Educational bridges to the intangible

This chapter surveys the innovative approaches developed between Deakin University and Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC), which combine field research with online technologies and also bring students into direct contact with Holocaust survivors. The English command ‘Remember the 6,000,000 Jews’ focused on the dead and specifically the Jewish victims of Nazism. This focus on remembering Jews murdered in the Holocaust was reflected in the JHC’s early aims and functionality. After so many years of being in the fortunate position to draw on Melbourne’s comparatively large community of survivors via the JHC, in order to combat Australia’s geographical remoteness from where the Holocaust happened inventive new ways of building educational bridges to the intangible will need to be conceptualised. Holocaust survivors who settled in Melbourne predominately were from Poland, enticed to settle in the small Yiddishist society, thereby giving the Melbourne Jewish community its ‘distinctive flavour’.