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Felix Goldschmied a Holocaust survivor who lives in Tasmania separately recalled his experiences as a child living under Nazi occupation.
“My time during the Holocaust was not very nice, my relatives were all murdered, went to Auschwitz concentration camp, and my father was interned in a concentration camp,” he said.
Goldschmied explained that the purpose of the new Holocaust center was “to stop hatred, inhuman behavior, discrimination.”
“The crime of the Holocaust was so enormous that it’s left an indelible mark on society and I think it’s important that we should all learn about it to prevent it from ever happening in the future,” he added.
Holocaust to be remembered in new Tasmanian education centre
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Felix Goldschmied remembers having to wear a star and walk in the gutter for a while .
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Launceston man Felix Goldschmied moved to Australia when he was nine years old, with his six-year-old brother.
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A new centre remembering the Holocaust will be developed in Tasmania
The centre will offer education and interpretation for school groups, as well as the general public
The federal government will contribute two million dollars to the centre and the state government will also provide funding