happen apart from the events of the 1930s. And those events did not happen apart from the German philosophical and theological writings of the previous four centuries…”
Dame Lesley Max: Challenging Holocaust Denier David Irving
In 1986 or 1987 I had an electrifying encounter with Alice Newman, not that I knew her name. It was at the time of the visit to New Zealand of David Irving, now known as a Holocaust denier and revisionist, but then with a reputation as an accomplished historian, even though somewhat controversial.
A Survivor Encounters David Irving
Our recent event, Saving The Shoah, opened with a new Shadows of Shoah story, that of Alice Newman. Eleven years old when the Nazis invaded Poland, Alice and her mother were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto… Years later, in New Zealand, Alice had an encounter with Holocaust denier David Irving.
Guest Post: Challenging the Distortions
We exist in a world 54% of Americans have ever heard of the Holocaust and 32% of those believe the event has been greatly exaggerated or is a myth… Sadly, today there are worrying signs in Europe from groups that can’t honestly claim to be ignorant.
Manager appointed for Shadows of Shoah
Shadows of Shoah is delighted to welcome Deb Levy as manager. Deb is a third generation Holocaust Survivor with a background in not-for-profit management and education.
"We should be destroyed?"
Last month we learned of the passing of Moshe Fiszman. We had met Moshe in 2011 when we visited Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre to interview a number of survivors. He had a great impact on us. Moshe was profound and expressed himself in a way that connected deeply. I remember that we stopped and told him so.
Death Camp on a Mini Skirt
…while the mini-skirt may be a trite example, the worrying spectre of white supremacists openly parading on European and American streets, the murder of Jews in places of worship, the blatant denial of the Holocaust in much of the Muslim world and the increasing acceptance of antisemitism in political discourse, all suggest that the lessons of the Holocaust have not been learnt.
Guest Post: The memory of the Holocaust and the mystery of unfathomable evil
The Holocaust ― the term given to the industrial-scale slaughter of the Jews of Europe ― is often examined in isolation. An event without precedent and without successor.
Guest Post: The Current State of Things
Today, one-third of Americans and nearly half of British people do not believe that 6 million Jews, more than one-third of the entire population of Jews in the whole world, were systematically murdered by the Nazis. Those who believe that the Holocaust happened at all, far under-estimate the death toll.
Rewriting and distorting a difficult history
In an attempt to deal with an unconscionable history, the narrative of the past has, in many of East European countries, been rewritten.
Forgetting and remembering - the trauma of the Holocaust
Imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, Eli managed to escape and spent the rest of the war hiding. He attributed his survival to luck and the fact that he “didn’t look like a Jew.”
An Interview With The Last Nazi Hunter: Part I
"The only country that refused to take legal action after a governmental enquiry was New Zealand”, says The Last Nazi Hunter, Dr Efraim Zuroff.