Melbourne Holocaust Museum
The new Hidden: Seven Children Saved exhibition at MHM.
November 28, 2023, 7:13 am
Engaging immersive experiences
Visitors will be moved by the history, provoked by its messages and yet inspired to do better in the world today.
By Carol Saffer
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (right) and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at the opening of MHM. Photo: Peter Haskin
November 23, 2023, 10:30 am
Melbourne Holocaust Museum reopens
“Jewish Australians have been bearing a pain you should never have had to bear again," said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
By Bruce Hill
Karel Fracapane delivers the Betty & Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration commemorating Kristallnacht. Photo: John Moss Photography
November 22, 2023, 6:35 am
Antisemitism ‘adopts new masks’
"[Antisemitism] evolves with time and context ... adopts new masks, learning how to hide and the different forms sometimes finding shelter behind freedom of expression".
By Peter Kohn
Freda Hodge.
October 6, 2023, 5:41 am
Author learned Yiddish to present stories
When asked how prevalent Yiddish is within the community at the moment, Hodge told The AJN, “At one time people knew this language was dying out, but this is not true anymore..."
By Carol Saffer
Helen Granek (middle front) the last Bialystoker survivor with her family.
September 15, 2023, 12:18 pm
‘The jewel in the Jewish cultural world’
“When the Germans stormed the ghetto and ordered everyone to leave that was the end of Jewish life in Bialystok.”
By Carol Saffer
Recording the stories of Holocaust survivors was empowering.
September 7, 2023, 1:29 pm
Rockman’s life governorship at MHM
In 1999 she was the first woman to join the museum's board.
By Carol Saffer
From left: Josh Burns, Mark Dreyfus, Justin Kagan and Clare O'Neil at CSG.
July 13, 2023, 6:20 am
CSG, MHM host visiting politicians
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil, joined by Macnamara MP Josh Burns, paid visits to two key Jewish community organisations in Melbourne last week.
By Peter Kohn
Holocaust survivors gathered at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum opening with former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Photo: Peter Haskin.
June 29, 2023, 11:07 am
Morning tea at the MHM
Volunteer Welfare Officer Rae Silverstein believes "this new program is a fantastic opportunity for volunteers to connect with our amazing survivors, hear their stories, and build ongoing friendships".
By Mia Gardiner
Macnamara MP Josh Burns (left) and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.
June 7, 2023, 9:00 pm
Attorney-General launches Federal Bill
'There is no place in Australia for symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust, and there is no place for those who seek to profit from the trade in these evil symbols or use them to promote their hatred'
By Peter Kohn
Riga, 1943
May 25, 2023, 12:07 pm
MHM explores Nazi readings of the Talmud
...Holloway will explore how the Nazis misinterpreted Jewish texts, deliberately altered them and fabricated their own narratives, drawing examples from German propaganda.
By Mia Gardiner
Adolf Eichmann listens to the proceedings during his trial through a glass booth. Photo: USHMM.
May 18, 2023, 10:29 am
Hannah Arendt’s political and cultural legacy
"From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together."
By Mia Gardiner
Bernard Ekert's false identity papers.
May 9, 2023, 9:12 am
Preserving stories for the next generation
Imagine what might have been lost had Henry not survived? Imagine what has been lost because more than six million others did not?
Elie Wiesel said: "Without memory there can be no culture, no civilisation, no society, no future." Photo: AP/Bebeto Matthews/File via Times of Israel
April 14, 2023, 7:00 am
‘Memory is essential to identity’
However, our childhood memories are not just made up of our own – they are inseparable from what we heard our family recount, over and over through the years, embellished...
By Peter Gaspar
The lawyer's letter to Karl Huppert telling him "As you are Jewish, you should be treated as if you died." Photo: Melbourne Holocaust Museum Collection
April 13, 2023, 6:50 pm
Let the artefacts speak
'It grounds them in a particular moment at a particular time'
By Jayne Josem
Holocaust survivor Phillip Maisel OAM recording survivor testimony at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. Photo: MHM.
March 30, 2023, 11:36 am
Museum calls for more survivor stories
"...there was a mindset that if you were not in a camp, you were not a survivor; many people who fled Nazi rule from 1933 onwards did not consider themselves a survivor,"
By Mia Gardiner
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