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Stories

Stories of Memory and Belonging

A place for remembrance, memory and belonging, shared with care and always by choice.

Many of the people and families we work with carry memories of displacement, persecution and loss. They include Holocaust survivors, their descendants, and communities affected by persecution or intergenerational trauma. This is a space to remember, to learn and to belong.

Never Again Is Now.

Remembering is not only about the past. It asks each of us to recognise hatred and stand against it today.

Hands looking through old black-and-white photographs

Before you read

Some of the themes on this page are distressing. Please take care while reading, and stop whenever you need to. Need help now?

Remembrance

Displacement and migration

  • Displacement and statelessness

    Being forced from home, or living without the protection of a country.

  • Refugee experience

    Seeking safety, and rebuilding a life in a new place.

  • Soviet antisemitism

    Jewish families who lived with antisemitism in the Soviet Union, and the journeys of those who left.

  • Migration

    The journeys that brought families to Australia, and what they carried with them.

Living with memory

  • Intergenerational memory

    How memories, silences and traditions pass from one generation to the next.

  • Grief and loss

    Making room to remember people, places and ways of life that were lost.

  • Safety and belonging

    The questions of safety and belonging that many people carry today.

  • Resilience

    The strength and hope people hold on to, and the lives they rebuild.

Standing against hate

  • Antisemitism

    Recognising antisemitism and working together to reduce it. The Australian Government has adopted the Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism.

    Source: Prime Minister of Australia (opens in a new tab)

  • Inclusion and respect

    Bringing together people of different cultures, faiths and backgrounds to build understanding and reduce hate.

Your story belongs to you

  • A person’s story belongs to them. Participation does not automatically mean agreement to photography or publication.
  • No one has to discuss personal history or trauma to take part.
  • Stories can be shared through photography, art, food, objects, memory, music or place, or not shared at all.

Sharing a story

If you would like to share a story, photograph, recipe or object, you can do it in our storytelling programs, in your own words and at your own pace.

Contact us about sharing a story

Sources and further reading

Historical material on this page is used only when it is properly licensed or in the public domain, with the source credited.