Jewish Holocaust Centre
Henri Korn, Holocaust survivor and guide at the Jewish Holocaust Centre, speaks with visitors. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 25, 2019, 12:00 am
From solemnity to celebration
WITH Pesach almost over, the community now turns to preparing for the highs and lows of the three "Yoms".
By Peter Kohn
An emotional Josh Frydenberg at the Jewish Holocaust Centre on Thursday morning. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 11, 2019, 9:44 am
$10 million for the JHC
MELBOURNE'S Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) has received a huge funding boost from the federal government.
By Rebecca Davis
Premier Daniel Andrews (left) speaks with Holocaust survivor Szaja Chaskiel about the virtual reality project the Shoah survivor narrated. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 6, 2019, 2:56 pm
VIC premier samples new VR tour of Auschwitz
"A profoundly moving experience" is how Premier Daniel Andrews described to The AJN his sampling of a new virtual reality (VR) tour of Auschwitz that will help future generations understand the horror of the Holocaust.
By Peter Kohn
The Shoes on the Danube memorial. Photo: Julie Szego/AJN file
January 17, 2019, 12:01 am
Divers search Danube for holocaust victims
NEWS that divers from Israeli search-and-rescue organisation ZAKA are this week searching the River Danube in Hungary for the remains of Holocaust victims shot nearly 75 years ago has been welcomed by survivors in Australia.
People at the rally performed Nazi salutes. Photo: Screengrab, ABC News
January 10, 2019, 12:01 am
‘Confine these views to the dustbin of history’
JEWISH leaders have joined a legion of Australians condemning an anti-immigration rally in Melbourne on Saturday attended by Queensland senator Fraser Anning, at which neo-Nazi salutes were made and Nazi paraphernalia was displayed.
By Peter Kohn
Professor Michael Berenbaum.
November 9, 2018, 12:01 am
Orator to look back 80 years
VISITING US scholar Professor Michael Berenbaum will discuss how the Holocaust is viewed in today's world when he delivers this year's Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration to commemorate Kristallnacht. Marking the 80th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom that shook German and Austrian Jewry to its foundations, Berenbaum will speak from his perspective as a Holocaust scholar, rabbi, writer and filmmaker.
By Peter Kohn
Szaja Chaskiel with Linda Dessau. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 9, 2018, 12:01 am
Survivors, Jewish Holocaust Centre honoured at Government House
Victorian Governor Linda Dessau and her husband Anthony Howard extended the hospitality of Government House to Melbourne's Shoah survivors last Thursday, with guides and staff from the Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) invited to a morning tea.
Julian Burnside.
April 5, 2018, 12:01 am
Burnside to meet survivor
PROMINENT human rights barrister Julian Burnside (pictured) has accepted an invitation from the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) to speak with Holocaust survivor Moshe Fiszman and attend the Jewish Holocaust Centre following a controversial tweet he shared late last month. 
From left: Sue Hampel, JHC co-president; Shota Tohara, Japanese cultural vice-consul; Hannelore Hauser; Yoshimitsu Kawata; Elly Brooks, JHC board member; and Jayne Josem. Photo: Julius Sevcik.
December 18, 2017, 11:45 am
Survivor’s tribute to Japanese diplomats
A Jewish woman sheltered by two senior Japanese consular officials in Berlin during World War II has recounted their bravery at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne.
By Peter Kohn
The late Kitia Altman.
November 20, 2017, 12:00 am
Kitia Altman mourned
ONE of Australia's most compelling voices of Holocaust survival was stilled this week, with the death of Kitia Altman, at 95.
By Peter Kohn
From left: Elly Brooks (JHC executive member), Warren Fineberg (JHC executive director), Sue Hampel (JHC co-president), Lisa Phillips (JHC director of education), JHC director of education, Jayne Josem (JHC curator & head of collections) and Norman Seligman (Sydney Jewish Museum CEO).
November 20, 2017, 12:00 am
Holocaust organisations unite
A REGIONAL body to coordinate Holocaust commemorative and educational organisations in Australia, New Zealand and south east Asia, has been launched at a landmark conference.
By Peter Kohn
US Holocaust scholar Mark Weitzman delivers the Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz Oration at a Kristallnacht commemoration in Melbourne.
November 17, 2017, 12:00 am
Melbourne reflects on Night of Broken Glass
On November 9, Melbourne's Jewish community commemorated the 79th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, when a Nazi pogrom against Jews swept through Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
By Peter Kohn
Sue Hampel (left) and Frances Prince with their awards.
August 29, 2017, 12:01 am
MOTL founders honoured
HOLOCAUST educators Sue Hampel and Frances Prince have each been honoured with a Henryk Slawik Award from the Australian Society of Polish Jews and their Descendants.
By Peter Kohn
Maccabi Victoria young athletes will pause to commemorate Yom Hashoah. Photo: Peter Haskin
April 21, 2017, 12:00 am
Young athletes to remember Shoah victims
To commemorate Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Holocaust Centre is partnering with Maccabi Victoria to honour those who lost their lives to the Nazi genocide.
Willy Lermer.
March 10, 2017, 12:01 am
Lermer mourned
TOUGHENED by his devastating journey through the Shoah, but summoning a spirit of optimism and reconciliation – that is how family, friends and colleagues at the Jewish Holocaust Centre remember Willy Lermer.
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