Melbourne Holocaust Museum

Name: Melbourne Holocaust Museum
Address: Elsternwick, VIC, 3185, AU
Telephone: +61395281985
Price range: Not applicable
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Founded by Holocaust survivors in 1984, we are Australia’s largest institution dedicated to Holocacaust.
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28/05/2026

When students visit the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, they learn what hatred can do to real people, and why prejudice must always be challenged before it turns into violence.

Holocaust Survivor Guta Goldstein shares her story with thousands of students and visitors each year. She tells them about the girls she was friends with in the orphanage inside the Łódź Ghetto, young girls with personalities, hopes and dreams, who were taken away one night and murdered.

Guta remembers their names. Their laughter. Their friendships.

Through her testimony, students come to understand that these were not just numbers in history, but children just like themselves.

These stories shape the way young people see the world and the choices they will make within it. They encourage compassion, understanding, and the courage to stand up against hatred in all its forms.

By supporting the Melbourne Holocaust Museum annual appeal, you help ensure these stories continue to inspire a future free from hate.

Donate today to the MHM annual appeal. https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0WKy_0

Photo Credit: Image | Sept 1942 – Children of the Marysin Orphanage lining up to be transported to Chelmno. © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

27/05/2026

Experience Marking Memory, a landmark exhibition by Kathy Temin, now at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.

Using faux fur to create monumental sculptural works, Temin challenges traditional ideas of memorialisation: exploring memory, loss, inheritance, and the ways remembrance is carried across generations.

Spanning more than two decades of artistic inquiry, the exhibition also features sound installations and survivor testimonies, inviting reflection on both private and collective acts of remembrance.

Marking Memory is now at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum until July 12. Plan your visit via the link in bio.

26/05/2026

Earlier this month, in collaboration with Ajax Football club and Maccabi Australia we gathered for the Yom HaShoah Commemoration. A rare and powerful opportunity for our children to stand alongside Holocaust survivors, arm in arm with football clubs, united in remembrance and in confronting antisemitism.

Together, we remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, including 1.5 million children.

25/05/2026

Among the objects in our collection is this document: an original N**i-era naming certificate, issued for the daughter of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust and the man behind the Wannsee Conference, where the systematic murder of Europe's Jews was formalised.

The certificate is a striking example of how ordinary bureaucratic ritual was woven into the fabric of the N**i regime, a record of new life, stamped with its ideology.

Our Head of Exhibitions and Storytelling, Dr Dan Haumschild, walks us through what the document reveals - not just about Heydrich, but about the world that he inhabited and helped to create. He also points to the importance of objects like this in telling the full history of the Holocaust for pulling back the curtain on the culture of those who perpetrated it.

24/05/2026

Holocaust Survivor Guta Goldstein still remembers her friends - the orphaned Jewish girls who lived with her in the Marysin Orphanage inside the Łódź Ghetto.

One night her friends were taken away and murdered. But Guta remembers far more than how they died. She remembers who they were.

Sala had red hair and freckles. She tap danced and made up funny songs that made us laugh, even when we were hungry.

Franka loved books and whistled tunes I still remember today.

Myszka, whose real name was Roska, was small and quick, but she had the biggest heart.

Frajdale was only seven years old, wise beyond her years.

Frania and Rachela were sisters. One day, Rachela simply stopped speaking.

Because Guta’s Aunt Golda risked her own life to save her, Guta survived to carry their names and stories forward.

Now, it is up to all of us to ensure these children are never forgotten.

DONATE TODAY and help ensure there will always be someone left to remember children like Sala, Franka, Myszka, Frajdale, Frania and Rachela. https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0Tntn0

21/05/2026

This evening marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, celebrating the gift of the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai. Shavuot is a joyful festival, celebrated through all-night Torah study, eating dairy foods, and reading the Ten Commandments and the Book of Ruth in synagogues.

This picture from our collection is by Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, and shows a Shavuot celebration at a synagogue in 19th-century Germany. Oppenheim’s work highlights the vibrant Jewish culture of pre-war Germany, and today serves as a reminding of a world that was forever disrupted by the Holocaust.

We wish everyone celebrating over the coming days a chag Shavuot sameach.

Image | Paula and Josef Weiss Collection, MHM 2448-1

20/05/2026

As part of National Volunteer Week 2026, we celebrated the incredible volunteers who help bring our mission to life, by hosting a heartfelt afternoon tea at the Museum to thank our volunteers. It was a beautiful afternoon filled with connection, cake and special memories.

To all of our volunteers: thank you. Whether you’re working in the archives, researching, translating, guiding tours, delivering education programs, or supporting the visitor experience - your efforts are essential to inspire a better world. Your generosity, passion, and dedication preserve memory and history, and help educate all our visitors.

Our volunteers are the backbone of the museum, ensuring its smooth operation and enhancing the experience for our visitors. We look forward to continuing to celebrate and recognise the incredible impact you make.

19/05/2026

Step into a powerful true story of survival, justice and the shadows that follow even the farthest escape.

Join award-winning filmmaker and author Danny Ben-Moshe as he discusses The Watchmaker’s War. Based on a true story, The Watchmaker's War is a gripping, high-stakes tale of N**i hunters in Australia and the war criminals they pursued - killers with links to the highest levels of Australia's spy agency. It offers profound insights into the lingering trauma of genocide, posing difficult questions about competing desires for peace and vengeance, and how far a victim should go in the pursuit of justice when the authorities fail to act.

Danny brings unparalleled insight, drawing from his acclaimed documentary work and deep research into identity, memory, and history.

📅 4 June - book tickets here https://mhm.org.au/event/the-watchmakers-war/

Don’t miss this compelling conversation about courage, conscience and confronting the past.

18/05/2026

Today, we join museums around the world to mark International Museum Day - a moment to reflect on the vital role museums play in preserving memory, fostering understanding, and building a more compassionate future.

This year’s theme,“Museums Uniting a Divided World,” highlights the power of museums to bring people together - creating spaces for dialogue, connection and shared understanding across cultures and generations.

At the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, this mission is at the heart of everything we do. Through stories of the Holocaust and survivor testimony, we invite our community to learn from the past, challenge prejudice, and stand against hatred in all its forms.

Because remembering is only the beginning - what we do with that memory matters.

17/05/2026

Chag Shavuot Sameach from the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. The Museum will be closed for Shavuot on 22 May.

We wish you happy holidays and look forward to welcoming you to the museum soon.

16/05/2026

Today is Holocaust Surivor Fay Wiener's birthday, join us in wishing her a happy birthday!

Fay was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1932. After the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, Fay’s parents, decided the family should flee to France. When France was invaded in June 1940, Fay’s parents understood the implication for Jews and returned to Belgium. After the introduction of discriminatory laws, as well as various round ups, Fay’s parents began to look for hiding places for the family. Fay was sent to live at a Catholic boarding school and convent while her parents went to hide on a farm in the countryside.

After spending over a year at the convent, Fay was able to join her parents in hiding on the farm. After the family was libereated, Fay, her parents and her younger sister Monique arrived in Australia in January 1949. Fay stands as a powerful voice of resilience, a living testament to survival, strength, and the enduring human spirit.

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