Shannon Biederman is the Senior Curator at the Sydney Jewish Museum where she has worked for 18 years. She has curated numerous exhibitions on the Holocaust, Judaism, Australian Jewish history, and military history. Her most recent exhibition Reverberations: A Future for Memory is the first temporary exhibition dedicated solely to survivor testimony. A key objective of the exhibition is to put the survivors’ humanity at the forefront and to test ideas that might enable future generations to have meaningful and memorable interactions with survivor testimony.

Shannon has spearheaded several testimony filming projects. Recognizing the significance of capturing firsthand accounts, she has played an integral role in preserving the voices and memories of survivors for posterity. She also oversees the preservation and storage strategies to ensure that these invaluable testimonies will continue to be accessible to future generations.