A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor has detailed why the construction of a Brisbane museum dedicated to stories of the genocide is of “great importance”.
A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor has commended plans to construct Queensland‘s first museum honouring those who were victims to the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
The Holocaust Museum will be built next year in Brisbane’s cathedral precinct to serve as a lasting legacy to the six million Jewish people killed and to educate future generations of the horrific genocide.
“The Holocaust is now about 80 years behind us and the people, like myself, who survived it and are still alive are now fewer and fewer,” Dr Bert Klug told The Courier-Mail.
“So the Holocaust Museum will serve a fantastic purpose of perpetuating the events and making sure nothing like that will ever happen again.”
Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Centre chair Jason Steinberg referenced a sequence of disturbing protests and vandalism attacks in recent years featuring Nazism symbols in Brisbane to stress the importance of education and understanding.
“Education is the absolute antidote to anti Semitism and hatred,” he said.
“By educating the kids of today and their parents, they‘ll become more familiar with it and be able to understand that showing a Nazi flag is actually one of the worst things you can you can do, and it should never happen.”
Read the article by James Hall in The Courier Mail.