The rooms, which today house the museum, were once the headquarters of the Jewish Agency during the first decade of the 20th century and the building was in some way central to the flow of Jewish immigrants who from northeast Europe passed through on their way to what has now become the country of Israel. The museum was created to protect this Jewish past and to give a definitive home to Judaism owned by Trieste's Jewish community for centuries. As well as this, the museum of Jewish community introduces a number of extremely important historical documents, with a section dedicated to the memory of those natives of Trieste deported during the Holocaust, the "Gal Avanim" Orto Lapidario (Lapidary Garden) which contains the final evidence of Trieste's Jewish cemetery.