The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, “the catastrophe”) or Holocaust was the Nazi perpetrated genocide of six million Jews from 1941 - 1945.
Capturing and telling the stories of the Holocaust is the core of the work of the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation, Aotearoa New Zealand. Our acclaimed exhibitions have toured widely. We also stand firmly for the integrity of Holocaust memory and we oppose the trend toward distortion and universalisation.
Shadows of Shoah is a unique multidisciplinary artistic work communicating 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 exhibitions are innovative, immersive and compelling. From its launch in 2013 by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, our work has been staged in museums, galleries, and public spaces throughout New Zealand. The River of Tears exhibition was launched in 2016 and debuted in Queensland, Australia. Our work will be available in Europe shortly. January 2020 will see the launch of our latest exhibition.
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.
Bob Narev MNZM is a survivor of Theresienstadt. He was recently interviewed by Gary Hoogvliet for Shine TV.
Auschwitz. In popular culture the term has become an archetypal symbol, a metaphor for ultimate evil. So mind-bending were the actions undertaken at this, the largest mass murder factory in human history, that Auschwitz has become ground zero on the moral landscape.
“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…”
"The only country that refused to take legal action after a governmental enquiry was New Zealand”, says The Last Nazi Hunter, Dr Efraim Zuroff.