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Race commissioner outs antisemitic posts | NZ City

Dame Susan Devoy, NZ Race Relations Commissioner

The Race Relations Commissioner has published and condemned a series of antisemitic social media posts as New Zealand’s Jewish community renews calls to curb racism ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Friday marks United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day, with public ceremonies to be held across the country.

Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy this week called for Kiwis to “recognise the seeds of hate and to call them out” and on Friday backed up the call by releasing a series of recently posted antisemitic Facebook messages, many from New Zealanders.

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Peter Gaspar Holocaust Survivor Talk video now available


On September 3, Peter Gaspar a survivor of the Terezin Concentration Camp gave his moving story at the Villa Maria College Auditorium, to a full house.

Many expressed their disappointment that they were unavailable to attend the talk.  Fortunately we recorded this moving event and here is the video.

In 1942, 40 of his family were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz, never to return.  Peter survived the war by going into hiding. Along with his parents, Peter was hidden for three years and then during the last six months,

Peter and his mother were interned in the Terezin Concentration Camp. His father was enslaved at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was forced to endure the 248 km Death March to Lubeck in the Winter of 1944/1945.

This was the camp where the Germans printed counterfeit British currency and conducted medical experiments. The family found refuge in Australia in 1949.

His parents were never the same again.  His mother never stopped grieving for her lost family and felt deep guilt for surviving.

Peter currently volunteers with the Courage to Care program in Melbourne inspiring young people to be more accepting and tolerant. This year he will also be travelling to schools throughout New Zealand, through the HOPE Project.

Many thanks to Mikaela Hood for her volunteering Villa Maria College as a venue and to David Allan for recording the video.

 

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