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Child survivor community

Child survivor Floris Kalman z"l

One and a half million, or 90% of Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust. Less than 100,000 of us are still alive around the world.

Child Survivors of the Holocaust (CSH) gave us a name, an identity. We started to make ourselves recognised, and maybe more importantly, we started to recognise ourselves.

For those of us who have remained, our voice is still relevant in these increasingly threatening times.

Collections and exhibitions from CSH

Remembrance Tableaux
A unique patchwork wall hanging created by Melbourne’s child survivors with the theme of remembrance.
Portrait exhibition
‘Tribute: Child Survivors of the Holocaust’ shows the lives of child survivors through the medium of a painted portrait and a sketch of the sitter as a young child.
MHM Kindertransport collection
Items from the Melbourne Holocaust Museum collection from the Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) which was the informal name of a series of rescue efforts which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children to Great Britain from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940.
CSH time capsule
A time capsule to commemorate the history of child survivors in Melbourne
Connections newsletter

Browse the newsletters from the CSH, including relevant events, and information from the child survivor community in Melbourne.

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Memoirs

Discover memoirs written by child survivors of the Holocaust.

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In memorium

A memorial to the child survivors who have passed away.

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We came out of pools of frozen greyness into shape, time, words, and feelings. Words allowed us to remember the previously numb and unspeakable. In our meetings, we gave each other voice and listened with respect. We resonated, talked, shared, remembered, contextualised, and retrieved our lives.

Dr Paul Valent, Foundation president Child Survivors of the Holocaust Melbourne group.