Between memory and mission
Dr Breann Fallon's appointment comes at a critical juncture, with the role of Holocaust education in combating contemporary hatred more urgent than ever.
In a border town called Choszczno in Poland, a young woman was taken for forced labour in 1942.
In the Austrian camp of Mauthausen, a Polish political prisoner endured three years of Nazi persecution.
Neither was Jewish. Both survived.
And decades later, their granddaughter would discover their stories only after dedicating her professional life to Holocaust education—a revelation that speaks to the complex layers of memory, identity, and purpose that Dr Breann Fallon brings to her new role as CEO of the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.
“I always knew that my paternal grandparents had gone through something in the Holocaust, but I didn’t actually know what that was,” Dr Fallon reflects, describing a journey that began not with family history but with academic conviction.
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