Marlene Levine joined the Board of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand in August 2015. She has been a volunteer at the Holocaust Centre since 2008, and is researching the experiences of her father, who survived the Holocaust in a Nazi forced labour camp in Algeria. Marlene became an Educator at the Holocaust Centre in 2013 and finds it deeply rewarding. Marlene was born in Casablanca and grew up in New York City. She did research in Papua New Guinea for three years before moving to New Zealand in 1975, where she taught Anthropology and Sociology at Victoria University, and spent a year studying fishing communities. She was a Senior Analyst with the Ministry of Social Development in the Research and Evaluation Unit for 26 years, and is now a researcher with Massey University. Marlene is on the Board of Directors of the Wellington Jewish Community Centre, as Deputy Chair and Director of Education and Youth. She is on the Committees of the Chevra Kadisha, the Council of Jewish Women and Kia Ora Torah. Marlene and her husband Hal have three grown children and three grandsons.

Wellington Harbour through our (not very clean) living room window.
Come and visit. New Zealand is very pretty.