The commitment to fund a new National Holocaust Education Centre in Canberra has been welcomed by the ACT's Jewish community. It's aim - to honour and keep alive the stories of Holocaust survivors, educating school children and other visitors to the capital.
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00:00For Ernst Wilhelm, reflecting on the horrors of the Holocaust is important.
00:07Many of his family members were murdered, including his aunt.
00:10She was paraded in front of a trench and machine gunned, along with all the other Jews.
00:17His parents were able to escape to Australia in 1948.
00:21Now on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, he's concerned about the level of racism
00:26currently being experienced by Jewish Australians.
00:29But what is so sad is that some people are turning their hostility about what is happening
00:37in Palestine towards Australian Jewish people.
00:43And that is pure racism, and that is totally unacceptable.
00:47And that recent rise in antisemitism has prompted the federal government to commit $4.4 million
00:53into building a National Holocaust Education Centre in Canberra.
00:58For the Jewish community to tell their story in a culturally appropriate way and educate
01:04young Australians about the history of the Holocaust.
01:09There's less and less of our wonderful survivors with us to tell their stories.
01:14There is more and more misinformation appearing in social media of Holocaust denial.
01:19165,000 Australian school children travel to Canberra each year to learn about Australian
01:25democracy, history and culture.
01:28The government hopes a new education centre here will become part of that itinerary.
01:34It means that people will remember that this happened and it must never happen again.
01:41Preserving the lessons of the past.