Exhibitions

On display for the first time outside of Europe, Underground exhibits rare artefacts 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 on sale from November via the website of the Melbourne Holocaust Museum: https://mhm.org.au/tickets/.

International curators: 
Dr Piotr Rypson
Dr Ulla-Britta Vollhardt
Dr Mirjam Zadoff

International exhibition design:
Tido Brussing Szenerien 
Kasia Warpas

Australian curator:
Sandy Saxon

Australian exhibition design:
Artklass
Rowan Cochrane
Space Arrangers
Studio Tweed
Synthesis Design + Build

Historical consultation:
dr hab. Katarzyna Person
dr Maria Ferenc

Voice recordings:
Münchner Kammerspiele

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