Claire Bruell
CLAIRE BRUELL speaks about her experience as a child of Holocaust survivors who found refuge in New Zealand. Her parents fled Czechoslovakia and arrived in Auckland on 9th October 1939. They went farming in what is now suburban West Auckland.
As well as telling her family’s story, Claire speaks about the Mixed Blessings project and her involvement in the Oral History group. ‘Mixed Blessings: New Zealand children of Holocaust survivors remember’, is a compilation of stories written by the children brought up in families where one or both parents had settled in New Zealand after escaping Hitler’s Europe. These stories about survival, love, loss, family revolve around memories of family food, cooking and recipes.
Claire was involved in the setting up of the Holocaust Oral History Project and in interviewing Holocaust survivors in Auckland and has built up an archive of interviews with members of the Jewish community in Auckland.
