Holocaust/Genocide exhibition opens in Melbourne
The Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne is hosting an
exhibition from the USA of photographs and extraordinary stories from the
Holocaust and genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Cambodia.
The exhibition highlights acts of courage by ordinary
heroes who resisted overwhelming tides of prejudice and violence to risk their
lives saving others. Using photography and narratives it aims to deepen
awareness and understanding of the presence of rescue behaviour during
genocides. We believe that visitors will leave with better knowledge of how one
person can make a difference in the face of organised violence. An adjunct to
the exhibition will be displays of Melbourne-based rescuers from the Holocaust
which have been kindly donated by Courage to Care.
The Rescuers’ curator Leora Kahn has launched the
exhibition and participated in a series of lectures and discussions. She is an
accomplished and award-winning curator, educator, film-maker, photographer,
photo editor and director of photography for publications such as The New York
Times Magazine, People Magazine, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and The
NewYorker.
As part of its mission of combating racial intolerance,
the Jewish Holocaust Centre will hold a colloquium involving members from
Melbourne’s Jewish, Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Rwandan and Cambodian communities
who have witnessed or been victims of genocide, both past and present, as well
as the Armenian and Sudanese communities.
Gratien Mutsindo a Pentecostal minister said ‘I could tell the killers to kill me first,
which for some strange reason they wouldn’t do, they all survived.’
Over four weeks, the JHC will host a series of lectures,
discussions and film nights involving academics, mental health practitioners,
community-aid workers and leading members of the Jewish and wider communities.
The JHC hosts over 20,000 school students from some 430
schools annually as part of its educational program. Students visiting the JHC
during the exhibition will have an opportunity to connect events during the
Holocaust to current world issues, while the programmed lectures and discussion
groups promise to reach further into the community.
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