An introduction to the Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne
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A look at the the local Australian Holocaust survivors who give their time as guides at the Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne.
The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre Melbourne Promotional Video (Student Produced)
Promotional video made for the Jewish Holocaust Centre as a part of NMIT's Film and Television student productions.
Writter and Director: Simon Aubor
Camera and Lighting: Matthew Danson
Sound: Matthew Star
Music: Javed De Costa
Edited: Yanni Connell
Please note I am not the owner of this video, this has been uploaded as a sample of my Film and Television work.
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The Forgotten Deportees, Polish Exiles in Siberia
This is the record of an event presented by Kresy-Siberia (Australia) Ltd. and the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants Inc. on 27 February 2011 in Melbourne, Australia.
In 1940-41 over 1 million Polish citizens of Jewish, Catholic and other faiths and ethnicities from eastern Poland were killed, repressed or deported by the Soviets to prisons, forced labour camps (GULAGs) and special settlements in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia.
Introduction: Krzysztof Łancucki, Siberia Survivor and Past President of the Polish Community Association of Victoria.
Moderator: Prof. Stephen G. Wheatcroft,
FASSA, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne.
Panel: Krystyna Kinst, Zosia Skarbek and Stefan Wisniowski.
Film screening: A Forgotten Odyssey by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska.
Special guest: Daniel Gromann, Consul General of the Republic of Poland, speaking on Polish History Today.
Date: 27 February 2011.
Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre, 13-15 Selwyn St, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia.
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Moderator, Professor Stephen Wheatcroft took his first degree in Economics and Russian Studies at Keele University, and his PhD in Soviet Economic History at Birmingham University. He has spent some considerable time working and researching in the Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian State and Party Archives and at the Moscow Institute of National Economics (Plekhanov Institute), the Moscow State University and the Institute of History of the Russian and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Stephen has published widely on Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet social, economic and demographic history and has recently co-authored a major history of the Soviet Famine of 1931-3. He also has a research interest in famine and food supply problems in modern world history, the impact of media on history, and in recent developments in Russian and Ukrainian society. He is one of the main editors of the major Russian publication of archival materials. Stephen teaches at the University of Melbourne, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.
The Panelists:
Krystyna Kinst was born after the war, in Poland, to Siberian Deportees. At the start of the war, her parents fled Kraków to Lwów, from where, on 30 June 1940, they were transported to the Aldan Camps in Yakutsk, USSR. The Aldan Camps were in some of the wildest country of Siberia. There, her parents felled trees in the taiga forests. The event that saved their lives – Germany’s invasion of Russia and the subsequent amnesty granted Polish deportees – is the same event that, in Poland, led to the execution of many of their family members by the Nazis. Krystyna is a corporate communication consultant and writer.
Stefan Wisniowski is President of the Kresy-Siberia Foundation. Stefan’s father’s family was forcibly deported by Soviet authorities on 10 February 1940 from his eastern Polish home in Brody to a labour camp in Archangel, in Soviet Russia. After the USSR was attacked by Nazi Germany in 1941, the Wisniowski family were among the Polish captives who received a so-called “amnesty” and were later evacuated with the Polish Army to Persia, from where his father joined the cadet school in Palestine and then England. Stefan’s mother survived the war as a young girl in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. His parents met in London after the war, and in 1957 emigrated to Canada, where Stefan was born. Stefan founded the Kresy-Siberia Group in 2001. In 2008 he established the internationally operating Kresy-Siberia Foundation, with headquarters in Warsaw and incorporated affiliates in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. This foundation’s aim is to ensure that the story of the deportations of Polish citizens to Siberia and their suffering will be memorialised for future generations.
