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Sunday 28 January, 11am

Join us for the 2024 commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Sydney Jewish Museum.

2024 marks 79 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp. It’s also the 80th anniversary of the deportation of almost half a million of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz in May of 1944. By the end of the Holocaust, some 565,000 Hungarian Jews had been murdered.

We will pay tribute to the memory of all Holocaust survivors and the victims, while reaffirming our commitment to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance. The event will leave us contemplating the nature of freedom and human rights; and how freedom is more fragile and vulnerable than many of us realise.

Hear from a variety of moving speakers, including classical pianist and writer Simon Tedeschi, Cantor Shimon Farkas OAM and Holocaust survivor Olga Horak OAM, among important messages from politicians.

This event is a collaboration between the Museum, the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, and the Australian Holocaust Museum Alliance.

THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED

Photograph: by Katherine Griffiths. SJM Collection.