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VOLUME 1 No. 1 JANUARY 2001 journal ^ Association of Jeu/ish Refugees

Earth Odyssey 2001 The world as always is in a state of change

It is an uncontested fact, brought back America's dormant isolationism case. The chief Israelophobe among the to mind by the recent TV series resurfaced. Congressional voices Europeans is France, a country sufhised Conquistadors, that the discovery of demanded that Europe get to grips with Gaullist self-regard, over half of America changed world history forever. with crises on its own doorstep whose ex-colonial subjects are either As long ago as 1820 Canning talked instead of relying on American money Arabs or Muslims. Other states with of the New Worid redressing the balance and firepower. close ties to the Arabs are Spain and of the Old. A century later the US At the same time America's global Greece. In advocating appeasement of affected the destinies of Europe for good perspective is r1ia"rr;-- ' gj the Arabs, France and her European as well as ill. confreres are guilty of a profound error of In 1918 when the Germans, having judgment. Accommodation can only be knocked Russia out of the war, mounted achieved by a process of give and take, their 'final push' in the West, their but the notion of compromise is quite offensive was blunted by the arrival of a alien to the Arab mindset. In Hanan million US soldiers at the fi-ont. Then Ashrawi's words, "we are an all or having helped win the war America nothing people." This is no idle boast. aborted the peace by staying out of the c5^oo3 The Palestinian leadership rejected both League of Nations and compounded the 1 the 1936 Peel Partition Plan of 1936 and offence by calling in its postwar loans c. ^^^ilCb, the UN Partition Plan of 1947. Today precipitately Washington's lurch into th^ oo may well conclude that it needs to Arafat lays claim to Jerusalem as the self-centred isolationism helped push co-operate with Russia in neutralising third holiest site of Islam though he Europe into depression, Fascism and the threat the Afghan-based Islamic cannot adduce any archaeological or *ar. Thereafter it embarked on a steep terrorist Bin Laden poses alike to the documentary proof of the Prophet learning curve. Besides contributing Gulf Emirates and to the chain of secular Mohammed's alleged links to the city. to the defeat of Nazism, it acted as Muslim successor states - Uzbekistan, The medieval Papacy was much given midwife at the birth of the United Tajikistan - to the USSR. to rhetoric about the ecclesia militans Nations and helped resuscitate Europe Within this general realignment of turning into the ecclesia triumphans. by means of the Marshall Plan and the forces it is likely that the ongoing process A similar triumphalism characterises creation of NATO. of European integration will engender a Islam in its own Middle Ages. Fuelled by Those shots in the arm for an more closely harmonised foreign and oil money, imbued with fanatical faith and Enfeebled continent were instrumental defence policy. Closer European aided by terror, the fundamentalists are "1 containing Soviet expansion and integration is not only an explosive issue gaining ground in the one billion-strong guaranteeing half a century of peace and for the British electorate, it also poses Muslim world. Unprecedented prosperity for the new challenges for embattled Israel. A Even so the Crescent, like the Cross <^ountries of Western Europe. By the end more unified Europe must be a positive before it, can never triumph globally and '^f the millennium the implosion of the development since (pace Austria) it for one simple reason: a closed system of Soviet Empire created an entirely new cannot allow xenophobic racism to pit thought is inimical to the quantum leaps Constellation of power from which the one member state against another. of the mind that lie behind all scientific, Americans are deducing a new set of Conversely, though, a European entity technical and industrial as well as Priorities. When Milosevic's serial uncoupled from the United States military advance. If that was true in the Balkan wars elicited a slow response threatens to be biased against Israel machine age it is doubly true in the age of ^om neighboiuing Western Europe, irrespective of the merit of any given information technology and Star Wars.

m^smM i Wallenberg's execution confirmed After sixty glorious years Swedish war hero and Budapest posted as First Secretary to their In mid-1941 the war that had been raging for nearly two years changed diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, in January embassy in Nazi-occupied Budapest its character 1945 set out to meet the commander of from where Hungary's entire Jewish The Nazi invasion of Russia inflicted the victorious Soviet army, Marshal population were rapidly being deported fresh misery on millions, but also Malinovsky, but was arrested by his His energetic efforts to organise 32 saf« finally saved Britain the threat of troops near Debrecen in eastern houses under the Swedish flag and to invasion. Alongside this dramatic Himgary. Nothing further was ever issue Schutzpdsse saved as many aS transformation on the world stage, a micro-event of considerable heard of him either by neutral Sweden or 100,000 of the 230,000 Jews remaining significance to thousands of Jewish the western Alhes. In 1944 and 1945 he in the city. refugees in Britain took place: was reputed to have saved thousands of Alexander Yakovlev, former aide to the AJR constituted itself. Soon after, Hungarian Jews from deportation to Mikhail Gorbachev in the promotion of the fledgling organisation put out its Auschwitz. Evidence now being glasnost, now in charge of the archives first circular revealed from the archives of Stalin's documenting Stahn's terror, has said that There were to be eleven such secret police puts the issue of Wallenberg was arrested, made a 'bulletins' in all before the first issue of Wallenberg's fate beyond any reasonable the fully conceived AJR Information prisoner of war, convicted on charges saw the light of day in January 1946. doubt; he was executed by the Soviet of being an American spy and executed Since then a grand total of six regime in the Lubyanka prison in 1947. It was anticipated that he would hundred and sixty issues has A member of Sweden's leading soon be officially rehabilitated by appeared without a single month's banking and business family, in 1944 President Putin. gap. This unbroken record of continuity has gone hand in hand - aged only 32, Raoul Wallenberg was RDC particularly latterly - with a readiness to change. The journal started featuring photographs in 1983 and changed both typeface and layout that same year and again in 1991. East Now we are embarking on an even bigger - threefold (I) - change. The publication previously known as AJR End Information has transmogrified into the AJR Journal. It has simultaneously echoes assumed a conventional A4 format, and made the leap from black-and- What Remains? white to add the use of a second East End Exhibition colour At the same time I would like to assure my traditional reader experiencing 'the shock of the new' that we remain committed to the Storyteller, Yiddish singer and violinist impoverished streets their home^ core values on which our Founding Meyer Bogdanski admires a photograph Entitled What Remains? the exhibition Fathers based the organisation sixty years ago. of himself taken by Sam Tanner, left, on was opened by East End aficionado an^ Richard Grunberger display at the Jewish Museum, Finchley, historian Prof William Fishman, right in an exhibition on the Jewish East End, For the immigrants just off the boats A new potential then and now. The East End, once the "work and survival were a tougl' vibrant heart of Jewish life in London, assignment", he said, tailoring, cabinet A new name, a contemporary design now largely peopled by later immigrant and boot making being the staple tradeS' and some change of emphasis in content, is intended to open up groups, has a few siu^ving synagogues He recalled the community's response opportunities to extend the and a core of mostly elderly Jews to the attacks of Sir Oswald Mosley's readership of our magazine to a representing the hard-working and fascists prior to the outbreak of Worlfi younger generation. We are observant Yiddish-speaking community War 11. The exhibition, with associate^ confident that the children of from Russia, the Baltic States, Poland lectiures, continues imtil April. refugees, in common with and Romania that fled poverty and prospective readers within Jewry in Ronald Channin^ general, increasingly will appreciate a pogroms a centiuy ago to make these monthly potpourri of thoughtful and well-informed commentary on AJR Journal Personnel matters of concern touching Britain, Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief Ronald Channing Executive Editor Marion Koebner Staff Reporter Andrea Goodmaker Dept Secretary & Advertising Co-ordinator Europe and beyond Gloria Tessler Arts Correspondent Dr Anthony Grenville Historical Researcher Ronald Channing Katia Gould Editorial Adviser Gerta Regensburger & Lionel Simmonds Proof Readers AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, London NW3 6AL Tel: 