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Local Landsmanshaft Communities

Members of the Miedzyrzec Landsmannschaft, c.1960. From the MHM Collection.

Discover and connect with local landsmanshaft communities in Melbourne for support – or to memorialise your loved ones.  

 

Landsmanshaft in Melbourne

The landsmanshaftn were societies of Jewish immigrants who came from the same European village.

Named for the members’ original birthplaces, these groups were formed to assist their fellow ‘townspeople’ in settling into their new lives in Australia.

This assistance – material, emotional, cultural and social – helped many new arrivals acclimatise to life in their new country.

Today, landsmanshaftn still provide community connection – along with opportunities to remember and memorialise victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

Landsmanshaft communities in Melbourne

Cracow Memorial Committee
Each year, the Cracow Memorial Committee commemorates the destruction of the Krakow Ghetto in 1943.
Lodz Committee
Formed in 1953, Lodz Committee today consists of second- and third-generation descendants of Melbourne Jews from the Polish city of Lodz.

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