Join us for a powerful and moving evening with acclaimed performer, digital creator, and Holocaust education advocate Montana Tucker, as she shares her personal journey of discovering her family’s Holocaust history and using her platform to combat rising antisemitism around the world.
At a time when hate and misinformation are spreading with alarming speed, this event is a call to remembrance, education, and action.
Montana will be in conversation with Dr Breann Fallon, Head of Experience and Learning at MHM.
We will also hear firsthand testimony from a Holocaust survivor, Guta Goldstein.
Please note this event may be recorded for our institutional archive, and photos may be used for marketing purposes.
Montana Tucker is an award-winning singer, actress, and social media activist with nearly 14 million followers, known for using her platform to combat antisemitism and promote Holocaust education, especially among Gen Z. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, she created the viral docuseries “How To: Never Forget”, documenting her emotional journey to Auschwitz. Her advocacy has earned recognition from major institutions including the National Holocaust Museum and ADL.
Guta was born in Lodz, Poland in 1930. She was nine years old when the Germans invaded Poland.
Guta, her sister, and father were forced into the Lodz Ghetto. Both her sister and father died of illness.
on 14 August 1944 Guta was transported to Auschwitz, where her aunt and cousin were sent to the gas chambers on arrival.
In September Guta and her remaining cousins were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Guta was eventually sent to the labour camp of Mehltheuer and was liberated by the US army in April 1945.
Guta arrived to Australia in 1949.
Dr Breann Fallon is the Head of Experience and Learning and acting Co-CEO at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. Working across the museums, education and human rights sectors Dr Fallon is also the president of the National Education Network for the Australian Museums and Galleries Association and served as an expert on the 2023 federal senate inquiry into the national ban on Nazi symbols, which was ultimately successful. Breann taught in the Studies in Religion department at the University of Sydney; her research interests include religion and violence, genocide, human rights, cinema, material religion, and gender, having published on all of these topics. A regular in the media, Breann is the host of the documentary ‘Trafficked to Australia’, was co-editor of the podcast ‘The Religious Studies Project,’ and has hosted ABC Radio National programs for the Religions and Ethics Unit.
