This website is an initiative of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. It was made possible through the support and generosity of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. and Michael Green and Gerry Levy AM, on behalf of Alfred Lewin.

Special thanks to the following people, who facilitated the transfer of the content of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies' Holocaust Education Kit into multimedia format and secured funding for the project: Diane Shteinman AM, Immediate Past President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry; Margaret Gutman OAM, former Executive Director of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies; and Judith Shapira, Former Chair of the Education Committee of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.

Project Leadership

Lilly Maltz B.A. Dip. Ed., Chair Education Committee, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and Principal, NSW Board of Jewish Education

Lynda Ben-Menashe B.A. Dip. Ed., M.Ed., Project Coordinator and Content Manager

Production

The creative and technical production of this website was done by Secure Interactive Pty Ltd.

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies wishes to thank Secure Interactive for their commitment to this project, their sensitivity to the special nature of its content and the extremely high level of professionalism and efficiency displayed by its staff.

Photographs and other graphics were scanned by The Conversion Crew
scanning@ozemail.com.au

Additional typing was done by Mrs Julie Krowitz

Content: Memories

Special thanks to all the Shoah/Holocaust survivors whose testimonies appear on the site. Some testimonies come via the Sydney Jewish Museum, some directly from survivors and some from interviews which were specially conducted for this project by Mrs Nora Huppert A.A.M.F.C. Family Therapist. See the Memories Menu for the full list of names.

Content: Topic Texts

Topic texts on the site were compiled from a number of sources. A comprehensive listing of these sources can be obtained by request at Other Resources.

Content: Graphics

Maps on the site were reproduced from Gilbert, M. (1992) The Holocaust: Maps and Photographs, New York, Anti-Defamation League Braun Center for Holocaust Studies & Martin Gilbert or supplied by the Sydney Jewish Museum

Historical Photographs were reproduced from Arad, Y. (Ed.) (1990) The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, New York, Macmillan

Personal Photographs were supplied by the owners or through the Sydney Jewish Museum.

Other graphics as credited in the text

Content: Music

Excerpts from Samuel Barber "Adagio for Strings" No. 2 and Dvorak "9th Symphony - From the New World" the Largo: Selected by Fred Stein, Chairman of the Australian Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Content Contributors and Consultants

Mark Aarons is a former ABC producer whose 1986 radio documentary series "Nazis in Australia" led to Australia's modern War Crimes legislation and to the formation of the Special Investigations Unit to gather evidence against suspected Nazi war criminals in Australia. He is the author of Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia (1989), Ratlines: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets (1991, with John Loftus), East Timor: A Western Made Tragedy (1992, with Robert Domm), and The Secret War Against the Jews (1994, with John Loftus).

Diane Armstrong Author and Journalist

Dr Paul Bartrop teaches history, comparative genocide studies and Jewish religion at Bialik College, Melbourne. An Honorary Fellow in the School of Australian and International Studies at Deakin University, he was formerly a lecturer in racism and comparative genocide at the University of South Australia, and has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. His published works include Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity during the Holocaust (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000), (ed) False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1995) and Australia and the Holocaust 1933-45 (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994) In addition, he has published numerous scholarly articles in journals and books, as well as serving on the editorial committees of a number of Australian and international periodicals. Dr Bartrop has served as President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies, and is an Honorary Life Member of the Jewish Museum of Australia. He lives in Melbourne.

Lynda Ben-Menashe Educational Design & Technology Consultant

Danny Ben-Moshe Executive Director B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc

Alex Bercovicz Poet

Anna Blay Writer and Head of Languages, Kilvington Girls' Grammar School, Victoria

Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen C.E.O., Sydney Jewish Museum

Dr S. Encel Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of New South Wales

Daniel Feiler Research Officer, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

Dr George Foster President, Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants

Margaret Foster B.A. (UNE), Special thanks to Margaret Foster for her editorial work.

Mendel Gelberman Survivor of the Shoah and Immediate Past Chair, Shoah Remembrance Committee of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

Eva Gertler Coordinator of Volunteer Guides and School Excursions, Sydney Jewish Museum

Jan Goldman Research Librarian

Daniel Grynberg Lawyer

Katja Grynberg Poet

Richard Guilliart Journalist

Jeremy Jones National Vice President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and Director of Community Affairs of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council

Dr Tom Kramer

Professor Konrad Kwiet The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies wishes to thank Professor Kwiet for his input and advice.

Ms Tinny Lenthen A.L.A.A., Librarian, Sydney Jewish Museum

Harry Opperman Jewish Education Coordinator, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney

Don Perlgut Film Critic and Educational Television Consultant

Dr Suzanne Rutland Senior Lecturer, Jewish Civilisation and Head, Department of Semitic Studies, University of Sydney. Dr Rutland is the author of Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Australia (1988 and 1997) and editor of Opposite the Lion's Den: A Story of Hiding Dutch Jews (1995).

Bob Selinger History Teacher & Deputy Principal, Chatswood High School, NSW

Judith Shapira History Teacher and Former Chair of the Education Committee of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

Val Stern

Dr Paul Valent is a psychiatrist, traumatologist and author, himself a child survivor of the Holocaust. His books include Child Survivors: Adults Living with Childhood Trauma (1994) Melbourne, Heinemann. This book is currently out of print but is available through libraries. He recently published From Survival to Fulfillment: A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic and Trauma and Fulfillment Therapy: A Wholist Framework. Both the latter books were published in 1998 in Philadelphia by Brunner Mazel.

Peter Wertheim President, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

Howard Wolfers B.A. Dip. Ed. (Macq.), M.A. (Sydney), M. Ed. (University of Western Sydney), Deputy Principal of Pittwater High School, Mona Vale, NSW

PLEASE NOTE

The material on this website is for free use by students and teachers of the Holocaust/Shoah. However, any reproduction of this material for commercial purposes is forbidden.

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No responsibility is taken for material found on websites linked to this one.