An Oasis of Survival and Hope – exhibition in Central Hong Kong

2020-12-31T09:48:01+08:00Tags: |

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

http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/morning_brew&d=2013-10-21&p=2505&e=236715&m=episode

 

 

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

The study of The Holocaust is expanding world wide – Including China

2017-01-08T12:56:03+08:00Tags: |

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

HKHTC Concerned with Hitler chic

2017-01-08T12:21:13+08:00Tags: |

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.

 

 

[Photo: http://www.wiesenthal.com ]

Holocaust centre aims to educate the young

2017-01-08T12:11:11+08:00Tags: |

Education centre to open at Elsa High will warn of the dangers of hate and intolerance. A Holocaust education centre is to open in Hong Kong and aims to become a resource hub for the region. The centre – temporarily located at Elsa High, the Jewish high school in Shau Kei Wan – will focus on educating about the massacre of more than six million Jews by the Nazi regime during the second world war.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/teaching-the-holocaust-in-hong-kong/

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