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 e-mail: [email protected] From pilpul to palimony NEWTONS Pilpul is a process of dialecrical Leading Hampstead Solicitors reasoning much practised in yeshivot. Since it can easily degenerate into over- 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, subtle hairsplitting the rabbinical London NWS SNB authorities have long tried to curb its • All English legal work more extreme forms. Without much undertaken and German, success - if Heine's quip der Talmud ist Swiss & Austrian claims eine judische Fechtschule (fencing • German spoken academy) is to be believed. • Home visits arranged Of course, the Jews didn't have a Tel: 020 7435 5351 monopoly on casuistry; the very term Fax: 020 7435 8881 has Jesuit associations. Even so, generation after generation of talmudic disputants must have helped to shape our collective DNA. That this has had a largely positive effect is borne out by the large number of Jewish legal luminaries, PARTNER Richard Grunberger from US Supreme Court Judge In long established English Frankfruter to Lord Chief Justice Woolf. Solicitors (bi-lingual German) '^ut it has also produced an said of the Jew-baiting poet: 'He taught would be happy to assist clients embarrassingly large number of Jewish me how to write.' When he had his with English, German and smart alecs who will argue that black is attention drawn to EHot's notorious line Austrian problems. 'Rachel, nee Rabinowicz, tears at grapes white till they are blue in the face. Contact Henry Ebner with murderous claws', his take on it One such is the Daily Telegraph was: 'This shows me exactly how not Myers Ebner & Deaner columnist Janet Daley who set out to to eat grapes'. 103 Shepherds Bush Road prove that sending Bush to the White London W6 7LP The law probably provides the House with fewer votes than Gore is Telephone 020 7602 4631 happiest hunting ground for adepts ^•^uly democratic. Her reasons: Gore has at casuistry. The American lawyer ALL LEGAL WORK Piled up millions of votes in a few densely UNDERTAKEN Roy Cohn shot to fame in the 1950s populated coastal states, whereas as the forensically trained rottweiler support for Bush is evenly spread across Senator McCarthy unleashed on he huge under-populated area in individuals branded as 'pinkos', or between. In other words Daley's Communist fellow travellers. By sheer definition of democracy is that the vote coincidence the colour pink is also AUSTRIAN and GERMAN of a farmer or small town dweller should associated with homosexuality, and PENSIONS *^^rry more weight than that of a New Cohn was as much of a homophobe as he Yorker or San Franciscan. was a Red-baiter. (After his death it came PROPERTY Mother Jewish casuist much in the to light that he had been a closet RESTITUTION CLAIMS public prints is Sir Alfred Sherman. This homosexual all the time!) EAST GERMANY- BERLIN ^'^togenarian has truly boxed the An American lawyer endowed with a political compass. Having started off as a On instructions our office will golden, rather than a forked, tongue is ommunist volunteer in the Spanish assist to deal with your Alan Dershowitz. He became famous in a . War, he has travelled ever applications and pursue the suit the discarded mistress of Lee sUtwards since. In his last incarnation matter with the authorities. Marvin filed against the actor. ^ Thatcherite guru, Sherman has ed Dershowitz argued that it was For further information ocated privatisation of health care, inequitable that divorced wives received and appointment 'transport, the post office, etc. Asked alimony whereas mistresses who may please contact: "^^t the inconsistency between his have wasted their best years on a man ICS CLAIMS . st and present views he retorted emerged with nothing from the breakup. "^souciantly that 150 years ago Marx and 146-154 Kilburn High Road The coiu^t upheld his plea and ordered London NW6 4JD •^gels already demanded the 'withering Lee Marvin to pay his ex-mistress ^way of the state'. something akin to alimony - hereafter Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) casuist on a more elevated plane is known as palimony. Fax: 020 7624 5002 6 literature don Gabriel Josepovici. ^ huge TS Eliot fan, Josepovici Richard Grunberger Refugees old and new How did refugees define themselves? VlilEWPOINT Opponents downgraded their humanity; by Ronald Channing Marking the 62nd anniversary of supporters emphasised theif Kristallnacht, Prof Tony Kushner spoke contribution. In the latter case, this Sink city victim to a Wiener Library audience on the amounted to a conditional acceptance of The grim high rise blocks of 3000 dank flats theme of refugees and asylum seekers. refugees who were not seen to have and the dark walkways of North Peckham Taking as a starting point the experience needs and for whom the central theme Estate are disappearing under the of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in was loss. In some cases the 'label' demolition hammer, to be reborn as 2000 the 1930s, he spoke about the erosion of refugee had been kept (for example in houses under a £230 million crash the concept of asylum over the last the title AJR, continued by the second programme, in an attempt to reverse the generation: ACJR). It was surprising failed social engineering of the 1960s. century. Asylum, which had begim as an that they should wish to retain the Peckham is one of London's most deprived absolute right, had evolved into a description given that it had been i boroughs, and despite its architectural temporary privilege, particularly after derogatory term at the time of theil award-winning new library (already the Aliens Act 1905. disfigured with graffiti), boasts few places arrival. However, over the decades, Prof Kushner reminded his listeners of entertainment, education and Jewish refugees from Nazism had recreation for the children from multi­ that in the 1930s, Britain opened its become the 'new Huguenots', the ethnic backgrounds who people it. doors to selected refugees only (for unromantic reality forgotten and theil The majority of Peckham's population is example children but not their parents). story idealised. dark-skinned. For the no-hope kids who In his view, more refugees would have Prof Kushner concluded with the live there, belonging to a gang is a way of been admitted to Britain in the late thought-provoking proposition that, in life, as is the taking and pushing of drugs 1930s and in the 1970s if the the year 2000, there was a danger that and the criminal acts necessary to finance government of the day had not been the habit, 20,000 hypodermic needles Great Britain would appear to be a haves already having been found among the concerned about racism. Perceptions of of asylum but without refugees. rubble. But it's the age of gang members asylum seekers and refugees had also Ladislaw Balaz, a founder member d which particulady shocks - 11 to 15 being undergone changes. In a poll in Feb the Roma Civic initiative, gave a short quoted as typical - reportedly carrying and 1997, 75% of those questioned agreed address on the plight of the Roma in the using weapons. that refugees needed help and support, Czech Republic. A member of the Czech Stabbings, shootings, killings and rape whereas by 1999 only 49% agreed that Parliament, he and his family had been are not uncommon in the area, and violent refugees should stay in Britain. He forced to flee the country over two years crime is on the increase. Young boys of ago because of death threats. "We are Nigerian, West Indian, Asian and Chinese contrasted this with the genuine not criminals" he said, "we are looking origin, often from broken homes and support given to Jewish refugees after without real family, find themselves Kristallnacht. fora second life." excluded and isolated and are easily Marion Koebner recruited into the criminal gangs. For the police, at least after dark, the estate is a no- go area, though they are unlikely to admit Czech property claims it. The area's schools are at the bottom of being established and the firstpayment s the pile, trying to reach impossible norms Act 172/1991 of 25 May 1991, which can be expected in the first half of 2001. set by national bodies which condemn the applies to "the transfer of State-owned There is no deadline for claimants endemic lack of success. property to the possession of cities, registered as owners in the Land Peckham is not some impoverished, towns and localities", gave claimants 10 Register (Cadaster) or who ar« anarchic African city, or an avoidable black years to resolve their claims. The descendants of registered owners. ghetto in a sprawling US metropolis; it is deadline is therefore May 25 2001. Act 212/2000 of 23 June 2000 of tW part of 21st century London. Into this environment came ten-year-old Nigerian Claims under this Act must have been Czech Republic relates only to movable Damilola Taylor, his mother, sister and filed by 31 August 1996 and proof of and agricultural property. In the case d brother. From his first day at school he Czech citizenship is required. For those agricultural land, or buildings d complained of being taunted and bullied, excluded from claiming because of this agricultural piu-pose on agricultural perhaps because he was keen to learn and requirement, a