Yearbook

2017

Sydney Jewish Museum 2017 Yearbook DL53160 Congratulations to the Jewish Museum on 25 years of vital work in the community.

Our best wishes for the continued success in preserving our past and securing our future.

Roma & Allan Shell & family

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The 2017 Museum Yearbook is published by the . Reproduction in whole or in part is not permitted without the written permission of the publisher. The Sydney Jewish Museum regrets that it cannot accept liability for errors or omissions contained in this publication. The opinions and views contained in this publication are not necessarily those of the publisher. Readers are advised to seek specialist advice before acting on information contained herewith. Editor: Nicky Gluch Designer: Audrey Larsen, compu-vision With special thanks to: Kate Efrat, Morley Lewis, Rita Prager and Aviva Wolff. Printed by: The Jamida Group The Sydney Jewish Museum is a proud member of the JCA family of organisations.

Photographs by: Katherine Griffiths, Giselle Haber and Nadine Saacks

2 sjm Yearbook 2017 Contents

4 President’s Report: The next 25 years...... Prof Gus Lehrer AM FAA 8 A Message from the CEO ...... Norman Seligman CEO 11 Sydney Jewish Museum Board 12 Museum Staff & Consultants 14 1500 Words...... Jackie French AM, Author 16 Pillars of the Museum...... Rob Schneider, Development Director 20 Redevelopment, Rights & Remembrance. . . . Sarah Haid, Research Assistant 22 If it is precious to you, we will value it too. . . . Roslyn Sugarman, Head Curator 26 Thank You to the Volunteers ...... Rony Bognar, Volunteer Manager 27 Music & Memory ...... Nicky Gluch, Musicologist & Volunteer 30 Journey to Germany & Poland ...... Ariane Schneider, Volunteer 32 Sydney Jewish Museum 25 Year Anniversary. . . Shannon Biederman, Curator Collections 38 The Children’s Memorial 39 Community Stories...... Jacqui Wasilewsky, Community Stories Manager 40 A Tribute to Major Benefactors...... Rob Schneider, Development Director 43 Chain of Memories Rita Prager, Community Liaison Manager 46 Professor Konrad Kwiet: First-rate historian. . . Yotam Weiner, Education Manager 50 Beyond Godwin’s Law...... A/Prof Michael Robertson, SJM Professorial Fellow 52 Public Programs & Events...... Aviva Wolff, Operations Manager 58 Walking the Red Carpet ...... ‘Christiane Delacroix’, Survivor 60 Voices from the Ashes ...... Dr Ari Lander, Education Officer 64 The three month job that’s lasted 23 years. . . . Tinny Lenthen, Library Manager 66 Visitors’ Comments 69 Donor Recognition 96 List of Advertisers

sjm Yearbook 2017 3 President’s Report The next 25 years Prof Gus Lehrer AM FAA

Overview • De-mystify by providing a window The SJM is an enterprise that has the into the Jewish community. • Become a major hub in Sydney’s cultural and support of the entire Jewish community, intellectual life. whether religious or secular, involved • Become self sustaining economically and or passive, whether their interests are otherwise. intellectual or cultural. The need Holocaust deniers have been active ever since The SJM has as its underpinning the study and the beginning of the Shoah and, notwithstanding The SJM intends preservation of the memory of defeats in courts of law (e.g. Deborah Lipstadt’s to become and the teaching and discussion of its moral victory over David Irving), their numbers and the major hub and ethical lessons. It is also a window for the activities continue to grow. Holocaust denial is for cultural wider community into the Jewish community now a recognised tool in the kit of antisemites. interchange and provides a forum for people to discuss and There is therefore a need to personalise the between the interact in the context of those core subjects. Shoah, to preserve the memory of its victims and Jewish and the The SJM intends to become the major hub survivors, in order to expose Holocaust denial for wider Australian for cultural interchange between the Jewish the sham it is. This need is acute as the survivor community; and the wider Australian community; to expand generation is rapidly diminishing. to expand its its educational activities, both for adults and We need courage to draw lessons from the educational students; and to become a major educational Holocaust, even by comparing some aspects of resource on matters pertaining to the Holocaust, it with other human rights violations. When the activities … and ethical issues and human rights. The Museum facts are clear, we must not be afraid to stand up to become a regularly hosts functions and events attended for other victims. major educational by a wide range of people who meet to debate, There is a more general context for the need resource on discuss and exchange views. to address issues of rights and responsibilities, matters pertaining understanding and tolerance. Due mainly to the to the Holocaust, The challenge internet and ease of global communications, ethical issues and The American museologist, Brigitte Sion, has many societies in the modern world are, to some human rights. written on the need for museums generally, and extent, multicultural. It is more important than Jewish museums in particular, to remain relevant ever for people to reach out to each other, and by not limiting themselves to a repository role. for each group to provide a window into its own To be sustainable, they must be dynamic and not community, to build confidence and trust. anchored solely in the past. The SJM is responding to this exigency in The danger several ways. It will: It is undoubtedly the case that in today’s world • Focus on the education of school students. human rights is a hotly contested arena. The World • Universalise the Jewish Holocaust experience Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, while preserving focus on its historical Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in uniqueness. Durban in 2001, was conceived by the UN in good • Engage with individuals of diverse faith, but it became arguably the largest openly backgrounds and knowledge in promoting antisemitic hate fest since WWII. The UN High personal responsibility for social inclusion, Commissioner for Human Rights at the time, Mary democracy, equality and peace. Robinson, not a friend of Israel, said that, “there • Interpret the Jewish experience through the was horrible antisemitism present,” but failed to lens of migration and cultural diversity. make any impact to mitigate this. That conference

4 sjm Yearbook 2017 spawned the BDS movement, which is with integrity, give our opponents a good hearing, reminiscent of the European movement of the even if they do not reciprocate, and present facts … should the 1930s to boycott Jewish businesses and to deny with evidence and not aggression. If we submit Sydney Jewish the very human rights they purport to champion. to the bullying of people who do not wish to hear Museum enter Much modern political discourse is couched in our case, the world would be the poorer for it. the marketplace a faux version of the language of human rights. of human This vocabulary is used to assign the status The museum now and tomorrow rights, which of victimhood to one group, and oppressor to I shall briefly deal with the museum as it currently has become another. Those allegedly supporting the ‘victims’ is, and its trajectory into the future. debased and generally do not accord to people who disagree compromised? with them even the right to express their view. The schools education program. We currently The answer is Facts are disputed and distorted, but any educate approximately 25,000 school students that we have no challenge is dismissed as unworthy of receiving annually. To fulfill the objective of educating all choice but to do NSW school students, the program would have a hearing. Gone are the days when opponents so. will defend your right to disagree with them. Lord to increase to about 70,000 students. This would Sacks, former Chief of Great Britain, wrote: entail increasing the in-house program to 35,000- Human rights have become the language of the 40,000, as well as creating an outreach program new antisemitism. extending into remote areas of NSW. In such a world, should the Sydney Jewish Museum enter the marketplace of human rights Updating the permanent exhibition space. The which has become debased and compromised? recent refurbishment has three main features. It The answer is that we have no choice but to do introduces modern technology to enhance the so. In our discussion of human rights, we shall museum experience; technology is applied to give include consideration of human responsibilities. a permanent voice to a dwindling population of It is facile to simply state that one person’s survivors who have been the heart and soul of rights should prevail regardless. A consideration the museum for 25 years; and the incorporation of responsibilities could lead to a different of a new Holocaust and Human Rights section. perspective in the discourse on human rights. We This program of refurbishment must continue to shall attempt to deal with potential controversies reflect the objectives of the Museum.

sjm Yearbook 2017 5 President’s Report The next 25 years Prof Gus Lehrer AM FAA

Temporary exhibitions. These serve to keep the in Education and Curatorial issues. The offerings of the Museum fresh, and to provide effective running of the volunteer program, colour and variety for visitors. Subjects can be as involving almost 300 volunteers, should be diverse as communication between those in camps given full attention. or hiding and the outside world, Signs of Life, and 2. Economic sustainability. The greatest the rag trade in Sydney, Dressing Sydney. economic threat to the SJM’s sustainability is its large annual operating deficit. After Links with other institutions. It is essential investment income and its JCA allocation To remain that the SJM retains its eminence as a centre (assumed to be approximately $800K in relevant … the for Holocaust and related studies. Contact with 2017-18), this deficit is in the order of $750K SJM must add international institutions with similar objectives annually. To achieve sustainability, the SJM to its narrative is essential for this. Currently we have close links must implement three items of strategy: an inspirational with Yad Vashem, the Washington Holocaust a. Plan for the museum to own the site from message for Museum, The Auschwitz Museum, Sydney which it operates. the future. University and other institutions. b. Build up the endowment fund to more than Discussion of $40m, so even a conservative investment Human Rights and Cultural activities. The public program of strategy suffices to cover the deficit. Responsibilities more than 90 events held annually proves there c. Continue to make efforts to achieve is further potential for the SJM to enhance recurrent government funding. and the Jewish its role as a hub for cultural and intellectual experience will act activity. Functions held at off-site venues, which Summary as a launching pad incorporate a museum visit, could become a To remain relevant, visible and economically for discussions of feature of this program. sustainable, the SJM must be dynamic in its cultural diversity. implementation of the broad vision encompassed Opinion-makers visits. As a consequence of the in the ideas outlined. It must add to its narrative universalisation described above, politicians and an inspirational message for the future. journalists already have an interest in the SJM. Discussion of Human Rights and Responsibilities Hosting visits by important opinion leaders will and the Jewish experience will act as a launching contribute to the security of the Jewish Community. pad for discussions of cultural diversity. Programs should be implemented with care, and integrity Museum sustainability. There are two aspects to should not be compromised. the Museum’s continued sustainability. The first 25 years have brought the Sydney 1. Human capital. The museum depends on Jewish Museum far further than its founders many people for its continued success. The would have dreamed. It is well placed to realise Board is continually renewed, and should bold ambitions for the next 25 years. have representatives from several generations In conclusion, I extend my thanks to the to ensure its continuing effectiveness. Over Members of the Board for their support and the years the average age of Museum board commitment to the Museum. My thanks also members has reduced by almost 15 years to Norman Seligman, CEO and the dedicated and there is a core of varying ages working members of his staff who have ensured the effectively together. continued growth and success of the Museum. Key personnel are also vital for the effective Kol Ha’Kavod to the many volunteers who give so running of the Museum. Succession planning generously of their time. for the Board, the CEO and other senior staff My heartfelt thanks goes to the Holocaust is vital, as is maintenance of the desirability of Survivors who are a daily inspiration to all at the the Museum as a workplace for professionals Sydney Jewish Museum. sjm

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25th anniversary in student attendances in 2017, together with As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, around 25,000 adult visitors. While the Holocaust is included in the NSW it is important to remember the driving Curriculum, it is important to note that teachers forces that gave rise to our creation. have a choice of the extent to which the Holocaust is covered. We are actively involved in teacher One such force was a desire by the generation of training programs which have attracted nearly Holocaust survivors who came to . They 300 teachers in the past year, including teachers were determined to remember and honour those from the Brisbane and Cairns Catholic Education who were murdered during the Holocaust. Even Department as well as Anglican Schools teachers before the Museum opened in 1992, they had been in Perth. Our Professional meeting, telling their stories and gathering artefacts. Our Professional and Community Education and Community Another force was the founder of the Museum, programs have seen excellent growth in the Education the late John Saunders AO, whose generosity past 12 months, including health and aged programs have enabled survivors’ dreams to become a reality. care providers, police, military personnel, and seen excellent He was influenced and assisted in this endeavour interfaith groups. Many programs have also been growth in the by the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust delivered at client premises. past 12 months, Survivors together with the Australian Institute of The Museum upgrade necessitated intensive with visitors Holocaust Studies, members of the community, education for all our existing guides and in including health including the Museum’s President, Prof Gus addition I am very pleased to report that 50 new and aged care Lehrer AM, and Holocaust survivors already active guides, our highest group ever, are in the process providers, police in Holocaust education and commemoration. of completing their training. This ensures the and military Museum’s capacity to handle an increasingly The year that was larger number of student visitors. personnel, and It has been a remarkable year at the Museum and interfaith groups. I am pleased to report on some of the highlights. Exhibitions and events After five years of community consultation, Temporary exhibitions are an important academic research, curation and creative attraction for new and repeat visitors to the development, the upgrade of our Holocaust Museum. We have had six exhibitions over the exhibition was completed in December 2016 and past 12 months including: Closer: Portraits of officially opened by the Prime Minister, The Hon. Survival – a powerful photographic exhibition MP on 19 March 2017. We by Katherine Griffiths of 44 Holocaust survivor continue to receive overwhelmingly positive volunteers and their precious artefacts; I am My responses from Museum visitors, with many saying Brother’s Keeper – an exhibition in partnership that our Museum is amongst the best in the world. with Yad Vashem which profiled non-Jewish The final part of our refurbishment, the heroes, the Righteous Among the Nations, Holocaust and Human Rights section, is due for who risked their lives to save during the completion by the end of January 2018. Holocaust; In their steps: the Australian Light Horse and the Anzac Trail – an exhibition in partnership Education with JNF marking the centenary at Beersheba, of Education remains our most important mission. one of the most famous horse mounted battles Following record visitor numbers of 48,000 in of all time, and Standing Up – a photography 2015, including nearly 25,000 school students, exhibit which featured Jewish humanitarians and visitor numbers slowed while we were partially philanthropists who have devoted their lives to closed for most of 2016 for our upgrade. We promoting the welfare of others. are now back on track and expect a new high Our Public Programs Committee held a range

