AT A GLANCE
Why go?
The Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre is South Australia's dedicated museum telling the stories of the Holocaust — with a unique focus on survivors who made South Australia their home. Housed in heritage-listed Fennescey House beside St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide's city centre, it was founded by Andrew Steiner OAM, a Budapest-born Holocaust survivor who spent three decades teaching South Australian students about the Shoah before creating this permanent institution.↗↗
The museum was officially launched on 9 November 2020 — the anniversary of Kristallnacht — and has documented more than 450 South Australian Holocaust survivors. It is currently undergoing a major expansion that will double its exhibition space, with the first gallery scheduled to reopen to the public in late 2026.↗↗
What Makes This Museum Unique
While Australia has Holocaust memorials and museums in other cities, the Adelaide Holocaust Museum sets itself apart by telling the stories of survivors who came to South Australia after the war. The Lefmann Gallery originally featured intimate biographical displays about six survivors who rebuilt their lives in Adelaide — including Eva Temple, who was saved as a baby by her grandmother and kept alive in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The museum's ongoing documentation project has recorded the experiences of more than 450 South Australian survivors, preserving first-person testimony for future generations.
