We invite you to join us for the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday 29 January 2024.

This year we will be hosting a panel discussion on the importance of democracy.

This panel discussion will be moderated by Dr Breann Fallon and will include four panelists.

Dr Daniel Heller -Daniel Heller is the Kronhill Senior Lecturer in East European Jewish History at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. His areas of research specialization are East European Jewish history, the history of humanitarian aid and international development, and the history of Zionism and modern Israel.

Nyadol Nyuon OAM - Nyadol was born in a refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia, raised in several refugee camps and separated from her mother at a very young age before moving to Australia at the age of 18. Nyadol has completed a Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University and her Juris Doctor at the University of Melbourne. Nyadol is a vocal advocate for human rights, focuses on legal reform, social justice, and multiculturalism.

Nina Bassat AM - Nina was born on 8 April 1939 in Lwów, Poland. Nina and her mother survived the Holocaust and came to Australia in 1949 as refugees after two years in a displaced person's camp in Germany. They settled in Melbourne. Nina studied arts and law at the University of Melbourne, Nina served as president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria and as president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert - Kylie is an Australian political scientist specialising in Islam and the Middle East. Kylie speaks several Middle Eastern languages and has spent significant periods travelling and conducting academic research in the region. In 2018 she was wrongfully detained during a research trip to Iran, and served more than two years of a ten-year sentence before being freed in November 2020 in a prisoner exchange deal.

Kylie is the author of the bestselling 2022 memoir ‘The Uncaged Sky’

Artwork I Detail from Evidence of Evil, 1993/2022, a graphic light installation created by Stih & Schnock for the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, representing a selection of antisemitic laws and decrees passed by the Nazi regime between 1933-1945.