8 sjm Yearbook 2017 Two of the temporary exhibitions held this year. of innovative, thought-provoking events including stories alive and to deliver their voices throughout public lectures, functions in support of temporary the Museum. Over the years, the Museum has exhibitions, book launches, movie screenings, remained a space where individuals from different cultural events and community functions. backgrounds can learn about one another, a place A series of well-attended Holocaust of remembrance and commemoration, where Commemorative events were organised jointly by the memories are honoured and where history is the Museum, the Australian Association of Jewish researched. Holocaust Survivors and Descendants and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. The Museum also In closing worked with NAJEX in hosting annual Anzac Day Despite our success, we cannot be complacent. and Remembrance Day ceremonies. We have to protect our future and ensure the Despite our long-term financial viability of this exceptional success, we Survivor stories Museum. We do not receive any operational cannot be One of the privileges of working at the Sydney government funding and therefore rely heavily complacent. We Jewish Museum is getting to know and work on community funding. We continue to operate have to protect closely with Holocaust survivors. We are in awe at a deficit and need to grow our Endowment our future and of those we have come to know so well and Fund to a level where the income allows us to ensure the long- saddened that many are no longer with us. It is fund operations without utilising capital. I urge term financial extremely difficult to comprehend the hardship every one of you to consider making a bequest or viability of this and tragedy they experienced, both physically endowment to the Museum, thereby ensuring the exceptional and emotionally, and I admire the way in which continuity of our valuable work. Museum. they rebuilt their shattered lives and the positive We are proud members of the Jewish messages with which they inspire us. I speak Communal Appeal and I would like to pay tribute for the Board members, staff and volunteers at to them for their ongoing financial support and the Museum when I say that the survivors are guidance. Thank you to our patrons, members treasured like our own family members. The life and donors for your generous and much lessons we learn from these remarkable people appreciated support and especially our major are also noted in the letters of thanks they receive donors who have been profiled in this yearbook. from grateful visitors, adults and students alike. Thank you to our active Museum Board, the The voices and stories of Holocaust survivors hard working and loyal Museum staff, and the have been at the forefront of the Museum since nearly 300 dedicated volunteers who selflessly its inception, and we are extremely fortunate assist in so many ways and without whom we that there are many Holocaust survivors who still simply could not function as effectively. address school students and Museum visitors The Museum family can indeed be proud of daily. We have implemented a mobile app as part what has been accomplished and look forward to of our Holocaust exhibition upgrade, to keep their even greater achievements in the next 25 years. sjm

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The year before dad died thanks to the community and he asked me to he told me a story… go to the Jewish Museum, to tell them how one soldier’s life had been altered. Dad enlisted in World War ll on his 18th birthday. He was at the railway This Museum has changed my life too. station ready to embark to fight Each time I have visited, it has given me a in New Guinea when he collapsed profound gift that I did not expect. On one visit, I met with Holocaust survivor Olga Horak, who with a ruptured appendix. Both his had recently suffered an enormous personal enlistment and the burst appendix tragedy. Yet she was still giving unconditionally to almost certainly saved his life. Not thousands of young students. “Doing this keeps only was there a doctor next to him me going,” she said. From Olga I learned that when he lost consciousness, but the when tragedy strikes, doing good for others, with no thought of praise or reward, does give you friends he’d been with would die in strength to keep on going. their first days in battle. On my last visit, I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking to Holocaust survivors who told me that forgiveness is necessary, otherwise Four months later he was released from hospital hate consumes too much of your life. I knew the Every night he and given what he described as the lowliest necessity of forgiveness in theory, but felt unable joined the women possible job in the armed forces for a man not to forgive what had been done to me when I was of the kitchen, even fit enough to lift a box of paper: night young. But that morning they taught me that buttering bread sentry duty at the Sydney Barracks, ending at sometimes, perhaps every day, one should wake and making 4 a.m. There was not much doing at 4 a.m. in up and forgive again, year after year. sandwiches. He Sydney – or, rather, there was a lot, but not for a If these extraordinary people who survived said it saved nice Presbyterian boy. He ended up at the Anzac possibly the greatest and most sustained hatred his sanity and Buffet, drinking tea and eating toast. After three the world has ever seen can forgive, surely I possibly his life. nights one of the women told him to stop just should be able to do that too … and now I do. sitting there and to come and help. It is impossible to quantify how much the Every night he joined the women of the Jewish Museum has changed my life. The Museum kitchen, buttering bread and making sandwiches. preserves stories, and stories matter. Information, He said it saved his sanity and possibly his life. moral judgements, are best transmitted in story With uncles in prisoner-of-war camps and many form. In every story you live the life of every friends dead, survivor guilt was biting deeply. At person in it, just for a while. A story means you the Anzac Buffet, he was at least doing something understand not just yourself, but others, a little The stories of useful. He told me this only after I had mentioned more. history give seeing the plaque where the Buffet had been and Stories from the past matter, they tell us us not just the finding out at the Sydney Jewish Museum about that, yes, bad things happen but as a species, strength but the the women who had run it. “I never knew that if not always individually, we can survive them, imagination and they were Jewish,” Dad said wonderingly. “In all surmount them, change them. Even during the experience to that time they never told me.” worst of times there can be love and beauty. survive, to fight Dad had a wide experience of people doing Most people believe that tomorrow will be like or just to cope. good in the name of religion, but they usually today, and mostly it will be. But one day it may made it very clear what religion they were doing not be. The stories of history give us not just the it for. He was too frail to travel to Sydney to give strength but the imagination and experience to

14 sjm Yearbook 2017 survive, to fight or just to cope. The more of the visit, I will be given more. past the story contains, the more profoundly it This is how the book ends: matters. The Jewish Museum’s story covers a very I am Johannes. I am a man of love, not hate. long past indeed. Unlike many museums, at its I love my wife, my children, my friends, my There are so heart are the recorded words of those who have patients. I feel the love spread from my hands many stories. Not lived the history, not just read about or deduced across the world, to join the hands of others. I those already it. We are all history, each one of us will leave a tell the story of the ogre too, the one called Mr held in the shadow. The Museum helps us to make our legacy Hitler. Museum, given to good. There in the park, with my family and my those who visit it, Each year, at the Museum, I tell an audience friends, the ogre is dead at last, for me, for Frau but all the stories of young people from diverse backgrounds, the Timmins, and for Helga. But others have had to they will continue story of a boy in World War II – a boy who had carry him in their hearts all their lives. When an to collect as our ogre swallows you it is not easy to be free. had his family, even his identity, taken from him history keeps on by the Nazis. The boy has a choice: he can kill a The world has many ogres. Some, like Mr threading into helpless supporter enemy or save the man’s life. Hitler, do not even know that they are ogres, but the future. What should he choose? Which is more powerful, dream they are the hero of the story. kindness or hate? Every single young person I have learned this in the years since I was ten has voted for kindness over hate. Without the years old: when you see injustice, stand beside Museum, they may never have thought about the each other and seize your spears. My spears questions or made that explicit choice. are made of words. Yours may be different. But There are so many stories. Not those already do not hesitate or look away. If too many look held in the Museum, given to those who visit it, away, the ogres win. To be most deeply human but all the stories they will continue to collect as we must risk our lives for others. Only when we our history keeps on threading into the future. stand together can we be truly free. I was asked for 1500 words on the Museum, It is not easy fighting ogres. No one who fights but, really, only a handful is needed. ‘The Jewish an ogre comes away unscarred, even if you Museum gives us our past. This matters, deeply cannot see the wounds. And so you owe the ogre and profoundly.’ It also gives it with a combination hunters this. of deep, professional curatorship and personal When the ogre has been vanquished, sit down commitment that may be unequalled. upon the quiet earth and try to understand the I will finish with another story, of a boy from ogre’s anguish and his twisted fear. Only by a well-educated family, who visited the Museum understanding can we stop them rising in our with his school. He returned home shocked. midst. “I never knew about the Holocaust,” he said. When you understand, forgive. “I never knew.” “Of course you knew,” his mother And then stand up, and live. answered. “We told you, we gave you the books.” Live well. He shook his head, “But I didn’t understand until today,” he said. “Until I heard the voices, I didn’t To the Sydney Jewish Museum, for this, and for understand.” His life too was changed forever. so much more that you have given myself and my In October I launched my latest book at the family, and uncounted others, 1500 words is not Museum. This book is possibly the best and most enough to thank you. important I have written. It is also entirely a gift Perhaps I just should have written ‘thank you’ of the extraordinary people who volunteer there. 1500 times. The greatest gift perhaps the Museum has yet given me, though I suspect that still, with every Wishing You Millennia of Happy Returns. sjm

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Pillars of the Museum Robert Schneider Development Director

No cultural institution of the The ‘Pillars of the Museum’ calibre of the Sydney Jewish Museum can survive purely on Greg and Kathy Shand entrance fees and membership Kathy and Greg Shand have a long history subscriptions alone and, since we of working for and supporting the Jewish do not receive any government community. funding towards our operating Kathy served on the boards of many prominent costs, the Museum is reliant on the organisations including the Sydney Children’s generosity of donors to help make Hospital Foundation, the Royal Hospital for Women Foundation and, together with her sister ends meet. Roxanne, was the owner and publisher of the Australian Jewish News for close to 20 years. Currently Kathy heads the area of community This year, the Museum has been extremely engagement for JCA and is a member of the In recognition fortunate to be the beneficiary of some Executive Committee of JCA. of the generosity substantial donations towards our endowment Greg spent many years working for JCA with of these four fund and also towards specific projects. In roles including chairing various committees, families, the addition, we have received major bequests from running JCA projects, contributing to the shape Museum has two estates, all of which we acknowledge with and operation of our communal organisations created a special deep gratitude. and also serving as a JCA non-trustee governor. category of Leading the way has been a group of donors, Through Greg’s work for our community, he donors called spearheaded by the example and initiative felt that there was a need to re-examine the way ‘Pillars of the of Kathy and Greg Shand, who committed a our community is funded and, in particular, to Museum’. substantial donation to the Museum provided address the need of our communal organisations it was able to secure a matching amount. Our to have more secure and long-term funding. indefatigable President, Prof Gus Lehrer, not only This led to Greg’s role in establishing ‘The Giving accepted the challenge of securing matching Forum’ some two years ago. Consistent with their “As the children donors, but he and his wife Nanna, committed objective, it was Kathy and Greg’s initiative to of Holocaust a generous amount, along with generous take the lead in driving the ‘Pillars of the Museum’ survivors, we commitments from Bob and Ruth Magid and Leon concept by committing a substantial amount to very much see and Simona Kamenev. the Museum’s endowment fund. Income from the importance In recognition of the generosity of these four this fund will go a long way to covering the deficit

of educating families, the Museum has created a special in operating costs, and enable us to continue to category of donors called ‘Pillars of the Museum’. present the Jewish story to the broader Australian the broader Funds will be applied towards enhancing our community in ever increasing numbers. Australian endowment fund in order to ensure our future “Our aim was to really make a difference to the community on sustainability. The four families are the first sustainability of the Museum, so we developed our history and donors to be recognised in this category, and a proposal to submit to its Board. We were not our culture and we hope that their fine example of generosity in asked, it was just something we wanted to do. We the Museum recognising the important role of the Museum, wanted to make sure that our support would have plays a critical and the need to secure this for the benefit of an impact so, as part of our proposal we wanted and irreplaceable future generations, will encourage others to come other donors to join us, which is something role in this forward and contribute towards ensuring the that the Museum organised. We also attached a regard.” – Greg sustainability of this vital community resource – number of conditions related to the operations and Kathy Shand the Sydney Jewish Museum. of the Museum and its governance. Finally, we

16 sjm Yearbook 2017 Greg and Kathy Shand.

Simona and Leon Kamenev.

Nanna and Gus Lehrer.

Ruth and Bob Magid. wanted to make sure that there would be ‘buy-in’ grow by $10 million over the next 10 years. The in terms of support from the community generally Museum salutes them for their contributions to and this is something that we hope will be our Community and for setting an example that Leon assisted forthcoming. The task of securing the Museum’s we hope many others will emulate. with his expertise future is not complete, but we really hope that and financial this initiative will place SJM well down the road to Leon and Simona Kamenev support in being financially sustainable. When Leon first visited the Museum in 2015, creating two “As the children of Holocaust survivors, we he was immediately struck with the poignancy very much see the importance of educating the of what he saw and, in his inimitable way, magnificent broader Australian community on our history and then and there stated that more creativity was new features in our culture and the Museum plays a critical and needed to better engage younger people in our the upgraded irreplaceable role in this regard. We really wish exhibits. Leon assisted with his expertise and Museum – the to acknowledge the role that others have played financial support in creating two magnificent new electronic to establish and oversee the management of new features in the upgraded Museum – the map with the Museum and we are so happy and fortunate electronic map with interactive usage ports, as interactive usage to now play our part in securing the Museum’s well as the Museum VOICES app which allows ports, as well future.” visitors to hear the voices of survivors at specific as the Museum Through this initiative with the funds points throughout the Holocaust exhibitions. VOICES app. contributed by the Shands and their partner Leon has not been alone in befriending the donors, the Museum’s endowment fund will Museum, as his wife Simona has struck up a very

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Pillars of the Museum Robert Schneider Development Director

warm relationship with Olga Horak, one of our Bob and Ruth Magid esteemed Survivors who, like Simona, was born in . The two meet on a regular basis Bob, a successful businessman and property and on a recent trip back home, Simona went developer, and Ruth are well-known benefactors, especially to find the building in which Olga had not only to Jewish and Zionist causes but also to the broader community, including their support for “We want to lived prior to the Holocaust. She also brought back photographs of the area and the village from the uplifting of Aboriginal children, children from be part of a where Olga’s grandparents hailed. dysfunctional homes, and for the classical music collective effort We are very grateful to Leon and Simona for culture in Sydney. As publisher of the Australian to explain basic rising to the challenge set by the Shand family Jewish News (AJN), Bob ensures that important Judaism to all and committing a further substantial donation to events and viewpoints are shared with readers far comers and make the Museum. The Kamenevs say: “The Museum and wide, and Bob himself often expresses his the Museum a reminds us of the horrors that occurred in Europe profound views in AJN and other media. place of open during the Second World War – horrors that Ruth has been a Volunteer Guide at the Museum discussion, should never be allowed to happen again. We for many years and her groups have been warmth and support the Museum in its efforts to educate extremely fortunate to gain from her knowledge inclusiveness.” future generations on the need for mutual respect and the manner in which she shares the – Bob and Ruth and tolerance, and we hope that the Museum will Holocaust and other Museum highlights with Magid grow from strength to strength.” them. The Magids have been longstanding donors to the SJM, but it seems that their generosity Gus and Nanna Lehrer knows no bounds, as they join with the other The name of the Lehrer family is indelibly linked three families in becoming ‘Pillars of the Museum’. “The with the Sydney Jewish Museum going back to In their words: “We have supported the Sydney combination of 1992 when the late Leon and Genia Lehrer were Jewish Museum for many years because of our resources, events, among the founding members and generous belief that it is critically important to keep alive personal benefactors behind the establishment of the the memory of the Holocaust, to teach the history involvement of a Museum, and their son Gus was intimately involved of institutionalised racism and hatred that caused large and diverse in its planning, design and construction as Chair the destruction of millions, in the profound hope group of people, of the Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies. that such knowledge will prevent a recurrence dedication to It is fitting that, 25 years later, the Museum directed against any group in our society and principles that should be celebrating its quarter century with indeed the world. We wish to undermine the affect us all, their son, Prof Gus Lehrer, as our President. efforts of antisemites and Holocaust deniers. We collectively and To quote Gus: “The combination of resources, want to be part of a collective effort to explain individually, and events, personal involvement of a large and basic Judaism to all comers and make the diverse group of people, dedication to principles Museum a place of open discussion, warmth and an aura of that affect us all, collectively and individually, and inclusiveness.” sustainability an aura of sustainability and permanence, make It is the hope of the Lehrers and the other and permanence, the Sydney Jewish Museum a unique place.” three families, that more donors will follow their make the Sydney Gus is not just known for his communal example and our other generous benefactors, Jewish Museum a involvements, but also for his accomplishments both past and present, to help the Museum unique place.” in business and in mathematical research. It ensure its sustainability into the future, by – Gus Lehrer should therefore not come as a surprise to know continuing to fund our projects and in particular, AM FAA that with maths as his forté, Gus would recognise the endowment fund. This is an essential tool in the need to ensure that the Museum’s numbers our efforts to plug the gap in our operating costs should stack up accordingly. And so the ‘Pillars of that cannot be met through normal sources of the Museum’ was born. income. sjm

