Underground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) presents a special exhibition Underground – The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.

On display for the first time outside of Europe, Underground exhibits rare artefacts from the hidden archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, a collective of academics, writers, and activists worked secretly inside the Warsaw ghetto to document the German-initiated mass murder of European Jews as it was happening.

The exhibition brings home to the viewer the harrowing but ultimately successful attempt to write the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of its victims. The exhibition will also present testimony and artefacts from the MHM Collection to explore the personal experiences of those who survived Europe’s largest ghetto and immigrated to Melbourne after the war.

Underground – The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto is presented in partnership with the Jewish Historical Institute, Poland and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Germany.