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Film Screening: “Who Will Write Our History” with Professor Sam Kassow

Event details
Date Time
17 Nov 2024 6:30 pm
End Time
17 Nov 2024 9:00 pm
Type
Film screening
Cost
$50 General Admission | $30 Concession/Jewish Quarterly Subscribers
Format
Film Screening
Venue
Classic Cinema
Address
9 Gordon St, Elsternwick VIC 3185
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About this event
The Jewish Quarterly and the Melbourne Holocaust Museum invite you to this remarkable documentary, in which filmmaker Roberta Grossman explores the lives and personalities of the men and women who contributed to the secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. Active from the time of the ghetto’s being sealed until its final eradication in early 1943, the “Oneg Shabbat” archive succeeded in preserving a comprehensive picture of the Jews of Warsaw in their struggle to survive. This film portrays that struggle, the setbacks of the archivists, their triumphs and their fate. It will be introduced by Professor Sam Kassow, who will speak for 40 minutes and will set this story in its local and historical context.
This film is presented as part of the public programming running alongside the Melbourne Holocaust Museum’s inaugural special exhibition in the new Alter Special Exhibitions Gallery – Underground: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
On display for the first time outside of Europe, Underground exhibits rare artefacts from the hidden archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. This archive was led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum who initiated an unprecedented campaign to collect material in the ghetto—the collection today known as the Ringelblum Archive. This collective of academics, writers, and activists working secretly in the first attempt to document the German-initiated mass murder of European Jews as it was happening. The exhibition brings home to the viewer the act of resistance that the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto constituted—a never-ending, arduous, harrowing but ultimately successful attempt to write the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of its victims.
Underground is on display at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum from 17 November 2024 to 30 March 2025.

 

Underground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto is presented in partnership with the Jewish Historical Institute, Poland, the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Germany.

 

Exhibition Sponsors
The Melbourne Holocaust Museum would like to thank our exhibition sponsors

  • Gerry and Lillian Pearce
  • The Embassy for the Federal Republic of Germany

 

Programming Sponsors

The Melbourne Holocaust Museum would like to thank our programming sponsors

  • Irene Kronhill Pletka
  • The Jewish Quarterly
  • The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University

Film screening – Dreyfus Drei

Event details
Date Time
07 Apr 2024 1:00 pm
End Time
07 Apr 2024 2:30 pm
Type
Film screening
Cost
General Admission $25 | $15 Concession/MHM volunteer
Format
Film Screening, In-Person
Venue
Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick - address provided on registration
About this event

Please join the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, for a special film-screening event.

When Sydney-based artist and academic Ella Dreyfus set about exploring her late father’s experiences in the Holocaust, she began a journey that would take her back to Berlin and would culminate with the completion of a powerful 30-minute documentary. With the hope that her film will initiate a dialogue for subsequent generations to confront their own inherited traumas, Dreyfus Drei seeks to penetrate the wall of silence that many survivors erect around their lives.

Combining family interviews in Melbourne and Sydney with visits to the family’s former homes and the construction of public art installations in Germany, the film also features her uncle George Dreyfus’s musical compositions and her cousin Jonathan’s new arrangements. Dreyfus Drei creates a family portrait about exile, identity, and art, and navigates the complex terrain of how three generations from one family each negotiate their own return to the “homeland”.

Dreyfus Drei was written, directed and produced by Ella Dreyfus, co-directed and co-produced by Janis Westphal, Sevenpeaks Films in Berlin, executive production by the Goethe-Institut and commissioned by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media for the 1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany Festival.

After the screening of Dreyfus Drei, Dr Simon Holloway will be in conversation with the director, Ella Dreyfus, who will also take questions from the audience. Following this conversation, participants will have the opportunity to explore our new museum exhibit: Everybody Had a Name.

Learn more about Dreyfus Drei at www.dreyfus3.com

Image | Dreyfus Drei film cover

'Dreyfus Drei' trailer

Polmission: Passports’ Secrets – Film screening

Event details
Date Time
02 Nov 2023 7:30 pm
End Time
02 Nov 2023 9:00 pm
Type
Film screening
Cost
$20 General Admission
Format
Film Screening, In-Person
Venue
Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick - address provided on registration
About this event

The Australian Society of Polish Jews & Their Descendants present a Special Film Screening of “Polmission: Passports’ Secrets” in the presence of His Excellency, Mr Maciej Chmielinski, Ambassador of Poland.

The documentary tells the story of Polish diplomats and their efforts to save Jews during WWII. The film attempts to unravel the complicated mechanisms behind the activities of Polish diplomacy and intelligence, which, in cooperation with governments and institutions of other countries, contributed to saving Jews from all over occupied Europe. As part of this operation, it was possible to save about 3,000 Jews from extermination by issuing false passports of South American countries including Paraguay. Jacek Papis’s film presents conversations with the survivors and their family members.

The film further includes commentaries and opinions presented by historians trying to solve some of the mysteries connected with the passports.

Image | ‘Polmission: Passports’ Secrets’ film cover

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