Boonwurrung/Bunurong and the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation
Victoria
The Memorial Room is a small project located within the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. It provides a space for remembrance — allowing visitors to pay respect to the victims of the Holocaust and to the families who rebuilt their lives in Melbourne — while reinforcing the role of memory within a broader civic and multicultural context.
“The mind pours itself into the gaps between fragments, like mortar binding remnants together. Memory is never seamless, but a montage of collected fragments — recomposed by each generation.”
— James E. Young
