The Fight To Save The Former Air New Zealand Boeing 747s
A group of aviation fans in New Zealand called
“Bring Our Birds Home” is battling to save a former Air New Zealand 747 from the scrapyard and use it as a hotel at the National Transport and Toy Museum in Wanaka, South Island. The group had its sights firmly fixed on a Wamos Air 747 that had been sent to storage at Aeropuerto Central Ciudad Real (CQM) during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadly the group was not able to rescue the plane as its Spanish owners decided to scrap it.
Lotte was one of the first Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz.
At the age of 18, she was forcibly transported by cattle car to Auschwitz in March 1942, along with her two older sisters.
Her number, 2065 – indelibly embedded on her left arm by the tattooist of Auschwitz, Lale Sokolov – bore a lasting testament to her early internment at the death camp.
Miraculously, through a mix of luck and her sheer determination to survive, Lotte emerged from Auschwitz to find herself all alone in the world, a previously close and happy family life destroyed, her hopes and dreams shattered.
It is truly an amazing feature of Lotte Weiss that she was able to discuss a subject as painful as the Holocaust and her personal family tragedy, and leave everyone coming away feeling full of hope, purpose and believing in the goodness of life and people.