31-584: The Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) (formerly known as the Jewish Holocaust Centre) was founded in Elsternwick , Melbourne , Australia , in 1984 by Holocaust survivors . It is currently Australia’s largest institution dedicated to Holocaust education, research & remembrance. Its mission is to commemorate the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945, and amplify
62-572: A collection of over 1300 survivor video testimonials and over 12,000 historical artefacts, including documents, photos, artworks and objects from the Holocaust and immediate-post Holocaust era. Miriam Fink was a member of the centre's original organising committee and together with her husband Leo, she established the Leo and Mina Fink Fund, which enabled the purchase of the Centre's building. In 2019,
93-779: A range of thought-provoking events which are open to the public. Since 2008 Austrian volunteers from the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service are able to work for 10–12 months in the MHM alternatively to compulsory military service or civilian service in Austria. Their work includes, among other things, the translation of documents, the preparation of exhibitions, working in the library and cataloguing of photographs. 37°53′00″S 145°00′04″E / 37.883323°S 145.001115°E / -37.883323; 145.001115 Elsternwick Elsternwick
124-474: A team of community radio personalities, has been held at the ground. The main oval is located in the north-western corner of the wider Elsternwick Park reserve, which covers 90 acres between Glenhuntly Rd, Head St, New St and St Kilda St. The wider reserve served as the Elsternwick Racecourse from 1880 until 1891, but after its closure it fell into disuse and disrepair – to the point that it
155-535: A village grew up on the creek, the Anglo-Saxon suffix 'wick', meaning village, was added. The Elsternwick village was proposed in 1851 [1] . Elsternwick was originally situated across three municipalities - Caulfield, Brighton and St Kilda. At the end of the 1880s unsuccessful attempts were made for Elsternwick to become administratively independent. Today it is in the Local Government Area of
186-609: Is an Australian rules football and cricket stadium in Brighton , a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria , Australia. The name also refers to the wider parkland in which the main oval is located. The ground is the administrative and primary central playing base of the Victorian Amateur Football Association . The cricket ground was built on part of the site of the former Elsternwick Racecourse by
217-770: Is an inner suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia , 9 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District , located within the City of Glen Eira local government area . Elsternwick recorded a population of 10,887 at the 2021 census . In terms of its cadastral division , Elsternwick is in the parish of Prahran within the County of Bourke . Elsternwick is bounded by the Nepean Highway , Elster Avenue, Kooyong Road, Glen Eira Road, and Hotham Street (the continuation of Williams Road). Formerly Elsternwick covered
248-601: Is now, without any shift in its physical position, officially located in Murphy Street, Brighton ( [2] ); and, consequently, the suburb currently has no government schools. Built as a public hall in 1889 and converted into a cinema in 1911, Classic Cinemas is Melbourne's oldest continuously running cinema. Elsternwick contains a number of heritage-listed sites, including: ^ = territory divided with another LGA Elsternwick Park Elsternwick Park (currently known by its sponsored name Sportscover Arena )
279-546: Is the former Elsternwick Park Golf Course. In the same way that Ripponlea took its name from the Rippon Lea Estate of Sir Frederick Sargood , Elsternwick took its name from the largest property in the district: Charles Ebden 's house Elster ( Elster is German for " magpie [ de ] "). The area was previously known as Red Bluff. The creek nearby became known as the Elster Creek; and, when
310-408: The City of Glen Eira . The postcode is 3185. Elsternwick village was surveyed in 1856, and Elsternwick Post Office opened on 22 June 1860. In 1861 a railway line , operated by the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay Railway Company , was built from Melbourne to Brighton which included a railway station at Elsternwick . The first site of Caulfield Grammar School , founded in 1881, was adjacent to
341-656: The Sandringham railway line is located on Riddell Parade next to Glen Huntly Road. For a number of years (in the late 1800s and early 1900s) it was also where the Rosstown Railway linked up with the Sandringham railway line. Melbourne tram route 67 links Elsternwick to the Melbourne city centre . It travels along Glen Huntly Road from Carnegie , through Glen Huntly and Caulfield South to Elsternwick and, then, via Brighton Road and St Kilda Road to
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#1732772757238372-613: The CBD, via Swanston Street . It terminates at the University of Melbourne . The Elsternwick Club Sandham St est 1919 includes Lawn Bowls on Tiff Dwarf green and various function rooms. The Elsternwick Cricket Club was founded in August 1901. The Elsternwick Main Oval, now known as Sportscover Arena or Elsternwick Park , was established shortly after the club's foundation. The 'Wickas', as
403-641: The Elsternwick Cricket Club, a club which had been established in 1901 through an amalgamation of three local cricket teams. The original cost of the development was more than £500, and the ground was formally opened on 9 November 1903 by former premier Sir George Turner . The Elsternwick Football Club, which was playing in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (later known as the Victorian Amateur Football Association ), began playing football on
434-550: The Elsternwick railway station. In the 1880s, Elsternwick railway station was also the Melbourne end of the railway line to the large-scale sugar beet processing mill at Rosstown (see Rosstown Railway ) – now known as Carnegie – and beyond. This railway was seldom used, and it ceased to function in 1916. A tramline was opened along Glen Huntly Road in 1889. Another tramline, running between Elsternwick and Point Ormond ,
465-496: The Holocaust. The new museum also features a reinstallation of the Pillars of Witness sculpture by Andrew Rogers. The museum focuses on educating younger generations against hate, with tens of thousands of students visiting the museum every year to participate in MHM's powerful age-appropriate education programs. Apart from guided tours through the museum, the MHM offers adult education programs, teacher training and also hosts
