Remembering six million
COMMEMORATIONS for Yom Hashoah, Holocaust remembrance day, were held around Australia on Sunday, April 11 and Monday, April 12.
AJN STAFF
COMMEMORATIONS for Yom Hashoah, Holocaust remembrance day, were held around Australia on Sunday, April 11 and Monday, April 12.
In Melbourne, survivors from the “Buchenwald boys” lit memorial candles at a memorial at Monash University’s Robert Blackwood Hall.
Sydney’s Jewish community hosted a number of functions, including a name reading ceremony at the Sydney Jewish Museum in Darlinghurst. More than 300 people, including consul generals from Germany, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Britain, Croatia and Romania, joined school children, many of them from non-Jewish schools, at Sunday’s moving commemoration.
Moriah College hosted a Yom Hashoah event, with a keynote speech from Israel Embassy deputy Eli Yerushalmi, while Masada College had scheduled its own commemoration for Monday night.
Yom Hashoah memorials were also held in Perth, where Associate Professor Mark Baker was keynote speaker, and in Canberra, where diplomats, politicians and representatives of various faiths came together to remember the Holocaust.
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