Nobuki Sugihara, son of Righteous Among the Nations Chiune Sugihara, visited Hong Kong

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It was with great honour that we welcomed Mr Nobuki Sugihara, son of Consul Chiune Sugihara, a Righteous Among the Nations, for our September events. Mr. Sugihara spent a week in Hong Kong, from September 18th – September 25th. During his stay, he opened a new, original exhibition on Righteous Among the Nations from Asia, including his father Chiune Sugihara who helped an estimated 10,000 Jewish people escape from Nazi controlled Lithuania.

The opening event for the “Asian Righteous Among the Nations” exhibition took place at the University of Hong Kong, on September 19 followed by a film Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness and a Q&A with Mr. Sugihara. Mr Sugihara also spoke at Asia Society (in conversation with Mr Ronnie Chan, the Chairman of Asia Society Hong Kong) as well as the Hong Kong Jewish Community Centre. Besides, Mr Sugihara also spoke to several hundred school students, discussing his father’s work and the importance of standing up to evil.

Please click here for more photos from our September events with Mr Nobuki Sugihara.

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Of Many – Screening and Discussion with Linda Mills, the Director

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On 12 September 2016, we were delighted to co-organize a public screening and discussion event with the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Arts, and eSRT in Law, Language, Literature of the University of Hong Kong (HKU):

Of Many – Screening and Discussion with Linda Mills, the Director

Dr. Linda Mills, Director
Co-Founder, Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership
Co-Chair, Of Many Advisory Board

Date: Monday, 12 September, 2016
Time: from 6:00pm
Venue: Room 723, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, University of Hong Kong

About the film: Set Against the dramatic backdrop of violence in the Middle East and the tension between Jewish and Muslim students on college campuses, Of Many focuses on the surprising and transformative relationship between an orthodox rabbi and imam, who serve as university chaplains in New York City. Through a series of voyages to communities struck by catastrophe, we witness young religious Jews and Muslims working together and overcoming long-standing divides. Timely and humorous, this short documentary offers an inspiring and hopeful narrative in the face of a seemingly irreconcilable conflict.

About the Director: Linda G. Mills is the inaugural Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor and Vice Chancellor for Global Programs at New York University, and Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Of Many Institute. Mills, born in Los Angeles, California co-directed the documentary, Auf Wiedersehen: ‘Til We Meet Again, a film that explores the intergenerational transmission of trauma from the Holocaust to 9-11. The film was an official selection at eight film festivals, including the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival where Auf Wiedersehen won an audience award, Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival and the Vienna Jewish Film Festival. Dr. Mills is also an accomplished producer; her projects include The Reality Show: NYU, which received the 2010 Silver Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and The Heart of Intimate Abuse, for which she received a Telly Award. Her scholarly work challenges the current paradigms of domestic abuse by rethinking how we respond to violence in intimate relationships.

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HKHTC Directors’ Trip on the Cambodian Genocide

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On June 24-26, 2016, Directors of the HKHTC travelled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to enhance their knowledge base of the events of the Cambodian Genocide. Accompanied by a staff member from the DC-Cam (Documentation Center of Cambodia), the directors’ stops included S-21 (Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) where they met with 2 survivors and toured the prison grounds and also the Choeung Ek Killing Fields. The group also went to the DC-Cam premises where they met with a perpetrator that worked at the S-21 prison and the Genocide Education coordinator/team leader and a genocide education teacher from DC-Cam.

Please click here for more photos from our directors’ trip on the Cambodian Genocide.

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Director of Education Works With Local Church Leaders

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On Monday 23rd May, a group of twenty local Church leaders visited the HKHTC Resource Centre.

Director of Education, Ben Freeman, presented on the history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust for nearly two hours. They discussed the reasons why anti-Semitism existed in Europe for thousands of years and explored the historical context to the Holocaust.

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Dr. Ephraim Kaye of Yad Vashem Visited Hong Kong

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We were honoured that Dr. Ephraim Kaye, of the International School of Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, visited Hong Kong on Friday 20th of May.

Accompanied by HKHTC Director of Education, Dr. Kaye visited Discovery College and Discovery Bay International Schools to discuss Holocaust history and Holocaust denial.

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Yom Hashoah 2016

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We were proud to host the annual Yom HaShoah (Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day) ceremony at the Jewish Community Centre on Wednesday 4th May, from 7pm – 8pm.

Students from Elsa High School led the commemoration ceremony, speaking of why keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive is important to them, the future generation. Members of the Hong Kong Jewish community, including two Holocaust survivors, lit candles to remember the six million.

Yom HaShoah is observed as Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day and public holiday. It was inaugurated on 1953, anchored by a law signed by the Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion and the President of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.

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HKHTC 2016 Art and Writing Contest – Year 9 – 13

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After the success of last year’s contest we were proud to announce the launch of the 2016 Art & Writing contest for Years 9 – 13.

Pick from one of the following three categories, answering the question

‘HOW AND WHY SHOULD WE REMEMBER ACTS OF GENOCIDE?’

Students are encouraged to approach this question creatively, entering the contest in one of the three categories below. One winner will be announced in each of these categories:

1- Performing Arts: drama, spoken-word poetry, dance, performance, composition.

2- Visual Arts: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, film.

3- Writing: creative or essay (max. 1,500 words)

The deadline was 11.59pm 30th May 2016. Prizes were awarded in each category. Winners were announced in mid June.

Most entries in the Performing Arts and Visual Arts categories require a 2-3 minute video explanation.

Entries must be entirely original works. Please fully cite and acknowledge any existing ideas or authors from whom you’ve drawn inspiration.

All questions/inquiries to info@hkhtc.org.

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Director of Education, Ben Freeman, visits LPC United World College

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On Tuesday 15th March, HKHTC Director of Education, Ben Freeman, visited Li Po Chun United World College to discuss the issue of Genocide.

Ben and the class discussed the concepts of Genocide and how the Holocaust fits into that. The class also explored the process in which prejudice develops, the limitations of the term Genocide and together they explored this very complicated issue.

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Oscar Winning Film, Son of Saul Screening 27th February & March 1st

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As part of the European Film Festival we were proud to have partnered with the Consulate of Hungary in Hong Kong and Macao, the European Union Film Festival and the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival to screen the Oscar winning film, Son of Saul on 27 February & 1 March 2016.

One of the most-powerful foreign pictures of the year, Son of Saul captures a heartbreaking and haunting story of the Holocaust. Winning multiple awards in film festivals and award ceremonies, this film about a prisoner in the concentration camp sends viewers to the heart of this painful chapter of history. Son of Saul is the story about Saul Ausländer, who is forced to work for the Nazis to burn corpses in the concentration camp. During his shift in the crematorium, he discovers a boy who is brutally killed after an attempted escape, Saul decides to save this child’s body to give him a proper burial, even at the expense of his own escape.

http://www.cinema.com.hk/tc/movie/details/8751

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