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‘From the depths’: Melbourne community gathers for Yom Hashoah commemoration

Rob Klein — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:34:00 +0000

Holocaust survivors and younger generations gathered side by side on Monday night as Victoria’s Jewish community marked Yom Hashoah with a powerful call to remember and reflect. About 1000 people filled Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University for the annual commemoration. The ceremony honoured the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust while recognising the […]

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Survivors’ lives rebuilt in Australia to shape Sydney Yom Hashoah commemorations

Rob Klein — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:57:15 +0000

This year’s Yom HaShoah commemorations in Sydney will shift the focus from the horrors of the Holocaust itself to what followed: how survivors rebuilt their lives in Australia and how doing so helped shape the country they came to call home. Organised by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, the commemorations span four events over […]

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Leeser calls for rethink of antisemitism education at UNESCO schools forum

Rob Klein — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:40:55 +0000

Shadow Education Minister Julian Leeser has called for a fundamental shift in how antisemitism is taught in Australian schools, warning that decades of Holocaust-focused education have failed to prevent rising hostility towards Jews. Speaking today at a national dialogue for the UNESCO National Approach to Addressing Antisemitism in Schools initiative, Leeser told educators and policymakers […]

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92-year-old survivor urges action against hatred at Adelaide museum reopening

Rob Klein — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:20:50 +0000

At 92, Holocaust survivor Andrew Steiner delivered a message shaped by experience and urgency: remembrance must lead to action. Steiner was speaking at the reopening of the upgraded education facilities at the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre on February 19, addressing about 180 guests at the restored Wakefield Street site. The centre […]

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A mother’s survival, a son’s oath: a judge’s story of gratitude

Rob Klein — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:44:04 +0000

When Gregory Sirtes took the oath as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on Friday, he presented the moment not as a personal triumph, but as the continuation of a family story that began in the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. “In 1944, my mother, then a 16-year-old Hungarian Jewish […]

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Patron walks out of Sydney Festival show and cuts ties

Rob Klein — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:09:23 +0000

A major Sydney Festival Jewish supporter who withdrew her backing after attending a flagship performance says the experience brought an abrupt end to a relationship she had built with the festival over more than two decades. Jacqui Scheinberg, a founding member of the festival’s Director’s Circle and an inaugural member of its philanthropy committee, told […]

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Choosing optimism: Eddie Jaku’s story comes to the Sydney Opera House

Rob Klein — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:02:42 +0000

The extraordinary life and outlook of Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku will be brought to the Sydney Opera House stage in May 2026 with the Australian premiere of The Happiest Man on Earth, a one-man play starring and produced by Anton Berezin. In an interview with JWire, Berezin said the one-man play represents a conscious shift […]

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Daughter of Bondi terror attack victim brings Holocaust memory into the present

J-Wire Newsdesk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:02:47 +0000

A Sydney International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration on Tuesday, 27 January, was marked by a powerful address from Professor Sabina Kleytman, whose father, Alex, a Holocaust survivor, was murdered in the Bondi Beach terror attack last December. The annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Liberation from Auschwitz commemoration was hosted by the Sydney Jewish Museum […]

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New Zealand Holocaust commemorations as antisemitism surges

J-Wire Newsdesk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:02:28 +0000

As New Zealand observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, January 27, the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand says that the “warning signs” of the 1945 atrocities are “again visible today.” With public commemorations scheduled nationwide, the Centre is urging Kiwis to confront a “difficult truth”: the dark forces that fueled the Shoah never truly […]

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Holocaust survivors shaken by mezuzahs torn down in Toronto

Steve Linde — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:02:26 +0000

The recent removal of mezuzahs from a Toronto residential building housing Holocaust survivors has deepened fears about rising antisemitism, striking at what residents say is the most intimate place of all: their homes. For the second time in a month, mezuzahs were ripped from apartment doors in a residential building in Toronto where several Holocaust […]

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