1 / 2Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
📍 Te Aro, Wellington
Small Holocaust education centre in Wellington with curated exhibitions focused on survivor stories with New Zealand connections. Knowledgeable volunteer guides, a well-stocked research library, and school programmes available.
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.
🏆 Family Action Verdict
A small, serious and genuinely moving museum that requires emotional maturity. Best paired with prior classroom discussion for teenagers. The volunteer guides transform what could be a quiet exhibit into a real conversation.
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Phil Darkins
7 years ago
“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.”
Nikos Engel
a year ago
“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.”
Evan G
7 years ago
“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.”
eamonn king
2 months ago
“Great and sad place to visit. STOP GENOCIDE PLANET WIDE.”
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Overview
The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand presents curated exhibitions tracing survivor stories, including the interactive Legacies Project mapping journeys to and through New Zealand. Volunteer guides — many with deep personal or academic knowledge — walk visitors through exhibits and answer questions at length. A research library is available for further study. The centre runs school programmes and accepts group bookings. Free parking on site. Pram access.
