We also thank the state government for the commitment it has given us that the museum will present information about the other groups that were persecuted during the Holocaust.

These include LGBTIQ+ people, people with disability, Roma, political prisoners, and various religious, racial, ethnic and language groups.

We urge the government to consult with those groups in order to gather stories of Holocaust survivors in Tasmania and to understand how the Holocaust is seen today by those who, had they lived in Europe 80 years ago, would have been persecuted.

Rodney Croome, president, Equality Tasmania, Hobart

BETTER USES FOR FUNDING

The Jewish Holocaust is a blot on the history of humanity but so is the genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines, the millions of deaths of other nationalities in the Nazi death camps and more recently the Balkan massacres just to name a few.

So what justifies $2 million of Australian taxpayers’ money to create a museum and memorial in Hobart to the victims of the Jewish Holocaust when Israel has the most splendid one in the world?

If it is because children do not know this history, as Josh Frydenburg is alleged to have said, then it is a simple matter of including it in the school curriculum.

That $2 million would be better spent solving Tasmanian’s problem of homelessness, poverty and generational welfare.

Michele Timar, Devonport

During a recent visit to the state, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced funding for a Tasmanian Holocaust museum – sparking some discussion on the idea in The Advocate.