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April 2009 Jewish Holocaust Centre 25 years on 1984 –2009 Registered by Australia Post. Publication No. VBH 7236 JHC Board: The Jewish Holocaust Centre is dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews President: Pauline Rockman murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Vice President: Alex Dafner Immediate Past President: We consider the finest memorial to all victims of racist policies to be an educational Shmuel Rosenkranz programme which aims to combat anti-Semitism, racism and prejudice in the Secretary: Elly Brooks community and fosters understanding between people. Treasurer: Eric Herz Public Officer: Adam Kreuzer Members: Allen Brostek, Harry Bryce, Abram Goldberg, Sue Hampel, Henri Korn, Willy Lermer, Helen Mahemoff Executive Director: Bernard Korbman This special 25th anniversary edition is dedicated to the JHC Foundation: memory of Cyla Sokolowicz, the first editor of Centre News. Chairperson: Helen Mahemoff Trustees: CONTENTS Nina Bassat AM Joey Borensztajn Allen Brostek FROM THE PRESIDENT 3 Silvana Layton Jeffrey Mahemoff AO EDITOR’S LETTER 3 Patrons: Professor Yehuda Bauer DIRECTOR’S POINT OF VIEW 4 Mrs Eva Besen AO Mr Marc Besen AO AGAINST ALL ODDS: Sir William Deane AC CBE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOLOCAUST CENTRE 5 Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE FABRIC OF THE FUTURE: 25 YEARS CELEBRATION DINNER 8 Mrs Diane Shteinman AM Steven Spielberg OUR VOLUNTEERS AND GUIDES CELEBRATE 25 YEARS 11 JHC Staff: THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST CENTRE AS A MEDIUM OF MEMORY 16 Bernard Korbman, Executive Director Zvi Civins, Director of Education AUSTRALIA AND THE SHOAH SURVIVORS 17 Jayne Josem,Curator, Head of BOOK REVIEW 18 Collections Phillip Maisel OAM, Head of Testimonies EDUCATION 19 Ursula Flicker OAM, Head of Archives MUSEUM 20 Sabina Josem & Rosa Freilich, Librarians EVENTS 22 Nicole Brittain, Development Manager VOLUNTEERS 26 Frankie Pinch, PR and Communications Manager FOUNDATION 28 Robyn Fetter, Finance Manager Lena Fiszman, Office and IT Manager FRIENDS 29 Tosca Birnbaum, Reception SEEN AROUND THE CENTRE 30 Claude Fromm, Assistant Archivist COLLECTIONS 32 Rae Silverstein, Volunteer Co-Ordinator Centre News Editorial Commitee: OBITUARIES 34 Editor: Ruth Mushin POEMS 36 Pauline Rockman Alex Dafner THANKS 37 Bernard Korbman Lena Fiszman Jayne Josem 13–15 Selwyn Street, OPENING HOURS Frankie Pinch Elsternwick, Vic 3185, Mon–Thu: 10am–4pm Moshe Ajzenbud (Yiddish) Australia Fri: 10am–2pm On the cover: t: (03) 9528 1985 Sun & Public Hols: 12pm–4pm f: (03) 9528 3758 Zenon Furmanski’s water colour Closed on Saturdays, painting of the original Jewish e: [email protected] Jewish Holy Days and Holocaust Centre painted in 1987. w: www.jhc.org.au some Public Holidays Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in Centre News are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those This publication has been designed and produced of the magazine editor or editorial committee. While the Centre News welcomes ideas, articles, photos, poetry and by Izigraphics Pty Ltd www.izigraphics.com.au letters, it reserves the right to accept or reject material. There is no automatic acceptance of submissions. 2 JHC Centre NewsNews FROM THE PRESIDENT developing and adapting to meet Hebrew books with an inscription Pauline the needs of the community and to the bar mitzvah boy, my father, deliver excellence. dated ‘Berlin 1934’. The books were Rockman a present from the congregation Our beloved survivor family, who of Ahuvat Zion, my grandfather’s created everything – from the shul in Berlin. After Kristallnacht, displays to the educational material my grandfather rescued one of the – has continued to deliver its sifrei torah and brought it with him message. Our Centre was founded without large government or other on his miraculous journey to safety in Australia, arriving in Sydney in Promise … of the next grants, relying on the generous late August 1939. That sefer torah, generation and what the future donation of time, materials and saved from the pogroms of Europe, holds for the Jewish Holocaust money from Holocaust survivors, went to Central Synagogue in Centre their families and other supporters. Bondi Junction in Sydney, only to Sadness … the loss of the Initially it was a Centre for the be destroyed in a fire in the 1980s. survivor generation survivors by the survivors, and I have given some books to the it was about the moment, that Centre’s Archives Department and Overwhelming ... the legacy, moment of dealing with the loss some to the Kadimah. The rest the mantle we of the next and memorialisation of family and will be shipped to Eastern Europe generations carry friends who were murdered, and to be used by reborn Jewish Excitement … the buzz