An Introduction to the Centre

An Introduction to the Centre

A video introduction to the Centre

A video introduction to the Jewish Holocaust Centre, our Museum and the survivor-guides and volunteers who work at the Centre.

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Preserving the Memory

Preserving the Memory

Learn how we work to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.

The Jewish Holocaust Centre has been entrusted with over 10,000 unique artefacts from the Holocaust era, and has recorded more than 1,300 testimonies of Holocaust survivors.

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Marked

Marked

Holocaust survivors and their tattoos

Holocaust survivors and their tattoos: An online photographic exhibition by Andrew Harris.

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StoryPods

StoryPods

Touching the past, shaping the future

Find out more about the latest interactive technology used throughout the Jewish Holocaust Centre's new Museum and how it is helping to bring the past to life for generations to come.

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Education Program

Education Program

Find out more about how the Centre works with schools.

The Jewish Holocaust Centre's education department works with students from a large cross section of primary schools, secondary schools and universities.  In 2010 over some 18,000 students attended education programs at the Centre.

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Our Museum

Our Museum

Find out more, or book a visit to the Centre's interactive Museum

The Jewish Holocaust Centre's museum includes photos and text displays, and state of the art interactive technology, including many recorded testimonies of our survivors.

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Latest from the JHC

Life Certificates for German Compensation Payments

Event Date: Thursday 5 July | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre
Published on: Thursday, 17 May 2012 05:01

Registered recipients of German compensation can have their ‘Life Certificates’ endorsed officially at the Jewish Holocaust Centre on Thursday 5 July 2010, between 2:00pm and 4:00pm.

Information Night: Holocaust Education at the JHC

Event Date: Monday 21 May | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre
Published on: Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:22
The Jewish Holocaust Centre is offering a comprehensive 20-week course on the Holocaust.

JHC Social Club: Rabbi Ronnie Figdor on "Evolution vs Creation"

Event Date: Thursday 24 May | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre
Published on: Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:47

Rabbi Ronnie Figdor
CEO, St Kilda Hebrew Congregation & Ethics Teacher
on "Evolution vs Creation".

JHC Film Club: Melbourne Premiere of "Rewriting History" (2012)

Event Date: Thursday 28 June | Venue: Classic Cinema
Published on: Wednesday, 25 April 2012 13:11

The false manipulation of the past in Lithuania is exposed in this new Holocaust documentary.

Q&A with the film’s co-director and co-producer, Associate Professor Danny Ben-Moshe, Deakin University.

JHC Film Club: "Sister Rose's Passion" (2004)

Event Date: Thursday 24 May | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre
Published on: Wednesday, 25 April 2012 06:11

The courageous resistance of a Dominican nun against anti-Semitic attitudes within the Catholic Church.

Directed by Oran Jacoby.

Presented by Mr Henri Korn, Jewish Holocaust Centre.

Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) Executive Director Varant Meguerditchian and ANC Australia Melbourne Representative Hovig Melkonian have met with Warren Fineberg, Executive Director of the Jewish Holocaust Centre, to discuss cooperation and joint projects that would build greater awareness of the Armenian Genocide in Melbourne.

National Museum Award to Jewish Holocaust Centre

Published on: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 10:10
Published in: News from the JHC

The Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) was the winner of the prestigious Small Museum, Permanent Development Award presented in Perth last week.

Museum Australia’s inaugural Museum and Gallery National Awards (MAGNA) were presented at the conclusion of the three-day Museums Australia National Conference held in Perth and attended by representatives of museums nation-wide.

State Honour

Published on: Monday, 24 October 2011 12:47
Published in: News from the JHC

Phillip Maisel OAM, 88, of Caulfield North was recently recognised with a 2011 Victoria Senior Achiever Award at Government House. The award was in honour of his work collecting testimonials from Holocaust survivors. Minister for Health and Ageing David Davis said Mr Maisel diligently worked to create a legacy through the Oral Testimonies Project for the Jewish Holocaust Centre.

Saving a museum's Holocaust artefacts

Published on: Friday, 04 March 2011 15:23
Published in: News from the JHC

The Jewish Holocaust Centre is concerned the ravages of time are taking a toll on irreplaceable historical documents.

The Elsternwick centre needs “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve some of the deteriorating artefacts, mainly paperwork but also some textiles, art and photographs donated by Holocaust survivors.