First Anniversary
The Durban Holocaust Centre commemorated their first anniversary in March 2009 with an elegant luncheon for the Consular Corps. The guest of honour was the Premier of Kwazulu Natal, Dr Zweli Mkhize who is seen in the photograph with Mary Kluk Director of the Durban Holocaust Centre as well as Richard Freedman (Director of South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation) and Tali Nates (Director Jhb Holocaust Centre) |
The Durban Holocaust Centre was privileged to have a visit from Chief Rabbi Lau (Holocaust Survivor, Chairman of Yad Vashem). In the photo: Rabbi Lau (center) with Mary Kluk and Mr Alex Zingol.
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Members of the Durban community who's lives were drastically affected by the Holocaust were invited to collectively "cut the ribbon'. |
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Mr Jaap van Prosdij who has been awarded a Righteous Among the Nations Medal from Yad Vashem and Mr Jack Puterman(right) a Holocaust survivor. Both these gentlemen addressed the emotional audience at the opening. |
In April Hannah Pick-Goslar visited the Durban Holocaust Centre. She is the childhood friend of Anne Frank and she spent an emotional morning sharing her story with us. In this photograph Hannah Pick-Goslar is pointing to a photograph of herself with Anne Frank and other friends in the Anne Frank section of the DHC. Hannah was visibly moved as she explained who each girl was in the photograph and what had become of them.
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Cardinal Wilfrid Napier OFM , who visited our Centre in August, was accompanied by John Moshal and Paddy Meskin and was escorted through the Centre by Mary Kluk. He said of his visit “ A quick look into the past which gives meaning to much of the present, shedding light on why people continue to show such inhumanity. Please G-d, the lessons learned will begin to make a difference today and in the future.” |
We hosted three functions directly connected to the Holocaust Centre:
- In May 2008 Marta Wise, a survivor of Mengele’s block at Auschwitz told a packed audience of her life through the Holocaust.
- Fumiko Ishioka and Lara Brady visitors from Japan and Canada respectively gave the Durban community an erudite and moving account of Lara’s fathers survival and the sad story of her aunt Hana’s death in Auschwitz.
- On 9 November 2008 coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Jan-Erik Dubbelman, Director of Anne Frank International opened the Anne Frank Room which forms part of the exhibition. The room bears an uncanny resemblance to the original room in Amsterdam where Anne and her family hid for 2 years during the war.
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