Elwood Hebrew Congregation
The Elwood Talmud Torah Hebrew Congregation has its origins in the expansion of Melbourne’s Jewish community prior to World War II and the post-Holocaust European immigration of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Auschwitz liberation remembered 65 years on – Melbourne
January 28, 2010 by J-Wire Staff
Liberators met the liberated at Melbourne’s Elwood Shule’s Karafka Hall.
More than 300 people attended the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwutz.Berkenau.
Images from a capacity packed Karafka Hall.
The audience
Eva Slonim delivers the keynote speech
Rabbi Shmuel Karnowsky recited the Memorial Prayer
Lev Aronshtam - an Auschwitz liberator
Liberators and Veterans
Liberators
Melanie Raleigh - 3rd generation
Michael Danby
Pauline Rockman
Rebbetzin Sara Gutnick
Melanie Raleigh, Tuvia and Gary Lipson - 3 Generations