Foundation is being land, claims must be filed by 30 Jun* not at all street-wise. His life was tragically established by the Federation of Jewish 2001. Claims for works of art in tb' cut short in a vicious act - probably Communities with government Czech Republic must be filed by 3' perpetrated by youngsters little older than participation. The government will December 2002. Claimants do not nee^ he - leaving him to die in a bleak stairwell transfer money into the Foimdation, out to hold Czech citizenship. with few coming to his aid. of which a financial sum will be given to For further information, you af^ What kind of world are we prepared individual claimants, "not as to tolerate in our inner cities? Are sink advised to contact the Federation (^ estates inevitable to house a recognisable compensation, but rather as a symbolic Jewish Communities, Prague, Czect and permanent underclass in Britain's gesture". This procedure is currently Republik. major cities? I War Crimes Inquiries The parliamentary debates on the War Crimes Bill in 1990 and 1991 were Jon Silverman - BBC Home Affairs Correspondent among the most ferocious in postwar history, with the opposition In the last decade of the twentieth attention of the police in 1991. spearheaded by some of the country's century, the names of some 400 suspects Research which I have carried out in most distinguished politician lawyers - were investigated by British police the United States reveals that the name such as Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief officers under the 1991 War Crimes Act. Serafinowicz was passed to the UK prosecutor at Nuremberg, and Lord Detectives travelled to Eastern Europe, authorities in 1982 by the American OSI Hailsham, the former Lord Chancellor. Israel, Canada, the United States, South (the Nazi-hunting unit within the With the warning that this was Africa and New Zealand in search of Department of Justice). The Americans retrospective legislation - and, as such, information and witnesses. The result of had been told that Serafinowicz was in thoroughly bad law - ringing in their this unprecedented operation was that Britain and a formal request was made to ears, the prosecuting agencies in two people were prosecuted; one was the Foreign Office to make inquiries. England and Scotland knew they had to convicted. The 1989 inquiry under Sir According to the present director of the tread carefully. They were also acutely Thomas Hetherington and William OSI, Whitehall turned a deaf ear. 'They conscious that other jurisdictions, such Chalmers which recommended war simply didn't want to know,' he told me. as Australia and Canada, which had crimes legislation, recognised that time The irony is that if the Foreign Office had similarly changed their law to allow war would be the chief enemy of a successfiil but known it (or indeed, evinced any crimes prosecutions, had not achieved a prosecution. With elderly suspects and interest), there was damning single conviction between them. elderly witnesses scattered in many information about Serafinowicz on their countries, it would be imperative to Understandable caution led the CPS very own doorstep - in the files of M15. stage trials as swiftly as possible. Their to adopt a policy which, in my view, was Serafinowicz 'is said to have taken part in eminently sensible proposal to miss out highly controversial. On March 29th, arrests, executions and burning of the committal hearing in war crimes 1999 - three days before the jury villages and to be guilty of the deaths of cases was never implemented. returned with its verdict in the trial of numerous persons'. However, their Anthony Sawoniuk - a background Ihe first person to be prosecuted for view that Serafinowicz 'should be briefing note issued to the media war crimes was Szymon Serafinowicz. treated as a war criminal' led only to the revealed the fourth prosecuting ^e was charged in July 1995, when he most cursory of investigations, in which criterion to which the police were was already eighty-five. It was not until the suspect was exonerated. working in their war crimes January 1997 that his trial was scheduled investigations: Before a suspect 'could at the Old Bailey. By this time, he was in In 1967, a Jewish survivor from the town of Mir - of which Serafinowicz was be considered a serious candidate for ailing health and the jury decided that he police chief in 1941 - was interviewed by prosecution', there needed to be 'proof was unfit to plead. Given the strength of the police in Israel. He says he saw that the defendant was in a position of evidence, there is little doubt that Serafinowicz shoot his friend dead. He command; responsibility is also an ^erafinowicz, a collaborationist police important factor in deciding on the chief responsible for hundreds if not added that the killer was 'said to be living somewhere in England'. This statement defendant's culpability.' Both parts are thousands of deaths, would have been highly contentious. The 1991 War convicted. Scotland Yard's war crimes was in the files of the Australian Special Investigation Unit which examined a Crimes Act says nothing at all about mt first became aware of the name command or responsibility and makes number of Byelorussian cases in the ^erafinowicz at the end of 1991, so why no stipulation about the status of 1980s. Why did Scotland Yard not get 10 it take three and a half years to charge potential suspects. Surely, the hold of this highly significant material him? The police explanation is that they Nuremberg trials established for all time right at the outset of their inquiries? In had the wrong spelling. It took eighteen the principle that obeying the orders of a the 1970s, the name of Serafinowicz "lonths to track him down in the UK - superiorwasnotanacceptable defence. ^ven though he was in the telephone came up a number of times during the In 259 of the 400 cases investigated, ook and had lived in the same house in trial of a Wehrmacht officer, but Scotland there was either insufficient evidence to fianstead in Surrey since 1956. Yard had no inkling of this until 1993. prosecute or the subject's health I have copies of KGB fileswhic h reveal It happened again in the case of precluded a prosecution. Even if only 20 that the Soviets knew as early as 1951 Anthony Sawoniuk, the only man per cent were guilty, that's more than that Serafinowicz was living in England. 0 have been convicted under the fifty people who lived out their fives in They even had his exact address. So, "'ar Crimes Act. The result was that a tranquility, having taken part in the when Scotland Yard put out a bullish i^an whose name was first given to the greatest act of mass murder of the statement, as they did in 1997, extolling authorities as a war crimes twentieth century. Was Britain a haven their unique and exhaustive ^uspect in 1988 was not arrested and for war criminals? The answer is self- investigation into Sz3mion Serafinowicz, arged for another nine years. evident. t emerges that he was not even a perhaps it should not be taken entirely at "ew suspect when he came to the face value. Abridged from History Today, November 2000. Website: www.historytoday.com mnm.^'v:!^im ^xrmmmi i bereavement as one was 'bereft' - deprived - of one's whole way of life. For all those who have 'suffered' more than I, I have huge respect. I TO THE 1 Peter Zander \immvLj London Wl LAST GLIMPSE OF A HABSBURG Sir - Richard Grunberger's romantic encounter in Schdnbrunn brought to JUDENPLATZ MEMORIAL Angestellte (BfA) and her mind one of my eadiest childhood Sir - The Judenplatz in Vienna (December Entschadigungsrente paid by the memories. I too grew up in Hietzing and, 2000) is a beautiful square. As you enter, Landesverwaltungsamt, Bedin. While the as we lived only five minutes walk from and before being able to absorb the former is converted from Euros, the latter Schdnbrunn Park, I spent many happy buildings in it, you are struck by the huge is still converted from Deutschmarks. If hours there. memorial which dominates the square the BfA could be persuaded to use the 'old One occasion stands out in my memory: and forces you to look at it. All you notice fashioned' payment method employed by My Kinderfraulein had taken me for a are two large closed doors. It reminded the Entschadigungsamt, we should all be walk and we found ourselves in front of me immediately of the gates of Dachau a lot better off! the palace. There was a slight commotion and its bleakness invoked images of the F Lustig amongst the strollers and all eyes gas ovens. Is this what Rachel Whiteread Reading, Berks. were turned toward the palace. Kaiser intended? I needed to be told that the Karl had come out onto the balcony, sculpture represents a library. Sir - I wrote to Barclays Bank and together with his retinue, to have a last I tried to look at the surrounding requested to have the transfer charge on look at the park and the Floriette whilst buildings in the Judenplatz but my eye my pension payments waived. I found (so we were told) his car was waiting in kept coming back to the sculpture. This is that my application to the Chairman's the court at the back to take him into not a memorial which everyone will like. office at 54 Lombard Street received a exile. I may be the only surviving