Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre

The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre was based in Elsternwick, Melbourne, Australia, in 1984 via Holocaust survivors. Its undertaking is to commemorate the six million Jews murdered through the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. The centre become founded with out great public or personal price range and thus has always had to depend on aid from Holocaust survivors, their family, volunteers and philanthropists.

It is thanks to the specific contribution of Melbourne's Holocaust survivors that the JHC has grow to be a vibrant institution. The Centre contains a consultant Holocaust library, a collection of over 1300 survivor video testimonials in addition to heaps of authentic files, pics, artistic endeavors and gadgets from the Holocaust period. The reason of the JHC is to fight racism and to inspire concord within the community.

It attempts to attain these goals through providing records approximately the Holocaust thru its everlasting exhibition and periodic transient exhibitions. The foremost consciousness lies on the more youthful era, and over 21,000 students go to the museum every year and participate in a effective training software. In 2011 the museum turned into the recipient of the MAGNA Best Small Museum award via Museums Australia, following a remodel of the everlasting exhibition.