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The Auschwitz The sins of the fathers dispute Emnna Klein p4 he late unlamented Franjo Tudjman was the pro-Europeans in the UK. Rebranding blood smeared Vicar of Bray of the Balkans. The ghost of Bismarck, architect of the German AJR Information He had started out as a Communist partisan, 'welfare state' has likewise taken up residence Letters p6 & 7 T fighting the Ustasha Fascists and been promoted a inside the body of Gerhard Schroder, who uses Danish rescue peacetime general by Tito - yet on the latter's public money to bale out insolvent private firms. A AWFreud pl2 death he helped precipitate the break-up of bizarre aspect of this salvage operation is the fact Yugoslavia. He then set about fulfilling the Croats' that the recipient of the Chancellor's largesse, Kinder's new home millennial aspiration for an independent state by Holzmann AG, used slave labour in the last war. Ronold Channing p 16 means which involved the slaughter of thousands Schroder's earlier intervention to stave off a hostile of Serbs and Bosnian Muslims. As President, the takeover bid for Mannesmann also has a historical former Communist incorporated the Ustashe resonance. In the early 1900s it was the Outrageous! Fascists' emblem into the national flag and paid Mannesmann concern's quest for iron ore deposits erman homage to Ante Pavelic (who had set up a wartime in French NW Africa which provoked the Moroc­ historian Croat puppet state at Hider's behest). He played can crisis - one of the flashpoints that preceded GLothar Fritze down the horrors of'Jasenovac concentration camp the Kaiser's War. posthumously - dubbed the Croat Auschwitz - and expressed And talking of Wilhelm II, it is quite bizarre, not castigates Hiders satisfaction that no single drop of Serb or Jewish to say macabre, that the display of his coffin for Would-be assassin blood coursed through his wife's veins. popular adulation in the Berliner Dom coincided Georg Elser for Tudjman represented one strain of the Commu­ with the death of the historian Fritz Fischer. It was having failed, in nist-trained post-Communist leaders now in power Fischer who in his magisterial Der Griff nach der November 1939, to in parts of Eastern Europe. Others of his ilk were Weltmacht. (The Bid for World Power) of 1961 warn the Mecar in Slovakia, Lukashenko in Belarus and, most had provided irrefutable evidence of the Kaiser's - Biirgerbraukeller notably, Milosevic in Serbia. All of them have adul­ and his government's - primary role in bringing audience of the terated their original Marxist-internationalist message about Armageddon in 1914 D impending with rabid chauvinism and explosion (which have built a ruling apparat r H E cost eight lives). riddled with nepotism and SHOAH CENTRE He laments the loss corruption. of eight 'iimocents' Though death has now Architectural Concept - as if participants removed Tudjman, there is by Daniel Libeskind in the key no guarantee that Croatia ceremony of the will evolve into a markedly Nazi year could be more open society. Newly thus described! - created states often continue while leaving the to bear the stamp of their coundess millions founders. The persona and Elser's time bomb oudook of self-willed nation might have saved state builders perpetuates out of account. itself through a sort of Compounding cultural DNA. The shade of the offence Fritze de Gaulle, the rebuilder of has published his France after wartime defeat farrago in the and self-abasement, seems to X journal of the inhabit the mind of Lionel \ Photograpn by Warren Shaftef Hannah Arendt Jospin as he prolongs a Institute, perverse 'beef war' that Architectural concept by Daniel Libeskind for a Holocaust memorial and museum in Manchester. (See report on pl5). Dresden D undermines the position of AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

tions and set her heart on becoming a which made emigration easier. Just be­ Profile singer. Her parents let her have lessons, fore the outbreak of war the newly weds but insisted that she attend a dressmaking managed to get to France, where Eva's school at the same time. In due course divorced mother and sister had preceded Buddenbrooks, she acquired a boyfriend who caused her them from Vienna. Her husband joined to miss a rare opportunity. Oskar the Czech army and in Spring 1940, M/tte/european style Kokoschka wanted to paint her, which when France collapsed into chaos, they istening to Eva Oplatek's account of would have involved sittings at his stu­ all made their way (separately) to the her family history one gets a strong dio. The boyfriend - in contrast to her Mediterranean coast ahead of the advanc­ L sense of nature imitating art - in father - took a dim view of this. Eva ing Wehrmacht. The three women had to this case literature. In his Buddenbrooks deferred to his wishes and in conse­ proceed on foot, which wasn't easy for (1901) Thomas Mann chronicled the quence found no place on the margin of pregnant Eva. At Sette they crowded on decline of a Liibeck family whose art history. to an England-bound coal freighter business-focused founding generation In retrospect she shrugs off the missed where one of their fellow 'passengers' produced dissolute and wayward opportunity with the remark that was the khaki-clad Czech army private offspring who dabbled in the arts. Kokoschka made all his female sitters Robert Maxwell. The Oplateks of Prague enacted a Jew­ look ugly on canvas. Safe in England at last, Eva gave birth ish variant of the Buddenbrooks story. Realising, after a while, that as a Jewess to a Downs Syndrome child - a misfor­ Eva's grandfather, founder of a Prague she had little prospect of an operatic ca­ tune which contributed to the eventual metal factory, had placed her father in reer, Eva switched to light music and break-up of her marriage. She married charge of the firm's Vienna branch office. joined the Singing Babies (a female ver­ again and had two daughters who, in The latter, a failed medical student, how­ sion of the famous Comedy Harmonists). turn, chose solid bourgeois husbands ever, preferred cultural pursuits to dreary She toured abroad with the Babies - in even Consul Buddenbrook would have office routine. He trod the boards, sub­ the course of which she caught the eye' approved of. Eva's mother spent her de­ scribed to Karl Kraus' Die Fackel and, of Kemal Pasha Ataturk - and subse­ clining years comfortably in a Home for with the help of his wife, established a quently moved to Prague. There she which the family feels greatly indebted to salon frequented by literati, musicians secured small parts in films (one of the AJR. Eva is in close contact with her and painters. The Oplateks' circle inclu­ which starred Anny Ondra), but in the sister, daughters and grandchildren and ded real celebrities of the rank of Egon late Thirties, actresses who spoke Ger­ plays bridge. Refuting the cynical quip Erwin Kisch, the composer Alexander man-accented Czech were hardly the that nostalgia isn't what it used to be, she von Zemlinsky and Oskar Kokoschka. flavour of the month in Prague. numbers a record of the Comedy Growing up in this ambience, Eva In March 1939 the Nazis occupied Harmonists among her most treasured unsurprisingly developed artistic ambi­ Prague. Shortly afterwards Eva married. possessions. D R"

