The Board of the
Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation

Robert was born in Germany and is a survivor of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. He is an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and serves on a number of charitable trusts. Robert is past president of the Auckland District Society of Notaries.

Robert has served as President of Auckland Hebrew Congregation and Chairman of United Synagogues of NZ. He and his wife Freda, also a Holocaust survivor, are actively involved in Holocaust education. They live in Auckland, New Zealand.

Dov recently retired as a Professor at Waikato University, NZ. His areas of expertise include European integration and Middle Eastern politics (Al Qaeda, Islamic fundamentalism, and the Arab/Israeli conflict). He has lectured on Holocaust denial at Yad VaShem and Bar Ilan Universities.

Dov was born in the Netherlands in 1939. He lost extended family at Sobibor and Auschwitz and his father, betrayed by Nazi collaborators, was murdered whilst attempting to escape.

Paul is a New Zealand historian and a professor at the Auckland University of Technology. He is a prolific writer of New Zealand history and biography, specialising in Māori history, the Treaty of Waitangi and the early period of Crown rule. He authored an online course for AUT, focusing on the Holocaust.

In 2003, Paul was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College London, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Dr Sheree Trotter

Sheree is a Māori New Zealander (Te Arawa) and has a PhD in History from the University of Auckland, where she was formerly a Professional Teaching Fellow. In 2023 she completed the scholars-in-residence ISGAP course on curriculum development for Critical Antisemitism Studies, at University of Oxford. Sheree is HAFANZ co-founder and is responsible for interviews, research and writing.

Ashley is a business leader and regular media commentator on property, energy, business matters and social issues. He was formerly CEO of the Property Institute of New Zealand and Chairman of Taxpayers Union.