It has been 10 years in the making but today the new Melbourne holocaust museum opened to the public for the first time. Inside, are new exhibitions honouring survivors of one of the darkest chapters in human history and important lessons for society today.
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00:00 Stepping inside the new Melbourne Holocaust Museum, feeling the weight of history, it's carried by survivors like 99-year-old Abram Goldberg, who remembers the last words his mother said to him in 1944 at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
00:19 Abram, you should do every humanly possible to survive. And when you will survive, wherever you will find yourself, you should tell the world and the people of the world what actually happened to us.
00:35 The new five-storey building is home to more than 1,300 survivor testimonies and 12,000 historical artefacts. New exhibitions show the vibrancy of pre-war Jewish life through the harrowing passage of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and the triumph over hate of survivors post-war like Abram and his family.
00:56 This is what I dedicated my life and I'm sure my mother will be proud.
01:03 It's an overwhelming feeling of pride in what we've been able to achieve to carry these survivor stories forward.
01:10 Through images and words, the exhibitions present moral dilemmas and thought-provoking content to amplify victims' and survivors' voices. Abram says after recent tensions in the community, now more than ever, their message must be heard.
01:27 Racism, anti-Semitism is rising to our heads again and I'm still fighting. It's the last day of my life.
01:38 This museum, these exhibitions, very much tell the story of the past, but this building and the lessons to be learned here are for the future.
01:47 I think it will serve the community and the Melbourne public for decades to come.
01:53 Not every day in your life is going to be a sunny day. There will be days when there will be an overcast.
01:59 But always remember, after an overcast day, the sun will always shine again. And this was my motto after the war.
02:08 war.
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