New Claims Conference guide to compensation and restitution WIENER LIBRARY he Conference on Jewish Material to which they may be entitled. Eligibility Karl Pfeifer Claims Against Germany - more is often dependent upon a combination Author of works on Tcommonly known just as the of factors, including the survivor's origi­ antisemitism and the far right, Claims Conference - has published its nal and current countries of residence, very first guide to Compensation and the persecution endured and any com­ former editor of Die Cemeinde, Restitution for Holocaust Survivors. It sets pensation previously received. the official newspaper of the out to clarify the respective roles and The guide is divided into sections ac­ Jewish community in Vienna. responsibilities of claims organisations, to cording to each particular programme. It summarise the different schemes and to lists payments and benefits from Ger­ ^Jorg Haider and the indicate the procedures to be followed many, Austria and other Western rise of antisemitism by survivors or their heirs wishing to European Countries, deals separately pursue a claim. with the restitution of property and assets in Austria^ For half a century the Claims Confer­ in Western and Eastern Europe, as well Wednesday, 16 February 2000, ence has negotiated with Germany, as insurance policies and works of art. 7.30pm Austria and others to obtain compensa­ The comprehensive listing of the names, tion for Jewish victims of Nazi addresses and contact numbers of the or­ Wiener Library persecution and the restitution of assets ganisations and their affiliated offices 4 Devonshire Street and plundered property. In addition, nu­ alone would make this booklet invaluable. London WIN 2BH merous elderly victims continue to URDC receive essential benefits and services, Copies of the guide may be obtained free of Advance reservations £2.00. though the absence of a comprehensive charge by writing to The AjR, Re: Claims source of reference hitherto left many Conference Guide, I Hampstead Gate, Frognal, Tel: 0171 636 7247 people confused or unaware of benefits London NW3 6AL AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

dents involved in genocide). Another do­ Telegraph sends out nor was Gerald Howarth, who, as a young MP on a parliamentary freebie had NEWTONS Wrong signals goosestepped through deserted East Ber­ Leading Hampstead Solicitors s the curtain rises on Karl Kraus' lin streets at night giving the Hider salute. last Days of Mankind newspaper A third was the Greek shipping tycoon's 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Avendors rush along the Ring- son Taki Theodoracopulos, a gossip col­ London NW3 SNB strasse shouting Special edition! Heir to umnist fond of spicing up his copy with the throne assassinated at Sarajevo!' A antisemitic jibes. A fourth was the widow ^ All English legal work bystander buys a paper, glances at it and of Tiny Rowland, the ex-Hiderjunge and undertaken and German, Gutters to his wife Thank god, it wasn't founder of the Lonrho conglomerate, Swiss & Austrian claims a Jew!' which Prime Minister Edward Heath, in a ^ German spoken Given our history it is small wonder memorable phrase, described as 'the un­ that we always look for the Jewish - or acceptable face of capitalism'. ir Home visits arranged sntisemitic - angle on any public event, A potential fifth who would undoubt­ Tel: 0171 435 535! '^nd those who seek shall find, pace edly have contributed if in funds, was the Fax: 0171 435 888! 'Monica Lewinsky at the White House, or lifelong Hamilton chum Harvey Proctor, ^he oligarch' Boris Berezovsky in the the former MP who tried to commit the 'Kremlin. Ultrasensitive ears have even Conservative Party to the compulsory re­ detected antisemitic undertones in the patriation of coloured immigrants and hue-and-cry over Peter Mandelson's who had to resign his seat in conse­ PARTNER mortgage arrangements. quence of a scandal involving rent boys. In long established English Solicitors When Neil Hamilton moved into the After the verdict in the Hamilton v Al- (bi-lingual German) would be happy deadline space previously occupied by Fayed libel trial The Times claimed that to assist clients with English, German '^andelson I heaved a sigh of relief. What the correspondence column of the Daily and Austrian problems. Contact Possible Jewish - or antisemitic dimen­ Telegraph had served as 'notice board' sion - could the Hamilton-Al Fayed for the Hamilton Fighting Fund. Henry Ebner slanging match have (except for the If that were true it would fit into the Myers Ebner & Deaner "arrods owner's membership of the hy­ aforementioned pattern of Ultra-Right in­ pothetical Semitic family of nations)? fluence in that paper. As AJR Information 103 Shepherds Bush Road I Was wrong, for the publication of a readers may remember, our November London W6 7LP 'st of prominent contributors to the editorial 'Not as black as he was shirted' Telephone 0171 602 4631 *iamilton Fighting Fund seemed to sug- upbraided the Telegraph columnist AN ALL LEGAL WORK S^st a distinctive pattern. The chief Wilson for pouring buckets of whitewash UNDERTAKEN *^onor, Lord Portsmouth, had stopped at- over Oswald Mosley. We sent it as an ^nding the House of Peers in protest at open letter to the Editor of the Daily Tel­ ^he passage of die War Crimes Bill (which egraph - and he blithely binned it. Provided for the indictment of UK resi­ D Richard Grunberger AUSTRIAN and GERMAN PENSIONS Wer schiesst aus Uebe? commit crimes of passion. Tergit was par­ ticularly well fitted to write on this subject he 1943 Club - so called because since she was crime reporter at the PROPERTY RESTITUTION of its founding in that year - Moabit Court in Berlin. Her court CLAIMS Trecently heard a talk on its late reportages were extremely popular, with "member Gabriele Tergit (1894-1982). She many apposite comments on crime and EAST GERMANY- BERLIN ^d been a writer and journalist in society. On instructions our office will ^irnar Germany and had escaped to The speaker also played excerpts of his Br itain via Prague and Palestine. taped interviews with Tergit when she assist to deal with your The guest speaker, Berlin-resident Jens applications and pursue the B was already quite elderly. One was about ''Uning, has researched Tergit's career a postwar visit to the Moabit Court where nnatter with the authorities. *^ is at present reissuing a number of an old police sergeant welcomed her ^'' books and other writings in Ger- For further information and much more heartily than her former col­ appointment please ^riy. He interviewed her at length leagues! n £ Flesch before her death, contact: the talk turned out to be not only in- ICS CLAIMS •^ctive, but also most enjoyable, as he Annely Juda Fine Art 146-154 Kilburn High Road '^^ad excerpts from her work. The tide of 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) London NW6 4JD ^ talk derives from an article she had Tel: 0171-629 7578 Fax: 0171-491 2139 ^•"•tten for the Berliner Tageblatt in 1932, Tel: 0171-328 7251 (Ext. 107) CONTEMPORARY PAINTING ^ling in a witt>- and perceptive manner AND SCULPTURE Fax:0171-624 5002 ^ the reasons why men and women AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

