Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Jewish traditions and culture
within Australia. Ascending
the stairs to mezzanine levels
1-6, the visitor passes through
chronological and thematic
exhibitions which unravel the
history of the Holocaust.
From Hitler's rise to power
and
Kristallnacht
, through the
evacuation of the ghettos and
the Final Solution, to the ulti-
mate liberation of the infamous
death camps and Nuremberg
Trials, the harrowing events
are graphically documented.
This horrific period is recalled
using photographs and relics,
some exhumed from mass
graves, as well as audiovisual
exhibits and oral testimonies.
Holocaust survivors act as
volunteer guides. Their
presence, bearing witness to
the recorded events, lends
considerable power and mov-
ing authenticity to the exhibits.
quarried on the site by convicts
which was then chiselled by
them into blocks.
No fewer than 67 people
were executed here between
1841 and 1908. Perhaps the
most notorious hangman was
Alexander “The Strangler”
Green, after whom Green Park,
outside the jail, is thought to
have been named. Green lived
near the park until public
hostility forced him to live in
relative safety inside the jail.
Some of Australia's most
noted artists, including Frank
Hodgkinson, Jon Molvig and
William Dobell, trained or
taught at the art school which
was established here in 1921.
Star of David in the lobby of the
Sydney Jewish Museum
Sydney Jewish
Museum
5
148 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst.
Map
5 B2.
Tel
9360 7999.
@
Sydney Explorer, Bondi & Bay
Explorer, 311, 388.
#
10am-4pm
Sun-Thu, 10am-2pm Fri.
¢
Sat,
Jewish hols.
&
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www
.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au
Old Gaol,
Darlinghurst
6
Cnr Burton & Forbes Sts, Darlinghurst.
Map
5 A2.
Tel
9339 8744.
@
333,
378, 380, 389
#
9am-5pm
Mon-Fri.
¢
public hols.
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Sixteen Jewish convicts were
on the First Fleet and many
more were to be transported
before the end of the convict
era. As with other convicts,
most would endure and some
would thrive, seizing all the
opportunities the colony had
to offer for those wishing to
make something of themselves.
The Sydney Jewish Museum
relates stories of Australian
Jewry within the context of the
Holocaust. The ground floor
display explores present-day
Originally known as the
Woolloomooloo Stockade and
later as Darlinghurst Gaol, this
complex is now part the
National Art School. It was
constructed over a 20-year
period from 1822.
Surrounded by walls almost
7 m (23 ft) high, the cell blocks
radiate from a central round-
house. The jail is built of stone
The former Governor's house, Old
Gaol, Darlinghurst
Darlinghurst Court
House
7
Forbes St, Darlinghurst.
Map
5 A2.
Tel
9368 2947.
@
333, 378, 380.
#
Feb-Dec: 10am-4pm Mon-Fri.
¢
mid-Dec-Jan, public hols.
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Abutting the grim old jail, to
which it is connected by
underground passages, and
facing tawdry Taylors Square,
this unlikely gem of Greek
Revival architecture was
begun in 1835 by Colonial
Architect Mortimer Lewis. He
was only responsible for the
central block of the main
building with its splendid six-
columned Doric portico with
fine Greek embellishments.
The balancing side wings were
not added until the 1880s.
The court house is still used
by the state's Supreme Court
mainly for criminal cases, and
these are open to the public.
Beare Park, a quiet inner-city park with harbour views
