Sydney Jewish Museum, Holocaust memorial museum in Darlinghurst, Australia.

The Sydney Jewish Museum is a memorial museum in the Darlinghurst neighborhood of Sydney, dedicated to documenting the Holocaust and the history of Jewish life in Australia. It is housed in a historic building and presents personal testimonies, documents, photographs, and objects from the community.

The building was constructed in 1923 as Maccabean Hall, created to honor Jewish soldiers from New South Wales who served in World War I. In 1992, it was converted into a museum and opened to the public.

The building is Maccabean Hall, named after the Maccabees, the Jewish fighters of antiquity; the museum itself is the Sydney Jewish Museum. After World War II the hall hosted migrants' English lessons, weddings, rallies and Anzac and Holocaust commemorations. The library holds over 6,000 volumes and more than 2,500 testimonies of Holocaust survivors in Australia.

The museum offers guided tours and educational programs that help visitors follow the stories and their context more clearly. The building is easy to reach on foot from central Sydney, and the neighborhood has several cafes and shops nearby.

Australia has one of the highest concentrations of Holocaust survivors in the world, second only to Israel, which shaped the way this museum was built from the start. Many survivors gave recorded testimonies in person before they passed away, so their voices are still heard inside the galleries today.