Yom Hashoah

YOM HASHOAH

The JCCV has been the long-time host of the annual Victorian Jewish community Yom Hashoah commemoration. The commemoration provides an opportunity for our community to come together to remember the six million Jewish lives lost during the Holocaust and to pay tribute to the courage of the survivors.

Holocaust survivors and their descendants share their family’s testimony during the commemoration and light memorial candles for those who did not survive.

Students from Jewish schools, Jewish youth movements and members of Jewish cultural groups all contribute to the commemoration through songs, music, poetry readings and reflections.

Melbourne attracted the largest number of Holocaust survivors outside Israel and the Melbourne Jewish community was invigorated with the arrival of Holocaust survivors from Europe following World War II. Many community leaders and members today are the descendants of Holocaust survivors from Poland, Hungary, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia and other European countries.

Yom Hashoah Commemoration 2024

The JCCV is honoured to invite you to join us for the annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration 2024.

This year, the Commemoration is guided by the theme of “We Are Here”, the last line of Zog nit keyn mol – the Partisan Song.

Our evening will explore what We are Here means to us as a community. We will honour the memory of those who perished, we will commend the legacy of those who survived, and acknowledge the generations that have followed, who are the custodians of their stories.

We would like to invite you to share images that reflect what “We Are Here” means to you. These images, of your ancestors, family today, or memories of establishing life in Melbourne after the war, will be used as part of the event.

We look forward to honouring the memory of your loved ones together.

Featured Videos from The Yom Hashoah
Commemoration 2023

Survivor Testimonies from Past Yom Hashoah Commemorations