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www.scentregroup.com the Sydney Jewish Museum the Sydney Scentre Group is proud to support Redevelopment, Rights & Remembrance Sarah Haid Research Assistant

The opening of the Holocaust and Building on this foundational research, Human Rights exhibition completes the project team hosted an international the Museum narrative, weaving symposium in February this year. We brought together scholars and practitioners from a wide together threads and themes from range of institutions, disciplines and cultural our Jewish and Holocaust history backgrounds. We invited them to share their exhibitions, and culminating (as in real views and experiences relating to the questions life) in the codification of human rights at the core of the project. The symposium was norms by the international community. an opportunity to test the ideas that were taking shape for our own human rights space. Following the symposium and drawing on background research, intentions for the new space crystallised in a concept plan: • It will connect the historic and thematic Still from Coming to content in the new Permanent Holocaust the Table. 2018 marks Exhibition to contemporary human rights the 40th anniversary of the first Mardi Gras, issues, debates and concerns, with an when police attacked emphasis on those issues most pertinent to demonstrators marching the Australian context. for equal rights not far • It will offer a distinctly Australian contribution from our Museum. to the growing international interest in, and proliferation of, museums focused on human rights. • It will function as a ‘learner and self-led’ space for all visitors. It will be a place for questioning The exhibition anchors us to the present. At a time and inquiry. Years of of social disruption, technological and political • It will provide space for reflection and academic and upheaval, this space offers fresh and diverse contemplation by encouraging visitors field research perspectives, challenging visitors and communities to connect the historical materials to lie at the to think critically about the roles and responsibilities contemporary human rights debates and foundations of they have in preventing further abuses. violation.1 the Holocaust The concept plan also described the and Human The process exhibition’s content and scope, thus providing a Rights section. Years of academic and field research lie at the touchstone for the development phase. foundations of the Holocaust and Human Rights section. This research was funded through an The exhibition Australian Research Council Linkage grant, the The Holocaust and Human Rights space contains and the Sydney Jewish three major components. Museum. The academic members of the project 1. Upon entering the space, visitors are presented team conducted the research in universities, with a timeline of major human rights libraries, archives and museums, both in Australia developments and violations, including two and across the globe. They sought answers to a long vertical screens. The timeline and its number of questions: What is the role of human audiovisual displays chart the evolution of rights museums? What opportunities and risks do

they present? What ‘works’ in these spaces and 1 Reverberations: The Holocaust and Human Rights – what doesn’t? Concept Plan, May 2017, p 15.

20 sjm Yearbook 2017 international human rights law, genocides and to democracy and images of atrocity from across atrocity crimes of the 20th and 21st centuries; the globe. We face significant threats, including In the new and relevant events in Australian history. international terror, climate change and volatile Holocaust and 2. In the centre of the gallery lies a feature dubbed world markets. We can find ourselves lost in Human Rights Coming to the Table. Over four large, round competing positions and accounts. At times we space, nuance tabletop projections, visitors can explore may wonder: do I have the full picture? To where is not disguised, some of the experiences and issues facing should I turn for guidance on the issues? Am I the tensions are not particular groups in Australian society: people only one feeling confused or concerned? obscured and with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ people, refugees The new human rights space provides a challenges are and asylum seekers and Aboriginal and Torres counterforce to these overwhelming effects of not shied away Strait Islander people. 21st century society. It provides a place where from. 3. The final part of the exhibition is a dynamic people are encouraged to come together in display, regularly changing to focus on a theme community, rather than withdraw into isolation. It of particular topical relevance. Here, visitors promotes deep, reflective thought, even on topics will be invited to reflect on and respond to that might prove irresolvable. It offers, not moral the material they have just encountered in a guidance through human rights, but an objective meaningful way. In the new Holocaust and set of standards repeatedly affirmed by the nations Human Rights space, nuance is not disguised, of the world over the better part of a century. tensions are not obscured and challenges The creation of this new space feeds into a are not shied away from. The questions this global trend which sees museums increasingly exhibition raises are not easy ones – but there engaging with human rights. We are not the only is much to be gained by addressing them. ones doing this kind of work, though we are some of the first in Australia. The opening of the new The opportunity exhibition is the result of courageous leadership The new Holocaust and Human Rights space and cause for celebration. It will allow the Museum comes at a crucial time. The world we live in is to reach new and diverse audiences, bring people changing. Populations are growing, technology together and start important conversations. In its is connecting us faster than ever before to each own modest way, the exhibition will contribute to other and to world news. The media confronts shaping a better world. I am proud to have been a us daily with questions about truth, challenges part of this project. sjm

sjm Yearbook 2017 21 If it is precious to you, we will value it too Roslyn Sugarman Head Curator

I am invariably in awe of the material I evidence of celebration embodies within it the am privileged to work with at the Sydney tragedy that was unfolding for Hungarian Jews. Jewish Museum. On a daily basis I come Personal photographs and memorabilia have been donated by the Sydney Jewish community across an item in our collection that stops since the inception of the Museum 25 years me in my tracks, such as this photograph ago. We collect in three main areas – Judaica, donated in 1992. With no ‘traditional’ Australian Jewish history and Holocaust, each white wedding gown to prompt instant category providing for extensive collecting recognition of the importance of the opportunities. With extensive growth, our event, it took some time for me to realise current holdings number around 9000 items and increase annually by 600 to 800 items, each that the image depicts a bride and groom carefully documented, researched and preserved, outside the just minutes after safeguarding the community’s heritage. their marriage. Pre-war photographs are integral to depicting the ‘world that was’, documenting the lives of the With extensive Jewish world before it was devastated by Nazi growth, our At the wedding of Robert Steiner (later Sardy) and Germany and collaborators. current holdings Suzanna Mikler, family and friends attending wore One of the most difficult things for curators number around the yellow Star of David. But Robert, forced by the to deal with is the donation of clearly significant 9000 items Rabbi to take off his Hungarian army uniform and images and albums of photographs, but of and increase swap it with a friend’s civilian jacket, refused to unknown people and places. We grapple with annually by 600 wear the stigmatising star on his wedding day, a decisions around disposal or retention of such small act of protest against these discriminating material. I have a fresh approach after meeting to 800 items, measures. Nevertheless, we see him wearing an with curators at the US Holocaust Memorial each carefully Arbeitslaager (work camp) armband, telling in Museum. documented, itself. There was no honeymoon for the couple. Even without identification, photographs can researched After the ceremony bride and groom separated help the post-war generation of Jews come to and preserved, to find safety from imminent danger. One week know the land of their parents and grandparents safeguarding later, the deportation of the Hungarian Jews to via the landscapes, holiday spots, daily life, way the community’s the death camps began. Thus, this photographic of dressing, leisure activities, weddings and other heritage.

Suzanna and Robert Steiner wedding, , , 7 May 1944.

Leopold Schalit courting Frieda Mallach, Libau beach, Latvia, 1921. They married and immigrated to South Africa in 1927. Donated by Ethel Davis (daughter).

22 sjm Yearbook 2017 Unidentified photographs, donated in 1992 by Max Schein (formerly Moniek events depicted in the images, re-creating the Himmelschein). lost world and nudging the memory. We always try to decipher what is written on the reverse of an image – a name or date, a dedication to the person to whom it was given. We look for the stamps of the photo studios, an indication of the city or town in which it was reproduced. A photograph could be the only surviving memento of a person or the only sample of their handwriting. Nevertheless, the fates of many gather as much material from survivors and their A photograph will remain unknown and unseen. That is why descendants while it is still possible. it is preferable for survivors and descendants to Envisaging that this would vastly increase our could be the donate material to the Museum while they are collection, I successfully applied for a grant from only surviving able to impart the related history, stories and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure memento of a experiences. (EHRI) to investigate how best to manage this person or the only There is a diminishing window of opportunity process. This gave me the opportunity to do sample of their to collect from those closely associated with the research at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum handwriting. Holocaust and the imperative is to collect now. (USHMM). The USHMM has recently expanded We believe that there is still an abundance of their facilities, implicitly suggesting that there material in community hands at risk of remaining is a huge amount out there to be collected, undiscovered. With this in mind, we have and I gained this invaluable direction in how to embarked on a pro-active collecting campaign to proceed with this project. Though officially titled

sjm Yearbook 20172016 23 If it is precious to you, we will value it too Roslyn Sugarman Head Curator

Dale relinquished the last picture taken of her father Icek Feldman who, in May 1941, received an encouraging letter from the local French authorities requesting he report to them, but in reality was deported to Pithiviers transit camp, and then Auschwitz where he was murdered. Accepting large collections pose curators with unique challenges. They do not always lay bare their story willingly, nor present themselves in a linear fashion, as curator Rachel Mensforth discovered when she worked on the Kaars Collection. It was a complex, multi-layered donation, but beyond the initial sorting, we found the most incredible narrative, beginning in Utrecht, Holland and continuing 40 years later in Sydney’s Lower North Shore. The large selection of documents, photographs

Icek Feldman (marked ‘Harvesting hidden treasures in the community: and letters was donated by brothers Robert with an ‘x’), Pithiviers, Advancing the science of proactive collecting’, my and Michael Kaars. It pertains to the life of their France, 1941-42. Donated co-curator, Shannon Biederman, has nicknamed parents, Netty and Abraham. Both survived the by Jacqueline Dale the project ‘Searching with Sugarman’. Holocaust, but in very different circumstances. (daughter). There are survivors who have no idea that what In 1943 Netty’s first husband Jacob Van Praag they have saved from this period is relevant to was transported to Auschwitz and murdered. others. Our aim is to make them aware of how Netty and her parents were taken to Vught but, important it is for them to tell their story. Boxes of not long after, both her mother and father were material left to the Museum in a deceased estate deported to Sobibor where they were murdered. Abraham Kaars false do not help preserve the legacy of the individuals. Netty was put to work in the Philips Factory, a role ID. Kaars collection. Survivors donate items as they feel they are she attributes to saving her life. When she and the

Netty Kaars and her ready to part with them, based on trusting that other workers were moved to Auschwitz (where first husband. they will be precious to us. Recently Jacqueline they adopted the title ‘Philips Transport’) their

24 sjm Yearbook 2017 The Lloyd Triestino. Kaars collection.

Netty and Abraham Kaars, post-1950. special skills were redirected to the Telefunken to researchers. factory, Reichenbach. As the Russians advanced, For Abraham and Netty, Australia offered the workers moved from camp to camp and were hope and distance from the shadow of war. It is finally liberated in Hamburg. From there, Netty truly a privilege to work with the Kaars family on and the surviving ‘Philips Transport’ workers retelling and preserving this history; it will endure recovered in Malmo, Sweden. as testament to the experience of Sydney’s At about the time Netty was rounded up for remarkable survivor community. transport to Vught, Abraham was organising false One of the valuable lessons that I learned For the identity documents. For the remainder of the war, during my Fellowship is that everyone in the remainder of he was referred to as Johannes Lassooij; both organisation has a role to play in the collecting his false passport and identity card are now part process. Curators will do the intake and the the war, he of the Museum collection. He hid in plain site processing, and undertake the research as with was referred to until liberation in 1945: “I lost myself among a the Kaars Collection, but ‘non-curators’ can help as Johannes few thousand young Dutchmen forced to work in source original material in private collections and Lassooij; both his Germany … in part of a large factory with about make introductions for the curators to follow up. false passport 20 boys, we spent the next two years working six In August, Sandra Eldridge produced and identity card days a week from 7 to 7.” Kindertransport at the Darlinghurst Theatre are now part Netty’s Shoah Foundation testimony conveys Company and at an accompanying forum, one of the Museum her unease with the identity of survivor. Both she of the guest speakers was Karen Midalia, the collection. and Abraham had their tattoos removed before daughter of a Kindertransport child, Ingrid immigrating to Australia in 1951. The couple Ehrlich. We asked Karen, “Do you have original immersed themselves in their new life; their material from your mum?” She did. Ingrid’s story two boys; their friends. Netty found purpose by relates specifically to Australia. Ingrid and her looking forward, never backward and this is the sister Marion were two of only 17 children sent reason she left Holland: “You can’t forget it, that’s on a children’s transport to Australia in 1939. impossible. But I don’t want to be reminded of it.” The sisters lived in the Larino Children’s Home Interestingly, the past did not always remain in Melbourne, an orphanage administered by in the past; some questions came to be asked. the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, until they Netty began researching the fate of her loved were reunited with their parents in 1946. The ones in 1960 and this in turn triggered her artefacts Karen donated are thus truly unique and application for restitution from the companies invaluable. who profited from her work during the war. These You just never know what you can get if you documents, spanning 40 years, will be invaluable ask. And it never hurts to ask. sjm

sjm Yearbook 2017 25 Thank You to the Volunteers Rony Bognar Volunteer Manager

Our surveys show us that every visitor encounters at least five volunteers during their visit. The Museum’s opening in 1992 saw for various periods of time – a year, five years, and the founder, John Sanders AO, a many for 25 years! Our surveys show us that every Holocaust survivor himself, make one visitor encounters at least five volunteers during their visit. request to the Holocaust survivors: to What do they these volunteers have in common? volunteer and share their testimonies • They give their time willingly and generously. at the Museum with students and • Everyone understands that people’s lives are visitors. The survivors did then and different. they are still doing so 25 years later! • Each one has empathy and the ability to put themselves ‘in another person’s shoes’. • They have compassion and care deeply about Survivor Lotte Weiss recalls: “In the beginning we the Museum. came to the Museum to volunteer and we did not • Every volunteer has patience and understands know many of the other survivors, but we all got that sometimes things may not run smoothly. on well and over time learnt about each other’s • Every volunteer is dedicated to the Museum’s histories.” vision – to inspire, respect and understand Eddie Jaku, survivor, recalls: “We felt devoted all individuals within our society, particularly to the Museum from the first day and particularly relating to the lessons of the Holocaust. our monthly meetings with John Saunders.” Beginning as a small group, we have grown to Olga Horak, survivor, shares: “It was like a 300 active volunteers assisting in all areas within birth! We stepped over rubble on the Museum the Museum. building site and John Saunders AO involved us in As we mark the Museum’s 25th anniversary, everything. It felt natural to participate and Marika we salute all our volunteers, past and present. Weinberger OAM with my husband and I, were at We certainly could not have achieved so much the Museum every day. It made us very happy.” without your assistance and commitment. Over the years there have been hundreds of people, not only survivors, that have volunteered Thank You! Todah Rabah! sjm

