After two gunmen targeted Jews and killed 15 people in December at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, the Jewish community there is still trying to process and memorialize the attack.
At the Sydney Jewish Museum, a Bondi attack memorial is set to open next year. Shannon Biederman, the museum’s senior curator, says the effort to record testimonies of those who were at the scene for an oral history project is challenging because everyone in the community knows someone who was there.
“The community coming together and working on building all of these items, whether it be the flowers or the stones or the testimonies, it’s really hard, but I think it’s also been really therapeutic,” she said.
The terrorist attack has forever embedded itself into not only Australian Jewish history, but Australian history more broadly, Biederman said, adding that the museum “will ensure that it isn’t forgotten and that it’s properly documented.”
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