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Nina Bassat AM, President JCCV; Anton Babic, Croation Consul General; David Southwick MP, Member for Caulfield; John Searle, Past-President JCCV; Janja Ninic Babic, wife of the Consul General; Pauline Rockman OAM, President Jewish Holocaust Centre; Warren Fineberg, Executive Director Jewish Holocaust Centre.

Melbourne Jewish community farewells Croatian Consul

Published on: Friday, 17 May 2013 08:50

Published in: News from the JHC

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) has held a farewell reception for Antun Babic, Consul General for Croatia at the Jewish Holocaust Centre.

Thirty leaders from the Croatian community toured the Jewish Holocaust Centre then attended a farewell reception for the Consul General.

Governor-General Quentin Bryce, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, ECAJ Executive Director Peter Wertheim and Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott.

Wallenberg citizenship on display

Published on: Friday, 17 May 2013 08:39

Published in: News from the JHC

The certificate conferring Australian citizenship on Raoul Wallenberg by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at a recent ceremony held at Government House in Canberra is on currently on public display in Melbourne at the Jewish Holocaust Centre till 31 May.

Holocaust Education at the JHC

Event Date: Monday 22 April | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre

Published on: Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:25

Published in: Calendar of Events for 2013

The Jewish Holocaust Centre is offering a comprehensive 20-week course on the Holocaust.

JHC Social Club - Yvette Crafti

Event Date: Thursday 30 May | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre

Published on: Friday, 12 April 2013 16:10

Published in: Calendar of Events for 2013

Guest Speaker: Yvette Crafti, Humanitarian Aid Trainer, RedR Australia

“Food Security and Famine in the 21st Century”

Yvette works in the international humanitarian arena, formerly as an aid worker and currently as a trainer of aid workers. Previously, she has worked in Tanzania for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

JHC Film Club: "Blinky & Me" (2011)

Event Date: Thursday 20 June | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre

Published on: Friday, 12 April 2013 15:51

Published in: Calendar of Events for 2013

Blinky & Me (2011) 75 mins

Directed by Tomasz Magierski.

Yoram Gross’ powerful animated stories shaped the identities of countless Australian children who grew up watching them on film and television. Yet it is a little known fact that the many adventures of Blinky Bill, Gross’ depiction of Australian history in The Little Convict (1979), and many other influential narratives, were heavily influenced by the events of the Holocaust in Europe.

JHC Film Club: "Misa's Fugue" (2012)

Event Date: Thursday 30 May | Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre

Published on: Friday, 12 April 2013 15:16

Published in: Calendar of Events for 2013

Misa’s Fugue (2012) 97 mins

Directed by Sean Gaston.

The screening will be accompanied by an online Q&A with the film’s director Sean Gaston and producer Jennifer Goss.

Misa's Fugue is the true story of one boy’s journey through Prague, Terezin, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, and Gunskirchen as a victim of Nazi oppression. While exposed to some of the most horrific people, places, and events of the Holocaust, Frank (Misa) Grunwald endured the atrocities of genocide through a love for art and music that his childhood in Prague had instilled in him.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard lighting a memoral candle with Surivivor Guide, Kitia Altman.

Australia to Contribute to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation

Published on: Saturday, 04 August 2012 16:04

Published in: News from the JHC

Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne last week at which she announced that Australia is donating half a million to a fund established to preserve the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.