HUMANITIES

Holocaust Museum Excursion

Wednesday 16 March

As part of the Year 10 History: From War to Peace courses, students had the opportunity to visit the Holocaust Museum.

The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre is an institution dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews who lost their lives between 1933 and 1945. It is a valuable opportunity for our students to experience such a large aspect of the era of History they are studying.

Kristy Mays

VCE Humanities Teacher

Lighting a candle of remembrance with survivor, Fryda.

Panels at the entrance to the Museum.

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Today Ms Mays' Year 10 History class got the opportunity to visit the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Elsternwick. We have recently been studying the Holocaust in class and the excursion helped to further our knowledge.

At the Jewish Holocaust Centre’s entrance, we examined the art representations of stages during the Holocaust.  We also saw the eternal flame which burns to remember the victims of the Holocaust. 

We viewed a PowerPoint which showed footage from liberation and learnt that race is just another thing dividing humans. We have got to remember we are all humans and nothing more or less. 

Touring around the museum allowed us to further our knowledge on all the events which happened during the Holocaust.

We were lucky enough to hear from, Fryda, a Holocaust survivor, tell her story and have our questions answered.

It was an emotional experience but we are thankful that we had the opportunity to hear a personal story. Overall, we had an informative and enjoyable day. 

On behalf of Ms Mays' Year 10 History class, we would like to thank the Jewish Holocaust Centre for allowing us the opportunity.  We would especially like to thank Ms Mays and Ms Owens for organising and supervising us and also making the day so enjoyable for us all.

Emma Wilkinson 10.88

Having visited the Holocaust Museum today, I now have a better understanding of what those people went through in that disastrous time.

I went in to today not really understanding how bad it really was, how much those people really were affected by the Holocaust. I knew a lot of people died, but when 6,000,000 is put into the words of "That's 60 MCG's full of people”, that's when I truly realised the mass amount of people who died.

Having hearing the stories of the survivors and listening to them speak about what they went through, I now have a much deeper understanding. Just listening to what they went through brought me to tears. A lady named Fryda shared her story with us, and even after all the terrible things that she went through, her heart is still pure and she chooses to trust others, she chooses to share her story with people and raise awareness rather than forget about it. She was so inspirational. 

This experience was extremely sad, but also very interesting and inspirational and I'm so happy that I went.

Grace Bedford  10.88