New research shows few Australians know about our own connections to the Holocaust
- Written by Steven Cooke, Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
In December 1938, Yorta Yorta man William Cooper took part in a protest organised by the Australian Aborigines’ League to deliver a letter to the German consulate in Melbourne condemning the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government”.
The protest came weeks after Kristallnacht, an outpouring of violence...
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