witness But love it or hate it, you can't ignore it. prompt and courteous reply while of that historic moment. Maybe that's what it is about. It is about correspondence at branch level had been Otto Fleming time Austria faced up to its past and rather slow. Barclays will refund past Sheffield maybe this sculpture will open up the charges but require documentary debate. I hope so. evidence i.e. pension notification sent by Sherrill Lazarus the German or Austrian bank and the FAMILY HISTORY ( Bushey, Herts funds-transfer credit advice sent by Sir - Like Marion Koebner (October to Barclays Bank. December 2000), I have also visited small towns in Poland (for example Smiegiel, Eva Wittenberg AUSTRIA'S POSTWAR HISTORY Millicz and Zduny) and had similar Pinner, Mddx Sir - I am not quite sure what Albert experiences. The work of building up the Steinfeld meant to 'warn' us about in GREY MATTER Leszno Jewish Museum by DariusZ Hella Pick's book (November 2000 Sir - My sympathy for Ronald Channing's Czwojdrak is remarkable and it is all the letters). His is a serious slur on the predicament (October Viewpoint) that more regrettable that his wide knowledge reputation of one of our most respected may well affect many of us one day; but is not rewarded with a salary which allows political journalists. The very title of Hella the 75p rise for pensioners does not him to support himself and his family. I Pick's book Guilty Victim (no question represent the whole picture. There are, in have written to the Lauder Foundation in mark) and its entire content prove the addition, the £150 [now £200] winter Warsaw but without response. opposite of Mr Sternfeld's assertion. I fuel allowance and the £104 TV licence, In Smiegiel he has read and laid out would strongly urge those who, like both of them tax free. - every little helps. some gravestones from the overbuilt myself, want to know what has Robert Miller cemetery which were thrown into 3 happened in Austria since 1945 to read Leatherhead, Surrey Lutheran graveyard but insufficient funds this book. They will find a dispassionate are available to intersperse the stoneJ and scholady historical account written HIERARCHY OF SUFFERING with gravel to make them visible to the by a distinguished writer - a fellow Kind Sir - Mr F Goldberg finds it 'insulting' that people who live and grow up there. There who also needed to know. 'some Kinder describe themselves as are many similar places in Wilapolska with Karl Overton Holocaust survivors' (November 2000 remnants of Jewish life which already Edinburgh letters). Surely we all are, we who have disappeared when Prussia became Polish survived the Holocaust? Surely we have afterthe First Wodd War GERMAN PENSION AND BANK all suffered? I define being thrown out of If anyone has any suggestions as to hoV* CHARGES my country, out of my city, out of my we can ensure that the remnants remai'' visible and make the population aware o' Sir - From my experience it would appear room in our flat with its piano, cut off the past when they lived amicably with that Mr Alweis is not entirely correct in from all my friends and family and their ancestors, I would be delighted tc what he says (November letters). My landing in an alien country, poor, hear from them. sister receives two separate pensions knowing nobody, as a trauma, on the from Germany: her Altersrente paid by healing of which I will spend the rest of Susanne Dyki Eastbourn^ the Bundesversicherungsanstalt fiJr my life as on a bereavement. And it is a REMEMBRANCE Sir - I attended the remembrance Arts and Events Diary January ceremonies in Weymouth as President of the Old Boys' Club of Weymouth College Until 3 where I attended from 1936 to 1939. I From Shteibl to City Prints of pre-war Jewish East End scenes by John Allin and had the privilege to lay the poppy wreath portraits of Russian peasants and designs for Russian Yiddish Theatre by Meir and later on, when inspecting the Axelrod. Ben Uri Gallery, Sternberg Centre N3. Sunday - Thursday 11am - 4pm Weymouth cenotaph, I noted a display of (closed bank holidays). Details 020 8349 5724 flowers with a shalom card remembering Monday 8 the 6 million victims of the Holocaust. I George Orwell - down & not out in London (with slides). Stefan Howald. found this very touching as there is no Club 43. 7.45 pm. Details 01442 254360 Jewish community in Weymouth, the Monday 8 - 25 nearest is Bournemouth. The Ben Uri Story From Art Society to Museum, the influence of Anglo Jewish FH Edwards Artists on the Modern British Movement. Phillips Auctioneers 101 New Bond London N2 Street Wl. Details 020 8349 5724 Mon 8 January -16 February JEWISH MUSEUMS An Exhibition of Works on Paper by Julie Held - Linking the effects of family S"" - I recently visited my home town history, Nazi Germany, classical myths and biblical themes. "From the margins of Fuerth, Bavaria, where there is an decorativeness into something more eloquent, Helds palette vividly radiates the interesting museum with a branch in look of enamels coated with glaze, or carpets woven with the glossiest strands of Schnaittach which houses exhibits from rich coloured thread imaginable...Helds world is both robust and sensitive." Franconian villages and small towns. Manor House, 80 East End Road N3. Monday - Thursday 10am - 5pm, Schnaittach museum also houses the Friday 10am - 1pm. Details 020 8349 5654 town's museum. Both are in the Until 14 "mediaeval houses of the rabbi and Telling Time Includes Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt. National Gallery WC2. cnazan and the mediaeval synagogue. Monday & Tuesday, Thursday - Sunday 10am - 6pm, Wednesday 10am - 9pm. On the site there is also a Mikvah last used Details 020 7747 2885 ^t the beginning of the nineteenth century as well as a synagogue. Both Until 14 The Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and the art of his times. Includes cartoons by "museums are well worth a visit for Max Beerbohm. Barbican Art Gallery EC2. Monday, Tuesday & Thursday to anyone in the area. Saturday 10am - 6pm, Wednesday 10am - 8pm, Sunday 12 - 6pm. Rev Bernd Koschland Details 020 7638 8891. £7, cones £5. London NW4 Until 14 Turner Prize 2000. Includes winner Wolfgang Tillmans' photographs OSMOND HOUSE Tate Britain SWl. Monday - Sunday 10am - 5.50pm. Details 020 7887 8008. £7 "• • My mother was a resident at Osmond Mon 15 ouse for the last six years of her life until WF Rosner. JiJdisch-Deutscher Galgenhumor (in German). Club 43. 7.45 pm. ^he passed away in her 98th year She was Mon 22 completely dependent on the staff and Ulrike Walton-Jordan. The Ambassador magazine: Elsbeth & Hans Juda's "° tribute can be high enough for contribution to British design and art. Club 43. 7.45 pm. everyone there: carers, kitchen and laundry personnel and office. I was there 22 January - 8 April twice a week for the last six years and Gemma Levine Photographic portraits National Portrait Gallery WC2. ever heard an unkind or impatient word Monday - Wednesday & Saturday, Sunday 10am - 6pm, Thursday, to any of the residents. Geriatric care is an Friday 10am - 9pm. Details 020 7306 0055 extremely difficult job and the Sun 28 Holocaust Memorial Day concert. Music by Julian Dawes. Lauderdale House, atmosphere and care at Osmond House Waterlow Park, London N6. 3 pm. are beyond praise. Lily Goldsmith Until 28 Wembley, Mddx What remains: the Jewish East End then and now. Photographs by the award-winning Sam Tanner. Jewish Museum Finchley, 80 East End Road N3. Monday - Thursday 10.30am - Spm, Sunday 10.30am - 4.30pm. Details 020 8349 1143.£2, cones £1. JACKMAN • Until 28 Keeping the Light. Photographs by Suzon Fuks of the Jews of Cochin SILVERMAN Jewish Museum, Albert Street NWl. Monday - Thursday 10am - 4pm, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS Sunday 10am-Spm. £3, cones £2. Details 020 7284 1997 Mon 29 Richard Tauber - the man and his music. Hanna Graber.Club 43. 7.45 pm. Until 18 February Turner. The Great Watercolours. Royal Academy Wl. Monday - Thursday & Saturday & Sunday 10am - 6pm, Friday 10am -10pm. £7, cones £6. 