Over 20,000 students visit the Sydney Jewish Museum each year. Why do Holocaust survivors volunteer to give their testimony to Australian students? What does it mean to them to give their testimony to students who have no personal connection to the history of the Holocaust? Come hear from Holocaust Survivors who volunteer at the Museum discuss their experience and why they choose to talk.
Dr Ari Lander is an Education Officer at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Lander completed a doctorate in Jewish history at the University of New South Wales. He taught for seven years at the University of New South Wales on a variety of subjects including modern Jewish History, Zionism... Read More →
Tom was born Tomi Fleischman on June, 27th, 1938 in Bratislava, Czecholslovakia. He was captured by the Gestapo and sent to the Sered Labour Camp. He was first sent to Auschwitz, and then interned at Theresienstadt.
George was born in Rapziejow, Poland on February 1, 1927. George survived Rapziejow Ghetto and Czenstochowa Ghettos before finally ending up in Buchenwald. He was liberated from a death march on the way to Thereisenstadt.
Ana was born in Subotica, ex-Yugoslavia on 25 November 1935. In June 1944 with her mother and grandparents, she was taken to Austria as forced labour, held in the concentration camp Bergen Belsen until liberation in April 1945. Being a witness to enormous tragedy has impressed a sense... Read More →