of the passing on the message of respect communities. Centre, the activity, the vision for the other, of standing up to injustice and wrongdoing, not to I am often asked why I do what I do. Passion … something that all of be bystanders. Today the Jewish I like to think that being my father’s us involved at the Centre have in Holocaust Centre comprises not daughter, it is possible that I am strong measure only survivors, but also the second continuing a tradition of values and principles of life – ‘how the world arch 4, 2009 marked the and third generation of the Shoah. should be’. This tradition compels twenty-fifth anniversary This is evident in every area of the me to continue to fight injustice, of the creation of the Centre where people of all ages Centre and these are work together to continue to deliver oppression and genocide. In this M the Centre’s message. way, I will honour the memory and some of the powerful feelings play my part in ensuring that the this evokes for me. How do we Over the summer break I tackled a commemorate, memorialise, dare suffering of the victims of the Shoah task that I had been putting off for a will not have been for nothing. I say, celebrate, twenty-five years long time – sorting the many tomes of our existence in the Melbourne from my beloved father’s extensive It is so important that we celebrate community? It is no simple feat library. It is a work in progress as I the legacy of our founders and that an institution was formed peruse many volumes, reminisce continue their work. Please join by very different individuals and and immerse myself once again us in the many events that will organisations; no small feat for our in long-lost friends. I find a box of be happening over the next few Centre to have grown to its position books, some in Hebrew and some months. I look forward to meeting of strength today, continually in German. There is a set of bound up with you. EDITOR’S LETTER the need for eyewitnesses to leave Centre since its establishment? The a lasting message to their children. survivors and younger volunteers Ruth Mushin She also expressed the Centre’s who work with them present a hope ‘to be able to use the lessons kaleidoscope of insights about the of the Holocaust as a starting point Centre – their experiences as guides in an effort to build bridges of and volunteers in different areas understanding between Jews and of the Centre, their ideas about non-Jews, so that they may work Holocaust education, their feelings together towards a future in which about the future, their fears and racial prejudice and hatred will concerns, and their joys in the work elcome to this special forever be eliminated.’ they do and the friendships they have made. 25th anniversary edition In this issue, we bring you an of Centre News. This overview of the Centre’s past The message of the founders of the Wedition continues to twenty-five years, as well as a look Centre, so eloquently expressed reflect the message of the founders, into the future, with the exciting by Cyla Sokolowicz, is as relevant expressed twenty-five years ago. upgrade of the museum scheduled today as it was twenty-five years In the first edition of Centre News, to commence at the end of this ago. The way the message is published in December 1984, anniversary year. And what better delivered may have changed over founding editor Cyla Sokolowicz way to celebrate this milestone time, but as you will see from this wrote of the importance of than to hear from the volunteers issue, the passion and energy have remembering the Holocaust and of who have been the lifeblood of the not diminished. JHC Centre News 3 DIRECTOR’S POINT OF VIEW Based on the words of fourth historical experience, as barbaric century BCE philosopher and obscene as that was. We are an Bernard Demosthenes and on the words of amalgam of a four thousand year Korbman American Wendell Phillips in 1852, history, of diverse experiences from the Australian RSL in 1923 adopted communities spread throughout ‘The Price of Liberty is Eternal the world and from the common Vigilance’ as its motto. How then bonds which unify us as a people. does one maintain eternal vigilance? We are not a ‘one event’ people. It is certainly not by burying one’s The other danger of casting the head in the sand and being blind to Holocaust as only a Jewish issue the events in our ‘global village’. est we forget is a phrase is to forget the other participants popularised in 1897 by In a speech to the United Nations in this crime, the perpetrators and Rudyard Kipling, forming on United Nations International the bystanders. They were the non- the refrain of his poem Holocaust Memorial Day, Secretary- Jews who took part in the murders, L General Ban Ki-moon said: those who didn’t speak out against Recessional.
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