HKHTC’s Holocaust & Tolerance Educational Series @ University of Macau
For more details, please visit:
https://www.tdm.com.mo/zh-hant/news-detail/921497?isvideo=true&lang=en&category=27
HKHTC’s Holocaust & Tolerance Educational Series @ Asia Society HK
In early 2024, HKHTC hosted Mr Peter Gaspar who survived the Holocaust as a child.
Throughout his 12 day visit to Hong Kong and Macao, Mr Gaspar spoke at over a dozen schools, universities and organisations in Hong Kong – including St Stephen’s College, United Christian College (Kowloon East), South Island School, Malvern College, Christian Alliance P.C. Lau Memorial International School, German Swiss International School, Elsa High School, Li Po Chun United World College, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Macau, the Jewish Community Centre, and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center – to huge audiences of different age groups, backgrounds and faiths. His talks were attended by several thousand students.
For more details, please visit:
https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/enduring-and-overcoming-horrors-holocaust
United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration 2024
The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre was honored to host the annual United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration on 25th January, 2024 at 7:30pm at JC Cube, Tai Kwun.
This year’s keynote speaker was Holocaust survivor Peter Gaspar. Born in Czechoslovakia, Peter’s life was forever changed when the Nazis occupied his city when he was just four years old. Faced with the threat of deportation, Peter and his parents went into hiding, seeking shelter wherever they could find it. Peter and his mother were later separated from his father and sent to the Theresienstadt camp, where they endured unimaginable suffering. Today, he strongly believes that educating young people is the key to stopping antisemitism.
“All I remember is constant hunger, constant cold, constant fear.”
–Peter Gaspar
You can watch the UNHMD 2024 commemorative event here.
HKHTC-HKU-Yad Vashem Art in the Holocaust Exhibition
ART IN THE HOLOCAUST Exhibition
Commemorating the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, this HKHTC-HKU Art in the Holocaust exhibition, in collaboration with Yad Vashem, provided a glimpse into art created during the Holocaust in ghettos, camps, forests and while in hiding.
The artworks reflect the tension between the artists’ need to document the terrible events they endured and their desire to break free through art, and escape into the realms of beauty, imagination and faith. These artworks, from Yad Vashem’s Art Collection, stand as testimony to the strength of the human spirit that refuses to surrender.
This exhibition took place during November and December 2023 at the HKU Centennial Campus.
This special project was organized along with the University of Hong Kong and in cooperation with Yad Vashem.
Antisemitism Education Series | Christian Alliance P.C. Lau Memorial Int’l School & CAIS Hong Kong
Ever since the relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions in the second half of last year, HKHTC’s Education Team returned to schools and universities with numerous events, talks, seminars and workshops on the Holocaust and Antisemitism Education. The demand for our programming has been overwhelming. This is a reflection of the continued relevance of Holocaust and tolerance education in Hong Kong and Macao.
Through our engagements we can reach thousands of students who would otherwise have little or no exposure to the subject matter of the Holocaust. We also work closely with the Carmel School Foundation and a host of local and international schools to support their curricula and deepen learning experiences on the Shoah.
Pictured here are HKHTC’s introductory talks on the Holocaust at the Christian Alliance P.C. Lau Memorial International School and the Christian Alliance International School of Hong Kong.
HKHTC ‘Next Generation’ Project | Glen Steinman speaks at the University of Hong Kong
Currently, HKHTC is engaging members of our local Jewish community to record and share their family histories of survival and persecution during the Shoah.
This is the hallmark of our ‘Next Generation’ project which seeks to involve the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors in broader educational activities in Hong Kong. Given the challenge of arranging in-person visits by survivors – which we are looking forward to resume – this form of experiencing eyewitness accounts is a powerful pedagogical tool.
This semester, our NextGen speaker and HKHTC board member Glen Steinman has spoken to undergraduate students at the University of Hong Kong about his mother’s remarkable survival story in the Shoah.
HKHTC ‘Next Generation’ Project | Eli Bitan shares his family’s survival story for NextGen Book Project
Currently, HKHTC is engaging members of our local Jewish community to record and share their family histories of survival and persecution during the Shoah.
This is the hallmark of our ‘Next Generation’ project which seeks to involve the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors in broader educational activities in Hong Kong. Given the challenge of arranging in-person visits by survivors – which we are looking forward to resume – this form of experiencing eyewitness accounts is a powerful pedagogical tool.
Our NextGen speaker Eli Bitan has shared his family’s Holocaust survival story with the NextGen Book Project Team earlier for the production of educational resource.
HKHTC ‘Next Generation’ Project | Andrea Fessler speaks at Christian Alliance International School
Currently, HKHTC is engaging members of our local Jewish community to record and share their family histories of survival and persecution during the Shoah.
This is the hallmark of our ‘Next Generation’ project which seeks to involve the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors in broader educational activities in Hong Kong. Given the challenge of arranging in-person visits by survivors – which we are looking forward to resume – this form of experiencing eyewitness accounts is a powerful pedagogical tool.
This school year, our NextGen speaker Andrea Fessler has spoken to students at Christian Alliance International School as well as the RTHK audience about her family story in the Shanghai Ghetto. For more about the survival story of Andrea’s family, please click here.
Local community delegation to Jerusalem at Yad Vashem
Through our ongoing partnership with Yad Vashem, HKHTC’s Education Team is conducting workshops and seminars that bring together tertiary students from the Hong Kong, Macao and China with students in Japan and Malaysia.
For the first time since the pandemic, HKHTC Executive Director Simon Li has taken a local community delegation to Jerusalem in September 2023 for an on-site tour and educational programming at Yad Vashem’s Mount Herzl museum and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, etc.
Live Chat with Pinchas Gutter Series | German Swiss Int’l School & Malvern College
This school year, we have organized many live sessions with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, a survivor from Poland who is an active member of our Dimensions in Testimony (DiT) project in Hong Kong and Asia — in collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation. Pinchas joined a number of school, university and community gatherings from his home in Canada, sharing his story and answering questions directly from students. Pictured here are Pinchas’ live sessions with German Swiss International School and Malvern College Hong Kong.
Our Executive Director, Simon Li, was able to meet Pinchas in Toronto in August 2023 and thank him in person for all the countless events he participated in.