during our visit on the first day the Dome Reviews Pleasure dome was open to the general public, several ravel to the Millennium Dome in of the displays were not working; only a More at home with Greenwich is best achieved on further visit could ensure that every ex­ TLondon underground's newly hibit would be seen. Twice daily visitors Irving than Berlin extended and modernised Jubilee Line. are entertained with two shows, one a Almost immediately after leaving the 40-minute Blackadder feature film, to be Judith Paris WEILL AND LENYA New End splendid new Greenwich station you specially prized by Rowan Atkinson fans, overs of the sound and atmosphere come to the Dome's entrance. Any the other a spectacular live acrobatic of Berlin in the Weimar years intending visitor has, of course, to show with bungee jumping trapeze artists L should go to see Weill and Lenya at purchase tickets in advance, most con­ performing to music in the main arena. Hampstead's New End Theatre. The veniently from newsagents or on the There is a large selection of restaurants show tells the story of the life and internet. and opportunities to buy drinks and troubled love of the composer Kurt Weill, snacks, though chairs for the weary are played in bespectacled intellectual not to be found. Anyone having trouble fashion by David McAlister and the being on their feet for long periods actress/singer Lotte Lenya, whose unfor­ would be advised to take a small fold-up gettable voice launched a thousand seat. The whole area is wheelchair Weimar cabaret imitations. friendly with electric and manual wheel­ Lenya is played by Judith Paris, who chairs available and there are plenty of also wrote the show. Paris' performance well-situated restrooms. is admirable: her renditions of Mack the In setting out to educate the visitor, the Knife and the achingly beautiful Sura­ Millennium Dome's wide appeal should baya Johnny really do evoke something interest most people of all ages. of their originals and her depiction of Having read about the Dome for what D Andrea Goodmaker Lenya performing a savage take-off of seems an age, not to mention the con­ Marlene Dietrich, complete with the tinual blow-by-blow accounts of its famous Lola pose from The Blue Angel, is design and construction on the television, marvellous. surprisingly its vast size - reportedly New Jewish Museum The show follows the pair from their twice that of Wembley Stadium - is not unich's new Jewish Museum ^^ first meeting, on a rowing-boat ride to immediately apparent. On entering, a at Reichenbachstrasse 27 (Riick- the Grunewald hou.se of the playwright map is provided of the exhibition layout gebiiude). The previous one if Georg Kaiser, through marriage and the M and the content of its themed zones', al­ the Maximilianstrasse was completely Brecht/Weill successes of the late 1920s, lowing at least an attempt to plan what inadequate and the new one comprises divorce, emigration, remarriage and the must be a full day's exploration. Just to four rooms. The present exhibition, building of a new career, at least for obtain one's bearings takes a good hour named Beth ha Knesseth-Ort der ZU' Weill, in America. or two; fortunately, there are a number of sammenkunft, is open until 31 May 2000- Significantly, it is Weill's American hits very pleasant staff to offer guidance and Opening times are Tuesday, Wednesday like Lost in the Stars and the evergreen help to get you into the swing of things. and Thursday 2 pm to 6 pm. September Song that steal the show. The Faith Zone illustrates religious It depicts Jewish life in Munich from Perhaps it is easier to exploit the snap themes from birth to death as expressed the erection of the first synagogue in the and zing of American lyrics, like the Saga in the beliefs and practices of the world's Westenlederstrasse in 1824 until, by ordef of Jenny (whose linguistic studies end major religions. Judaism is illustrated with of Hitler, compulsory demolition of t'""^ with her inability to say no in twenty- a number of photographs showing a brit main synagogue in the Herzog-Ma" seven languages), than it is to recreate milah, a barmitzvah and a marriage cer­ Strasse in 1938, the Kristallnacht conflagra­ the mood of pre-Hitler jazz-inspired emony, each with an explanation. No tion of the Ohel-Jakob synagogue unti' opera. doubt in an idea borrowed from the cus­ the final eviction of the remaining Je^* Perhaps it is simply a que.stion of lan­ tom at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, to the extermination camps in the East. guage. The English translation with visitors are invited to write their hopes There is ample Jewish memorabih''' which the performers have to work is for the future on a piece of paper and screening of scenes from the past an'^ sometimes woefully limp. The erotic aura place it into a Millennium message wall! solo and choir reproduction of compos'' of the Tango Ballad from the Threepenny Unavoidable is the much talked about tions by Emanuel Kirschner, first Canto' Opera is prissily neutered when the Body Zone, the huge humanoid figure of the Munich synagogue. brothel - in dem Bordell. wo unser through whose internal working body D Anthony Goldsmi^ Haushalt war - becomes the snug two- parts one traverses, its main feature being by-four where we played house. And to a beating heart. Ecologically friendly tranlate the mesmerising refrain of the games feature in an exhibit called Living BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE Cannon Song, Soldaten wohnen/auf den Island which encourages the recycling of 51 Belsize Square, London N.W.3 Kanonen, as Let's all go barmy/Live off waste and the saving of energy and valu­ Our communal hall is available for the army is itself pretty barmy. But it's able resources. Other attractions range cultural and social functions. still a thoroughly enjoyable evening. from play areas to hands-on state-of-the- Tel: 0171-794 3949 U Anthony Grenville art computer technology. Unfortunately, AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

group of seven American Jews led by Longley, then Religious Affairs editor of The Auschwitz dispute Rabbi Avi Weiss from Riverdale, New The Times. n 1984, a group of Carmelite nuns took York, arrived at the gates of the convent Once the new convent was finally over a building known as 'the old on 14 July 1989. ready for occupadon at the beginning of I theatre' near the walls of the Auschwitz Although the demonstration that Friday 1993, however, the nuns were still reluc­ concentration camp where leaders of the afternoon was not the violent assault on tant to move. With world leaders soon to Polish resistance had been murdered as the Carmelites suggested by some press come to Warsaw to commemorate the *ell as one and a half million Jews. By reports, it was undoubtedly inappropri­ fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto praying for the souls of all the victims the ate. Outraged by the incursion of these Uprising on 19 April, this recalcitrance Carmelites seemed to reflect Christian strange men in prayer-shawls into the was causing the Church in Poland con­ solidarity with Jewish suffering. courtyard of the convent, workmen ap­ siderable embarrassment. It was then that At first the convent was accepted by peared at the windows of the convent, the Pope himself intervened in a letter to ^he tiny Polish-Jewish community. The jeered at the Jews and proceeded to the Carmelites dated 9 April 1993. 