ONE of the world’s first tributes to both survivors and victims of the Holocaust will be established in Melbourne’s Jewish heartland.
Councillor Joel Silver, who first brought the idea before Glen Eira Council, said the memorial would celebrate the lives of those who survived the Holocaust and their contribution to Australia, as well as the six million Jews who died.
It will take the form of a public artwork or structure, in Elsternwick or St Kilda East.
“Holocaust survivors gave so much to this area, and to Australia at large,” Cr Silver said,
“To have come through what they did is something I cannot comprehend, and we are privileged to have lived alongside them.
“People wonder why we haven’t established a survivor’s memorial earlier. I think we’re just at that time in the cycle where the need has become clear.”
Read the full article by Bianca Carmona in the Caulfield Glen Eira Leader, as it appears at the Herald Sun.