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Wellington is to get a Holocaust Centre to record stories of the survivors from the Nazi death camps who later settled in the capital.
The Holocaust Research and Education Centre, based in the Wellington Jewish Community Centre, will be opened by the Governor-General Anand Satyanand on Sunday.
"We aim to educate school pupils and the wider public about the evil of genocide, as experienced in the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, in the fervent hope that such things won't happen again," said spokeswoman Ingre Woolf.
The opening exhibit will feature the lives of the Pressburg and Galambos-Winter families.
Hanka Pressburg, who is now in her 80s, lives in Wellington and is a survivor of Auschwitz and Theresienstad (Terezin). Her concentration camp number tattooed on her arm is still visible.
Clare Galambos-Winter was also in Auschwitz and was marched from there to do forced labour in a munitions factory in the middle of winter wearing only a thin dress, which will be on display.
She played as a first violinist in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for 33 years. Recently retired from active music-making, she donated her two violins and a scholarship to Victoria University.
- NZPA
