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Australian Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc.
Represents researchers living in Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia as well as Western Australia (which is Jewish Historical and Genealogical Society of Western Australia, Inc.) 
Contact information at: http://iajgs.org/members/members.html

Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (Victoria), Inc.
Contact information at: http://iajgs.org/members/members.html

Australian Jewish Historical Society
166 Castlereagh Street
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: http://www.ajhs.info

Australian Jewish Historical Society Inc  [NSW]
Mandelbaum House
385 Abercrombie St.
Darlington 2008
Website: http://www.ajhs.info/NSW

Australian Jewish Historical Society (Victoria) Inc.
P.O. Box 8420, Armadale, Victoria 3143
Website: http://www.ajhs.info/Victoria/

The Australian Jewish Historical Society - Victoria Inc. has lists of inscriptions from Jewish gravestones from the various cemeteries (as at August 1993). Source: GARY LUKE.

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
Jewish Australia websites: Australian Synagogues:

Also click on Australia at http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/comm_asia.html [August 2005]

 

Military Burials 0

 The Australia Jewish Historical Society (see above) also has information on Jewish Soldiers buried in Australian and overseas cemeteries maintained by the Australian War Graves Commission. There is information for WWI, WWII and post-war burials. Information may be obtained from the Honorary Secretary, Mrs. Beverley Davis, P.O. Box 255, Camberwell, Victoria 3124 about various burials in various cities. Please include 3 international reply coupons when requesting information.
     Records are also held by the Australian Jewish Historical Society (Victoria) of post-war burials of Jewish ex-service men and women in graves maintained by the Australian War Graves Commission in cemeteries throughout Australia. 2 other sources of possible help: Australian Jewish Historical Society - NSW and Australian Jewish Genealogy Society. Source: Gary Luke, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission:   http://www.cwgc.org/
      "The Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917 ... to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two World Wars, to build memorials to those who have no known grave and to keep records and registers, including, after the Second World War, a record of the Civilian War Dead." Name searchable from the site. [March 2002]

Office of Australian War Graves Canadian Agency

PO Box 21
Woden
ACT 2606
Australia
Tel: (02) 6289 6477
Fax: (02) 6289 4861
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Director: Air Vice Marshal Gary Beck AO

www.bd-bd.info (see below) includes Australian Jewish War Graves in all countries. [July 2008]

WESTERN AUSTRALIA 10

Western Australia is a huge state of just under one million square miles. Late in the 1800s and the early 1900s, gold was discovered in many places and attracted many Jews. However, most underground mining lasted only 20 to 30 years. The towns shrank or disappeared altogether. The cemeteries are the only lasting monument that Jews lived in the towns. The healthy Jewish community in Australia now mainly is found in the big cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. We want to make sure that these remote Jewish graves are not lost as most will never have any more burials. We have been researching Jewish burials in remote areas of Western Australia and have found nine cemeteries that contain either a Jewish Section or individual Jewish graves: Broome, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Cue, Geraldton,  Kalgoorlie, Northampton, Roebourne and Sandstone. The only Jewish Community in Western Australia is in Perth where there are three Jewish cemeteries: Karrakatta (the main one); Fremantle (still used but rarely); and the old East Perth Cemetery (inactive).  Source - Warren and Brenda Austin, 2 Gifford Way, Dianella, Western Australia 6059, Australia, email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., telephone 61 8 9375 3181 completed the survey in January 2006.