Sidney Nolan is best known for his Ned Kelly series and Anzac portraits, but secretly, privately, he also painted around 200 works about the Holocaust.
They’re now display in Australia for the first time at the Sydney Jewish Museum. These works were kept entirely private, hidden away in Nolan’s personal papers during his lifetime – but they are on display now for the first time in Australia at the Sydney Jewish Museum until 23 October.
Roslyn Sugarman is co-curator of Shaken to his core: the untold story of Nolan’s Auschwitz exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum.
Dr Avril Alba is Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation at the University of Sydney and author of Holocaust Memorial Museums as Sacred Secular Spaces.
Read Dr Breann Fallon, Co-ordinator of Research at the Sydney Jewish Museum, reflecting on the exhibition at ABC Religion & Ethics.
Read more about Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings on the Sidney Nolan Trust website.
Listen to ABC’s Hindsight: Eichmann on Trial.