Jewish Holocaust Centre

The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre is an institution dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.

We consider the finest memorial to all victims of racist policies to be an educational program which aims to combat anti-Semitism, racism and prejudice in the community and foster understanding between people.

The permanent museum features state-of-the-art technology alongside traditional museum displays of original material from the Holocaust period, documents, photographs and artworks. Highlights include a large model of Treblinka, created by one of the few Jewish survivors of that camp, the late Chaim Sztajer, who settled in Melbourne after the Second World War, as well as powerful artworks by survivors and other Australian artists.

There are 18 sections which explore the rise of Nazism and the horrors of life and death in the ghettos and camps across Nazi-occupied Europe. The exhibition commences with the ‘Vanished World’, focussing on pre-war European Jewry, and ends with ‘To Life, to life, l’chaim’ where we look at the survivors who came to Australia and made it their home.