26 sjm Yearbook 2017 Music & Memory Nicky Gluch Musicologist & Volunteer

Two Jewish ‘preachers’ sang of the liability. He is the only creature capable of making dangers of the sound of silence. They his own world and so, because of this, he must. knew that without words, there can Anders believed that Man could free himself from this paradox through listening. To him, be no understanding, that songs are music was a way to transcend the limitations nothing if they go unheard. of one’s personal and historical life and enter, instead, the realm of identity. Music allows one As the sons of Jewish refugees, they knew that to be both in and out of time, to be oneself and music is far more than entertainment; that with simultaneously other. Why, though, does history it comes legacy, identity, culture and memory. need to be transcended to achieve identity? Beware the sound of silence for with it can come This question becomes particularly pertinent in Within our an end. Embrace, rather, the wonder that is the relation to the Sydney Jewish Museum. Why can’t community, we sound of survival. a museum just be a site of historical information? have become As a musicologist and occasional conductor, I Why must it be an institute of memory? have had much opportunity to contemplate the The answer to this question is provided by quite aware of relationship between music and memory. From Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks in the speech he gave the power of a neurological perspective, the evidence is clear. upon receiving the Templeton prize in 2016. Sacks music to evoke Emotions, especially strong ones, can enhance explains that there is an important difference memory. memory processes and, as music is known to between history and memory. “History,” he says, elicit emotion, music and memory can work hand is an answer to the question, ‘What happened?’” in hand. Within our community, we have become “Memory,” on the other hand, “is an answer to quite aware of the power of music to evoke the question, ‘Who am I?’” History is about facts, memory as revealed in people with Alzheimer’s memory is about identity … Without memory, disease. Many of our loved ones who recognise so there is no identity. And without identity, we are little in their present, are able to sing along to the mere dust on the surface of infinity.”1 songs of their past. To them, Fred Astaire is alive Memory is what allows us to connect with the and well. Nurses at the Montefiore have marvelled past. Through memory we form our identity and at those who start singing in long-forgotten through identity we pass on a legacy to future languages. The brain’s paths may be a mystery, generations. The success of the Sydney Jewish but it is a mystery that seems coded in song. As Museum over the past 25 years has been in Memory is what awareness to this connection is increasing, so providing this stimulus for memory. It allows each allows us to scientists are investigating whether music might of us in the Jewish community to find an answer connect with the be used to enhance brain function. I know no one to the question ‘Who am I?’ and it educates past. Through who would not like to see this made true. countless people on the concept of identity. While memory we form To return to Simon and Garfunkel, they were working as the Sunday Manager, I used to delight our identity and the plain speakers when it came to proclaiming in meeting people who had visited the Museum the need to listen. A generation earlier, Günther as students and were returning with their own through identity Anders (born Stern) expressed the same idea in children. If the Museum was just a place of facts, we pass on a far more complex terms. It was probably personal of historical information, I believe this desire to legacy to future differences and not complexity that prevented his share would be diminished. Facts line the history generations. ideas from coming to light, but contemporary books and the internet has made them available scholar, Veit Erlmann, has aided in lifting the veil. at our fingertips. Instead, I believe it is memory Anders’ philosophy centres on the idea that Man is that they wanted to pass on, for memory is the only creature who does not have his own niche. something that is beautiful when shared. Where fauna and flora have their world made for To return to my opening statement and the them, so Man does not. His freedom is thus his idea that music provides us with legacy, culture,

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identity and memory … like Anders, I believe I was fortunate enough to attend one of these music to be a crucial entity for I see something festival concerts. The room was filled with familiar unique in its ability to connect us simultaneously faces, members of our community turning out to our past, present and future. The difference in good form. The musicians, however, were as between history and memory is that history, once diverse as our city. After an organ overture came This, I thought, recorded, need not change, but memory needs to a performance of Kaddish. The Tenor was a man is proof that we be kept alive. This is where the idea of the sound with his own rich cultural identity but, on that have survived. of survival becomes so relevant. night, standing tall and proud, he delivered, with These are the The Museum recently hosted a symposium, perfect Yiddish pronunciation, a stirring rendition words of our Performance, Empathy, Trauma and the Archive, of our memorial hymn. This, I thought, is proof people made as part of the Out of the Shadows festival. The that we have survived. These are the words of our music by the festival, led in Sydney by Dr Joseph Toltz, brought people made music by the mouth of a stranger. In mouth of a to light rediscovered compositions by Jewish this instant, we are all Jews, we are all immigrants stranger. refugee composers. The Jews who fled Europe and we are all Australians. This is us and this is before the War or resettled in far-flung places after who we shall be. sjm it, brought with them the music of their heritage. Some of this music came to light in its day, but much of it was ‘stored in archives, hidden in attics, or 1 http://templetonprize.org/pdfs/2016/20160526- 2 keynote-sacks.pdf bequeathed to family members’. In rediscovering 2 http://music.sydney.edu.au/research/special-research- the pieces, a lid was lifted on the past. events/shadows-rediscovering-jewish-music-theatre/

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From May 21 until June 1, 2017, The official commencement of the trip began 43 people, all associated with the with a guided bus tour of the city, introducing Sydney Jewish Museum, travelled us to both East and West Berlin and the general history of this significant city. Our three days to Germany and Poland. Many were in Berlin consisted of visiting many sites of volunteers at the Museum, some significance, including the Wannsee Villa on were members who wished to the shores of Lake Havel where the ‘how’ of expand their knowledge or family the final solution was decided. It was after this history by travelling through the infamous meeting that Operation Reinhardt landscape in which the Holocaust commenced and the death camps of Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor were constructed. We visited occurred. The aims of the individuals the Berlin Jewish Museum and the Memorial to on the trip were varied. We were the Murdered Jews of Europe, and other sites of guided by Resident Historian, Prof commemoration including the Grunewald Station Konrad Kwiet and escorted on from which 55,000 Berlin Jews were deported and the trip by three members of SJM the Brush Factory of Otto Weidt, a non-Jewish manufacturer who is recognised as a Righteous staff, Norman Seligman, CEO; Rony Amongst the Nations for his attempts to save Bognar, Volunteer Manager and Marie blind and deaf Jews. Bonardelli, Educator. On day four, our group left Berlin and travelled

Visiting Treblinka.

Memorial at the entry gate to Majdanek concentration camp.

Auschwitz.

Warsaw Cemetery.

30 sjm Yearbook 2017 into Poland. Some were confronted by the fact that like many before us, we left by train. Most of us spent time during that journey thinking about those people – leaving their home, with suitcases packed with just the essentials, to destinations unknown. Our time in Poland began in Warsaw where we had the opportunity to visit the few surviving (one was used as a stable by the Nazis). We visited the Umschlagplatz – from where the Jews of Warsaw were deported – and explored what was left of the wall which surrounded the ghetto which, during the Nazi era, contained almost 500,000 Jews. Our visit to the Jewish Historical Centre and the viewing of rare film footage allowed us to have a greater understanding of the deplorable conditions under which the Jews were forced to exist. The following days were spent visiting more sites of Nazi atrocities – the memorial at Treblinka where 900,000 Jews were murdered and only 67 survived; the The first meeting is at our expense killing pits outside Tykocin where the entire Jewish community was marched into the forest and shot; Majdanek, a death camp that stands so complete, it could be up and running in 24 hours and of course the Auschwitz complex – Auschwitz I and Birkenau. The vastness of the camp is unimaginable, extending as far as one can see, but even standing there and seeing its enormity, it is hard to understand the degradation and precise process and intricacy of the murder machine that was responsible for the destruction of 1.1 million people, one million of whom were Jews. At each site we recited Kaddish, lit candles and vowed to remember. Our trip was informative, allowing those of us who are guides to return ready to educate our visitors with more personal insights. It was also overwhelming, leaving us feeling shattered at times but even more in awe of our amazing survivor volunteers who pay honour to the dead, by educating future generations when retelling their experiences. Our group became tightly bonded as they explored past-histories – both personal and collective – and examined the impossible- to-answer question of “Why?”. Special thanks is owed to the Sydney Jewish Museum and their professional staff who crafted an informative, educational trip and ensured our wellbeing at all times. The next trip is being planned for 2019. sjm

sjm Yearbook 2017 31 Sydney Jewish Museum 25 Year Anniversary 1992–1995 Shannon Biederman Curator Collections

The Sydney Jewish come, using their past to inspire 1994 Museum opened its doors moral and ethical reflection in on 18 November 1992 after the present. They sought to relay The release of Schindler’s List in their stories with the goal of February made 1994 even busier more than a decade of strengthening the democracy than the previous year, bringing an debate about the need for fundamental to Australian life. influx of visitors wanting to learn a ‘Jewish’ museum. These dreams became a reality more after seeing the film. A gala with the generosity of one survivor, charity premiere of the film was At the heart of this was the John Saunders AO, who realised held, with part of the proceeds Australian Association of Jewish the importance and urgency of benefiting the Museum. Holocaust Survivors. They preserving this history. Of the many exhibits, the aspired to build an institution in creation of the Sanctum of the memory of those who were 1992 Remembrance was the most murdered during the Holocaust – Hundreds attended the opening significant. Many survivors have a place in which their stories could on 18 November 1992. It was no graves to visit and pay their remain alive for generations to a particularly emotional and respects to loved ones, and this exciting event for the survivors became a place in which to do so. Construction whose dream was now a reality. The Museum won the of the SJM. They finally had a museum, a prestigious Award of Distinction memorial and a home, a place in the Cultural Tourism Division of to fulfil their sacred duty to the 1994 NSW Tourism Awards for commemorate and to speak for Excellence. those who never could. Community 1993 preview of SJM plans. Thousands came to see the new One of many Museum. A dynamic program well attended of functions, film screenings public programs. and lectures, concerts and book launches commenced. The first school groups came and Project John Heritage, a program to teach Saunders AO, Alex students oral Weinberger and history techniques, was launched Sol Schonberger affixing the as part of Education Week. mezuzah.

Survivor Olga Opening of the Gala preview Horak OAM with Sanctum. of Schindler’s List. students.

Survivors in the new Museum.

Prime Minister Bob Hawke AC opens the resource centre.

32 sjm Yearbook 2017 1995–2002

1995 building, forcing the Museum to close for a month for repairs. This A most extraordinary year in the did not deter record numbers of Museum’s history, with many people flocking to the Museum to events celebrating the 50th see the exhibition. Anniversary of Liberation. The The first Board of Management. highlight of these events was the 2000 tribute evening at the Sydney In the year 2000 the Museum Opera House. The audience of focused on preserving the 2,000 people were treated to an survivors’ testimonies for evening of music, a stellar array future generations. Project 120 of speakers, both local and from was launched to videotape overseas – Liberators, Survivors survivor guides recounting their and Descendants. experiences. Within The Resource Centre was The Museum inaugurated its the Walls: opened by former Prime Minister Generation to Generation guide Theresienstadt 1941-1945 training course which focused Bob Hawke AC. exhibition. on the twin axes of history and 1996 – 1998 memory. Future guides were Things began to change matched with a survivor mentor, significantly. To this point, the whose personal story gave Museum had been mainly funded participants a visceral connection Chinese Australian forum by its founder, John Saunders AO, to the material studied. visit Crossroads but it was time to look outside exhibition. for wider support. This was a 2001 Crossroads: particularly difficult time for the The Crossroads: Shanghai and the Shanghai and Museum, requiring dramatic Jews of China exhibition opened, the Jews of China reduction in staff numbers and making 2001 a year of exciting exhibition. activities. A new Committee of programs. In Sydney there were Management was formed as part three other major institutions with of the process of becoming part of exhibitions on China allowing for the community. In 1998 the SJM many interesting joint ventures became the 18th member of the and a city-wide tour between The opening Jewish Communal Appeal, the the venues. Events such as the of The Children’s NSW Jewish community’s major Harmony Day Dinner were held Memorial. fundraising body. with the Chinese Australian Forum, where an 8-course ‘Kosher 1999 style’ Chinese banquet was served, Within the Walls: The forging bonds with the Chinese Theresienstadt Ghetto exhibition community. opened – the first major temporary exhibition by the 2002 Museum since 1996. It was also the The Children’s Memorial, one of first traveling exhibition. the most moving spaces in the A massive hailstorm Sydney Jewish Museum, was significantly damaged the opened. Each year the memorial

sjm Yearbook 2017 33 Sydney Jewish Museum 25 Year Anniversary 2003–2007 Shannon Biederman Curator

is re-dedicated on Korczak Day, Despite the disruptions, the commemorating the Jewish Museum had a record 10,000 school doctor Janusz Korczak for his visitors during the calendar year. humanity and self-sacrifice, A new program, Health Care and photographs submitted by and the Holocaust was launched members of the community are to help aged care staff understand added to the Memorial’s wall. the special needs of survivors. The Museum had a Capital Appeal to raise funds for 2005 infrastructure expansion. A The 60th anniversary of Liberation successful dinner was held with saw huge festivities planned. The 2,000 guests to hear keynote celebrations, including an event, 2002 Capital speaker Samuel Pisar, Holocaust Liberation, Life and Lamingtons, Appeal function survivor, lawyer and author. were held at to cope with the crowds. Survivors First 2003 were photographed with their Community The Community Stories family. The permanent exhibition Stories book Lives Lost, Department was established The Long Journey to Freedom was Lives Regained with the aim of giving members also opened. launched. the opportunity to express their individual family histories in 2006 written form and to create an 2006 was the first year that the archival collection of the social 27th of January officially came history of the NSW Jewish to be observed as The United Scheinberg community. Mentoring and a Nations Holocaust Memorial Day, Family photo from range of publishing options commemorated together with 60th anniversary of Liberation. were offered, as were writing the Liberation of Auschwitz at the workshops, the first of which Museum. produced the collection Lives Lost, Serniki: Unearthing the Lives Regained. Holocaust was added to the Museum’s permanent exhibition. 2004 It was unique in that it showed Building works using money Australia’s contri­bution to the raised at the Capital Appeal forensic archaeology of sourcing officially commenced. The evidence for the trials of suspected refurbishments included war criminals, who had made their First programs classrooms and educational homes in Australia after World launched. facilities, provisions for disabled War II. access, new offices, climate In addition to high school First UN Holocaust controlled archival storage Holocaust education programs, Memorial Day areas, a guide debriefing room, the Museum launched a series celebrated at the a vastly expanded library and of programs for primary school SJM. resource centre, a new temporary students. These consisted of age exhibition space, new and appropriate tours of the Holocaust improved public toilets and a new exhibits as well as tailor-made café area. workshops on Judaism.

