Brisbane: Holocaust museum opens in St Stephen’s Cathedral precinct

Remembrance
Remembrance: Holocaust survivor Peter Baruch with Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge at the opening of the Queensland Holocaust Museum. Photos: Joe Higgins

“NEVER again” – that was the message holocaust survivor Peter Baruch wanted to ensure lived on through the opening of the Queensland Holocaust Museum beneath Penola Place in St Stephen’s Cathedral precinct today.

Mr Baruch was only one and a half years old when Nazi Germany invaded his home-country Poland in 1939.

His parents decided to leave Poland while the rest of his wider family stayed. “We survived; they all perished, every one of them,” he said.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

You are cordially invited to join us for the first Australia-wide commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January at 7pm. Join the Jewish Communities and Museums of Australia to heed the action to shine our own ‘light’ on intolerance and injustices that continue to prevail.

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