Sydney Jewish Museum launches digital archive
The museum is also separately recording first-hand testimonies from survivors, victims' families, first responders and members of the local community
The Sydney Jewish Museum has launched an interactive website to preserve memories, tributes and testimonies from the December 14 Bondi Beach terror attack for the historical record.
The platform, called “Remembering Bondi,” allows community members, local residents, witnesses, victims’ families and anyone affected by the attack to contribute photos, videos, thoughts and recollections to a growing digital archive.
The museum is also separately recording first-hand testimonies from survivors, victims’ families, first responders and members of the local community.
The museum has already been involved in preserving physical tributes from the Bondi memorial site, including the thousands of flowers left there in the weeks following the attack.
Sydney Jewish Museum head curator Roslyn Sugarman said capturing testimony soon after the event was important.
“Witness testimony is a powerful historical resource. It’s soon after the event so it may be raw and poignant, but while fresh in the mind, we have the opportunity to capture and document the intense emotional responses of people who were there,” Sugarman said.
“With Remembering Bondi, we hope to also amplify the healing that has already begun through wide community support.”
The site already contains tributes including words and images from the artist who painted the iconic menorah, flag and bee image on a bridge near the attack site, as well as images of candles on windowsills, flowers and other tributes, and footage of a First Nations smoking ceremony.
View the archive at remembering-bondi.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au.
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