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Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand
Review: The slaughter of Lithuanian Jews
…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.
IHRA’s Success and Difficult Dilemma
…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.
An 80-year search for ‘the student K,’ murderer of Jewish babies
This is a story about a Nazi war crimes investigation that began in 1945 and continued intermittently until 2021. It is a good example of why, even today, it is still important to try and achieve justice.
Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust
The Zoom interview of Dr Efraim Zuroff on his latest book, Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust, co-authored by Rūta Vanagaitė. The interview addresses the problem of Holocaust distortion and the double genocide theory i.e. the equivalency between Nazi and Communist crimes.
Press Release: Nazi Hunter joins NZ Holocaust Foundation's International Council
Dr Efraim Zuroff, the Coordinator of Nazi war crimes research for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has joined the Holocaust Foundation as member of our International Council. Zuroff’s recent comments on the “local hero” status of Mt Hutt’s former Waffen-SS soldier Willi Huber have been widely reported in international media.
Guest Post: A controversial “legacy”
At 17, Huber volunteered for the Waffen-SS, and served as a machine-gunner, earning two Iron Cross medals on the eastern front. After the war, he was held as a PoW for 16 months. Despite this, Huber has been the subject of several laudatory media stories, including a controversial TVNZ programme in 2017, which was heavily criticised for glossing over and minimising his Nazi past.
Nazi Hunter Reacts To Death Of Local “Hero” SS-Waffen Soldier
As a historian, I can state unequivocally that serving in a Waffen-SS unit on the Eastern front, there is no way that Mr Huber could possibly not have been aware of the massive atrocities carried out by the SS and the Wehrmacht…
From Newsroom: NZ's Troubled Relationship With The Holocaust
Our nation has the dubious distinction of being the only Western country in which a tertiary institution holds a thesis denying the Holocaust. In addition, New Zealand is also one of the few western-style liberal democratic nations that has not joined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance…
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.
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.