34 sjm Yearbook 2017 2007–2012

2007 Collection items donated by In 2007 the NAJEX. Association of Jewish Ex-Service­ Butterflies men and Women transferred their from the Butterflies of Hope substantial collection into the exhibition. Museum’s custody. With close to 600 artefacts donated, it was an important aspect of the Museum’s collection on Australian Jewish History. Butterflies of Hope was Resident Historian, Prof Konrad launched, the first Holocaust Kwiet, led a group of 25 on a exhibition developed by the journey through Berlin, Poland Museum for a younger audience and Israel celebrating the richness and the first exhibition to include of pre-war European Jewish other genocides. life, to remember and mourn its destruction and witness its 2008 regeneration. The first refurbishment of the Museum’s permanent exhibition 2010 Her Excellency space took place with the opening The Museum took the opportunity Quentin Bryce AC of Culture and Continuity: Journey of expanding its permanent officially opens through Judaism on the ground exhibition space with the opening Culture and floor. Australia’s Governor General, of Serving Australia: Jewish Continuity. Quentin Bryce AC, officiated at the Contribution in Australian Military opening. History. The arrival of the University The Museum was approached African drumming as part of Southern California Shoah by the Australian Institute of Police of It’s Not All Black Foundation Institute Visual History Management to develop a program and White. Archive exponentially expanded for their middle to high-ranking the holding of testimony at the police and emergency staff Museum’s resource centre. enrolled in a Graduate Certificate Serving Australia of Executive Management. , 2009 launched 2010. The culture of South Africa 2011 coloured the year 2009 with A crucial and long awaited the exhibition It’s Not All Black addition to the permanent and White: the South African exhibition on Jewish resistance, Jewish Story. A dynamic array of Amidah: Standing Up, was opened. programs brought record numbers This was welcomed by both of first time visitors to the Museum the survivors and the Jewish to enjoy films, discussions, music community at large, as putting to and South African delicacies. rest the myth that all Jews went George Grojnowski speaks This year was the inaugural ‘like lambs to the slaughter’ during as part of the ‘Poland tour’. The Museum’s the Holocaust. police program.

sjm Yearbook 2017 35 Sydney Jewish Museum 25 Year Anniversary 2012–2017 Shannon Biederman Curator

intellectual landscape of the city. 2012 Notable academics who presented One of the most exciting include Prof Christopher Browning, temporary exhibitions Dressing Prof Deborah Dwork, Prof Dan Unpacking of the material Sydney: The Jewish Fashion Story Michman, Prof Alan Rosen and on loan from opened 14 October 2012 to much Prof David Silberklang. the Auschwitz fanfare. It received visitors from all Birkenau State over Sydney and greater NSW. 2015 Museum. After many years of negotiating The SJM continued to grow into Dressing the curatorial department new spaces, creating the NAB Sydney: The procured its first loan from Education and Resource Centre. Jewish Fashion Story exhibition. the Auschwitz Birkenau State This new space has not only Museum, Poland. allowed for increased student A very successful Capital Appeal numbers (a record 25,000 attended was held, securing funding for an in 2015) but provides a dynamic Education and Resource Centre space for many events and and the upgrade of the Holocaust cements the Museum as a cultural Exhibition. hub for the Jewish community. The Sydney Jewish Museum 2013 survivor volunteers won the The Moving Image and Sound inaugural Lifetime Achievement Archive was launched as an Award at the NSW Volunteer of the initiative to ensure that survivor Year Award, a testament to their testimony was preserved and contribution to the community. Remember The Honourable Christopher Pyne Me with Lena MP launches the new Education and proactively collected. This Goldstein OAM. Resource Centre. same year the hugely popular 2016 Remember Me public program Despite working at limited capacity series was launched to allow the for most of 2016 due to the public the opportunity to hear upgrade, the Museum programs first-hand survivor accounts. continued, keeping pace with the previous year’s record visitor and 2014 student numbers. The Museum Prime Minister During 2014, the Museum hosted guides underwent extensive Malcolm Turnbull almost 100 public functions, training in preparation for the new opens the new making the Museum a true Permanent Holocaust Exhibition. Permanent Holocaust SJM Survivor Guides receiving community hub, contributing Exhibition. Lifetime Achievement Award. to the cultural, artistic and 2017 After nearly five years of development, the new Permanent Holocaust Exhibition was officially opened by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on 19 March 2017. The exhibition has received rave reviews from visitors. School student visitor numbers are expected to reach an all-time high this year. sjm

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SJM_Lehrer ad.indd 1 26/10/17 11:07 am The Children’s Memorial Jacqui Wasilewsky Community Stories Manager

There are 432 According to visitor surveys, the survivors, this memory was too painful and too tiles that make Children’s Memorial is consistently raw even to speak of. up the wall. As of referred to as the most haunting and The Memorial was designed by Desmond this year all are Freeman and is placed in a small room at the back filled. emotionally moving space in the of the Holocaust exhibition space. It contains Sydney Jewish Museum. This is because a wall of photos and names of children, a large of its content as well as its sombre, glass dish into which individual drops of water commemorative design. The 1.5 million continuously fall (representing the tears of the children who were murdered during the children), a sculpture of a pile of children’s shoes, some display cases and, most recently, a screen Holocaust are memorialised here. which provides an interactive digital display of the names and photos on the wall itself. There are 432 tiles that make up the wall. As The Memorial was established in 2002, inspired of this year all are filled with either photos or largely by Mary Ziegler, a long-term volunteer names of child victims who were relatives or guide at the Museum, wanting to find a way to friends of members of our community. I have ensure that her half-sister, Malka, and all of the worked on updating the wall annually and it other child Holocaust victims were never remains a truly harrowing experience. Each photo forgotten. Mary had spent much of her life not raises emotions in me, and questions about the knowing about the existence of Malka and her child – how, when and where they lived as well father’s first wife because, like so many other as when and where they were murdered. I have

38 sjm Yearbook 2017 also wondered what people who knew and loved of the wall on a screen with a search function. As them remembered about them. As someone part of the upgrade of the Holocaust exhibition so removed, both in time and place from what space this year, the digital represen­tation was happened, I wanted a way to access their installed in the Memorial itself. individuality and their humanity. Only when speaking to one of our guides I set about contacting the donors and did I realise the true strength of the digital They are requesting any additional information that they representation. According to her, students are interacting with had about the children. I realised that whilst the standing at the wall and telling the names of the information message of the wall was already very strong, a children to other students standing at the screen. message which was deeply relatable for students They are interacting with the information in a new in a new and and visitors alike, young people today require that and valuable way, and the names and photos are valuable way, all of their experiences be personalised. In their becoming real people who lived, were loved, were and the names world, their experiences are enhanced by bringing lost, but are now remembered. and photos are them one step closer to their own lives. I wanted 2017 saw the last spaces on the wall filled. becoming real them to see the children as people who had lived, It is both remarkable and incredibly sad that people who lived, but for whom all opportunities to grow up, have our community was able to contribute so many were loved, were careers and lives, had been extinguished. names and that we are still being approached lost but are now Many donors had spent time searching for more by people providing more names and photos. remembered. information on their lost family members and had Going forward we will not be adding names to discovered their dates and places of death and the Children’s Memorial, but can add them to our sometimes even the circumstances under which new electronic memorial which will be located they were murdered. Others, however, had little on the top floor of the Museum space. This will or no information. We collated it all and decided be unveiled towards the end of this year, so that that the best way to enable visitors to interact any children, not yet included on the wall, can be with the knowledge was to create a digital version immortalised there. sjm

Community Stories

Since its inception in 2003, Community our first illustrated book for younger readers and Stories has gone from strength to are working on our second one at the moment. strength. Originally publishing only We have another five books between the editing and design phase and we anticipate that they will Holocaust memoirs, it has grown to all be published within the next 12 months. include the stories of many different Additionally, Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer’s members of our community. We have second edition of her book Rosie’s War – Escape published books about , from Singapore 1942 won the best non-fiction South African Jews, Jews from Arab lands award for 2016 from the Society of Women Writers. The first edition of this book was and those from Singapore and Shanghai. published by the Museum in 2007. The revised edition explores the Jewish community of We have extended our services to include oral Singapore, Changi and the brutality of the histories and have recently published and Japanese. This book is now available for sale from launched our 70th book. Last year we produced the Museum shop. sjm

sjm Yearbook 2017 39 A Tribute to our Major Benefactors Rob Schneider Development Director

Remebering Maurice Shortly after I took up my role as

Maurice Segura Development Director at the Sydney with Rob Schneider in Jewish Museum, I was intrigued to learn the Sanctum. Maurice is pointing to a plaque that the Museum had a supporter, a in memory of his uncle Greek Jew who had also lived in South Isaac who perished at Auschwitz. Africa where I was born.

With this common history and many friendships with Greek people going back over the years, I really wanted to meet Maurice Segura and learn more about this man and why he was a friend to the Museum. In his inimitable and analytical way, he became Maurice was a man of many facets; a man with a master at this game and loved to talk about an encyclopaedic knowledge of a broad range of his strategies for making the most out of his topics from military history through to music and investments. entertainment. He had a dry sense of humour, a In the knowledge that many of his family wry grin and a twinkle or wicked gleam in his eyes members did not survive the Holocaust, Maurice that I will never forget. read extensively on the history of WWII and I soon learned that it was difficult to stop was particularly interested in how a person Maurice once he started talking, and that he could like Hitler could come to power and maintain literally talk for hours. Many times I heard his wife his power. Maurice accumulated a substantial Elaine shout, “Maurice, stop talking and have library of books, many of which he donated to the Maurice your tea before it gets cold,” but cold tea was the Museum’s library. Maurice also erected a plaque accumulated last thing on Maurice’s mind as he regaled me in the Sanctum of Rememberance in memory of a substantial with stories. Tales of his childhood in Salonica, his uncle Isaac who was murdered at Auschwitz. library of books, his time in the Greek army, the loss of family in Elaine passed away in February 2015 and many of which he Auschwitz and his audacious enterprise selling it became increasingly difficult for Maurice to donated to the curios to German soldiers in Athens. While more remain in his beautiful Cronulla apartment. Museum’s library. than 90 percent of Salonica's Jewish population Together with his niece Shirley, I set about looking was murdered by the Nazis, Maurice managed at suitable facilities for Maurice. After viewing to obtain false identities for his mother, his three and rejecting a number of facilities, we hit the sisters and himself. After the War, he arranged jackpot when Maurice visited the Montefiore in for himself and his immediate family to migrate Randwick and felt comfortable enough to agree to South Africa where he set up an enterprise in to move in. Whilst Maurice was always proud of Johannesburg manufacturing leather goods. his Jewish roots, he was not observant, but I do In 1961, following the Sharpeville riots, Maurice believe that at Monte, he rediscovered his roots. had the foresight to once again relocate his It was a great joy for us to celebrate and discuss family, this time to Sydney, where he established the Jewish holidays that he again became aware a thriving manufacturing business. As the family of once he became a resident at Monte. In fact, ‘godfather’, all Maurice’s sisters and brothers- such was Maurice’s memory of his childhood in-law were employed in this enterprise, which Hebrew lessons back in Salonica that, one day, was sold to the factory manager when Maurice when I asked him whether he remembered the decided to retire and focus on the stock market. Sh’ma, he promptly recited the opening sentence:

40 sjm Yearbook 2017 “Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonay Eloheinu, Adonay Echad.” In memory of Vera Clarke I then recited the rest of the prayer with Maurice repeating the words after me. It was a very Vera Clarke was born in Budapest in 1923 and moving experience for both of us! managed, in difficult circumstances, to survive Maurice never forgot his roots; never forgot his the war in Hungary. She met her husband George family who were murdered in the Holocaust and in 1939 when she was 17, and they married three never forgot the Sydney Jewish Museum which is years later. Vera’s uncle helped her family survive the beneficiary of a substantial bequest from his the last year of the war after Germany occupied estate. May his dear soul rest in peace. I will never Hungary. Vera and George wanted to leave Europe forget Maurice either. behind them and arrived in Australia in 1949. Vera Clarke. In Australia they were diligent and worked hard. On 24 October, the Museum launched a temporary In her spare time Vera went to a language school exhibition entitled The Jews of Greece dedicated and watched foreign films with English subtitles to to the memory and generosity of the late Maurice learn the language. George started with cabinet- Segura. The exhibition runs to 18 February 2018. making and taxi driving and Vera learned to be a

sjm Yearbook 2017 41 A Tribute to our Major Benefactors Rob Schneider Development Director

machinist in leather goods and later clothing. have endowed two galleries in the refurbished In 1960 they opened a sandwich shop in Holocaust section in their own names and a Ashfield. Vera filled the shop with her Hungarian third in the name of their late daughter, Vivienne cooking, attracting many patrons including Sonnenschein Weinstock. Germans, Greeks and Hungarians. The business Egon and Miriam Sonnenschein are no was successful, but required long hours and hard strangers to the Museum with Egon, a Holocaust In their own work. Following the sale of the shop in 1974, it survivor from Yugoslavia, regularly speaking to quiet way, was now their time to ‘smell the roses’ and they groups here, and Miriam recently completing the Miriam and Egon began to travel extensively, both in Australia and Museum Volunteer Guide Course. Sonnenschein other parts of the world. With Vera everything was The Museum is extremely grateful to the have made a done well, once she decided it was worth doing. Sonnenscheins for their generosity in word and in big difference George passed away in 2003 leaving Vera deed. to Jewish bereft. She spent her last years at the Montefiore, communal Randwick. All who knew her described her as In the ‘order’ of things endeavour both wise, empathetic and upbeat till the end. The Sydney Jewish Museum salutes our generous locally and in At Vera’s funeral, it was said, “People seek benefactors, Isaac and Susan Wakil who were Israel. ‘mindfulness’ in their busy lives and our ever made Officers in the Order of Australia in this busier world. Vera had these inate skills and those year’s Australia Day Honours Awards. In 2015, who knew her learned and grew by her example.” the Wakils generously sponsored the Mark and The Museum is extremely grateful to Vera Anna Reznik Centre of Learning on the Museum’s for remembering the Museum in her will. It is lower ground floor and they are now extending generous bequests such as hers that enable the their amazing support by endowing the Museum’s Museum to continue to fulfil its mission. Chair of Education starting from 2018. sjm Bringing ‘sunshine’ wherever they go The last year has also seen a couple come forward with an extremely generous donation to the Museum. In their own quiet way, Egon and Miriam Sonnenschein have made a big difference to Jewish communal endeavour both locally and in Israel and, to the Museum’s delight, they

Egon and Miriam Sonnenschein.