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA Details 020 7300 8000 Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 8017 The exhibition shows that horse For a gentler view of history, the racing, and even boxing, all had their National Gallery's Impression place in ancient Rome. Without our exhibition, the awkwardly named modem safety standards, of course. In Psdnting Quickly in France, which ancient Rome boxing gloves made of continues until the end of January, &. REVI EWS leather binding often concealed metal refutes the suggestion that knuckle dusters. Not quite according Impressionist masterpieces were Art Notes the Queensberry Rules, murmured painted slowly and painstakingly over curator Dr P&ul Robert. Horseracing time. The works here were chosen by Gloria Tessler was the place to meet your girlfriend, because of their rapid and spontaneous The theme of gladiators has always observed Ovid. But the grim truth of a execution for which, of course, the enthralled us, conjuring up those twin gladiator's likely fate was movingly Impressionist movement truly earned images of eroticism and brutality. Some displayed in an epitaph for a "darling of its name. The predictably controversial 1,500 years after Christian influences Rome", fallen in his 26th year. One of the Turner Prize is featured at Tate placed the notion of dying for a living as a three fates, "spiteful Lachesis", is Britain once more, and the work of the worthwhile circus act under a taboo, the blamed for counting his victories and not prize-winner and the short-listed British Museum joined forces with 22 his years and deciding he was an old artists, Glenn Brovk^n, Michael other museums on the initiative of man. As scenes from Gladiator and Ben Raedecker, Tomoko Takahashi and Hamburg Museum in Germany to Hur recreated the violent message on Wolfgang Tillmans will be on sho\V produce what they claim is the first video with varying degrees of accuracy - until mid-January. Battersea Park exhibition dedicated to the violence and hundreds of horses died during the launched its second Affordable Art sensationalism behind the power of making oiBen Hur because the chariots Fair recently following last year's Rome. The result is Gladiators and were too heavy for them - two actors inaugural success, in which more than Caesars, which, two and a half years in paraded faithful copies of the helmets £1 million was spent on the art works on the making, continues until 21 January bearing the fate goddess. Nemesis, in show. The organisers' aim is to present 2001. It shows the frescoes that depict the shape of a griffin. There was some, contemporary art from as little as £50 to the period, the artefacts of the Coliseum, but not too much, evidence of female no more than £2,000. Next year's the helmets weighing 18 kilos and heavy gladiators. The Caesars were Jerwood Painting Prizewinner will armour worn by otherwise naked squeamish about women seeing be announced in March 2001 at the fighters - those ancient Romans liked a bloodshed, but indulged the occasional Jerwood Gallery in London's Union thrill - the sarcophagi bearing chariot taste for ogling girl gladiators. Street. Previous winners of the racing themes, pots, lamps, even graffiti prestigious £30,000 prize include on which the short lives and messy Pnmella Clough, Graigie Aitchison, deaths of the graduates of gladiatorial Maggi Hambling and Patrick Caulfield. The prize could go equally to schools are paraded as an example of a celebrated or less well-known artist. how Rome wooed the masses with the taste of blood and power. Any ambitious nobleman worth his GERMA]^ and salt knew that the path to political power was through sponsorship of the ENGLISH BOOKJii gladiatorial games. The Roman BOUGHT Coliseum could hold 50,000 people, and the Circus Maximus up to 200,000. Antiquarian, secondhand and However, contrary to popular belief, the modern books of quality thumbsdown, which meant death for the always wanted. loser, was not so commonly used. It was We're long-standing advertisers expensive to train a first-class gladiator, Bronze gladiator's helmet from Pompeii, here and leading buyers of after all, and the nobility or emperors 1st century AD. books from AJR members. who sponsored these massive public The exhibition also features the We pay good prices and events, had to put things into economic masks of Roman theatre. Burlesque and come to collect. perspective. The emperor Nero, for all mime were inspired by the ancient the cruel sensuality of his features as Greeks, but imperial Rome was For immediate response, portrayed in his marble likeness, once surprisingly prudish over tragedies please contact: declared he did not want anyone killed in Robert Hornung MA(Oxon) which might involve strip-tease or bad 2 Mount View, Ealing, these combats. Having said that, a language. These were roundly London W5 IPR gladiator was lucky to live to the ripe old condemned in the pre-Christian era. Email: [email protected] age of thirty. 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8 Stangl, from which readers can glean a the young musicians of the second Reviews mass of facts about the organisation of orchestra joining the Camerata in a The unanswerable question death camps - as well as evasion and self- seamless musical experience. The justification in the place of any admission Manchester Evening News described THE GERMAN TRAUMA of guilt for the crimes committed there. the performance as one in which Gitta Sereny, Penguin Press, 2000. As to the Demianiuk trial, if one has "melodic and nerve-tingling tensions This book is a collection of personal already "supped full of horrors" here are gave way to organise chaos!" On memoirs, interviews and comments. In it more to come in the description of the completion of the performance of her Sereny, for the first time, tells her own activities of 'Ivan the Terrible'. The grandson's composition Anita Wallfisch story - witness of the Anschluss in her outcome of the trial, as we know, was commented "Perhaps we have begun a native Vienna, studies in France, welfare inconclusive, and Sereny doubts the musical dynasty?" vvork with refugee children and escape wisdom of relying on evidence so far Ronald Channing over the Pyrenees. removed in time. After the war she worked with One is bound to ask what new light UNRRA who had the unenviable task Sereny's interviews shed on the Nazi Walks through history of returning, often against their will, mentality. We learn much about the IN LONDON TREFFEN WIR UNS children who had been abducted and surrounding social and political WIEDER: VIER SPAZIERGANGE DURCH "germanised", to their Polish families circumstances, but inside these people EIN VERGESSENES KAPITEL of origin. there remains a core of evil no-one DEUTSCHER KULTURGESCHICHTE Sereny's chapter on German attitudes can penetrate. Nevertheless, there is Steffen Pross, to their past (written in 1967) describes much to ponder on in this long but never Frankfurt am Main, Eichborn, 2000. how the older generation, maintaining a less than fascinating book about the This highly enjoyable and well-researched stony silence about the war, spoil their enduring effect of the Nazi period on the book takes the reader on four London young with material goods and German people. .. ^, „• walks to uncover a forgotten chapter of substitute a frantic dash for industrial *^ ^ Martha Blend success for the acknowledgement of their post-1933 German cultural history: yuilt. She quotes a range of views among 'New musical dynasty* between Regent's Park and Marble Arch, through Bloomsbury to Soho, a day in he younger generation, much of it Sudden Light by Benjamin Wallfisch Hampstead and once around Hyde Park. ^epressingly hostile to the provision of Manchester Camerata, Bridgewater Hall Text and photographs reveal much about Pensions to Nazi victims and ignorant of those who had to leave BeHin, Vienna, "e fact that a much larger sum is At just 21 years of age, exciting young Prague and elsewhere to start a new life devoted to German war-victims. She composer Benjamin Wallfisch's new here. And one discovers parts of London ontrasts this with genuine attempts to work Sudden Light was premiered in hardly mentioned in travel guides and "••'ng to trial the guilty men of the SS. In a Manchester's splendid Bridgewater Hall school books. '^^pter written recently, we learn how by the Manchester Camerata, augmented ^"e children of high-ranking Nazis like by 85 local young musicians, led with London, which offered exile to orrnann and Heydrich are attempting to panache by Richard Howarth and thousands, was for many only a one for their parents' wickedness. One guided with clarity, authority and temporary halt en route to America. of them states that even today "...there musical sensitivity by their conductor Others became British, are called Lord or —a mass denial in Germany about what Nicholas Kraemer Sir Some returned to Austria or Germany; '"'•lions of German soldiers witnessed in Benjamin is the son of international others, who escaped the Holocaust, only ^ East. It is a very important part of our cellist Raphael Wallfisch, soloist at AJR's came to London after the war. The list of Unresolved pathology, which by lies and 1999 concert, and grandson of cellist names from Kokoschka to Schwitters, ^''ence...has created the myth of an Anita Lasker Wallfisch, Holocaust survivor Bergner to Zadek, Kerr, Gropius and many "•dinary war" Yet the memories are there and founder member of the English more tell the story of flight, exile and ^"d will noT quite go away Chamber Orchestra, and her pianist emigration. 