'Ollowing year, however, the Belgian drench them with buckets of paint and While Vatican spokesmen denied that branch of a Catholic aid agency ap­ cement. Once the Jews were outside the the letter amounted to an order, the mes­ pealed for funds to repair the convent; convent the workmen punched and sage was clear enough. The nuns took this drew hostile reactions from many kicked them in full view of bystanders in­ their time in leaving 'the old theatre' but Jewish organisations. Although activists cluding a policeman and a priest. most were eventually resettled in the 'n Christian-Jewish relations subsequently If Poles were scandalised by the antics newly-built centre. "^id their best to defuse the tension, in of Weiss and his followers, the Jewish The large cross did not accompany the '^'d-1989 the situation reached a point world was horrified by reports of the sisters to the new convent. Negotiations aptly described as religious war'. treatment to which they had been to have it moved started early in 1998 The intervening years had seen a subjected and there were counter dem­ but were countered by so-called group of cardinals in dialogue at Geneva onstrations. Defenders of the Cross' who planted ^'th representatives of European Jewry. Sternberg was now urged to make a more than two hundred crosses around After two meetings, it was agreed that a direct approach to the Catholic hierarchy the gravel pit. These were removed in a C'^ntre for prayer, information and recon- in Poland. He had not met Cardinal police action in June 1999. The large C'hation, incorporating a new convent Macharski, Archbishop of Cracow, and cross, however, has been authorised to ^•^f the Carmelite sisters, should be built had only a nodding acquaintance with remain. Some 500 metres from the boundaries of Cardinal Glemp but took up the chal­ n Emma Klein "Auschwitz. A deadline for the Carmelites lenge and exchanged a series of telexes to move was set for February 1989. The with Macharski. The cardinal, who had olish Primate, Cardinal Josef Glemp, signed the Geneva Declaration, back­ 50 YEARS AGO ^as not, however, party to the negoti­ tracked from his earlier commitment to ations. oversee the building of the proprosed RIGHTS AND DUTIES ^ith February 1989 approaching and centre. Worse still, at the end of August, At the forthcoming General Elections, most of ^o solution in sight, the deadline was Glemp preached his notorious sermon at our readers will for the first time have the right Postponed undl July. At the site of the Czestochowa in which he gave vent to a to go to the polls. February 23 thus symbolises Convent, however, 22 February 1989 was series of antisemitic stereotypes. the end of a long period during which we were "'arked in a way that was to dominate It was at this point that Muszynski sent barred from taking part in the political life of our environment... Our admission to this coun­ •^6 Auschwitz controversy long after the a communique to the Vatican in favour of try was soon followed by the outbreak of war 'sters had moved. That day was chosen proceeding with the Geneva Accords. with various repercussions on our legal status. Or the erection in the garden of the The communique was endorsed by Now, thanks to the policy of "full naturalisa­ tion" all those pre-war refugees who wished to onvent of a large eight-metre cross, Cardinal Willebrands (of the Commission become British subjects have been naturalised. ^•"iginally used for a Mass celebrated by for Religious relations with Judaism) °Pe John Paul II at Birkenau. The cross who announced on 19 September that D AjR lnforrr]atior\, February 1950 ^s placed at a spot marking the gravel the Vatican backed the building of the 'tch where some 140 Polish resistance new centre and would offer financial 8hters had been shot. Dominating the assistance for the project. The announce­ 'idscape, it proved and has continued ment was welcomed in many quarters ^ prove, extremely provocative to Jews, but seemed to pass Cardinal Glemp by. JACKMAN• ^n those Polish Jews who had origi- At a press conference in Bristol that day, ^'ly tolerated the convent. he was none too conciliatory, dismissing £ SILVERMAN 'Juring the months before the new the Geneva Accords as wishful think­ COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS ^3dline a handful of interfaith activists ing'. orked hard behind the scenes to Nevertheless Sternberg met Glemp at ach 'eve a resolution. They included the Polish Ambassador's residence in M/^'^seigneu. r Henryk Muszynski, head of London the following evening and suc­ . ^ Commission for Christian-Jewish dia- ceeded in getting him to sign a letter ^ 8Ue in Poland, Sir Sigmund Stemberg in agreeing to implement the Geneva Decla­ 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA '''tain and Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in ration. As an inducement, he made a Telephone; 0171 409 0771 Fax; 0171 493 8017 Atn,erica . Despite their efforts, however, a favourable announcement to Clifford AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

ation of survivors who feel bitter about human injustice. London NWS Ernst Mitchell

RE-BRANDING MISPLACED BLAME Palestine, this time to prevent the rem­ AJR INFORMATION Sir - Dr Steven Livingstone, in his account nant from reaching their natural refuge. of his visits to Auschwitz (December The failure of de-Nazification which still IN FAVOUR issue), asks why the railway lines were mocks its victims. The contempt with not bombed in the summer of 1944 to which slave labourers have been treated Sir - I like the title AJR Journal. prevent the deaths of some 400,000 by the present government. Barnes, SWl3 Hella Kauffmartn Hungarian Jews. It is difficult to see how Otherwise the exercise will be no dif­ this could have been done in view of the ferent from armistice Day services, full of Sir - I wholly endorse the suggestion that logistics involved. poetic words, two minutes' silence to be forgotten for another year by most who the title be changed. Your excellent pub­ The bulk of the heavy bomber force lication, to which many of us look was based in Britain, thus precluding its have, regretfully, no clue about their own past and are not taught it either. forward, is far too interesting to be called use in view of the huge distances in­ Information. Ipswich, Suffolk Frank Bright volved. Even flights from Italy would Esher, Surrey Bronia Snov/ have entailed lengthy overflights of en­ emy territory with consequent losses and the difficulty of finding and destroying SIMON WIESENTHAL Sir - I strongly support the name change railway lines which the Germans could Sir - I am in touch with both Graham to the AJR Journal and would favour 4/^ have repaired in a matter of days, if not Morris and Rabbi Cooper of the Simon Review rather than AJR Mosaic. hours. The Allied authorities understand­ Wiesenthal Centre and also with the The high quality of the journal warrant-*^ ably considered it more important to Imperial War Museum about a possible a wider readership