Remembering those who perished
The Sydney Jewish Museum will commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, this Sunday with “The Reading of the Names”.
One of the Museum’s most important events, both Jews and non-Jews will participate in reading out the names of people who perished at the hands on the Nazis.
Museum CEO Norman Seligman said it was important for this generation and all future generations to remember those who died in the Holocaust.
“It’s important to read the names because it’s easy to talk about a number of six million,” he said.
“[But] it’s when you start reading names that people start to realise that every single one of those six million people had a name, were humans and it really puts it much more into perspective.”
The museum is also hosting a special exhibition, Butterflies of Hope, from next Monday.
“This exhibition focuses on children caught up in terror, horror and war,” Mr Seligman said.
“[It] shows that not only [did] this happen many years ago but the world still has not learnt, and that as we speak there are children caught up in terror not of their own making and are victims of war.”