Zosia Skarbek is President of the Siberyaks Assosciation of Victoria. Zosia was born on 11 August 1936, in Kamień Koszyrski, Polesie Province, Poland. In April 1940, together with her mother, older brother, and maternal Aunt, she was deported to North Kazakhstan. Her father, a school inspector and a member of infantry reserve, was captured by the Soviets and eventually executed in Katyn in April 1940. After spending almost two years in a work camp in Kazakhstan, Zosia and her remaining family made their way to Uzbekistan, in the southern Soviet Union, where the Polish army was being formed after the amnesty for Polish deportees in 1942. Together with 120,000 other Polish citizens, they were allowed to depart the Soviet Union to Persia. After nine months in Persia, Zosia, her mother, aunt and brother were transported to Karachi in British-occupied India and then to the Polish refugee camp in Valivade (south of Bombay). In 1948 they were moved to a refugee camp in Uganda. In 1950, aboard the General Langfitt, together with over 700 other Sibiraks, they migrated to Western Australia. Zosia is a retired qualified psychologist.
Melissa & Peter - Jewish Wedding Melbourne - Leonda - Allure Productions
Jewish Wedding in Melbourne at Leonda by the Yarra filmed by Allure Productions
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Jack Fogel - Holocaust Survivor Testimony
Jack was born in Turek, Poland in 1924, the fourth of five children. At age fifteen, while outside walking, he was taken by Germans to a labour camp in Poznan.
In 1943 he was sent to Auschwitz, where he was tattooed with the number 140964, then sent to work in Fürstengrube coal mine, where conditions were appalling.
In 1945 he was on a death march, ending up on one of four ships, loaded with other prisoners, in the Baltic Sea. Suddenly bombs fell. The Allies had attacked the ships, thinking they were full of escaping Nazis. Jack was lucky to survive, the only survivor from his family.
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Capturing In One Voice Festival people, music and events on The SHTICK S52-06 Seg.2
In One Voice Jewish Street Festival brings together the diverse, vibrant Jewish community centred in Elsternwick, where The Kadimah, Sholem Aleichem School and the Holocaust Centre are based. Featuring the magical music of YID!, Approachable Members of Your Local Community and Hello Tut Tut with snippets of Dani Valent, David and Hayley Southwick and the huge crowd who all Love The Shtick !!
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JHC Anne Frank Exhibition Launch, 4.2.13
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The official launch of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, Australia on 4 February 2013.
Rabbi + Deb - Jewish Wedding Auckland
I knew it was coming, but this Jewish Wedding stopped me in my tracks. We all celebrate life in our own way, but there’s no ignoring the fact that the Jewish have got a pretty special way of doing it!
Being immersed in their culture for one evening, I witnessed the human experience explode right in front of me. Something that words simply can’t capture the measure of what was felt. Great poets somehow manage to express the wonder of life through written words, but that is not a talent I’m blessed with. I, like you, am lost for words in moments like these. The private memories and emotions are still there, but they’re locked inside my mind. A blur of wonder that only I can know.
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So there I am, deep inside an Auckland Hebrew Synagogue with two love-struck individuals embraced by a community of faithful experiencing an explosion of life and love that the Jewish all have within them. Although the pen fails me with the poetry I can write here, there is one medium I have learnt to communicate through. That of the moving image. It’s my feeble attempt at capturing the magic that’s so hard to express in words and giving you a glimpse of what we all witnessed and Rabbi and Deb felt within at their Jewish Wedding.
We are all blessed to be here, to celebrate life and love for a few short years. It was an absolute privilege to absorb and experience what it means to be human, and what love is.
I’m not Jewish, but can you please adopt me? You have figured out how to celebrate humanity like no other, and it’s beautiful.
Mark Baker at Alt Neu I Am Art Gallery in Elsternwick
Associate Professor Mark Baker, Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation & Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University officially opens the Alt Neu I Am Art exhibition which features a recent work by Yosl Bergner that portrays on the prevailing Indigenous predicament.
Visit the Alt Neu I am Art Gallery at 297a Glenhuntly Rd Elsternwick, Victoria.
Exhibition ends April 27th, 2011
Café Loco Elsternwick Coffee maker