Our annual Yom HaShoah commemoration was held at the University Museum and Gallery, among the haunting and evocative paintings of Sara Atzmon.
Students from Li Po Chun College gave beautiful musical accompaniment to the readings and poetry.
Please click here for coverage in Jewish Times Asia.
Please click here to see coverage of our exhibition at Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery.
We are delighted that this was featured in the Young South China Morning Post, since this is a very important target group for our educational mission.
This exhibition has also been covered by a column in the Hong Kong Ecomomic Journal, Ming Pao, Le Petit Journal, The House News and Xinhua Website as well as featured as ‘pick of the day’ in the SCMP listings and 24 hours. There was a prominent listing in the now closed HK Magazine.
Our Holocaust Memorial Day event was a great success. Please click here to read about it in Jewish Times Asia.
We have had wonderful press coverage for the visit of Holocaust survivor Olga Horak, who toured 8 schools and addressed well over 2000 students.
Ming Pao – a Chinese daily and the Young SCMP covered her talk at La Salle College and Apple Daily published a wonderful interview.
Please click here to read the Apple Daily interview in Chinese and click here for an interview in the SCMP Post Magazine and here for an article on page 40 of The Correspondent.
We are delighted to be profiled in an article in The New York Times.
Silvain Gilbert, HKHTC Executive Board member and hidden child during the Holocaust, was interviewed on a Pearl TVB documentary about forgiveness and reconcilliation.
We have had a wonderful response from schools who wish to bring thier students along to the exhibition.
This has given pupils a unique opportunity to view the art and information and participate in question and answer sessions with members of the HKHTC Board as well as teachers, afterwards.
Our exhibition in Central Hong Kong has created a lot of interest amongst the press and general public. Many people are stopping to read the exhibition panels, look at the wonderful student art and take a moment to reflect on the horrors of racism and intolerance that culminated in the Holocaust.
View the exhibition panels by clicking this link
Here are some of the articles and radio interviews.
Holocaust exhibition in Central features concentration camp art SCMP
http://asianjewishlife.org/blog/an-oasis-of-survival-and-hope-hong-kong-holocaust-tolerance-centre-exhibition/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-hong-kong-walkway-a-very-public-holocaust-exhibit/
http://www.esf.edu.hk/SC-holocaust-exhn2013
Teachers can nip prejudice in the bud SCMP column
We are also covered in the Chinese papers.
Hong Kong Economic Journal article
Click here to view photos of the exhibition pieces and the opening
Later this year AHO, the world’s biggest Holocaust association, is to stage China’s first international conference on the topic in Harbin. The north-eastern city once had a thriving Jewish community, but a more important stimulant for local interest in the conference will be parallels to be drawn, rightly or wrongly, between the Holocaust and Japanese wartime atrocities. The Imperial Japanese Army used the city for experiments on humans, including vivisection and dropping anthrax from low-flying planes, killing an estimated 400,000 people.
Read more about this through the link below
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21584008-study-holocaust-expanding-worldwidefor-differing-reasons-bearing-witness-ever
The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (HKHTC) is concerned about the growing popularity of using Adolf Hitler and other Nazi symbols as cultural icons in Thailand. As an organization dedicated to promoting Holocaust education in Asia, we see this trend as the result of a lack of effective education and awareness of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Even if those using Hitler’s drawing at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University did not intend to support Nazi ideas and anti-semitism, their actions reduce the horrific significance of Hitler’s legacy in human history. The apologies and condemnations released following this shameful incident are appropriate. However, the best way to ensure against similar incidents being repeated is through education, particularly among younger people who may be less familiar with the mass genocide wrought by Hitler and the Nazis. HKHTC will continue its efforts to actively spread the lessons of the Holocaust and the importance of tolerance in Asia.
