Visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum

Wednesday 6th February, 2019

Thirty members of our Model A Ford Club visited the Sydney Jewish Museum in Darlinghurst in inner Sydney today.

We all mustered at a coffee house at Circular Quay before boarding a bus that delivered us to the Museum in Darlinghurst Road. Once we all processed through the security checks we entered into another world.

Part of the facade of the Sydney Jewish Museum
in Darlinghurst

The Sydney Jewish Museum was established in 1992 by the generation of Holocaust survivors who came to Australia. The Museum is an institution that collects and preserves historic objects, commemorates and educates, with a mission to challenge visitors’ perceptions of morality, social justice, democracy and human rights.

The Museum collects and conserves original memorabilia related to the Holocaust, Judaica and Australian Jewish history to make these available for display and research for generations to come.

After recent renovations the Museum offers fantastic displays
and exhibitions of curated items in a modern environment.

Seeing that there were so many of us, we were divided into three groups of 10 people in each group. Our group's guide (Vera) whose parents were survivors of The Holocaust took us all on an informative, but frightening journey for the following one & a half hours.

Our guide Vera [in white, with her back to the camera] conducts
our tour group through the exhibitions and displays.

I was well aware of what to expect, because in 1969 (50-years ago) when I was a young man travelling around the world in a Volkswagen camper van, I visited Dachau the First Concentration Camp, which was established immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933.

For these people that say the Holocaust never happened, WELL, let me tell you, just allow yourself a few hours one day to visit the Sydney Jewish Museum, I can assure you it would be well worth the visit.

For lunch we headed for the Courthouse Hotel located on
Taylor Square on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst.

Once our guided tour of the Museum had finished all thirty of us made the short stroll to the Courthouse Hotel located in Taylor Square on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst for a Pub lunch & discuss the morning's events.

Our group enjoying lunch inside the Courthouse Hotel after an
enlightening visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum.

Cheers for now.

Warbo.