On sliding doors I remember the day when, as a child, I walked into an elevator with my sister and parents, and as the doors were closing, my sister decided to test out whether the doors would open up if she stuck her arm…
TVNZ honours Nazi soldier, minimises Holocaust A recent Sunday programme on TVNZ reported on a “remarkable survivor” of World War II who arrived in New Zealand in the 1950s. This was not a Jewish refugee who survived the war and the horrors of death camps. Nor…
World premiere of ‘Caging Skies’ coming to Wellington He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”Adolf Hitler Johannes, a zealous member of the Vienna Hitler Youth, discovers a fateful secret –…
A Kiwi link to Denial: The Canterbury Tales The movie Denial has just started screening widely in New Zealand cinemas. Rachel Weisz stars as Deborah Lipstadt, an historian and writer who was sued for libel by renowned Holocaust denier and anti-Semite, David Irving (played by Timothy Spall). What…
We should be standing up to, not standing over, hate speakers There’s an old joke about a Jewish Robinson Crusoe who, when washed ashore on a desert island, built two synagogues just so he could have one that “he never sets foot in“. This sense of disagreement is a fundamental part…
Reflections on the Holocaust Tomorrow, January 27, has been set aside by the United Nations as an annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The New Zealand Jewish Council has invited these statements in the belief that as…