Susanne Ludanff, sits in front of an Anne Frank billboard
at the Lakes District Museum on Sunday. Photo by Olivia
Caldwell.
A group of 40 sat down at the Lakes District museum in
Arrowtown yesterday to hear a thought-provoking lesson on the
background to the Holocaust.
University of Canterbury associate professor Susanne Ledanff
delivered the 90-minute public lecture as part of her
travelling exhibition "Anne Frank: A History for Today" which
runs until September 14.
Dr Ledanff said she had always had an interest in the impact
associated with the Holocaust and wanted people to be
educated on the historical event.
"I am German myself and it is very much part of my history."
"Students should have the possibility to explore the
Holocaust."
The lectures take listeners through the rise of
anti-Semitism, and why and how to remember the Holocaust, she
said.
"It is to deliver more background on how we came to the
Holocaust. It also delivers context to how we came to be
anti-Semitic."
Dr Ledanff has lived in New Zealand since 1995 and said the
thing she found most moving in dealing with the Holocaust was
seeing the monuments placed all around the world in memory of
the event.
She will hold one more lecture at the museum starting at 10am
today. Admission is $5.
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