A Kiwi Holocaust survivor’s remarkable story Dad has shown us what it is to work hard. To survive. To keep Judaism alive in the face of adversity, hatred, starvation and fear. To pursue freedom and to never look back.
The unwarranted cost of iconic status Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt in 1929, the daughter of Edith and Otto Frank. By age 10, when her family fled Germany for the Netherlands, she had already known discrimination and dislocation. By age 15, like 1.5 million other…
The man who survived Dr Mengele’s experiments Benjamin Steiner cut a distinctive figure with his dapper clothes, trilby hat and twinkly eyes. But belying that appearance, his body covered in scars and the number A-421734 tattooed on his left forearm, was a terrible truth. Steiner was a…
Remembering the Holocaust | Kitia Altman The Shadows of Shoah Exhibition was launched in 2013 by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. Since then it has toured museums, galleries and public spaces the length of New Zealand. 27 January is United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day….
No place for hate speech in UN resolution debate Almost three quarters of a century since Auschwitz was liberated (the 72nd anniversary is January 27), there are still those who either deny the Holocaust happened or wish for another one. Such sentiments are brought to the fore and amplified…