Neighbourhood - Karori (with Chris Chang)

I knew my mother was a Holocaust survivor of course, because she had her number tattooed on her arm. But we never asked any questions. And she never talked about it.

– Jewish New Zealander Carol Calkoen on her late mother Hanka Pressburg

We were not allowed to write to our children. But as the time was passing, the revolutionary guards that, at the beginning, were quite hostile towards us, they turned around over the years and they got to know us better. And they were quite upset about us being put in prison for our religious beliefs.

– Iranian Ziaiyyeh Imani on being imprisoned for her Bahá'í faith during the Iranian revolution

The NZSO is a world-class orchestra. I've never played in an orchestra with this level...

– Dutch Peter Van Drimmelen on playing viola with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

My mother was arrested and her sentence was execution, like other colleagues of her, but it was reduced to life imprisonment because of her [having] small children.  

– Ramez Rowhani on his mother's sentencing in Iran because of her Bahá'í faith

...both my parents lost all their family but at the end of their lives they were proud great-grandparents. So I think that's beautiful.

– Jewish New Zealander Carol Calkoen on her parents' experience of the Holocaust