By Local Matters…
Wellsford has been chosen as the setting for two major events to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
On Sunday, January 26, more than 200 people gathered in the town’s community centre to hear guest speakers that included Holocaust survivor, lawyer and educator Bob Narev, and educational and social activist Dame Lesley Max.
They shared their reflections on the Holocaust, antisemitism and their own experiences before lighting candles in remembrance of the millions of Jewish people killed by Hitler’s Nazi regime.
The event was organised by the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation, Aotearoa New Zealand, a charitable educational trust founded in 2012 by a Tomarata couple, photographer and media producer Perry Trotter and historian Dr Sheree Trotter.
The Trotters have also put together a powerful and haunting exhibition, Auschwitz. Now., which is running in the community hall at 267 Rodney Road in Wellsford until late February.
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