Queensland’s first Holocaust museum will open early next year in Brisbane’s central business district, the premier says.
During the 2020 state election campaign, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pledged $3.5 million for a museum and education centre to commemorate Jewish victims of Nazi crimes during World War II.
She says the museum will open next year in a building in the CBD’s Cathedral Precinct after the government struck a deal with Brisbane’s Catholic Archdiocese for a site.
“It’s still hard to fathom that in total six million Jewish people died during the Holocaust—1.5 million of them children,” Palaszczuk told parliament on Thursday….