Includes building records such as Chapel, Electricity, Gas & Appliances...

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ProvenanceB64 Jewish Cemetery Trust Rookwood - ROOKWOOD
SeriesBuildings of the Jewish Cemetery Trust Rookwood
Series Number001
Item DescriptionIncludes building records such as Chapel Electricity Gas & Appliances TheMatyrs Memorial Old Ground Chapel Pest Inspection Telephone Shed & Office Toilets 1960 Toilets 2011 Records inlcude the destruction by fire of the Mortuary Chapel; letter re accepted proposal for the development of the Memorial to Martyrs dated 1969, designed by Mr harry Seidler for the Jewish Cemetery Trust The memorial will bear the following inscription: "In memory of six million Jews killed by the Nazis during the War, 1939-1945. May the world never again witness such inhumanity of man against man. "WE DID NOT DIE IN VAIN" The project was conceived by the Jewish Cemetery Trust, to act as a shrine of remembrance for those who lost loved ones in the War. Records include the origianal inscription in hebrew for the memorial and various newspaper clippings; letter from the Kazetler Verband in Melbourne on letterhead "Association of Jewish Victims of Nazi Persecution - Ex Inmates of Concentration Campas". Various letters from Houghton & Byrne Pty. Limited re pest inspections; purchase of Pews at the Old Chapel at the Jewish Cemetery Rookwood
Item Number001
Current LocationN/A No Physical Location