'he most interesting parts of the book husband, the late Michael Wallfisch. Academics, including many Nobel Prize ^^ the interviews with Stangl, the This year Benjamin is completing his winners, came to London, Oxford and l^ommandant of Treblinka, President studies in composition, piano and Cambridge. Already in the spring of 1933 •^aldheim, Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's conducting at the Royal Northern College William Beveridge, Director of the ^vourite filmmaker, and an account of of Music and the University of London School of Economics, founded ^^ trial in Israel of John Demianiuk, Manchester, having already graduated the Academic Assistance Council, which ^llegedly 'ivan the Terrible' of Treblinka. with first class honours. invited Jewish academics who had been 'efenstahl, from her charming cottage in Sudden Light, a 21st century expelled from German universities. By the ^varia, declares that her film Triumph of atmospheric composition, takes its end of 1938, 1,400 German and 400 Wje Will extolling the glories of the Nazi inspiration from a poem by Dante Gabriel Austrian academics had been assisted. J'^Qime was "not political", and that she Rosetti, creating ovedapping harmonies Between 1933 and the outbreak of war, I'^d "suffered greatly" as a result of her which explore the theme 'I have been here Jewish emigrants started about 300 "•'endship with Hitler To wit, she was before'. The huge 112-piece orchestra factories here. In the autumn of 1939, own nasty pictures of concentration required for its performance was formed 62,000 Germans and 12,000 Austrians, amp victims, and had to endure several courtesy of a complementary mainly Jews, of whom about 50,000 were onths' house-arrest in her own home! performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' in London, were registered with the ^ rnost probing interview is with Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, British police. I know/Should I stay or should I go?" "I feel at home when I write German If you were told to grow old words with my pencil but all around me AREYOUONALOW "gracefully", this show shouts: "Bullshit, English is spoken" wrote Elias Canetti in don't grow old!" as the septuagenarians INCOMEANDINNEED 1939 in Hampstead, which became the sing and dance, raising their fists in a OF HOMECARE HELP? centre of German-speaking emigration. challenge of age-ism, obviously enjoying Walter Gropius lived in Isokon Flats, themselves as much as the audience: AJR might be able to offer composer Berthold Goldschmidt settled "May your heart always be joyful/ May financial assistance. in Belsize Park, Lilli Palmer is buried in the your song always be sung/ May you stay small graveyard in Church Row, Dr Joseph Members who might not (Yes!) forever young!" Suschitzky opened his German bookshop otherwise be able to afford Libris in Boundary Road NW8. Fred Young@heart began 17 years ago as an homecare please contact: attempt to break up the tedium of a Uhlman founded Der Freie Deutsche Estelle Brookner, Secretary daycentre for cheap meals for the elderly Kulturbund in 36 Upper Park Road in AJR, Social Services Dept of Massachusetts; however, according to 1939; Dosio Koff ler and Kurt Hiller lived in Phone No: 020 7431 6161 Padiament Hill, Elias and Veza Canetti in Bob Cilman, the director of the group, the Thudow Road, Rudolf Bing in Belsize chorus was never intended to be a social Crescent, Ernst Toller in Lambolle Road, service for the eldedy. True, its members Sigmund and Anna Freud in Maresfield lived years longer than others and Gardens, and so on. Club 1943, an Anglo- enjoyed their lives more, but the group worked and still works for the sake of Companions German cultural forum, started in of London Broadhurst Gardens and still meets their art. They have since toured all over the world and the Lyric Hammersmith Incorporating weekly at Belsize Square Synagogue. Hampstead Home Care Among its members were Theodor was packed. The audience was a show in itself; mostly very young, they literally Kramer, Erich Fried, Otto Lehmann- A long established company rose to the occasion, clapping, banging, Russbuldt, Alfred Unger and his brother providing care in your home Wilhelm, Hans Jose Rehfisch (founder of whistling, screaming like in a concert Assistance with personal care the Club), Hermann Friedmann, Hans with the King, finally, standing up and on General household duties Jaeger, Grete Fischer and many more. their seats, raising fists and singing along with the chorus. I don't usually like Respite care Medical appointment service This magnificent book is not one to be musicals like Les Mis but this was not just read at one - or even several sittings - or nostalgia, not just wishful thinking, not •OUR CARE IS YOUR CARE' even just as a companion on the walks. It just politically correct social comment but 020 7483 0212/0213 is a reference book which belongs on the brimmed over with a sense of humour full bookshelf of anyone interested in how of self-mockery, a unique and exciting Britain, and London in particular, played theatrical experience. Their next project is host to German culture in exile. about the French Revolution with, I understand, a heavy emphasis on Sinatra Gerald Holm A7 SPRING and the Stones - if you are young@heart, GROVE Heartbeat don't miss it! 214 Finchley Road Road to Heaven Young@heart chorus And now, eat your heart out London NW3 Massachusetts! We Jewish refugees have Lyric, Hammersmith. 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10 An anonymous Georgian house in Great Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, Russell Street, Bloomsbury is home to PROFILE and from 1991 Pro-Vice-Chancellor the British Museum Development I)y Ronald Channing of Oxford. He is Chancellor of both Irust. While busy and purposeful, an Keele University and the Open unpretentious sitting room off the office University of Israel. of its chairman presents an oasis of calm, Talented musician the perfect venue in which to meet the Music is an essential element in Sir urbane aesthete and distinguished Claus' life. He remains a talented academic, former civil servant and classical pianist, having studied under nierchant banker. Sir Claus Moser. Louis Kentner, and became actively With little prompting, he recalls his associated with the Royal Academy of 'lappy, carefree and affluent boyhood in Music, the BBC, the Royal Opera House oerlin, particularly exceUing at music - serving as Chairman for 13 years, and sport. At one and the same time his Glyndebourne Opera, the London tamily were very German and yet Philharmonic Orchestra, London's South intensely Jewish; his father, a banker, Bank, the London Symphony Orchestra, had served in the Kaiser's army in World Music at Oxford and the Oxford War I. Members of the Reform Playhouse - being Chairman of both - and synagogue, the family were ministered the Jerusalem Music Centre. to by the great Rabbi Leo Baeck, Sir Claus's presidential address to the 'aus' father wearing his top hat on their British Association for the Advancement ^h holy day visits. of Science in 1990 led to widespread '^I'miliation at school public discussion on Britain's sharp reminder of the changed status educational problems and the of the Jews came in 1934. On entering Sir Claus Moser establishment of a National Education ne classroom his teacher performed the Commission on which he served. Sir '^^il Hitler ritual, to which the whole RAF volunteer Claus continues with his work on Class responded with the exception of Claus immediately volunteered for the educational research and policy, notably nc two Jewish boys who, should they RAF as the most immediate way to on post-school education and was ftave been so minded, were forbidden pursue his personal vendetta against appointed Chairman of the Basic Skills ""om following suite. Humiliation was a Hitler. The recruiting sergeant, taking Agency in 1997. ""^gular daily occurrence all round them note of Claus's enthusiasm to engage Jewish causes 'n the streets. Quite often he saw Hitler the enemy and excellent academic When discussing the celebration of this Passing in his car. Though as proud qualifications, promptly signed him on year's 60th Anniversary of the AJR, of ^^rmans many middle and upper class as a flight mechanic - cleaning out which he is a member, his involvement Jews believed that Hitler was a passing aeroplanes. Though later promoted to and enthusiasm were much in evidence. Phenomenon, increasingly aware of instrument repairer, he was clearly cut Sir Claus sees no contradiction in his ^•rulent antisemitism, his father had out for other professions, yet as virtually proud and public support for Jewish and 'decided to emigrate well before Hitler the only university-educated man Israeli causes among the many to which *^nie to power, which they eventually in his unit, the experience of meeting he gives generously of his time and *d in 1936. people from all walks of life was to expertise. Nevertheless, he is struck by ^ter attending English public school, prove invaluable. the differences between refugee Soon after his 17th birthday in 1940 he After demobilisation he returned to attitudes. Some happily became as interned behind barbed wire the LSE as a member of staff, was made anghcised and chose to bury their Jewish together with his father and brother and Professor of Social Statistics and origins, while at the other extreme were "ousands of other refugees. advised the Robbins Committee on those who never managed to reconcile °rtunately, after just three months he Higher Education. In 1967 he was themselves to their adopted country. Sir as released to become immersed in the appointed Director of the goverrunent's Claus sees himself as being somewhere Xciting intellectual atmosphere of the Central Statistical Office, serving three in the middle, "settled very happily in London School of Economics, Prime Ministers until 1978 when he England, yet conscious of my roots in Completing his degree in 1943 as the joined NM Rothschild as Vice- Berlin". A man forever cormected to his ^tstanding student of his year. Chairman. From 1984 to 1993 he was Jewish boyhood in Germany.