and I hope that a eliminate German industrial capacity, exhibition to honour the work and life of change of name will have this effect. thereby bringing the war to a speedy Simon Wiesenthal. London SWl Edward Levy conclusion and saving many lives. To enable the above idea to develop It would have been much more effec­ into something more concrete, we are seeking original documentation and also Sir - I like your idea of AJR Mosaic as the tive had Pope Pius XII, that well known new name - the fustiness of Informatio'^ antisemite, unequivocally condemned the artefacts connected with Wiesenthal. It occurred to us that, through your organi­ has long been uncomfortable. appalling Nazi atrocities and not stood by London N3 Dr Andrew Herzheimet silently, as did the Catholic church, while sation and its many individuals, it might millions of Jews went to their deaths. be possible to borrow relevant items for London NIO JCLee a short period of time (probably in the Sir - I would support a change from 4/^ year 2001 or 2002). Information. However AJR Mosaic is uglY 19 Elmgate Gardens Dr Stephen lAnkier and ambiguous in meaning. AJR Revi^^ UK HOLOCAUST Edgware, Middx HAS 9RU would be fine, but not very arresting. 4/^ REMEMBRANCE DAY Report might be considered as mof^ Sir - I read Ronald Channing's report punchy and actually closer to contents. with misgivings because: (a) Only three JUSTICE THAT PASSETH Sutton Coldfield Prof John GrenviH^ years ago, after France and Canada had ALL UNDERSTANDING issued a commemorative stamp, the Sir - According to the news the veil has Sir - For what it is worth I suggest 4/'^ Holocaust Survivors' Centre asked the been lifted on another alleged SS mass Chronicle and Review. Post Office at my instigation to do the murderer and the authorities knew it, and Elstree, Herts Eric Newman same here. To say that the response was are doing nothing about it. Naturally this cool would be an understatement. A set created much resentment among sur­ on Enid Blyton's books was thought vivors who feel bitter about such inertia. Sir - The present format does not do tn^ more important and was published I am a 90 year-old survivor, but feel at journal any justice. It is, undoubtedly ^ instead. (b)The educational aspect must peace about this inactivity and injustice interest to a wider readership than j^-** be covered comprehensively. This would and for the .sake of peace of soul of the Jewish refugees or their immediate circle- include the 1939 White Paper reducing other survivors, I dare to disclose my The articles are well written, not le^^ immigration to Palestine to a trickle to secret despite the risk of being called a your own and cover a spectrum '^'f placate Arabs, the imprisonment of traitor. knowledge and experience whi'^ "illegal" immigrants on Mauritius, the I believe in a Divine Justice which ex­ deserves a wider readership. To this ef setting aside of the Balfour Declaration at presses itself in reincarnation and Karma, I would suggest that the format be e"^' a time of greatest need and the USA a concept where at the end everything larged to the size of The Economist aO quota system. Cc) The lack of acknow­ will find its balance as Divine Justice, that its name be changed to AJR Mag^' ledgement that persecution did not end often late in later life or lives, on Earth. zine. on 8 May 1945. The postwar blockade of I offer these thoughts for the consider­ Lewes, East Sussex R Simmo{^<^ AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

^'r - As a matter of temperament I am in­ recorded in computer indexes widely antisemitism, even when elegantly pre­ stinctively against all change, particularly available over the Worid Wide Web and sented, appeal to the second-generation? ^hen it's apparently not all that urgent, conventional abstracting journals should Or even to the majority of us originals ^o my automatic reaction is to leave well help to give publicity to the publication. Where is the feel good factor in our alone and keep the present title. But I do I would personally regret a change magazine? Believe it or not, the Obituary 3dmit that it no longer states what the from the familiar format, as would librar­ pages of The Times make me feel journal really is: so if there really is to be ies, which like to bind or store journals prouder, more at ease with my history 3 change, then please AJR Chronicle or whose size remains constant. An increase than does AJR Information. My sons, too, A/R Record. Mosaic would need to be ex­ in the cost of the subscription, if inevita­ could be interested in the achievements plained. ble with changes in producdon costs, will of their father's generation of refugees. ^^ddington, Oxon F Steiner hit older pensioners amongst the mem­ Conversely, are there not problems bership. The present cost is a bargain. other than arthritis and apple strudel I, as many other of your readers, look which are common to many of us (and ^ir - My suggestion for a new title: AJR forward to the regular arrival of a familiar therefore to our children) and which bear 2000. friend. discussion? '-ondon NW3 Katia Gould Aberystwyth William W Dieneman E.g. religious pressures in childhood, kindertransportees who grew to adult­ hood without benefit of parents, OPPOSED Sir - I favour the retention of the familiar and presdgious tide AJR Information. At reticence vis-a-vis the next generation, their lack of interest in our history, mar­ ^'r - Do not change the name AJR Infor­ the same time, I feel that your journal riage to non-refugees, etc. mation, It co\'ers everything. should do more to justify this title. Wendover Court Gerda R Sainer London NW3 Ludwig Berlin An ageing readership demands a high '•ondon NW2 degree of professionalism and flexibility from editors. Particularly where the publi­ Sir - Having been an AJR member longer cation is sent out to all members and "^ ~ I ver>' much favour retaining our tra­ than I can remember, I would like to add does not have to pass the test of money ditional title. Information is just what we a few words. changing hands. get ever)' month, not just news. Informa- Each month my family, friends and I Edgware, Middx Ernie Manson 'on includes all the articles about people look forward to receiving AJR Infor­ no have been active in the Association mation. '^d the editor's and other people's views Somehow I don't think that either the ^hout what is happening. AJR Mosaic second or the third generation would be Grand-Aunt ounds artificial and meaningless to me. as interested, therefore I believe that the My grand-aunt, Aranka, wears '•eomington Spa PE Roland name should remain as it is. nothing but white cotton. Harrow Ilse Rosendufi Bent double by the weight "" ~ I have been reading AJR Informa- of time she never leaves '^tt for the last 15 years. I do so because SATIRICAL RESPONSE her small room 's always stimulating and full of inter- Sir - May I respectfully point out that at the Eisenberg Seniorenheim, ^^- There is nothing wrong with the changing the name of the AJR Infor­ where nurses are on hand .^Tent title. It exactly conveys what the mation will not alone attract additional to attend to her every need. 