The Holocaust Center
of
New Zealand
We aim to inspire and empower people to take a stand against prejudice, discrimination and apathy, and to do this they need to be informed, so we educate on how they can best use evidence of the past (primary resources, eyewitness accounts from actual Holocaust survivors) to make that stand.
Our Vision
Through testimony, experience and advocacy, the Holocaust Center of New Zealand inspires and empowers individuals to stand against prejudice, discrimination and apathy.
Our Mission
1. Ensure that the memory of the Holocaust remains in the present and shapes our future
2. Work and converse with all of NZ society
3. Teach and encourage people to take individual responsibility for opposing prejudice and discrimination in all of its forms
4. Guard against attempts to make any group a target of mass prejudice or discrimination
5. Encourage respect for diversity.
HCNZ is the country’s national Holocaust education and remembrance center.
The purpose of the Holocaust Center of NZ is to educate and inform New Zealanders about the Holocaust and the messages that came out of the Holocaust, that as a society we have much to learn from this event to ensure that “Never Again” is upheld.
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The exhibition space and research center displays the stories of Holocaust survivors who fled Hitler’s Europe and came to live their lives in New Zealand, contributing quite substantially to the NZ community. We are situated within the Wellington Jewish Community Centre in the midst of the city center. We are a volunteer-led organisation, having two full-time staff (Office Administrator/Volunteer Manager and a National Director of Education) and the Center is open to the public 6 days a week. Entrance to the Center is free and the volunteers on-site are available to explain and provide tours of the Center, sharing and exploring important information on the atrocity that was the Holocaust.
Sarah Williams