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INSIDE South London On the occasion of SLAJR's sixth THE AJR birthday, celebrated with cakes, Suzanne Mehard, senior administrator of Norwood Ravenswood talked about Manchester the history and development of the AJR's Northern Group rose to a organisation. Founded in the nineteenth challenge put by their guest speaker century as the Norwood orphanage, it Ronald Channing, AJR's Head of developed - most recently through a Commimity Relations, and agreed to ask merger with Ravenswood - into a their children and grandchildren if they service for families, with family centres would like to read the new AJR Journal in Edgware and Hendon. It employs and, perhaps, to join the AJR over a thousand staff and a similar themselves. number of volunteers. Emergency and respite family care are offered as are Ronald Channing, family information, drama, special guest speaker in Manchester needs, and recreational, facilities and much more. Norwood Ravenswood is visiting Manchester's Jewish Museum financed by local authorities and fund- was explored, accompanied by a history raising. being written by Dr Anthony Grenville. Ruth Leggett The possibility of inviting Manchester University to carry out a joint project The next meeting will be on 18 January when with one of its oldest refugee Percy Gourgey MBE will speak on the Board of Deputies of British Jews. populations would also be investigated. A prolonged question and answer Brighton session included debate on changing Under the title 'Back to Gombin', and AJR's name and the apparent lack of movingly illustrated by film footage progress in building Manchester's from 1937 and recent filmed interviews Werner Lachs AJR Northern Group Chairman Museum of the Shoah. with relatives of those in the earlier film, Sandra Barnett talked about this small Ronald was invited by Northern Next meeting: The Demise of British Operetta and Musicals, given by Aubrey and Esther town in Central Poland with a pre-war Group's energetic chairman, Werner Kreike on Sunday 17th December, 2pm at the population of 7,500 of which one third Lachs, to consider 'The AJR in the New Morris Feinmann Home. Newcomers are most were Jewish. Many of their relations Century'. After reminding members of welcome. emigrated in the early 1900s and found the AJR's comprehensive range of their way mostly to the USA but also, services presently being enjoyed by Leeds among other places, to Palestine and provincial members, he saw the future Dayan Refson gave a sensitive and England. Virtually all the Jewish as one of opportunity and interest, not moving account of the differences inhabitants living there at the time of the one of inevitable decline. It was time for between mourning and remembering. German invasion eventually perished in members to debate and decide in which During the mourning period, mourners the labour camp of Konin or Chelmo areas and in support of which new are absorbed in their grief which enables extermination camp. A very active them to come to terms with their loss. endeavours the AJR's resources and Gombin society - based in the USA with By contrast, remembering can be a moral authority should eventually be branches in Israel, Britain and beautiful and healing process. He directed. elsewhere - organised a trip back to described the Holocaust as a time of Gombin where with the active support Among the current developments he violence and isolation. Survivors of the local population a memorial to the discussed were a new membership experienced anger and numbness, some victims of the Holocaust was placed in recruitment brochure, an AJR website, for many years. According to Jewish the re-dedicated Jewish cemetery. setting up more AfR groups in other belief, everyone who died during the parts of the coimtry, the introduction of One lesson to be learnt is that those Holocaust was a tsadik, a righteous Jew. AJR-aided Holocaust Remembrance who bemoan the disappearance oi The same would apply to Holocaust Day events on university campuses, and Jewish cemeteries throughout Poland survivors. The Dayan said those who must form their own associations to try the publication of a new style AJR were murdered should be honoured by Journal aimed at attracting younger and resurrect them rather than expect the continuance of Judaism. This was others to do it for them. contributors and members. This year, true remembrance. being the AIR's 60th Anniversary, the F Goldberg Lynda Groiser possibility of a German-Jewish There will be a 'social get-together* on 22 'Contribution to Britain' exhibition Leeds HFSAAGM will be held on 21 January. January i 12 West Midlands AJR VISIT TO Midday lunch at the Paul Balint AJR Day The next meeting will be on 28 January The Imperial War Museum Centre, 15 Cleve Rd. West Hampstead, when Ronald Channing, AJR's Head of London NW6 Media & Community Relations, will talk Holocaust Exhibition Coach departs Day Centre 1.00 pm, on'The AJR in the Next Century". on returning there approx. 4.30 - 5.00 pm Pinner Thursday 18 January 2001 Ticket numbers limited The next meeting will be on 4 January Walking Involved £8 per person to include coach when Hanna Graber will recall the life of fare, guided tour of the exhibition, For booking application form, contact Richard Tauber. On 1 February Sister Joan Altman, AJR, 1 Hampstead Gate, Day Centre lunch, tea S>ii biscuits Margaret Shepherd, Director of the CO lA Frognal, London NW3 6AL will speak on 'Current Concerns'. at the Museum Telephone 020 7431 6161 Surrey A cheerful morning was spent in discussions ranging from the pleasure of JR-KT LUNCHEON CLUB i^eeting old and new friends to consideration of future gatherings with specific topics of general interest. Fourth Great Season! Guest speaker: Vernon Saunders Sister Margaret Shepherd *Excellent Food There will be an informal get-together on Director of the Council of Christians & '*StimulatingTalk Jews 30 January at the home of Robert and *Enlivening Discussion Enid Miller Details from Myrna Glass at 'Christians & Jews: *Meeting new friends ^R Head Office. the changed relationship' Wednesday 17 January 2001 Reservations £7.50 for everyone! AJR Group Contacts 15 Cleve Road NW6 3RL From Sylvia, Renee and Susie Leeds HSFA 11.45 am for 12.15 pm Tel: 020 7328 0208 Trude Silman 0113 225 1628 West Mldlands(Birmingham) Edgar Glaser 0121 777 6537 North (Manchester) Bob Norton 01159 212 494 int AJR Dav Centre 15 Pinner (HA Postal District) Vera Gellman 020 8866 4833 Mon & Wed 9.30am-3.30pm, Tues & Thurs 9.30am-5.30pm. 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14 therefore be 21°C warmer than calculated Search notices Science Notebook to allow the Earth to radiate enough energy Prof Michael Spiro out into space, to balance the solar energy Kinder from Muhlheim, Duisberg, coming in. This 'thermal blanket' of water Oberhausen, Essen. German vapour and CO2 behaves rather like the glass The Greenhouse Effect schoolteacher seeks contact with Kinder in a greenhouse, freely allowing in the (short willing to communicate with children at In December issue's Viewpoint, Ronald wavelength) radiant energy fromth e sun but ^banning drew attention to the serious his school as part of a project about the absorbing some of the (long wavelength) history of the Kindertransport. climatic changes being brought about by thermal energy emitted from inside the Please contact Oliver Decka, the activities of mankind. These now greenhouse. These gases (together with augment, to a dangerous degree, a natural some minor constituents like methane) are Hattingerstrasse 22, 44789 Bochum, phenomenon called the greenhouse effect accordingly called greenhouse gases. This Tel. 0049 234 3251437; which is actually essential for our natural greenhouse effect is clearly 'a good Email: [email protected] existence on planet Earth. thing' as far as life on Earth is concerned. Let's start with the sim. Its surface However, one can have too much of a good Descendants of Max Lowenthal, born temperature of 6000°C continuously thing, and too much CO2 in the atmosphere 28 Jan 1880 in Bedin, translator, and his radiates energy into space. A Uttle bit of falls into this category. By the middle of the wife Kate Lowenthal nee Piorkowsky, this reaches the Earth and keeps us warm. 20th century scientists began to point out born 27 Feb 1881 in Ratibor. Both lived "Ut to stop our planet becoming too warm, that significant increases in CO2 could be at Bayreutherstr 42, BeHin until this incoming solar energy must be brought about by the actions of mankind, by emigrating to London in late 1930s. balanced by the Earth radiating energy burning more and more fossil fuels (which Sought by genealogical researcher in contain carbon) and by chopping down back into space. The warmer the Earth's connection with estate in Germany. surface, the more energy it will radiate forests which absorb CO2. This is now happening, producing what is called the Please telephone 020 8908 0582 or out. Calculation shows that balance will be enhanced greenhouse effect. Computer contact Andrea Endedein, Achieved if the overall average modelling has shown that this phenomenon R-Breitscheidstr. 208, 14482 Potsdam, temperature of the Earth's surface is -6"C. will do more than simply raise the overall Germany. Tel: 0049 331 710597. But that isn't true: the Earth's overall surface temperature of the Earth. Because E-mail: [email protected] 'iiean temperature is about + 15°C. Just as the additional thermal energy in the *ell for our comfort and indeed our atmosphere is not distributed uniformly, it Descendants of Jacques Krojanker, survival. gives rise to turbulent disturbances: storms, born 31.10. 