Holocaust Significant for Young Australians

May 23, 2009

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/17180/

The Jewish Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick, Melbourne, will be totally renovated and upgraded at the end of the year; it is visited by hundreds of school children every week.

“For us, it was the end of our lives, no education, no future, no nothing, but this was just the beginning. Slowly, every day another order – not to walk on the footpath, not to queue up, definitely not the garden, not the park, not the cinema, not the theatre, not the orchestra, nothing. And then in March 1940, they decided to create the ghetto,” recounted Mr Tuvia Lipson, a Holocaust survivor.

Mr Lipson claims 45,000 died out in this particular ghetto and another 72,000 people were sent out to an extermination camp.

For Mr Lipson, 84, his experiences as a Holocaust survivor now serve as an educational tool of what can happen when hatred reigns......

Student, Michael King, said he knew only a very minimal amount about the holocaust before his teacher, Ms Mammarella, introduced the topic in various ways into their flexible VCAL curriculum. His trip to the museum revealed further valuable information; the museums’ honoring of the Aborigines protest against the mistreatment of Jews in pre-war Nazi Germany, and a news article titled ‘Aboriginal campaigner took up a faraway fight for the oppressed’ giving him hope and purpose as a young Koori himself.

“Some people actually helped, and they didn’t just sit back and do nothing”, said Michael, referring to his aboriginal ancestors, “If I was there I wouldn’t be sitting there not doing anything. I’d help as much as I could.”

Properly educated child: When the Jews say jump, he says "How high?"

Student, Michael King, said he knew only a very minimal amount about the holocaust before his teacher, Ms Mammarella, introduced the topic in various ways into their flexible VCAL curriculum. His trip to the museum revealed further valuable information; the museums’ honoring of the Aborigines protest against the mistreatment of Jews in pre-war Nazi Germany, and a news article titled ‘Aboriginal campaigner took up a faraway fight for the oppressed’ giving him hope and purpose as a young Koori himself.

“Some people actually helped, and they didn’t just sit back and do nothing”, said Michael, referring to his aboriginal ancestors, “If I was there I wouldn’t be sitting there not doing anything. I’d help as much as I could.”

Properly educated child: When the Jews say jump, he says "How high?"

Fabricated history to illicit a response from the ignorant?