'ournal is i.e. informative. readers, but it will also be necessary to She dreads admission to hospital Please do not adopt the title AJR repackage its contents. more than her painful ailments ^^saic. A lot of people will think that Perhaps the following additional items for fear that she will not return. '^ is something to do with floor tiling may help: Art: Page 3 girls, pure and ^"^er than a reference to our ancestor. simple; Music: the monthly diary of Mrs Her address for many years io retain the present name would, I Beckham; Finance: long term investments was Schleissheimer Strasse, ink, be an act of piety. in Swiss banks for a happy future; Munich 40, the street in which ^hmondfond, ^iirrpiSurrey/ Maurice Fireman General interest: what an easy life the Adolf Hitler had lived founders of the AJR had, compared with some years before. Sir- present day conditions; DIY: how to re­ This, since the municipality 1 am all for trying to increase the cir- has not acknowledged Cflat place the roof of your house; Health: surf ''on, range of contributions by the the Internet for exercise. her famous predecessor, ^•^ger membership and the repute of London NW7 HE Reiner she does not know. , ^ AfR Information. I am not convinced ._ ^' a change of title will achieve this by History rhymes with irony. 'tself. GENERATION GAP The German State, once J. change of title will possibly confuse Sir - As your core readership 60 years so ruthlessly dedicated raries and archives, unless you retain older than on arrival is being depleted to her extinction J. ^ ^ord AJR as die first word on the ti- willy-nilly, the matter of title is surely not now seems equally dedicated 'he recent plea by Ludwig Glaser for of first importance. But there are ques­ to keeping her alive. . 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circumspection to the special needs of VOLUNTEERS ENJOY DAY CENTRE BRUNCH PARTY Jewish prisoners. He gave Pinner AJR 3 fascinating insight into the unique social structure of the society within the walls of these institutions. D Walter Weg

At the next meeting, 3rd February, 2pm ot Pinner Synagogue, Alf Keiles will talk and plo^ records on the Jewish infJuence on jazz and pop music of the 1930s and 1940s. On 2nd March, Gerald Hillman will talk about ArtThrough the Ages. Surrey The next meeting is on Wednesday 23rd February at 10.30am at the home of Ernest ano Louise Simon in Merstham. Tel: 01737 643 900 U

The AJR gave a brunch party as an annual 'thank you' for its many volunteers, without whom the organisation could not offer the wide range of services that it does. Held at the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre, West Hampstead, the party catered for more than fifty volunteers, providing them with an assortment of hot and cold buffet dishes, prepared and served to the Centre's usual high standards. AJR LUNCHEON CLUB AJR's Chairman, Andrew Kaufman, made a short speech commending the volunteers for all their hard work and time spent in helping and supporting AJR on Wednesday 16h February 2000 members who, without exception, were extremely appreciative. The occasion at l5CleveRoad,NW6 3RL provided a good opportunity for volunteers, who might not usually have a chance I 1.45 for 12.1 Spm to meet one another, to come together and meet in a relaxing atmosphere. All of the Guest speaker: Ann Kirk AJR's 160 volunteers received a special AJR pen as a mark of appreciation for their 'I found a family' devoted efforts over the past year. Reservations £7.50 for everyone! from Sylvia, Renee and Susie Birmingham twelve volunteer members of Myrna's Tel: 0171 328 0208 group, who wanted to help Israel in a r Henry Cohn gave a talk entitled. practical way, were either assigned work Postcards over Germany: Refu­ in a hospital or at an army base. The gees evade the censor", which D volunteers worked in the same AJR'Drop in'Advice Centre was based on the discovery of a large conditions as the soldiers and, located on at the collection of family postcards, written the Golan Heights, her group was Paul Balint AJR Day Centre during the 1930s. As a university reader allocated the useful if uninspiring task of 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL in history, Dr Cohn has planned in his putting together metal reinforcement rods retirement to use the postcards and between I Oam and 12 noon on the for concrete - a job they did well. following dates: details of his family background to n Rudi Simmonds conduct genealogical research. This Tuesday 1 February Wednesday 9 February intriguing subject stimulated many The next meeting of Sarid is on Monday, 21 st February at 10.45am at which the food writer, Thursday 17 February questions from the audience. Michael Robinson, will talk about Ashkenazi and Tuesday 22 February Wednesday 1 March D Edgor Glaser Sephardi cooking. and every Thursday from Brighton and Hove Pinner I Oam to 12 noon at: AJR, I Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, JR outreach worker Myrna Glass oredom is the bane of the inmate London NW3 6AL gave a talk to the Sarid group of a modern prison and leads to No appointment is necessary, but please bring A about her three-week enrolment B'Porridge' behaviour. This was the along all relevant documents, such as Benefit in the Israeli army in 1998, organised by message of prison chaplain, Keith Books, /etters, bills, etc. the voluntary organisation, SAR-EL. The Simons, who ministers with tact and AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

New Year Honours • • • VIewpcint • • • tephanie Shirley, the first woman president of the British Computer Poles apart Society, has been created a DBE. S t the turn of the century, political vided for in post-war Britain in estates She is the founder of a computer con­ and industrial commentators are of council housing, though kept well- sultancy firm which employs women happily congratulating us on the segregated from the status and comforts Working from home. Dame Shirley came A continuing strength of Britain's economy of leafy suburbia. In the north-west and to Britain on a kindertransport at the age from which most sectors of the com­ north-east in particular, many of these of four. munity appear to be gaining a significant estates - now managed by housing as­ Stephen Smith, co-founder and director measure of increasing wealth. "Would sociations - have fallen prey to wanton of the Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial that this state of nirvana was achievable, damage and vandalism, often inflicted Centre in Nottinghamshire, was appointed let alone being enjoyed by everyone in by the young children of estate families ^IBE in recognition of his unique contri­ Britain as it crosses the threshold of the and become almost uninhabitable bution to the study and remembrance of third millennium. The closure of the collieries and the Holocaust. Hella Pick, author and At the heart of any lifestyle remains smoke-stack industries on which so former diplomatic editor of The Guardian the necessity for housing, its size, much of the north's industrial base was received the OBE. Austrian-born Ms Pick amenities and location preferably being forged, has created many communities came to Britain as a child refugee D related to the number, ages and relation­ bereft of employment, leaving young ships of those living under one roof. In adults attracted by the rewards of