Holocaust Centre of New Zealand

A remembrance centre with a carefully curated exhibition in the Jewish Orthodox community of Wellington with a well-stocked library on the Holocaust. The volunteers are fantastic and I spent a long time talking to them. It is shocking to see that this community also needs to be heavily protected from anti-Semitic attacks.

The Centre displays several Holocaust survivor stories with connections to NZ. They are well done. It is not a big exhibit, but the volunteers are helpful. They also have lots of books if you want to do further research.

I believe that every child - and every adult who chooses to broaden their understanding of how ingrained prejudice influences even our seemingly most innocuous decisions - needs to visit the Holocaust Centre, as part of a wider programme of study focused on the necessity of tolerance. The Holocaust Centre is a place of reverence where millions of innocent people, whose voices have never been heard, are remembered in the greatest hope that their fate is clearly understood to be the logical outcome of unbridled state-sanctioned human intolerance of any kind. The Holocaust Centre is much more than a place of deep significance to Jewish people; It is symbolic of the much wider psychological disease of human prejudice; It speaks in monumental terms of cause and effect. As a library, it is a repository of educational material, in the form of personal testimony from survivors - and academic study - of the shoah. There is much to be learned here about human prejudice and resilience.

In a perfect world which we are not living in communities impacted by collective trauma would be wrapped in a korowai of care, acknowledgement and ongoing concern for wellness and wellbeing.

Great little museum, very intimate. Steven was a very knowledgeable and a great guide. Staff are very helpful and friendly. Will definitely come back in future. A moving experience.