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Discover survivor stories
Our cutting-edge technologies will ensure visitors of the future have authentic and meaningful interactions with Holocaust survivors, as important eyewitnesses to history.
This summer, there are several ways to engage with history through technology at the Museum: you can explore the Holocaust exhibition using a GPS-based testimony app, or even have a conversation with Holocaust survivors via our new lifelike interactive technology. Find out more -
Where history has a voice
The Sydney Jewish Museum is a living history museum, where the past is kept alive to continue to speak to future generations in a dynamic way that will always resonate.
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Exhibitions
Opens 22 November
The Unknown Paintings of Fred Zeckendorf
A showcase of paintings created by Fred Zeckendorf in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Fred captured scenes of the ghetto’s landscape, the people and daily life, leaving a legacy of art that depicted the Holocaust experience of those incarcerated in Theresienstadt.
Permanent exhibition
The Holocaust
An exhibition that traces the history of the Holocaust through artefacts and personal testimony. The exhibition also recounts the new lives forged by survivors after their arrival in Australia and their contribution to the rich, multicultural fabric of Australian life.
Meet Olga’s interactive biography
Help us prepare Olga’s interactive biography for future exhibitions. Simply ask Olga a question on-screen – anything you want to know – and hear her response in a real-time, lifelike conversation.
Listen to the voices of history
Listen to the voices of history on your own device as you move through the Sydney Jewish Museum’s Holocaust exhibition, with the SJM Voices app.
Tour 'Jews from Islamic Lands' online
Our recent exhibition, Jews from Islamic Lands, is now available as a 360-degree immersive experience.
This exhibition tells the stories of Jews from Islamic lands through objects from the Sydney Jewish Museum’s collection and those sourced from local families with direct lineage from these regions.
Explore a tapestry of Jewish stories from more than 20 Islamic lands.
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SJM blog
A lamp with no shade
December 31, 2021
In 2018, we received a donation of a weird but wonderful hand-carved lampstand. It features a moose standing beside a tree stump. The base of the item is carved with the inscription: ‘Lithuanian DPs Handwork Scheinfeld 12 April 1947’. We know little about the maker, aside from the fact that they were a Lithuanian displaced person in a DP camp in Germany.
The Amazing Mr Rooklyn
December 30, 2021
Maurice Rooklyn was one of Australia’s leading entertainers – a hypnotist, juggler, ventriloquist, illusionist and magician. Born in England in 1905 to Russian-Jewish parents, his family migrated to Australia in 1912.
A story hidden in the seams
December 13, 2021
These Christmas-themed charms in our collection were made by a seamstress named Trude Baumann, within the walls of Oederan concentration camp between 1944 and 1945. Delicately detailed using small pieces of green and red felt, they showcase her talent for intricate stitchwork.
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