crime Preacher of the Year the past year, house prices have risen far and unmarried mothers with difficult-to- T^he Times awarded Rabbi Shmuley in excess of the general rate of inflation, control youngsters whose education Boteach the title of. Preacher of the on average over 13% which helps con­ and prospects are poor. Many e.states, ^ear'. His sermon on the Millennium was ceal a rise in London and the Home often newly built or refurbished, are thought powerful and provocative. Counties above 25%! Naturally, this battered, broken-into, burnt and brings a smile to the face of any prop­ boarded up with demolition the ines­ Newspaper chief in murder plot erty owner, now greatly in the majority, capable outcome. Israeli newspaper publisher, Ofer unlike the situation at the previous turn '^imrodi, has been put on trial for the Surely, half a century after the intro­ of the century when housing for the duction of the welfare state, universal 'Attempted murder of a former associate masses was rented and only those with ^ho turned state's witness in a wire­ education, unemployment benefit, so­ inherited property or new middle-class tapping case. The indictment also details cial security and a national health incomes held title to their own homes. attempts by Nimrodi, one of Israelis service, the existence of a poverty- richest men, to bribe police officers. Paradoxically, those whose incomes stricken underclass is reprehensible and failed to reach the minimum required to a north-south divide unacceptable to Jews 'dot' logged on obtain an all-essential mortgage have the winners in our property-owning de­ " you are connected to the Internet, tiy traditionally been reasonably well pro- mocracy? D Ronald Channing logging on to www.jewish.co.uk for daily Jewish news from the UK and abroad, information on synagogues and Jewish festivals in Britain. It also contains PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE 3n Israel guide. 15 Cleve Road.West Hampstead. NW6> Mon.,Tues. & Weds. 9.30am-3.30pm.Thurs. 9.30am-6.30pm. Suns. 2pm-6.30pm .\ftcrnoon entertainmenl programme - SEARCH NOTICES Dabrowski, piano FEBRUARY/MARCH 2000 Wed 16 LUNCHEON CLUB Hedwig Schwarz, born 13'" March 1893 Tue 1 Rachel Taite, soprano, John Thurs 17 Sergio Lopez, violin with piano "1 Golc Jenikov (Czech Republic) is sought Taylor, baritone, accompanied accompaniment °y Consul General at Austrian Embassy. by Charlotte Ellis, piano Sun 20 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO Came to England in 1938 with two sons, "Wed 2 THE SING-A-LONGERS ENTERTAINMENT Johann, born 6/2/17 and Georg Andreas Thurs 3 THE GEOFFREY WHITWORTH Mon 21 KARD & GAMES KLUB born 26/2/19. Contact Hella Naumann, DUO Tue 22 Suzanne & Sergei Bezkorvany, Austrian Embassy, 18, Belgrave Mews West, Sun 6 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO cello & violin, accompanied by London SWIX 8HU.Tel: 0171 235 3731. ENTERTAINMENT Hermione Goldsmith, piano Email: [email protected] Mon 7 KARD & GAMES KLUB Wed 23 JENNY KOSSEW ENTERTAINS Tue 8 Amaryllis Roper, cello, ON ACCORDION G'sela Klauber (nee Pollack), last accompanied by Julian Barber, Thurs 24 Katinka Seiner & Laszio Easton l^nown address: 62 Randolph Avenue, Lon­ piano accompanied by Peter Gellhorn don W9 and Stella Szamek, (nee Wed 9 Jo Parton, soprano, accompanied piano Pollack), last known address: 77 Hamilton by Lewis Lev, piano Sun 27 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO Terrace, London NWS, or their heirs are Thurs 10 Suzanna Marks, soprano & Janet ENTERTAINMENT sought in relation to restitution of works Beale, piano & accordion Mon 28 KARD & GAMES KLUB of art by Ruth Player, Holocaust Victims' In- Sun 11 DAY CENTRE OPEN - NO Tue 29 Helen Blake entertains 'Ormation and Support Centre. Contact: ENTERTAINMENT Wed 1 Elizabeth Ward, soprano, °uth Player, 1010 Wlen, Seitenstettengasse Mon 14 KARD & GAMES KLUB accompanied by Nick O'Neil, '•.Vienna.Tel: 0043 I 531 04 - 207. Fax: 0043 Tue 15 Amanda Palmer, soprano, piano Thurs. 2 ' S3I 04-2190 accompanied by Marek Dorothv Savers entertains AJR INFORMATION FEBRUARY 2000

FAMILY AJR TORRINGTON HOMES FORTHCOMING EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS Mrs Pringsheim, S.R.N. FEBRUARY 2000 SEDER NIGHT MATRON Deaths SECOND NIGHT For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent Mon 7 Charles Dreyfus: Braunsberg. Herbert Brauns­ (Licensed by Borough ot Barnet) Biblical manuscript.^ and SEDER SERVICE • Single and Double Rooms. berg. born Hanover 4 May 1916, Thursday 20 April versions. Club '43. • H/C Basins and CH in all rooms. 7.30pm died peacefully in London on 7 • Gardens. TV and reading rooms. Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Tue.s 8 Barbara Einhorn: December 1999 at the age of • Nurse on duty 24 hours. 15 Cleve Road, NW6 Jc'U'ishitc'ss. Gender and 83. He and his late wife Frances • Long and short term, including Please phone: 0171 328 0208 trial period if required. Political Commitment... were long-standing supporters for reservations in East Germany. From £300 per weel< of AJR. Whilst never forgetting Univer.sity of Su.ssex. £20 per person 0181-445 1171 Office hours '5.15pm the horrors of the Holocaust, he Limited space available 0181-455 1335 Other times worked for a renewal of for standard wheelchairs NORTH FINCHLEY Wed 9 Dr Hannah Naveh: 6 o'clock for 6.30pm prompt start What Eve Knew - Eden understanding with present-day Revisited. Institute of Germany. Jewish Studies. Universit>' BELSIZE SQUARE College London, Casson. Luise Casson 18.07.04 SWITCH ON ELECTRICS 1.00-2.30pm. Free. - 10.12.99 will be much missed APARTMENTS Rewires and all household Thur 10 Friends' Outing: Taylor- by daughters Thea Morton and 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, NWS Shechter Genizah electrical work. Ruth Hanzlik Tel: 0171-794 4307 or Collection, University of PHONE PAUL: 0181-200 3518 Cambridge. 'The Jewish Glaser. Else Glaser died peace­ 0171-435 2557 Dickens' programme. fully on 8 January after a long MODERN SELF-CATERING HOLIDAV The Jewish Museum, and rewarding life. Sadly missed ALTERATIONS ROOMS, RESIDENT HOUSEKEEPER Camden. Day trip. by everyone. MODERATETERMS £12.50/£15. OF ANY KIND TO NEAR SWISS COTTAGE STATION Sat 12 Kindertransport hy Lowry. Herbert Lowry died on LADIES' FASHIONS Diane Samuels. Tower 9 January 2000. Dear husband I also design and make Theatre. £5-8. Until 19'" February of Anita Leander for 56 years. children's clothes Residential Home West Hampstead area Mon 14 Dr Klaus Hinrichsen. Much loved father and father-in- Clara Nehab House 0171-328 6571 art historian: Higbgale. law of Stephen and Mary, (Leo Baeck Housing Associaton Ltd.) 13-19 Leeside Crescent NWII past and present. Club Antony Cdec'd) and Jill and '43. 