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These two articles tell us a lot about Horsham at the time, and how the local community was reacting to events on the other side of the world. It ends with the statement that ‘provided we can keep our own democracy pure and undefiled, we have nothing to fear’. Rabbi Sanger had been forced out of Germany by the Nazis, and resettled in St Kilda. Reverend Hawkins used Rabbi Sanger’s story as a warning to local parishioners about what was happening in Germany. Another article, titled ‘Hitler’s Great Fear – Religion’, was published on the 14 November 1939, and reports on a Methodist priest, Reverend Hawkins, who was telling local parishioners the story of Rabbi Sanger whom the reverend regarded as ‘one of the most brilliant rabbis of the Jewish faith’. One article, titled ‘Is this the war of Armageddon?” was published on the 3 December 1940, and talks of how Horsham’s Christian Community response to anti-Semitism, citing an address given by a pastor to his congregation, where he advises them that they have ‘been commanded to watch’. These articles not only talk about the Jewish situation in Europe, but also the local response to what was happening, providing insight to how local communities were addressing anti-Semitism. This enables them to show students that while the Holocaust was happening overseas people in Australia were aware of it and reacting to it.įor example, if you were a teacher living in Horsham, Victoria, and you were teaching the Holocaust, you would be able to find articles published on the National Library of Australia’s ‘Trove’ data base that were published in ‘The Horsham Times’. A simple ‘Advanced Search’ on ‘Trove’ allows teachers to tailor their resources to their local community. The ‘Trove’ database has over 23,000 Australian newspaper articles from across the country between 19 that contain the words ‘Jew’ and ‘Germany’. The benefits of using sources from these national facilities is it helps to make the Holocaust relevant for students in Australia, providing Australian voices and experiences to what was happening overseas. One avenue for educators to consider is using Australian resources from our national facilities such as the National Library of Australia’s ‘Trove’ website, which has digital records of Australian newspapers going back to the arrival of the First Fleet.

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Part of those discussions explored how to embed Australian voices into the narrative of the Holocaust, and how to use Australian content in engaging and relevant ways. Over three months, current best practice pedagogy was developed by representatives from the Department of Education Victoria, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, The Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne, Yad Vashem, Monash University, Courage to Care, and graduates of the Gandel Philanthropy Scholarship Program for Australian Holocaust Educators.

When a group of Victorian Holocaust educators met online during isolation in 2020, their aim was to develop a world-class educational program in response to the Victorian Government’s declaration that Holocaust Education in Victorian schools would become compulsory.