17-857: (Redirected from Holocaust Museum ) The term Holocaust museum may refer to: Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre , Adelaide, South Australia Ani Ma'amin Holocaust Museum , Jerusalem Cape Town Holocaust Centre , Cape Town, South Africa Centro Israelita do Paraná , Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance , Dallas, Texas, US Dutch National Holocaust Museum , Amsterdam, The Netherlands Florida Holocaust Museum , St. Petersburg, Florida, US Ghetto Fighters' House , Western Galilee, Israel Holocaust Memorial Center (Budapest) , Budapest, Hungary Holocaust Memorial Center , Farmington Hills, Michigan, US Holocaust Memorial Center for
34-652: A Parliamentary inquiry into "neo-Nazi symbols, the activities of extremist groups , discrimination faced by targeted groups and the prohibition on symbols in other states". The heritage-listed Fennescey House was designed by architect Harrold Herbert (Herbert) Jory (20 March 1888 – 16 May 1966) in the Gothic Revival style, and built around 1940 as an education office for the Catholic Church. The building's name derives from its patrons, Mary and John Fennescey, who donated £20,000 towards its construction. The building
51-539: A carpark next to an office block tenanted by SAPOL . The building was constructed around 1980, with its address no. 60. The cinema was situated adjacent to the Wakefield Hotel on its western side. The hotel had existed on this site, on the corner of Divett Place, since 1864, and the stone building stands at no. 76. In 1927 its licensees were M.G. Henderson and V. Kenny. It is a stone building with cream brick decoration. The first training hospital for nurses in
68-482: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre The Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre ( AHMSEC ) is a museum housed in the historic Fennescey House at 33 Wakefield Street , in Adelaide city centre , just east of Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga . Fennescey House belongs to
85-630: Is on the South Australian Heritage Register and is listed by the National Trust of South Australia (NTSA). Wakefield Street Wakefield Street is a main thoroughfare intersecting the centre of the South Australian capital, Adelaide , from east to west at its midpoint. It crosses Victoria Square in the centre of the city, which has a grid street plan . It continues as Wakefield Road on its eastern side, through
102-530: The Catholic Church , and is located on the grounds of St Francis Xavier's Cathedral . The education centre is named after Andrew Steiner OAM , an Adelaide Holocaust survivor and sculptor who had been providing education about the Holocaust to school students for the previous 30 years. He had driven the project, which was largely funded with donations from Gandel Philanthropy. Students of architecture from
119-711: The Grand Picture Theatre in Rundle Street, among others) opened at no. 70 in 1912, featuring silent films until its first talkie screened in 1930. On Saturday 14 May 1938, after a change of ownership and complete refurbishment, the cinema was opened as the Star, as part of the Clifford Theatres Circuit (and variously referred to as the New Star Theatre, Wakefield Street; Wakefield Street New Star; and
136-650: The University of South Australia were involved in the design of the museum, and the project team for its creation worked closely with the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne . One of Steiner's sculptures, a figure of Polish teacher hero of the Holocaust Janusz Korczak , is a centrepiece of the museum. The aim of the museum and its education program is to educate people, especially young people, about
153-516: The "Wakefield House", a 20-storey building in brutalist style completed in 1980. It runs in from east to west between East Terrace and Victoria Square , and is one of the three streets (along with Grote Street and King William Street ) to run through Victoria Square in the middle of the Adelaide city centre . The same three streets are also the widest streets in the city centre, at 2 chains (130 ft; 40 m) wide (refer to Adelaide city centre#Layout ). The western end of Wakefield Street
170-951: The Jews of Macedonia , Skopje, North Macedonia Holocaust Museum Houston , Houston, Texas, US Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center , Skokie, Illinois, US Jewish Holocaust Centre , Melbourne, Australia Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre , Johannesburg, South Africa Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust , Los Angeles, US Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre , Montreal, Canada Simon Wiesenthal Center , Los Angeles, US Swedish Holocaust Museum , Stockholm Sydney Jewish Museum , Sydney, Australia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , Washington, D.C., US Virginia Holocaust Museum , Richmond, Virginia, US Yad Vashem , Jerusalem See also [ edit ] Jewish Museum, Berlin List of Holocaust memorials and museums America's Black Holocaust Museum Topics referred to by
187-573: The Wakefield Street Star Theatre. ). One reviewer described it as "the most modern theatre in S.A.". Architect Chris Smith had designed the new interior, and furnishings were supplied by John Martin & Co. The refit was in Art Deco style. The Star closed around 1959 or 1960 and reopened in 1962/63 as a Greek theatre, the Pantheon. It was demolished (date unknown) and is now the site of
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#1732852857860204-489: The colony and then state, Private Hospital, Wakefield Street , occupied various sites between Daly and Hutt Street from 1883 to 1884 until January 2020, when the new Calvary Adelaide Hospital opened on Angas Street . The Unitarian Christian Church which once stood opposite Francis Xavier's Cathedral was sold to the Public Service Association in 1971. It was replaced with a government building known as
221-839: The eastern Adelaide Park Lands . The street was named after Daniel Bell Wakefield , the solicitor who drafted the Act which proclaimed Adelaide. Like his brother Edward Gibbon Wakefield , he was also involved in the South Australia Association in London, but never visited Adelaide. In 1911 the Willard Hall and Willard Guest House were opened by the South Australian branch of the WCTU, named after Frances Willard , United States national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The building, previously St Andrew's Presbyterian Church,
238-424: The history of the Holocaust, to "critically reflect on its themes and their relevance in contemporary society", and to combat antisemitism and racism. The museum was officially launched on 9 November 2020, the date significantly chosen to commemorate Kristallnacht , when in 1938 German Nazis burnt down synagogues, vandalised homes, schools and businesses belonging to Jews, and killed nearly 100 people, marking
255-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Holocaust museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holocaust_museum&oldid=1256360621 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
272-493: The start of the Holocaust . The museum opened its doors to the public a week later, on 17 November 2020. The museum comprises four galleries: Shortly before its opening, the federal government announced A$ 2.5 million of funding for further development of the museum. After a group of neo-Nazis had posted photographs of themselves giving fascist salutes outside the museum premises on social media, Minister for Multicultural Affairs Zoe Bettison said that there would be
289-511: Was situated on the south side of the road, 2.75 yards (2.51 m) west of the east side of Gawler Place . In 1928 an old bell was found in the tower, which was probably the first bell cast in Adelaide and made for the church. A 1939 photograph shows the new art deco additions to the building, and the premises of Frank J. Siebert, Funeral Director, on the left. The Central Picture Theatre, designed by R. R. G. (Rowland) Assheton (who also designed
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