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Mar 2, 2022, 7:48 PM

Vaccines, Mandates, and the Holocaust

Auschwitz-Birkenau. Image © 2019 Copyright Perry Trotter

The systematic murder of six million Jews is an event of such monstrous proportions that it has entered popular culture as a kind of archetypal symbol. For many it functions as shorthand for ultimate evil. When passions are aroused and...

Jan 17, 2020, 11:42 AM

Bethlehem Remembers Auschwitz

Auschwitz II-Birkenau: wagon used to transport Hungarian Jews, donated by Frank Lowy. From the exhibition "Auschwitz. Now." © Perry Trotter 2019

At least twenty-eight locations around the world carry the name Bethlehem. Best known of these is, of course, the birthplace of Jesus, twenty minutes drive from Jerusalem. The Bethlehem most distant from Jerusalem can be found in Tauranga, New Zealand...

Dec 14, 2017, 9:13 AM

Google: Holocaust work “dangerous, derogatory”

If you are concerned about antisemitism and Holocaust distortion you may be shocked to learn that Google apparently now considers our Holocaust work dangerous or derogatory. Let me explain. I am the creator of Shadows of Shoah. Over the last nine...

Jan 25, 2017, 1:23 PM

We Should Be Destroyed? Why?

Moshe Fiszman was born in Poland in 1921. He survived the death camps of Birkenau and Dachau and eventually immigrated to Australia. Moshe faced separation from his family without the opportunity to say goodbye - he was never to...

Jan 22, 2017, 12:05 AM

Shoah Survivor and Nobel Laureate

Roald Hoffmann was born in Poland in 1937. During the war he was hidden in a local schoolhouse, along with his mother, two uncles and an aunt, from age five to seven. Hoffmann's mother kept him entertained by teaching him...

Jan 20, 2017, 10:48 AM

Raising Awareness of UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day

This is the second in our series, raising awareness of United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January. Inge Woolf was born in Vienna in 1934 to a warm and loving Jewish family. She was only three years old when the Nazis...

Jan 19, 2017, 12:30 PM

Remembering What the World Would Prefer to Forget

Since 2008 Shadows of Shoah has been photographing and interviewing Holocaust survivors. From interviews typically 90 minutes duration, a mere 15-20 lines of text are distilled. These are combined with black and white portraits and original music to create...

Jan 3, 2017, 12:23 AM

A “Judenrein” Jerusalem? New Zealand’s Shame

A respected British commentator recently described New Zealand as "a stupid country of no other significance". She was referencing NZ co-sponsoring UN resolution 2334, which effectively bans Jews from living in certain areas. I am not convinced that New Zealand...

Mar 7, 2016, 8:50 AM

Israel’s evangelical enemies gather

Christian anti-Israel activism is profoundly unbiblical: Scripture establishes the Jews' link to Zion

Jul 23, 2015, 9:54 AM

Facebook, a safe place for Jew hatred

Belgian police officer Mohamed N.'s anti-Semitic threats on Facebook, under pseudonym Bebeto Gladiateur (screenshot, Facebook)

The world's biggest social platform has stringent rules for what may be posted, but execution is something else.

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About Me

A New Zealand photographer and media producer. Perry is the founder of Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation, Aotearoa New Zealand and creator of Shadows of Shoah. He is also co-founder of The Israel Institute of NZ.

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