Isaac and Susan Wakil being toasted by Museum Development Director, Rob Schneider, at the investiture ceremony where the couple were made Officers in the Order of Australia.

42 sjm Yearbook 2017 Chain of Memories: Recollections from 1995 to 2017 Rita Prager Community Liaison Manager

In April 1995 I started working at the Roth, current volunteer John Lowbeer (who was Sydney Jewish Museum. Alan Jacobs, then a Board member) and myself. Under their our first CEO, gave me the chance – direction, membership and donor numbers grew steadily and now stands at 5,000. This annual a new migrant from South America commitment by our dedicated supporters is a with little English – to work in this major source of revenue for the Museum. I want to inspirational workplace. thank each one of you for your ongoing financial support. Many members and donors have been In the early days we had a small office with a with the organisation since we opened our doors skeleton staff and a large number of volunteers, 25 years ago. As with anything in life, there is most of them Holocaust survivors. They held jobs always room for improvement and we urge the in different areas such as Education, Curatorial, community to continue to rally behind us. Office, Shop, Library and Fundraising. The work was carried out with love and Sanctum of Remembrance passion. Every survivor had their own voice and The Sanctum of Remembrance was a small alcove they all felt the Museum was part of their lives. I on the second floor. Marika Weinberger OAM, 1995, our first CEO felt like I belonged to a big, extended family. President of the Australian Association of Jewish Alan Jacob’s farewell. (l-r) Front row: In the year I started, the Museum held a major Holocaust Survivors and Descendants at the time, Sol Schonberger, Rita event at the Opera House commemorating the was the force behind this project. People could Prager, Charlotte Zettel, 50th Anniversary of Survival and Liberation. purchase plaques to remember relatives who Marika Weinberger, Holocaust survivors and their families gathered, perished during the Holocaust. In 1995 there were Sylvia Eisman, Eva Gertler. Back row: with a total of 2,000 guests present. A special less than 100 plaques in the Sanctum. As part of Michelle Steele, Glen audio-visual presentation with messages from all renovations made possible by the 2002 Capital Gordon, Leon Zettel, over the world, including a message from then US Appeal, a new room was dedicated and the Suzanne Blake, Alan President, Bill Clinton, were read aloud. Sanctum now has close to 500 plaques. This Jacobs, Samantha Feldman, Marcelle In the same year, then NSW Premier, Bob Carr, initiative has provided the Museum with much Jacobs, Adrienne Sobel opened the Liberation exhibition. In the following needed funds. and security guard. years other temporary exhibitions were created around the old cafeteria and the Benefactor’s Hall. One that comes to mind was the Chocolate Panels exhibition. Some of our Holocaust survivor guides were also artists. Babette Rich painted beautiful porcelains and Alex Ferson carved wooden sculptures, and they both exhibited in- house and gave the proceeds of their sales back to the Museum. Our means of communication were a long way from today’s email, Facebook, WhatsApp and other digital media. Monthly newsletters were produced and printed in-house on A3 paper. They were taken home by our office volunteer Vera Faludi, to fold on weekends and post out by the following week. Members and donors in 1995 totalled 1,500. During John Roth’s presidency a membership committee was established. It included John

sjm Yearbook 2017 43 Chain of Memories: Recollections from 1995 to 2017 Rita Prager Community Liaison Manager Gift

In March 2017, at the opening of the the survivors’ resilience and spirit. Their major certificates new permanent exhibition, Dr Avril Alba, concern and a common question was and is, “Who Redevelopment Project Director, spoke about her will carry on our stories once we are no longer here?” In lieu of giving a gift for an views regarding remembering and reflecting on Today, as I reflect upon my amazing journey anniversary, milestone or special the past and the future, and by doing so creating at the SJM, I am confident that we continue to occasion, please consider making Many members what she called a Chain of memories. So how do ensure that the voices and experiences of the a donation to the Sydney Jewish and donors have we, the next generation, do so in a way that is Holocaust survivors are not only never forgotten, been with the relevant to all ages? Avril mentioned that in the but that they continue to enrich the lives of all Museum. The recipient will receive organisation Jewish tradition, names hold deep personal and the visitors who come to our Museum. Our work a beautiful card advising that a Chain of memories since we opened communal resonance. of continues to be transmitted donation was made by you in their our doors The Sanctum of Remembrance is one of those from generation to generation. To organise a donation The importance of ‘our’ Museum is to show what honour (the amount is not stated). 25 years ago. spaces in the Museum where names have a please call the Museum profound meaning for those placing a plaque. In the face of history looks like when it is allowed to You will be acknowledged for your Avril’s words, “By doing so, we are continuing the come back to life, to flourish and fulfil its destiny. generous support. for further information Chain of memories.” The flame is allowed to burn once again. It is the Over all of these years, I have come to admire Chain of memories that matters. sjm All donations are tax-deductible. 02 9360 7999

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Contact Rita Prager on 02 9360 7999 or email communityliaison@ sjm.com.au for further Your major gift or endowment will help the Museum information. to expand its education programs and ensure the victims of the Holocaust are never forgotten. Contact Rob Shneider on 02 8036 0136 or email [email protected] for a confidential discussion about how you can help. 44 sjm Yearbook 2017

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gift certificates.indd 1 15/8/17 1:27 pm Sanctum & Plaques

The Museum’s Sanctum of Remembrance is dedicated to the memory of the six million martyrs and the heroes who survived the Holocaust but are no longer with us. We invite you to remember a loved one by dedicating a plaque in their honour.

Contact Rita Prager on 02 9360 7999 or email communityliaison@ sjm.com.au for further information.

Sanctum ad3.indd 1 7/11/17 2:50 pm Professor Konrad Kwiet First-rate historian, Jewish humanist, pioneer Yotam Weiner Education Manager

Prof Konrad Kwiet with a small selection of the books he has published and contributed to. Photographer: Katherine Griffiths.

Those of us who work at the Sydney Christopher R. Browning said: “Konrad Kwiet Jewish Museum feel lucky for many was a pioneer in researching the newly-opened reasons. One of them is the opportunity East European archives after 1989 and provided to be named ‘colleagues’ of our Resident invaluable assistance to Australia’s Special Investigations Unit in its belated attempt to bring “Konrad is a first- Historian, Prof Konrad Kwiet. What Holocaust perpetrators residing in Australia to rate historian, fascinates me is how the vast majority of justice.” having dealt with Australians have never heard of Konrad. Yehuda Bauer: “Konrad is a first-rate historian, Nazi policies in He is one of Australia’s greatest historians having dealt with Nazi policies in the Netherlands, the Netherlands, and undoubtedly one of Australia’s German-Jewish reactions to the Holocaust and other equally central topics. His work as the Chief German-Jewish greatest minds. A true living treasure. reactions to the Historical Consultant to the Australian commission Holocaust and dealing with Nazi war criminals in Australia led other equally him to deal closely with survivors’ testimonies, central topics.” – Historians have assessed Konrad in the highest and exposed him to that combination of detailed terms: historical research and individual experience that Yehuda Bauer Raul Hilberg wrote: … [Konrad Kwiet is] a has become a hallmark of his work … He is a Jewish researcher from Australia whose knowledge of humanist, not only an important historian.” archival resources in the field of Holocaust studies I asked Konrad about his life and the last is unsurpassed. 25 years at the Museum.

46 sjm Yearbook 2017 Yotam Weiner: When did you hear of the idea of this is an important event in history. I think it was starting a Museum? even more important for the survivors to have this Konrad Kwiet: I was asked by David Dinte, who place. For them it became a second home – where called me in to early discussions about properties they could mourn, where they could meet – that and the site of the Museum. The initial questions was important for them. For the wider audience, were: ‘Who will design the museum? Who will most Australians had no clue about what be the sponsors? John Saunders AO almost happened in Europe during that time. single-handedly covered the costs and was also What I liked from the beginning was identifying involved in the conception of the design. Once objects, not only to see documents and photos he had made his initial contribution, he pulled but something from history that I could touch. If I back a little and left it to others. In the beginning, get an object that is related to a story, it’s related apart from the architects and curators, there to a person. I find it more exciting to be in an were hardly any professionals. John asked me if archive and touch an original piece of paper … it’s I would volunteer and I agreed. great!

YW: What was your role, in the beginning? YW: What are your fondest memories KK: To provide the historical framework: I from the last 25 years? composed captions, looked at images and KK: That’s difficult. There are many of them. There ensured there were no mistakes. At that stage we were two or three survivor speeches I found very hardly had any educators, there was no training intriguing. Yehuda Bauer’s visits were always for guides or visiting schools. All the volunteers illuminating. Yehuda’s wife, Ilana, introduced him were Holocaust survivors and they were on stage, musically, by playing the flute. dedicated and committed. My wedding was not bad either! (35 years ago, Konrad and Jane were married in a civil YW: Why did you want the Museum to exist? ceremony. In 2016, officiated by a Rabbi, they KK: I thought it was a community that still had wed at Emanuel Synagogue and celebrated at the many survivors. I said, “This is the place where Museum.) it should be done.” I could combine it with my What I always found interesting was when academic position. I had an academic life at the there were visitors from Israel, such as the university, and this was something new that could President, that the survivors would queue and enrich my working life. want to be greeted personally – for them it was unbelievably important to be recognised after YW: Were there people opposed to the founding all the humiliation. They had experienced such of the Museum? humiliation and degradation, it took a long time KK: For many survivors, you can imagine that they before they regained a kind of self-confidence. At thought this was a forgotten and closed chapter the end of the day they found that the Museum in their lives, and so did not want this reactivation gave them official recognition. of their memories. In the late 70s and early 80s, when the idea of the Museum started to emerge, YW: How many testimonies have you read and there was a kind of awakening and some survivors do you have concerns about testimonies? thought they had to organise themselves and KK: More than 1,000 and I am still collecting. I keep the memory alive, but it was still a minority. have learned not to discuss or question survivors. 10 or 20 years ago I was a little more critical and YW: What did you want the Museum to achieve? let my thoughts be publicly known. Now I don’t KK: To keep the memory alive and to teach visitors question anymore. I’ve learned it doesn’t matter. I about the Holocaust; to make people aware that have a way of pushing these concerns aside.

sjm Yearbook 2017 47 Professor Konrad Kwiet First-rate historian, Jewish humanist, pioneer Yotam Weiner Education Manager

YW: What is the purpose of survivors sharing historical findings are not sacrosanct forever. testimony today? If Timothy Snyder is right, that ‘History does not KK: School students who visit the Museum today repeat. But it does offer us examples and patterns, need to meet a living witness. They can google and thereby enlarges our imaginations and creates and see films, but here they see someone. It’s more possibilities for anticipation and resistance’, then the Holocaust is a warning for us. In 20, 30, I think the the most significant experience during their visit to the Museum. That can’t compete with 40 years, other catastrophes may occur that cause real lesson is any lecture or display or virtual reconstruction. us to view the Holocaust differently. to understand It is meaningful because there is a real person why ordinary outside their traditional learning experience who YW: So, the lesson learned is? people did what can speak about what they experienced. Telling KK: That what is more important than teaching they did; why a story is much better than reading a book or a people facts, is making them aware of what they Jews were not film; having a living witness about whom people themselves derive or conclude from the facts. in a position to can say, “They went through something and they We need to build and enhance critical awareness resist; and why survived.” so that people question, try to find answers the vast army of and develop the capacity to think critically. The onlookers played YW: Do you believe in the lessons of history? Museum provides this trigger to think, question an equally KK: Only if you ask the right questions! The authority, question the past and question important role invalid, easy answer is, “Never ever.” That is tradition. in allowing the easy. I think the real lesson is to understand why Holocaust to ordinary people did what they did; why Jews were YW: What has the Museum done for the happen. not in a position to resist; and why the vast army Jewish community in Sydney? of onlookers played an equally important role in KK: It follows that old Jewish principle, which allowing the Holocaust to happen. Thereafter, I think is a mitzvah; to ‘keep the memory alive’. we need to pay homage to those who risked There is a religious obligation to remember and to their lives and stood up. These are lessons. At the mourn, rather than to fear that if you deviate you end of the day, having almost exhausted what I will be punished. can learn from history, the fact is that I still can’t The message is to recognise that Jews stood up explain certain things. The more I have learned, as much as they could, but Jews on their own the more I have researched, the less answers I were not in a position to resist completely as have. resistance required the cooperation of non-Jews. Without non-Jews, Jews are lost. It is the same YW: What do people learn when they come to the with antisemitism. Jews on their own can’t At the end of the Museum? combat it successfully, they need non-Jews. day, I think that KK: That everything is much more complicated Another lesson the Holocaust provides is that younger people than historians or educators tell them, what kind despite the huge and traumatic loss and should take over. of alternatives people had and why they chose destruction of Jewish life, Jews showed resilience It’s as simple as what they chose. As a historian, I know how short and ensured continuity. The Museum is an that. my view is. There is no absolute truth which example of that. remains forever. In the future, if contemporary concerns change, if the context in which we are YW: And your future after 25 years? working changes, then we may change our view KK: I think I am slowly preparing for my departure, and our interpretation of history. If you look to because I believe that even this Museum could the historiography of the Holocaust from 1945 exist and continue without an historian now. At to today you will see there are waves of different the end of the day, I think that younger people approaches, different answers which show that should take over. It’s as simple as that. sjm

48 sjm Yearbook 2017 45 Abakus 2016 aud.pdf 1 15/09/2016 2:16 pm Beyond Godwin’s Law: Exploring the significance of the Holocaust for contemporary bioethics A/Prof Michael Robertson SJM Professorial Fellow

The renaissance of right-wing political populism, ethno-nationalism and racism in geopolitics reminds us of the importance of a sophisticated grasp of history to understand our current times. Canonical events in Stairs to the human history, none more so than Gaschamber – Hadamar the Shoah, must be continually Gedenkstätte Germany. Photo Edwina Light, 2015. re‑examined in the present context.

