Underground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto – exhibition at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum

From November 17, 2024, to March 30, 2025, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum will host the exhibition Underground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, organized in cooperation with the Jewish Historical Institute and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.

On display for the first time outside of Europe, Underground exhibits rare artifacts from the hidden archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. This archive was led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who initiated an unprecedented campaign to collect material in the ghetto—the collection today known as the Ringelblum Archive. This collective of academics, writers, and activists worked secretly in an attempt to document the mass murder of European Jews as it was happening. The exhibition tells the story of this act of resistance: a never-ending, arduous, harrowing, but ultimately successful attempt to write the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of its victims.

The exhibition will be open from 17 November 2024 to 30 March 2025.
Tickets are on sale via the Melbourne Holocaust Museum website: https://mhm.org.au/tickets/.

Exhibition Partners
Underground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto is presented by the Melbourne Holocaust Muzeum in partnership with the Jewish Historical Institute, Poland, the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, and the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Germany.

Exhibition Sponsors
Gerry and Lillian Pearce
The Embassy for the Federal Republic of Germany

Programming Sponsors
The Jewish Quarterly
The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University