2007: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
April 15, 2024
By AHNZ
Today in history, 15 April, 2017, the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand was opened in Wellington. Various VIPs were there to listen and talk. The Governor General Anand Satyanand himself was there and in costume as politicians will be whenever appearing with an elect audience (image, left.)
The HCNZ was established in 2007 and continues to be a powerful and well financed (go figure) organisation frequently sought after for media comment every time the word ‘Nazi’ comes up.
I don’t know why New Zealand needs Holocaust Education since it’s not part of our history. It is, however, a powerful Victimhood Culture card that Jews/Israelis seem to get to play forever, over and over, for their own public relations benefit.
There are strong forces in New Zealand opposed to ethnostates and now that they have successfully taken out South Africa the next target is Israel for daring to have a nation of its own people. That is probably the real reason for the HCNZ was created: As a counter-weight.
Anne Frank’s father’s novel The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is now (ee2022) published in Maori thanks to your tax dollars (Māori Language Commission.) Some 600 copies are being sent out to government schools by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. The Maori Anne Frank books are really, then, part of a propaganda war sponsored by our government.
Our country has a very long history of being a home for Jews. Many Judeo-Zelandians have been our leading citizens. The first draft of our country by E.G. Wakefield proposed separate colonies for “Methodists, High Anglicans, Scottish Presbyterians, Irish Catholics, and Jewish Zionists.”¹ However, the Jewish heritage goes back thousands of years and is not synonymous with The Holocaust.
“As people want to learn, they will also derive respect for the many histories which together form the wider story of New Zealand and New Zealanders. For this reason, memories of the Holocaust will not be dulled by time and distance for New Zealand’s future generations. Instead, and with the help of the Centre, the legacy of the Holocaust will remain a sombre reminder of the consequences of racial intolerance.” – Satyanand’s speech (delivered 2007, re-drafted 2009,) gg.govt.
“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.” – Holocaust centre to tell stories of NZ survivors, NZ Herald (2007)
Satyanard commended respect for the “many histories” but a museum like this is an odd institution to further that goal. A core purpose is to contract the Overton Window to make sure we “remember” details about the purported atrocity but never ask if there was any atrocity. For example, we are encouraged to focus on and feel about how thin the prisoner’s work clothes were at Auschwitz. However, if we were to challenge or even inquire about the claims of this self-reported garment there would be an angry Jewish smack-down!
In 1993 Joel Hayward’s University of Canterbury master’s thesis denied and revised parts of our historical understanding of The Holocaust. It was given an A+ grade. The New Zealand Jewish Council insisted this knowledge be withdrawn, the degree revoked! The University obliged by apologising locking away the Haward Thesis rather than publishing it online with others. Even then, the thesis is encased in a sort of depleted uranium shell by being bound up with a report created by a Working Party led by a Knight least anyone accidentally stumble upon it ‘unprotected.’ Ref. shalom.kiwi
New Zealand has had plenty of experience with its own Concentration Camps directed against, for example, Boers and Japanese even our own Contentious Objectors. Perhaps The Holocaust in its proper context is more like Haward (1993) said? Governments locking up masses of displaced people is bound to lead to disease and death. Historically even our armed forces have a horrible attrition rate and die without any ‘help’ from the enemy yet unlike captive prisoners their overseers have every reason to want to keep them alive and fighting. Even when we’re not putting our resources into a war effort our own prisons degenerate into “feculent hovels” from time to time. Ref. 1841: Auckland’s First Gaol, AHNZ
Academic Freedom clearly isn’t on the agenda. That leads me to be more interested and sympathetic toward what The Holocaust Center doesn’t want us to think.
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1 Fairness and Freedom, David Fischer (2012)
Image ref. HCNZ (2017)
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