In fact, Australian Jewish communities have long fought internally over the best strategy to achieve Jewish safety. The memorialisation of the Holocaust was key to the ideas and practice of the popular Australian Jewish antifascist left in the 1940s and 1950s. The main organisation of the Jewish antifascist left in Australia was the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, sometimes shortened to “the Jewish Council”. The broader fight against racism and colonialismFor the Jewish Council, the struggle against antisemitism was connected to fighting racism and colonialism more generally. Yosl Bergner, antifascist artistThe famous artist Yosl Bergner (1920-2017) presents another example of Jewish antifascist Holocaust memorialisation.

Source: The Guardian March 17, 2023 02:39 UTC