Greetings from the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Museum Director & CEO

Dear Child Survivors and friends, We hope you are all well. My team is frantically working to put the final touches on our exhibition spaces as well as all the behind the scenes upgrades to systems to ensure we are able to properly welcome visitors to our new museum. The most important thing for us is that visitors feel welcome and safe while on our site. This is challenging because of the difficult history to be found on our museum walls, but nonetheless we will train our staff and volunteers to be on the lookout for people who might be struggling with the content and offer them support. That is our ethos, to try our best to ensure their safety. We will have two museums: the main museum

‘Everybody had a name’ explores the history of the Holocaust. And, as was revealed to you last year, we will have a special exhibition called ‘Hidden: Seven Children Saved’ revealing the experiences of seven Melbourne survivors. We look forward to inviting you to this exhibition around July/August of this year.

Meanwhile I encourage any of you who have not given testimony to get in touch with our Testimonies team [testimonies@mhm.org.au] or call 9528 1985 and ask for Robbie Simons or Max Wald. We want to document your experiences and hear your stories; they are vitally important to record.

We look forward to seeing you on site at any of our events.

On behalf of my team, I send our best wishes.

Jayne Josem, Museum Director & CEO