The Jewish Holocaust Centre, one of the earliest permanent memorial museums established in the Jewish diaspora (in Elsternwick, Victoria) and away from the sites of atrocity, has, since 1984, played an important role as a space for commemoration and education about the Holocaust.
The book describes the development of the JHC within Holocaust memorial activity both during the Holocaust and in the decades after many survivors made new lives for themselves in Melbourne. It begins, not in March 1984 when it first opened its doors, but during the Holocaust, when survivors began gathering documents. The book provides a history of the Centre’s early days and examines its transformation into the organisation it is today, with departments and groups attached to the JHC, such as archives, testimonies, curatorial department, library, exhibitions and intergenerational groups.
