Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre, Holocaust museum in Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia

The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre is a memorial museum on Selwyn Street in Elsternwick, Melbourne, holding photographs, documents, personal objects, artworks, and written testimonies from the Holocaust period. The building also contains a research centre where materials are made accessible to scholars and the general public.

The museum was founded in 1984 by Holocaust survivors who wanted to record their experiences before firsthand witnesses were gone. It was one of the first institutions of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and grew steadily as survivors contributed their own materials and stories.

The museum's collection holds over 1,300 survivor video testimonials, and guided tours are sometimes led by Holocaust survivors themselves. Austrian volunteers of the Austrian Service Abroad work at the museum for 10 to 12 months, translating documents, preparing exhibitions and cataloguing photographs. The 2025 film series "Journeys of Hope", made with ABC Education, interviews survivors who came to Australia as children.

The museum sits in Elsternwick, a southern suburb of Melbourne, and is easy to reach by public transport. It is worth setting aside a good amount of time, as the collections are dense and are best taken in slowly.

The museum holds more than 1,300 video testimonies recorded with Holocaust survivors, alongside over 12,000 historical artefacts. Austrian volunteers on a 10- to 12-month placement, under the Austrian Service Abroad programme, work here translating documents, preparing exhibitions, cataloguing photographs and assisting with research. The museum has hosted these volunteers since 2008.