496-614: The VAFA. Sportscover Arena remains the home of the Elsternwick Cricket Club in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association. The Elsternwick Football Club, which still plays in the VAFA, now uses the park's No. 2 oval, located to the immediate west of Sportscover Arena, as its home ground. Since 2009, the Community Cup , an annual charity match played between a team of Melbourne musicians and
527-523: The VFA at the time. The venue was unavailable for football in 1961 due to re-surfacing works, and upon completion of the works, the Brighton Football Club, which by this time was struggling to survive, was not offered a new lease. Brighton merged with South Caulfield and moved to Princes Park, Caulfield. The Victorian Amateur Soccer Association became the venue's winter tenant, turning
558-610: The area located in the City of Bayside bounded by Head/Bridge Street, Nepean Highway, Glen Huntly Road and St. Kilda Street. This includes the cricket ground (originally the home of the Elsternwick Cricket Club) and currently known as the Sportscover Arena . It is located within the larger area known as Elsternwick Park – located at the junction of the Nepean Highway and Glen Huntly Road – as
589-613: The club is affectionately known, plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association . Golfers played at Elsternwick Park Golf Club, also known as Royal Elsternwick, on Glen Huntly Road until 2018, when the course closed to be used as passive open space. The Elsternwick Croquet Club, founded in 1911, is situated in the Hopetoun Gardens. The Elsternwick Primary School – once officially located in "Brickwood Street, Elsternwick" –
620-599: The ground during winter from 1908. In 1927, the Brighton Football Club , which was playing in the Victorian Football Association , began playing its senior home matches at the venue. The Brighton Council , which owned the ground, erected fences around the venue, and improvements were paid for jointly by the Elsternwick Cricket Club and the Brighton Football Club. Brighton had an arrangement under which it shared winter tenancy of
651-457: The ground with incumbent Elsternwick Football Club, such that the clubs used the ground on alternate Saturdays, while the Brighton seconds team continued to use Brighton Beach Oval as its home ground; this arrangement was unique in the VFA, as all other clubs were required to provide the same ground for their firsts and seconds teams to use on alternate weeks. The ground was of good quality and
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#1732772757238682-766: The lower section of the shop with the central cashier's desk. The 2017 season of The Block was filmed in Regent Street. In the 2016 Census, there were 10,349 people in Elsternwick. 65.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 3.9%, New Zealand 1.9%, India 1.7%, South Africa 1.7% and China 1.5%. 73.0% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek 2.6%, Hebrew 2.0%, Russian 1.9%, Yiddish 1.8% and Mandarin 1.7%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 35.5%, Catholic 18.0%, and Judaism 17.8%. Elsternwick railway station on
713-584: The main Elsternwick Park oval into a dedicated soccer venue during winter. The Victorian Amateur Football Association has been the main tenant at Elsternwick Park since 1967, and it is now the association's primary home base; it serves as the association's administrative headquarters, the training base of its umpires, and is a venue for finals matches. Since 2003, the venue has had floodlights suitable for night football and has been known as Sportscover Arena as part of Sportscover's sponsorship deal with
744-550: The museum began a major redevelopment project with Kerstin Thompson Architects and McCorkell Constructions. The museum closed to the public in 2020, with the redevelopment scheduled for completion in 2023. In April 2023, ahead of their anticipated reopening, they also updated their name to the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, with a fresh logo. In November 2023 the museum officially reopened to
775-428: The public with two permanent exhibition spaces. The first, titled 'Everybody Had a Name', follows the chronology of the Holocaust, beginning with pre-war Jewish life, and closing with how local survivors rebuilt their lives in Melbourne after the war. The second, 'Hidden: Seven Children Saved', is an immersive exhibition designed for younger audiences (10+). It follows the journey of seven children who were in hiding during
806-434: The voices of Holocaust survivors, to inspire a better future free from antisemitism, racism and prejudice. The museum was founded without significant public or private funds and thus has always had to rely on support from Holocaust survivors, their relatives, volunteers and philanthropists. It is thanks to the unique contribution of Melbourne's Holocaust survivors that the MHM has become a vibrant institution. The museum holds
837-560: Was known colloquially as "no-man's land" in the district. The main oval was opened on approximately five acres of the reserve in 1903, and the rest of the reserve was leased by the Elsternwick Golf Club in 1910, which invested £13,000 developing it from a swamp to a private golf course. When its lease expired in 1925, the Brighton Council did not renew it and instead made the area a public reserve, which included
868-563: Was opened on 4 June 1915, and was closed on 22 October 1960. The ABC studios in Melbourne were located in Gordon Street. The studios were built during the 1950s and 1960s and were decommissioned in 2017. Many programs were filmed and produced in the studios, such as Countdown , Recovery and Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight . Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick has a variety of cafés and restaurants. Elsternwick
899-603: Was rejected. Prahran played its VFA home games at the venue in 1948 when its home ground at Toorak Park was unavailable. In 1954, the Elsternwick Amateur Football Club was evicted from the main ground, and the Brighton Soccer Club leased the ground in its place, sharing it on alternate weekends with the Brighton Football Club; it was the first time a VFA team had shared a ground with a soccer team, which caused great concern within
930-627: Was sought after by other clubs. On two occasions the St Kilda Football Club , which played in the Victorian Football League and often endured a disharmonious relationship with its landlord, the St Kilda Cricket Club , considered a move to the ground: once in 1933, when its committee recommended it but the club did not proceed; and again in 1959, when a request to the council for a 50-year lease
961-510: Was the home of perhaps the best-known brothel in Australia, and certainly Melbourne; Daily Planet , which was the first in the world to be listed on a stock exchange (the Australian Securities Exchange ). Hattam (Mens and Boys Wear) Stores, at 383 Glenhuntly Road, a long, narrow shop, is one of the last locations in Australia that still has a Lamson "Rapid Wire" Cash Carrier in place; it connects three locations in