The necessity to do so is underscored by In the early 1990s philosopher Zygmunt Bauman’s compelling a US lawyer, Mike argument that the Holocaust remains an ever- Godwin, outlined present potential in modernity and that the an axiom about culture that produced Auschwitz persists. the problem of In the early 1990s a US lawyer, Mike Godwin, glib comparisons outlined an axiom about the problem of glib of current events comparisons of current events to the Nazis or the to the Nazis or Holocaust. What is now recognised as ‘Godwin’s the Holocaust. Law’ avers that ‘as an online debate increases in length, it becomes inevitable that someone will eventually compare someone or something to moral actions of the Nazi doctors can inform Adolf Hitler or the Nazis’.1 Godwin’s corresponding current debate and practices and furthermore observation is that not all comparisons are prevent the use of inaccurate analogies in current inappropriate, and he implores us to provide a bioethical debates”.3 ‘meaningful and substantive’2 analysis of the Nazi In 2015, the Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) and period and the Holocaust. Applying this to the Sydney Health Ethics (SHE), from the University field of bioethics, Israeli physician Tessa of Sydney’s School of Public Health, established Chelouche wrote that, “Any suggestion that there the SJM-SHE visiting fellowship program. They may be analogies between the way the Nazis were appointed Prof Garry Walter AM, Dr Edwina Light and the way we are, between what they did and and Associate Professor Michael Robertson as what we are doing would be held by some to be inaugural fellows. Throughout 2017, the SJM- absurd. In their view what transpired during the SHE partnership has focused on academic Holocaust was unique and therefore unusable in and community activities seeking to advance the present discourse on bioethics. Others would understanding of the contemporary significance state that inquiry into the value judgments and of the Holocaust to biomedical ethics. These activities included expert panel discussions conducted as part of the Jewish International 1 Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition, 2012 2 Godwin, M (2015). “Sure, call Trump a Nazi. Just make Film Festival, regular presentations in the SJM’s sure you know what you’re talking about.” Washington Post, 14 December 2015. Accessed online: https://www. washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/12/14/ 3 Chelouche, T, Brahmer, G (2013). Casebook on Bioethics sure-call-trump-a-nazi-just-make-sure-you-know-what- and the Holocaust. UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, youre-talking-about/ University of Haifa, Israel

50 sjm Yearbook 2017 Wednesday education programs, relevant in collaboration with Dr Astrid Ley from the publications in prestigious scientific journals and Brandenburg Memorials Foundation in Germany Throughout periodicals, and presentations at international on the topic of the Nazi ‘euthanasia’ program and 2017, the SJM- scientific meetings, including the World its complex relation to the Holocaust. SHE partnership Psychiatric Association meeting, the Second The next 12 months will see SJM-SHE fellows has focused International Scholars Workshop ‘Medicine in the coordinate the Australian visit of a travelling upon academic Holocaust and Beyond’, and the MHS meeting in exhibition from Germany, Registered, Persecuted, and community Annihilated – The sick and disabled under National Sydney. activities seeking SJM-SHE fellows continued their program of Socialism. This exhibition will provide the focus to advance field work in Western Poland, Nuremberg and of several community, academic and cultural understanding of Berlin as part of an ongoing empirical ethics activities that will enable the SJM to form study about the values of the German psychiatric relationships with many new community groups the contemporary profession under the National Socialist regime. to ensure that the project of deep engagement significance of Two SJM-SHE fellows, Edwina Light and Michael with the legacies of the Holocaust evolves and the Holocaust to Robertson, have completed a book project flourishes. sjm biomedical ethics.

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sjm Yearbook 2017 51 Public Programs & Events Aviva Wolff Operations Manager

The Public Programs at the Museum those books launched this year: Jewish Anzacs continue to expand exponentially written by Mark Dapin; The Red Danube by Vera in all aspects; the number of events Harltey; Colin Tatz’s The Magnitude of Genocide; Jackie French’s latest book for young readers, hosted, the large number of attendees Goodbye Mr Hitler; and When Freedom Beckons: at each event, and the diversity of the The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Jewish programs on offer. Journey to Australia by Vasilios Vasilas. We have also held book launches for three Holocaust survivors who wrote their memoirs: Hardly a week goes by without a program of Francine Lazarus (Dame Marie Bashir launched The Museum some description on offer, not only for our her book), Peter Nash and Eddy Boas. has gained Museum members, but also for the wider Sydney The talks by Holocaust survivors continue to an excellent community. The Museum has gained an excellent draw large crowds and the presentations are quick reputation for the reputation for the well-presented and informative to sell out. Olga Horak OAM and Eddie Jaku OAM well-presented programs continuously on offer. both gave their third presentations and once again and informative I am proud to say that numerous authors have both events were packed to capacity. As part of programs contacted me as they feel the Museum is the History Week we arranged an excellent survivor continuously on perfect venue to launch their books on diverse panel with Kuba Enoch, George Grojnowski and offer. ranges of interesting topics. To name some of Jack Meister entitled The Buchenwald Boys.

Launch of Jewish Anzacs: Norman Seligman (CEO), Charles Aronson (NAJEX), Lt General Ken Gillespie AC (keynote speaker), Mark Dapin (author) and Peter Allan (NAJEX) at the launch of Dapin’s book Jewish Anzacs.

Holocaust survivor Egon Sonnenschein gave a presentation – pictured with his sister Aviva Fox.

Dr Simon Longstaff AO – keynote speaker at the Janus Korczak Children’s Memorial Commemoration.

Holocaust survivor Olga Horak OAM gave a presentation – pictured with her granddaughter Kirsty Green.

52 sjm Yearbook 2017 Hilton Immerman OAM featured in the Standing Up exhibition pictured with his wife Marilyn.

Gary Samowitz – CEO of Stand Up at the launch of the Standing Up exhibition.

Dame Marie Bashir AD, CVO with Francine Lazarus at the launch of Francine’s book A Child in Belgium.

Beate Hammett at the launch of the book about her journey on the Kindertransport.

For a change of pace we hosted two sold-out event entitled ‘Gratefully Yours’. It was an event performances of a one woman cabaret show with where people told the audience of how their Alexis Fishman entitled Club Gelbe Stern, the story lives were saved by, or perhaps how they saved, of a Jewish cabaret performer in Berlin in the the life of a stranger. Speakers included two of 1930s. We were also honoured to have the very the Bondi Rescue lifeguards – Bruce Hopkins talented singer Lior entertain a packed to capacity (Hoppo) and Trent Faslon (Singlets), Allan audience with his beautiful arrangements of songs. Sparkes CV OAM AV (Cross of Valour, Order of A number of entertaining events with Australia, Commendation for Brave Conduct), compelling keynote speakers were arranged to Brian Myerson (transplant recipient), Michaela launch various exhibitions – Closer: Portraits of Kalowski (moderator), Noel Zihabamwe Survival, In their Steps: The Australian Light Horse, (Rwandan refugee), Mendy Litzman (Hatzolah) I am My Brother’s Keeper: Righteous Among the and Maarten Joustra (Holocaust survivor). Nations, Standing Up and, of course, the cherry We are very proud of our 2017 calendar of on the top, the launch of the new Permanent programs and are already busily planning Holocaust Exhibition with keynote speaker being entertaining and educational events for the year the Prime Minister, The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull MP. ahead. We annually participate in the Sydney Writers Thank you for your ongoing support – we hope Festival and this year we hosted an outstanding to see you in the audience! sjm

sjm Yearbook 2017 53 Public Programs & Events Aviva Wolff Operations Manager

Eddy Boas with his family at the launch of his book, I am not a Victim, I am a Survivor.

The Buchenwald Boys panel: Jack Meister, George Grojnowski and Kuba Enoch.

Sam Lipski AM gave a talk about the Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba.

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku OAM giving a moving presentation.

Robert Swieca, Anna Berger and Charles Aronson at the talk on Beersheba.

At the launch of the Closer exhibition: photographer Katherine Griffiths with Ruth Eckstein.

54 sjm Yearbook 2017 At the launch of the Closer exhibition: Eva Engel OAM, Ana De Leon, Lena Goldstein OAM, Gaby De Leon.

At the launch of the Closer exhibition: Susan Warhaftig and Egon Kennedy.

At the launch of the Closer exhibition: Jacquie Dale receiving her gift from Lisa Eckstein and Donna Lopata.

At the launch of the Closer exhibition: Litzi Lemberg and Vera Kertesz.

Attending Gratefully Yours: Joe Symon, Jane Kwiet, Avril Symon.

Speakers at the Gratefully Yours panel discussion: (l-r) Bruce Hopkins ‘Hoppo’ (Bondi Lifeguard), Brian Myerson (transplant recipient), Allan Sparkes CV OAM AV, Michaela Kalowski (moderator), Noel Zihabamwe (Rwandan refugee), Mendy Litzman (Hatzolah), Trent Faslon ‘Singlets’ (Bondi Lifeguard) and Maarten Joustra (Holocaust survivor).

Lior singing.

Vasilios Vasilas at the launch of his book When Freedom Beckons.

sjm Yearbook 2017 55 Public Programs & Events Aviva Wolff Operations Manager

At the launch of I am My Brother’s Keeper exhibition: Greta Allen telling her history of being saved by a ‘Righteous’ person.

At the launch of I am My Brother’s Keeper exhibition: Chanan Mowszowski (left), George Sternfeld (centre) with the family of Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara.

At the launch of I am My At the launch of I am Brother’s Keeper exhibition: My Brother’s Keeper Jack and Regina Feiler with Israeli Ambassador exhibition: Searle Brajtman members of the Churcherko Shmuel Ben Shmuel, representing Yad Vashem. family whose grandparents handing the Righteous were honoured for saving Among the Nations Jack’s life. Certificate to Maarten Joustra and his nephew at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2017. Maarten David Gonski AC at the honoured his adoptive launch of the Standing Up parents for saving his life. exhibition.

Jovan Vraniškovski, the head of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopri, gave a talk at the Museum. Pictured with Ana and Gaby De Leon and Egon Sonnenschein.

The Hon. Julian Leeser MP – the keynote speaker at International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2017.

Rachel Flitman representing ‘Gen 3’ at International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2017.

56 sjm Yearbook 2017 Opening of the new Holocaust Exhibition.

Opening of the new Holocaust Exhibition: SJM CEO Norman Seligman (right) with Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, officially unveiling the plaque.

Opening of the new The Holocaust Holocaust Exhibition: Dr Avril survivors being honoured Alba, Project Director. at the opening of the new Holocaust Exhibition.

Prof Gus Lehrer AM FAA (President) and Roma Shell (Vice President) with the Prime Minister.

sjm Yearbook 2017 57 Walking the Red Carpet Christiane Delacroix Survivor

On this 25th anniversary of the Museum walking on the red carpet, overwhelmed by an I want to share with you a small event immense sadness, as I am crying now writing which left a lasting impression. these lines. From its beginning in 1992, the Museum has been a Museum with a difference; a Museum with As survivors we were invited to the screen preview a soul. The presence of the survivors gave the of Schindler’s List made by Steven Spielberg. We place a special meaning and offered the visitors first gathered at the Hilton in Pitt Street opposite an unforgettable experience which often helped the picture theatre for cocktails and canapes. Ben to build a friendly bond expressed in hundreds of Kingsley, one of the main actors, was present as grateful letters. well as personalities, journalists and A lot of work has been carried out recently, photographers. After that, we were ushered upgrading the Museum to modern standards …I cried walking downstairs to the street and an amazing sight. and also planning for when the survivors will be on the red carpet, We, the Jews, were to walk on a red carpet no more, although their voices as well as their overwhelmed stretched across the street with a row of mounted pictures will remain. by an immense police in their best on each side and the passers- Maybe, some day, as a visitor presses a button sadness, as I by clapping. For a split second, I could not help to listen to a particular survivor, someone will be am crying now feeling the irony of the moment, and almost passing by and say: ‘He was my father or she was writing these immediately I started to think of all those my grandmother’, and they might engage in a lines. unfortunate Jews who did not make it and I cried conversation, glad to have met one another. sjm

This article is an extract from a letter by Flore Jaku. She survived the Holocaust by adopting the persona Christiane Delacroix as her ID card from 1940 shows.

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Olga Horak OAM sharing her story with students.

In 2013 I completed my doctorate in Jewry was a trauma that had been transported oral history at the University of New across the globe. It had irrevocably shaped the South Wales, examining the history of lives of individual survivors as well as the whole of the Australian Jewish community. Zionist youth movements in Australia. I asked myself these questions: What did it mean Looking back, I realised that the most to work in a Museum that was set up by Holocaust rewarding part of the experience survivors? How did working in the Museum was carrying out interviews with change the way I thought about the Holocaust? an eclectic group of Jewish men How did it change the way I taught the Holocaust? I quickly recognised that when I had taught the and women who now live all over Holocaust at university, I had not made enough use the world. They shared wonderful What did it of survivor testimony, or the written testimony of mean to work memories of their times in the youth murdered Jews and Roma. In the time that I have in a Museum movements. They were all wise, been at the Museum, I have personally witnessed thousands of school students and teachers listen that was set up funny, eccentric and full of life. What I to the testimony of Holocaust survivors. One by Holocaust remember most are their voices. question that has not been adequately examined survivors? How is what impact hearing survivor testimony has did working in I knew that joining the Sydney Jewish Museum on these people. But it can be intimated. The the Museum would provide a unique opportunity to work in a Education team has the privilege of listening to change the way space than honoured the voices, memories and the questions that both students and teachers I thought about stories of Australian Holocaust survivors. I had have asked and we have all listened, and learnt, the Holocaust? interviewed many people for my thesis who were from the survivors’ responses. How did it either child survivors themselves, or the children It is a profound privilege and honour to watch change the way and grandchildren of survivors. I was aware of this human interaction take place. I am aware I taught the how the events of World War II were palpable that what is occurring is delicate and difficult, and Holocaust? living memories. The destruction of European it is almost impossible to adequately describe.