1873, died 2.11. 1949 So what was wrong with the calculation typhoons, tsunamis, and the like. These (probably in London) and his wife above? It had been based on the changed weather patterns can also produce assumption that the atmosphere aroimd extremes of droughts in some areas and Monika born 17.8.1879. Lived in Bedin "le Earth neither absorbs nor emits floods in others. World events in recent until 1938, then emigrated to London. thermal radiation. This is quite correct for years have certainly borne out these Sought by genealogical researcher in the nitrogen and oxygen gases which consequences of the enhanced greenhouse connection with estate in Germany. "^ke up 99% of our atmosphere. But the effect. That the Climate Change Conference Please telephone 020 8908 0582 or 'Remaining 1% contains water vapour and at the Hague in November failed to agree on contact Andrea Endedein, '^bon dioxide (CO2) which do absorb the rules for nations to reduce their CO2 R-Breitscheidstr. 208, 14482 Potsdam, Some of the thermal radiation leaving the emissions cannot be final:w e must hope for Germany. Tel: 0049 331 710597. Earth's siuiace. The surface must more sense in 2001. E-mail: [email protected]

active member of the communist youth based on the experiments she had done in Obituary organisation, and attended meetings where Antwerp and completed her degree in 1943. "se Lasnitzki-GliJcksmann Einstein and Wilhelm Reich also participated. After the war, her daughter was born and In April 1933 she was summoned by the her work went well, steadily gaining an ^e Lasnitzki-Glucksmaim, who has died director of medical studies and told to quit the international reputation in cancer research, 8ed 9i_ ^as an internationally renowned hospital immediately. cell biology and endocrinology. In the 1950s r^cer researcher based in Cambridge. Bom After leaving Berlin, Ilse went first to and 1960s she did pioneering experimental Berlin, she had a fi-aughtupbringing . Her Copenhagen and learned tissue culture, research on the carcinogenic effects of tobacco l^er, an unsuccessful businessman, died of working unpaid in a laboratory. From smoke on lung tissue and in the 1970s and P'lepsy when she was eight and her Copenhagen she went to Basle and resumed 1980s on the effects of other carcinogenic Soraphobic mother had great difficulty her interrupted medical training, then on to agents, steroid hormones and vitamin A, on ^ing ends meet. As a child she was Antwerp and experimental work. She the prostate and bladder. She also developed distantly hungry and often cold, and had to returned to Basle and finished her studies, new techniques of tissue and organ culture. , k after her mother when her two much but was prohibited from staying in She was proud to become a Fellow of Lucy Qer brothers joined the army during the Switzerland after receiving her degree. At the Cavendish, a new college for matiu'e women "•st World War. From the age of 12 she end of 1938 helped by Honor Fell, Director of students in 1968, and the following year she ^*^ed money by giving lessons to yoimger the Strangeways Research Laboratory in was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Pipils. Cambridge, she arrived in England. Other Science. In 1974 she went to Japan for the first Sh,e was expected to leave school at 16 and refugee scientists at the lab included her time and embarked on a 15 year collaboration. do 3 secretarial course but insisted on staying future husband, Alfred Glucksmann, a She also collaborated with Professors Raul 3t School and later on studying medicine at distinguished embryologist from Heidelberg. Robel and Etienne Beaulieu in Paris. She 'Versity, much to the disapproval of her Her association with the Strangeways was to continued doing experimental work at the lab other and brother. The former died of a last for over 50 years and she remained in until 1991 when she was 82 years old. Ilse J^oke when Use was 21. By this time she had Cambridge for the rest of her life. She would want to be remembered primarily as a '-""cle of poUtical and cultural friends, was an registered for a PhD at Newnham College, scientist, and as a woman scientist.

15 Jawne - Newsround a rather special Berlin Memorial go-ahead Construction of Berlin's Holocaust school Monica Lowenberg Memorial should begin this autumn following authorisation by the Bundestag of an annual budget allocation of seven million Deutschmarks (£2.25 Jti- T 1 r million). The memorial is to be sited between the Brandenburg Gate and the Potsda mer Platz.

No acknowledgement The UK's first Holocaust Memorial Day, f'V^y'fji marked this month, will not include reference to the 1915 Armenian Former Jawne Gymnasium pupils genocide. The Home Office has informed with two of their teachers. the Armenian Assembly that the focus From left: Siggy Reichenstein, Susan Mattes, will be on "the Nazi Holocaust and more Rolf Schild OBE, Fritz Bauchwitz, Lore Robinson, recent atrocities that raise similar issues." Inset: Dr Erich Klibansky, Jawne Gymnasium Ralph Blumenau, DrFeo Kahn (former teacher) headmaster 1900 -1942 and the and Raphael Loewe (former teacher). Finnish apology Jawne Gymnasium, Cologne [Photo Monica Lowenberg] A monument has been unveiled commemorating the deportation of Housed in the grounds of the German immediate action. Jewish refugees from Finland to Estonia school in Richmond, the Jawne Four hundred pupils wanted to join in November 1942. Handed over exhibition - organised by the headmaster Klibansky and have him arrange refuge by the Finnish authorities to the Gestapo, Gerd Kohncke and Irene Corbach - is the for them in hostels and with families all but one of the refugees perished in Auschwitz. brainchild of the late Dieter Corbach, the based in London, Liverpool, Brighton synod's representative for Christian- and Manchester. Between January and Austria's newest synagogue Jewish dialogue in Cologne. June 1939, Klibansky organised and Financed by the city of Graz, a neW Photographs and documentation accompanied four transports of Jawne synagogue has been inaugurated in lovingly detail the life before, and pupils, saving the lives of one hundred Austria's second largest Jewish destruction during. National Socialism, and thirty children. In contrast, he was community. In recognition of the of the Jewish school and the attempts to occasion, an historic meeting was shot, with his wife Meta and 1164 arranged between representatives of save it. The exhibition will be made deportees from Cologne, by an SS Graz's Catholic and Jewish communities available to other English schools as a commando in Minsk in July 1942. One to discuss today's Christian-Jewish media resource. hundred and eighteen of the deportees relations. were children under 10. On 28 The city of Jawne, which after the Bank probe destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD November this year, Dr Erich Klibansky An external investigation, funded by the developed into the spiritual centre for would have been one hundred years old. banks, is to take place into alleged the revival and rise of Judaism, was to Some eighty people, including a small dealings with Holocaust victims' dormant become the inspiration for the Cologne- group of former pupils and teachers of accounts in Israeli banks. The terms of based grammar school. Founded in 1919, the Jawne Gymnasium, Cologne, reference have been criticised by at the school was granted only 23 years attended the opening ceremony of the least one member of the Knesset before it fell victim to the National Commission of Inquiry through whom exhibition and heard Fritz Bauchwitz, a the investigation is to be organised. Socialist terror. Dr Erich Klibansky, former Jawne pupil, summarise whose father had been cantor of movingly: "We all love to reminisce Spoils of aryanisation Frankfurt's West End Synagogue for about our youth, about our school days, Photographs of objets d'art and furniture, many years, became the school's but memories of the Jawne have two looted from Jews after the Anschluss and headmaster between 1929-1942. Aware stored in the State Depot of Movables in diametrically opposed aspects: the Vienna, form part of an exhibition staged of how fragile and dangerous the happy memories of a sheltered in the Depot, documenting the history situation for Jews had and would become existence among friends and among of expropriation. under Nazism, Klibansky established, teachers, whom we recognise in already in June 1933, the Community of retrospect to have been outstanding On the wanted list Warrants for the arrest on fraud charges Interests of the Jewish secondary personalities; and the memories of the of Russian media moguls Boris schools in Germany. By 1937, he had utter destruction of an institution and of Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky have initiated steps to transfer the entire the loss of so many who had grown to be been issued by a Moscow court' Jawne school to England and with the almost as close to us as our own Both men were out of the country a* November Pogrom of 1938, took families." the time of the issue and are though^ unlikely to return. Uncc MK

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