The HKHTC were delighted to be invited to Maryknoll Convent to educate 800 students about the Holocaust.
One of our Educational Committe members, Dr Martin Chung delivered the lecture and answered questions from students afterwards.
The students were highly engaged and interested in the topics covered and this talk illustrates the important work of going into schools to deliver Holocaust education and making contacts with students.
On April 4th, Dr Florian Knothe, Director of the University Museum and Art Gallery, gave a guided visit and lecture about the paintings of Sara Atzmon, was exhibiting her art at the Museum in conjunction with the HKHTC and Goethe-Institut Hongkong.
“Ms. Atzmons artworks, many of which are large-scale, highly impactful paintings, reflect the artist’s memories of her horrible experiences during the Shoah. In 1944, Ms. Atzmon was first deported to Strasshof and from there she was sent to Bergen-Belsen under terrible circumstances. As an adult, Ms. Atzmon became a talent painter dedicated to use her, often very dramatic and explicit, paintings, to bring awareness to the cruel times in our fairly recent past, and to educate a young generation to treasure and practice tolerance, and foster understanding and compassion between people of different religions and cultural backgrounds”
The Sara Atzmon Exhibition was officially opened at the Goethe-Institut Hongkong on 2nd April and closed on 3rd May.
This exhibition was running in parallel with Mrs Atzmon’s exhibition at the University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong. The Goethe-Institut also screened three excellent Holocaust related films to compliment their educational work, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism and the 25th anniversary of re-unification.
The artworks exhibited varied from the pieces at UMAG and wonderfully complimented the exposure of Mrs Atzmons educational and artistic work to the Hong Kong public.
Goethe-Institut received over 530 individual vistors to the exhibition as well as at least 100 students who visited on pre arranged tours.
We were delighted to welcome to Hong Kong, artist and Holocaust survivor Sara Atzmon, who opened her exhibition ‘Surviving Evil- the Pictorial Landscape of Sara Atzmon’ on 25th February at Hong Kong University Museum and Gallery.
Guests of honour at the opening included Tsang Tak-sing Secretary for Home Affairs, Eddie Ng Hak-kim, Secretary for Education, Regina Ip LEGCO Representative, Mr Sagi Karni Consul General of The State of Israel and Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorf Consul General of The Federal Republic of Germany.
The exhibition runs until May 4th and was covered by a variety of press.
Here is a piece by Asian Jewish Life
UN Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration at the Jewish Community Centre
This year we were delighted to welcome Olga Horak as a guest speaker at our commemoration event. Olga is a Slovak born Australian who survived Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen concentration camps.
She gave a moving address to distingushed guests, community members, students and other supporters at this event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzX6uq11SU8
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/lizhayes/259285/olgas-story
During January we were delighted to lend Po Ling College, a Band 1 English Medium local school, a copy of an excellent Holocaust exhibition created by the Cape Town Holocaust Centre.
It is an excellent example of collaboration and project work that we undertake with local schools in order to widen our reach in Holocaust education.
The school were also fortunate to host Olga Horak during her visit to Hong Kong.
Wandering Jews In A Strange Land
The HKHTC were delighted to co-host a meeting with Chabad ‘Discovery Bay’.
Ms Myra Berkovitz, teacher and Holocaust educator, will be gave a fascinating overview of the Jewish presence in China through the end of World War Two.
School speaker tour – Jackie Metzger
For two days we had the pleasure to host Jackie Metzger from Yad Vashem.
Jackie has 25 years of teaching experience and currently works at Yad Vashem, teaching visiting groups, guiding them through Yad Vashem as well as writing educational material on the website – teaching about the Holocaust through literature.
Jackie visited 5 different schools and taught 8 classes totalling over 400 students who heard him over the two day period.
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival – school screenings
The HKHTC were delighted to take the film No Place On Earth around 9 schools in Hong Kong.
This film, chronicles the survival story of 38 Jewish men, women and children who survived for 511 days, longer than anyone in recorded history, hiding from the Nazis in underground caves in Ukraine.
This film is a remarkable testament to their will to survive and is a powerful educational tool for those wishing to educate students about the Holocaust.
We ran Q and A sessions with pupils after the screenings to enhance the educational impact of the film.
Radio Interview RTHK
Jeremy Amias the HKHTC Chairperson gave an interesting interview on Reenita Malhotra’s 123 show – about the work of the HKHTC.
Please click here to hear the interview between 1.30 – 2 pm.
