Joshua Gomperts, an observant Jew in Victoria, is now giving evidence. His grandparents lost their parents in the Holocaust.
His first experience of racism in Australia was when he was about 13 years old, coming home from synagogue wearing a black hat. Another “youngish-person” in his street screamed antisemitic slurs and threw a glass bottle at him.
“I didn’t really know how to process it,” he said.
While walking with his family to synagogue on another occasion, “a group of people [threw] eggs at us” while screaming antisemitic slurs, he said. This was not the last time this happened.
In 2020, he was working as an ambulance transport attendant. He said he arrived to pick up a man, aged in his 90s, in a hospital emergency department.
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