60 sjm Yearbook 2017 The survivor is sharing their story and when they students to understand the horror and cruelty of do so, they sometimes relive their memories. genocide. The people listening to a survivor The audience is also transported by the story. realise that we are not all alike, and we should not Listening to the survivor, the students are forced seek to limit our differences. Our differences The people to confront the fact that the Jews who were speak to the richness and diversity of the human listening to a persecuted and murdered under the Third Reich, experience. What the audience also hopefully survivor realise over 70 years ago, on the other side of the world, realise is how much they have in common with that we are not are not ink on a page but are human beings made the survivor. The survivor, just like their audience, all alike, and of flesh and blood, just like the human being knows what it means to be a child. They had we should not talking to them. parents, they had friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, seek to limit our When visitors listen to a survivor they are and they played with dolls, or played a guitar, or listening to a person who is often many decades loved playing sport. Facilitating that human differences. Our older than them. The survivor, whether from connection is fundamental to making the differences speak Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia or Germany, Holocaust relevant to Australian school children to the richness grew up in a very different cultural milieu. I in the 21st century. defined itself by the and diversity strongly believe that interacting with a person way it excluded groups. What our Museum seeks of the human from a different background is crucial in enabling to cultivate is a space that is inclusive and in doing experience.

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sjm Yearbook 2017 61 Voices from the Ashes: Shoah survivor testimony in the Sydney Jewish Museum Dr Ari Lander Education Officer

so, our Museum rejects everything that Nazism testimony and the possibility of education playing stood for. Our visitors are invited to celebrate the a role in genocide prevention’. It was a speculative fact that there are distinct Jewish cultural and paper in which I argued that survivor testimony religious identities and that our differences are must play a crucial role in genocide education. something we should celebrate, not annihilate. Furthermore, I contended that education In July this year I attended a conference in about genocide that fully incorporates survivor Brisbane for the International Association of testimony, is a way to help foster empathy and Genocide Studies. The theme of the conference in doing so, could help prevent future acts of Holocaust survivor was “Preventing Genocide” and I delivered a genocide or violations of human rights. Eddie Jaku OAM. paper titled: ‘Voices from the Ashes: Survivor When schools visit the Museum, teachers repeatedly provide feedback as to the impact of survivor testimony. Hearing the testimony of a Holocaust survivor has a profound emotional impact and helps cultivate empathy for the victims of the Holocaust. The work carried out by the Sydney Jewish Museum takes place in a very particular cultural milieu, specifically, a democratic and liberal society that is not experiencing dramatic social, or economic, upheaval. Nonetheless, I believe the programs run by the Sydney Jewish Museum could provide a blueprint for creating educational programs that cultivate emotional and intellectual empathy for victims of genocide, and other violations of human rights. Each year, the Education team runs four teacher-training seminars in order to assist teachers with their Holocaust education program. At the end of the seminar we ask the teachers to provide us with anonymous feedback on the seminar. When the teachers are asked: “Which session did you find most interesting and why?” they invariably reply that the session with the Holocaust survivors is the most meaningful. A teacher who attended a recent seminar wrote the following response: “The session with the survivors was so empowering (and emotional). Something special that will stay with me always.” Hearing the testimony of a Holocaust survivor is, in some respects, even more important for teachers. When teachers form a personal and emotional connection with the Holocaust, it means that they will understand the necessity and complexity of Holocaust education. As this individual teacher wrote, hearing, as she did,

62 sjm Yearbook 2017 three Holocaust survivors in conversation on a many versions of Holocaust recounts, but none panel was an emotional experience. But it was that have touched me like this. Eddie moved me also empowering. in such a way that my heart was crying in awe and admiration of the strength and perseverance What impact does hearing the testimony he engrained into himself throughout his of a survivor have on a school student? experiences… I went home and retold Eddie’s The survivors all receive dozens of letters from story almost word for word to my family and, just The voices of our students who make the time and effort, often out as I was brought to tears in that auditorium, I was Holocaust of their own initiative, to share what it meant to brought to tears in the living room of my house.” them to have a survivor share their story. K.M., Wyong Christian Community School survivors are Let me use just one response that Eddie Jaku The voices of our Holocaust survivors are crucial in OAM received from a student in order to illustrate crucial in enabling students to grapple with the enabling how profound the impact can be: human legacy of the Holocaust. While we have students to “I had the extraordinary honour of hearing the their voices we must cherish their humour, their grapple with the incredible and touching story of Eddie… Eddie wisdom and their insight. But we must also never human legacy of has such an inspirational story. I have heard forget that their words are drenched in tears. sjm the Holocaust.

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sjm Yearbook 2017 63 The three month job that’s lasted 23 years Tinny Lenthen Library Manager

In 1994, my cousin Eva Reed, a child Thanks to the generosity of the Fulop family and survivor and volunteer at the Sydney a sizeable grant from the NSW government, the Jewish Museum, told me that the library was soon able to acquire a computer – the Museum’s very first – and specialised software for Museum was about to establish a a user-friendly catalogue system. library and was looking for a librarian. The library now styles itself as a ‘Resource “They want someone for just a few Centre’, and its collection numbers more than 8,000 months,” she said, “… just long items, including books, journals, audio-visual enough to set up the library. Then the material, newspaper articles and education kits. volunteers will take over and run it.” The collection offers access to The Shoah Foundation’s massive repository of survivor testimonies as part of the centre’s extensive oral history collection. The oral history section also The collection It didn’t quite work out that way. The Museum includes the Caplan-Kwiet collection of interviews is now such a soon recognised that the volunteers would need with local Holocaust survivors recorded in the central part of the continuing support of a qualified librarian. It’s 1980s, as well as the more recent oral histories the Museum’s been my good fortune to fill that role. gathered by Jacqui Wasilewsky for the Museum’s activities, that it The focus of the collection is the Holocaust, a Community Stories Program. is surprising to seemingly inexhaustible subject that generates Our electronic resources include access recall that there an ever-increasing number of books, journal to a Yad Vashem database in which several was no library articles and other material. The collection also fundamental questions regarding the Holocaust when the Museum covers Australian Jewish history, German history are discussed by eminent scholars. The Museum and – sadly but inevitably – the long history of was the first institution outside Yad Vashem to be opened its doors antisemitism. granted access to this database. 25 years ago. The collection is now such a central part of the At the same time, the collection has broadened Museum’s activities, that it is surprising to recall its outlook, expanding beyond the Holocaust to that there was no library when the Museum cover other genocides, including the Cambodian, opened its doors 25 years ago. Fortunately, the Armenian and Rwandan, in preparation for the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Museum’s Holocaust and Human Rights Centre. Survivors and Descendants decided to remedy that. The entire collection is accessible via the Encouraged by the Museum’s founder, John Museum’s website, opening the Resource Centre’s Saunders AO, members of the association – treasures to a vast number of potential users who notably Alex Weinberger, Maurice Shell and Stan might otherwise have not even been aware of Grossman – set about raising money for a sizeable their existence. collection of Holocaust-related material suitable The increasing ease of digital access has been for all ages and educational levels to complement paralleled by the growing number of people the work of the Museum. who visit the Museum in person. The centre has The Association also gathered relevant books, become an increasingly important resource for personal testimonies and other items from its students ranging from primary school children own members as the basis of a collection. The to post-doctoral researchers. The library has material was housed in bookshelves lining the extended its scope to reflect changes in school walls of the Museum’s original boardroom and curriculums, which are now concerned with more was officially opened as a library by former Prime general subjects such as racism, multiculturalism, Minister Bob Hawke AC in April of 1995. civics and human rights. Initially, however, it was a library without a Over the decades, the centre has been used catalogue; not so much as a single index card. extensively by the Museum’s staff: its education

64 sjm Yearbook 2017 Students in the library.

Clipping from the Australian Jewish News, 21 October 1994: Librarian Tinny Lethen (right) with volunteer Zipi Neustadt.

The new Education and Resource Centre. department, resident historian Prof Konrad Kwiet, Children in Germany in the 1930s? What happened and curatorial staff, to research new exhibitions. to the Jews of Fiume, Italy, during the war? Would The centre’s Holocaust Survivor Registry has we help a student from Keio University in Japan proved an extremely useful tool for the Museum’s with his studies of Holocaust literature? Could we education and curatorial departments and help an actress researching a TV role learn about can also be used in conjunction with the Visual the experience of German Jewish women who History Archive. came to Australia in the 1950s? The Resource Centre is also the first stop In the past quarter of a century the library Over its relatively for many family history buffs, particularly has moved twice from its cramped beginnings short life, the those whose families have been touched by in the boardroom, firstly to what were once the centre’s collection the Holocaust. Members of the Sydney Jewish administrative offices and now to its present has become a community who have come from South Africa and location as part of the Education Resource Centre. unique resource, Zimbabwe, for example, are now exploring what Over its relatively short life, the centre’s informing the happened to members of their extended families collection has become a unique resource, who remained in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. informing the Sydney community, both Jewish Sydney community, Reuniting families separated by time and the and non-Jewish. The Jewish community’s both Jewish and Holocaust is deeply satisfying for the library’s still recognition of the collection’s value is reflected non-Jewish. largely volunteer staff. not only in gifts of money to fund acquisitions, but Beyond family history, we receive an also through the donation of personal libraries. extraordinary range of inquiries from the public As the Museum becomes more and more the here and overseas via email, phone and letter as public face of the Jewish community, so will the well as personal visits. Do we have information on Library and Resource Centre grow in importance the Gross-Breesen Training Camp for Jewish as a centre of learning. sjm

sjm Yearbook 2017 65 Visitors’ Comments From amongst the many received this year…

This museum displayed wonderful historical It was amazing and overwhelming at the same aspects of the culture and life of Jewish people time. The wall art of the various shops where throughout history as well as covering the people brought skills and traded in Sydney is harrowing tragedy that is the holocaust … I strongly lovely. Museums like this need to be here to recommend going! Jamai O’Malley ✸✸✸✸✸ remind us of just how evil the world can be. It saddens me that a people/a tribe experienced this hatred, it truly breaks my heart. Taught our children the evil of war and the Lachelle Uzcategui-Gaymon ✸✸✸✸✸ devastating things that can be brought about by either man’s action or inaction. Talking with Lotte who survived Auschwitz was such a moving This museum is like no other. I took the guided experience. We will never forget. tour with Gerald who gave great insight into the Paolo Hernando ✸✸✸✸✸ horrors and the courage of the past. I stayed after the tour as there was so much to see. You could not see this museum without being moved greatly. “ Total experience really worthwhile. Lucky I highly recommend it. Jackie Bee ✸✸✸✸✸ enough to view updated museum with excellent volunteers and in particular to listen to the story of a survivor. Suzie Rooney ✸✸✸✸✸ Such a heartbreakingly beautiful testament to the Jewish faith and its people. Very informative and inspiring place with wonderful volunteers. Great museum, spent four hours in the museum Kelly Cox ✸✸✸✸✸ and I would surely go again since there are plenty more things to see. Hugo St-Amant ✸✸✸✸✸ Privileged to have taken my family to this wonderful place. Both enlightening and heart Really informative and the design layout is wrenching to learn of the plight of the Jewish spectacular. Vimbai Murambi ✸✸✸✸✸ people. Henry Wise ✸✸✸✸✸

Wonderful place to learn about modern Jewish Enjoyed every minute … so well laid out … very history and particularly Australian Jewish history. interesting … loved all the history in the place xx Motti Seligson ✸✸✸✸✸ Lyn Williams ✸✸✸✸✸

A must for parents wishing to teach their children Thank you to Olga! You spoke to the Kambala about humanity and the importance of living students so candidly about your experiences beyond face value. Deanna Gingell ✸✸✸✸✸ during the Nazi Occupation of Czechoslovakia and the terrible treatment that you received during WWII in the concentration camp. As a Holocaust Was here five months ago. Very informative and survivor it is so important that you courageously one of the best museums in Sydney. share your story and that of your beautiful family. ✸✸✸✸✸ Marizel Pabuayon Cabantog God bless you. Leanne Claringbold ✸✸✸✸✸

Very touching experience. It’s so dense and They say: If we do not learn from the past – we filled with information that I’ll have to go back to are doomed to repeat it. This Jewish Museum will absorb more. Loved it. Bruno Moulin ✸✸✸✸✸ open your eyes to the Truth of our past so together we can learn to make our futures safer

66 sjm Yearbook 2017 and much kinder … A Must Visit for all who want to believe someone so articulate and passionate can live Respectfully in Peace. Wayne Perkins ✸✸✸✸✸ run such an in-depth tour with such gusto without even being paid for the amazing work she does! Absolutely fantastic museum, will definitely be We spent a very confronting afternoon at the back. Kal Slater ✸✸✸✸✸ museum. It has recently been refurbished and the displays were excellent. We had a guided tour around the museum and the guide was very This is a magnificent collection, stretching from knowledgeable. This museum should be visited Biblical times right through to the current by everyone, so they can witness and appreciate Australian Jewish community. Particularly the horrific things mankind can do to one another. fantastic are the street schema of old Sydney Teresa Malyon ✸✸✸✸✸ Town and the (current) ‘Closer’ exhibit. Any empaths need to be thoroughly prepared before Absolutely excellent! So informative and braving the stories contained here. Will return! ✸✸✸✸✸ touching, a great way to spend an afternoon. Our Sarah Spear guide Stella was absolutely incredible! I can’t Safeguarding” memory

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n 1944, 16 year-old Marika Cierer’s youthful world in urviving Ithe sleepy Slovakian town of Košice was turned LUCKY upside down. Months later her family was transported to Auschwitz. Only Marika and her sister Edith survived. In 1950 Marika, her husband, Alex Weinberger, and Survival their infant daughter, Kathy, migrated to Australia. ESCAPES A selection of Speeches As they set about rebuilding their lives, Marika and

Alex knew that the loss of family, culture and innocence Childhood of a Jewish Memoirs would never leave them. Any attempt to put aside the catastrophic years of the Holocaust would not only betray those who perished, but would rob an ever- forgetful humanity of two living voices of conscience. As part of the remnant of European Jewry, Marika saw her life as a fourfold journey: to ensure the future MARIKA WEINBERGER a of her children; to personally survive survival; to support fellow survivors, and to remind the world where prejudice and hatred can so easily lead. Coupled with brief excerpts from her life, Surviving S Survival is a collection of Marika’s speeches. For her contribution to society, Marika was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia, in 2001.

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