Vale Francine Lazarus
Holocaust Survivor who never lost hope
Holocaust survivor and longtime Sydney Jewish Museum volunteer remembered for quiet strength and service.
Francine Lazarus.
Longtime Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) volunteer Francine Lazarus – who received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in January 2025 for service to the Jewish community – died last week, aged 88.
Lazarus was born in 1938 in Brussels, and was just two when the Nazis invaded, and only four when her father left her with strangers on a farm, and disappeared.
She was then moved from safe house to safe house in and around Brussels.
After her father was caught, he was sent on the last convoy from Belgium to Auschwitz in July 1944, and murdered.
A ring that Lazarus kept was the only remaining tangible memory she had of him.
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