Jews - Persecutions

Date: 1894 - 1975 - 1906 - 1985

By: Hayman, Patrick Philip, 1915-1988; Kirker, Anne (Dr), 1947-

Reference: A-345-001

Description: "Wrongly accused - Dreyfus" shows a head and shoulders portrait sketch of a man in spectacles. Date assumed to be the late 1970s, the dates of photographs in Anne Kirker's article in "Art New Zealand". Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish Frenchman wrongly accused of high treason. His trial occupied the headlines for several years. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - P.H. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Biro sketch on sheet, 132 x 89 mm. Provenance: The drawings were gifted to Anne Kirker by Patrick Hayman.

Date: 25 May 1993

By: Pressburg, Hanka, 1920-2011; Carlisle, Anita, active 1993-1996

Reference: OHColl-0089/1

Description: Hanka Pressburg was born in Rakovnik, Czechoslovakia on 28 August 1920. Describes family background, childhood, schooling and life before the German occupation. Discusses different religions in Czechoslovakia. Comments the family did not have a kosher home but her father closed the shop for Jewish holidays. Describes what happeneed to Rakovnik's Jewish synagogue. Describes restrictions on Jews and the reaction including that of her non-Jewish friends. Recalls the first incident of anti-Semitism to herself. Recalls 15 March 1939 when the German Army entered Prague. Mentions the Nuremberg Laws. Explains why her family did not leave Czechoslovakia before the war. Talks about her fiance, Frederick Weil, and reasons for their marriage. Describes being sent to Theresienstadt on cattle trucks and from there to Krivoklat. Recalls first impressions and being tattooed with an identification number. Describes layout of the camp, general hygiene and the day to day routine. Explains how they dealt with life in the ghetto. Talks about the groups people formed to survive. Describes sexual behaviour of SS to some inmates including the extermination of children which resulted. Discusses inmates involved in sending people to the gas chambers and their lack of choice. Describes being greeted by music from the Auschwitz Orchestra. Discusses being used to clean up the roads in Hamburg after bombing and working on an oil refinery. Describes being sent to Bergen Belsen concentration camp and staying there until liberation on 15 April 1945. Describes the chaos of liberation and arriving back in Prague. Talks about post-war employment and readjustment including a job dealing with restitutions to victims of the Holocaust. Reflects on what contributed to her survival. Explains the procedure involved to prove her husband's death before marrying Jiri(George). Explains their reasons for emigrating and choosing New Zealand. Describes getting money for a house and their need for security. Talks about working for twenty two years at Golden Kiwi lottery. Comments on some anti-foreigner attitudes. Discusses the importance of education about persecution. Language - English with Czech accent Venue - Wellington : 1993 Interviewer(s) - Anita Carlisle Accompanying material - Transcript from a tape recording made in 1981 describing Hanka's early days in Czechoslovakia and time in concentration camps (bound in to abstract) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005880-005883 Quantity: 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1351.

Date: 29 January 1993 - 29 Jan 1993

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project

By: Denee-Sieger, Maria Louise, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0132/15

Description: Maria Louise Denee-Sieger talks about parents and grandparents. Describes her Amsterdam family home. Recalls people marching in the streets during the 1930s, protesting against hunger and unemployment. Recalls the beginning of 1939 - World War II and describes the chaos of people leaving the country, the beginning of German occupation and its effects on their schooling and education and the harrassment of Jewish people. Discusses her involvement with the Students Christian Movement; World Council of Churches Conference in Strasburg; marriage; birth of twins and emigration to New Zealand, travelling on the `Strathmore'. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Language - English with Dutch words Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Kees Webster Venue - 8/41 Sarawia Street, New Market, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005419-005420; OHLC-001362--001363 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1040.

Date: 28 May 1998

From: 1998 New Zealand citizenship oral history project

By: Green, Tamara, 1924-; Green, Arnold, 1922-2000

Reference: OHInt-0421/05

Description: Arnold and Tamara Green give details of family in Czestochowa, Poland where they were born. Arnold mentions his father's involvement with German company, Farben Gesellschaft. Recalls: outbreak of war September 1939, walking to Warsaw, bombardment by German planes and sleeping arrangements during bombardment. Briefly mentions effects of German invasion on Jews in Czestochowa. Tamara recalls how schooling continued after German invasion. Gives reasons for establishment of partisan groups after 1942. Briefly describes `selection process' and reason why some were not sent to their death. Describes night in January 1945 when Russians liberated camp. Arnold describes his escape from Hasag Pelzery labour camp. Recalls leaving Poland for Czechoslovakia, then on to Hungary and arrival in Bari, Italy where they lived at camp in Santa Maria del Bagno before going to Rome. Recalls job with United Nations Relief Organization in Rome (UNRO) who paid fare to New Zealand on the `Napoli', arriving November 1948. Both describes experiences in New Zealand: first earthquake in Wellington; social contacts with New Zealanders; involvement in organisations; membership of Wellington synagogue; feelings about New Zealand; setting up Green's Precision Engineering, with reference to [Len] Southward and reason for moving factory to Marion Street, eventually selling factory to firm in Blenheim and becoming co-owner of Ariki Industries, Blenheim. Gives reasons for taking out New Zealand citizenship in 1954 and mentions swearing allegiance to the Queen. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007652-OHC-007655 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (plus one copy). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1987.

Date: 2005

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0000218

Description: Caricature of Simon Wiesenthal, the man who spent his life hunting down Nazi war criminals, who died today, 21 September 2005, aged 96. In a campaign aimed at ensuring the world did not forget the terrors of the Third Reich, Wiesenthal brought 1100 Nazi fugitives to trial. Among them was Adolf Eichmann, the man entrusted by Adolf Hitler with carrying out the Nazi genocide programme against the Jews. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 27 January 1995

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP-Religion-Jewish Faith-01

Description: Original Evening Post caption reads: "Greta Lewis and Gerry Gotlieb at yesterday's service to mark the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz". Photograph taken on 27 January 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid, and published 28 January 1995. Arrangement: Negative at EP/1995/0273-F Auschwitz was liberated by Russian troops on 27th January 1945. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print 23.3 x 20.1 cm