7.30pm All rooms with ShowerW.C.and Tue 15 Leonard Olschner: Clive. Grandad of Sarah, Helen, H/C Basins en-suite Ian, Mark and Tom. 20 Optician Paul Ck'lan and the Spacious Garden - Lounge & Poetics of Homecoming. Beechcroft Gardens, Wembley Dr Howard Solomons BSc FBCO Dining Room - Lift University of Sussex, Park, Middx. HA9 SEP Near Shops and PublicTransport 5.15pm Dental Surgeon 24 Hour Care - Physiotherapy Wed 16 Jorg Haider and the Pollard. Walter Pollard died Long & short Term - Respite Care • Dr H Alan Shields rise of anti-Semitism peacefully at home on 30 Trial Periods in Austria: Karl Pfeifer. December 1999. Beloved hus­ & Enquiries: Josephine Woolf Wiener Library, 7.30 pm- band of the late Eva. Deeply Otto Scfiiff Housing Association ±2 (Friends free). Book Chiropodist The Bishops Avenue N2 OBG mourned by his daughter Anita Phone: 0181-209 0022 in advance. and his family in Canada and Trevor Goldman SRC Mon 21 Dr Colin Berry: Francis America. Gallon. Hermann von by appointment at Helmhollz: National The Paul Balint AjR Day Centre WHY NOT conlrasis in universal CLASSIFIED 15 Cleve Road.West Hampstead, NW6 ADVERTISE IN genius. Club '43. 7.30pm Sun 27 The Crystal Den. d play Required by elderly couple in Please make appointmer)ts with AJR INFORMATION? NW2 area. Occasional visits by .Marion Baraitser. Part Sylvia Matus.Tel: 0171 328 0208 of 'The Jewi.sh Dickens' Cook/Caterer. Box No 1256 Please telephone the Advertisement Dept programme at the Jewish Museum. New End 0171-431 6161 Miscellaneous Services ATTRACTIVE SHELTERED Theatre. 7.30pm. £10/ £12.50 Manicure & Pedicure in the FLAT TO LET Mon 28 Drjoel BerkowitZ: comfort of your own home. For single occupancy.Two rooms, AJR GROUP CONTACTS Yiddish Theatre: Avrom Telephone 0181 343 0976. bathroom, kitchenette, hall, lift. Goldfaden's Place in RESIDENT WARDEN Leeds HSFA: Heinz Skyte Modern Yiddish Culture. LEO BAECK HOUSING ASS. LTD 0113 268 5739 Day Centre Institute of Jewi.sh SRidies. II Fitzjohn's Ave. NW3 5GY West .Midlands: Edgar Glaser University College Shirley Lever at the Paul ENQUIRIES: A Flynn 0181 958 5678 (Birmingham) 0121 777 6537 London. 6pm. Free Balint AJR Day Centre. New Dr Jennifer Taylor: The North: Werner Lachs Press of The Aiistricm clothes for sale, dresses, under­ (Manchester) 0161 773 4091 wear, cardigans etc. Tuesday 22 ADVERTISEMENT RATES Centre. Club '43. 7.30 East Midlands Bob Norton February 9.45-11.45am. FAMILY EVENTS (Nottingham) 01159 212 494 ORGANISATION CONTACTS: First 15 words free of charge, Club '43, Belsize Square Pinner: Vera Gellman Synagogue, Hans Seelig. Tel: Societies £2.00 per 5 words thereafter. (HA Postal District) 0181 866 4833 Association of Jewish Ex- CLASSIFIED, SEARCH 01442 254 360 S. London: Ken Ambrose The Jewish Museum, Camden Berliners and Ex-Breslauers. NOTICES - £2.00 per five words. BOX NUMBERS - £3.00 extra. 0181 852 0262 Town, 129-131 Albert Street, NWl Please contact Peter Sinclair DISPLAY ADVERTS Surrey: Ernest Simon 7NB. Tel: 020 7284 1997 0181 882 1638 for information. per single column inch 01737 643 900 The Institute of Jewish Studies, Gustave Tuck Theatre, University 65 mm (3 column page) £12.00 Brighton & Hove Fausta Shelton College London, Gower Street, 48mm (4 column page) £10.00 (Sussex Region) 01273 688 226 WCl. Or, Malet Place, Room 2l6, AJR COPYDATE 5 weeks prior to Wessex: Ralph Dale Fo.ster Court, WCl. Tel: 020 7679 TehOni-431 6/6/ publication (Bournemouth) 01202 762 270 3520.

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Vienna's Jewish Museum has just ended. Salzburg. Playwright Rolf Hochhuth shot to fame with The Representative which charged Pius XII with laxness and inertia during the war years; another of his plays prompted the resignation of a he British Museum ha.s laid politician. His latest work Arbeitslose (The down the red carpet for Chinas Unemployed) had its first performance in T50"' anniversary Gilded Dragons Salzburg in December. exhibition. An astonishing 85 percent of The thing called love, a book by Carola China's national treasures are on loan to Stern (Rowohlt Verlag) focuses on Fritzi the Museum until February 20. But those Dragon, Gilded Bronze, Tang Dynasty (618-906 Massary whose cabaret success Die looking for the indigenous oriental touch, AD). Sache, die man Liebe nennt made her the may be surprised. The Chinese toast of Berlin - which she remained for rawness so suggestive of the gruelling life developed their taste for exquisite gold three decades. Married to the comic gen­ of the dancer comes through his sketches 3nd silver artefacts largely through the ius Max Pallenberg (who, sadly, died in more positively than his bronzes. cross-culturalism of trade and the an air crash in 1934), she was famous in A sculptor who works far from Hamp­ influence of refugee artisans, such as the her own right as an actress and per­ stead on the bleak and beautiful edge of Sasanian metalworkers fleeing the Arab former. Massary emigrated to the States, the Isle of Skye is Laurence Broderick. invasion of their native Iran. spending her last 30 years in Beverley Another great stylist, Broderick is equally Hills, where she died in 1996. The Han Chinese lived beside Turks, in love with form and the romance of 'Mongols, Arabs, Persians and Indians stone and onyx and many of the person­ Prague and Brno saw the premieres of along the Silk route, a trading path cross- alities he reveals through his medium are Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's op­ "^g Central Asia and linking China to the the non-human variety. Playful otters, eras. Martinu subsequently went into "Middle Eastern and Mediterranean owls, leaping salmon and furtive turtles exile to New York, where he continued ^odds. Many objets dart came from this. take their place beside romantic maidens composing. The Royal Opera, Covent ^Part from the bijoux beauty of gold and whose smooth and sensuous bronze or Garden, will be staging his opera The silver miniatures, used in both liturgical soapstone bodies contrast with the shock Greek Passion in the Spring. and secular ceremonies, there are gilded of roughly flowing hair which exposes Birthday. Marika Rokk is 85. The and embellished belts of jade, gold and the true nature of the material. popular equestrian movie star of 60 years precious stones, denoting male rank and ago can be seen on TV when German Local artist Sandra Kingsle'y is noted Ornamental hairpins and jewellery for film idols past and present meet and ex­ for her delicate pastels and watercolours Wealthy women. change reminiscences D and her recent exhibition at the Puzzle The Chinese obsession with the horse Studio on Finchley Road more than did during the Western Han dynasty mirrored justice to that reputation. Describing her­ their belief in the afterlife which sug- self as a figurative painter she uses colour Sested nothing more mystical than some and rhythm to capture the lyrical quality 'Spiritually enhanced bureaucracy. The of nature. In her latest exhibition, her GERMA]\ and oronze chariots and horses on display to­ watercolour Trees encapsulated a love of E1\GLISH BOOKS day would deliver them to this dubious freedom and movement but Kingsley can •Nirvana, while the dragons so fundamen­ also show hidden strengths in a more BOUGHT tal to Chinese cosmology had the more ambitious format, such as her Marrakesh exciting role as fertility symbols. Market. Beside her more pastoral studies, Antiquarian, secondhand and From the grace of ancient China to the Kingsley often demonstrates a sensitivity modern books of quality "^ore contemporary elegance of Aus­ to the human form, evidenced in her all always wanted. tralian born Hampstead-based Tom too rare figurative oil painting, Young We're long-standing advertisers **ctTifields dance sculptures. A classical Girl. U GloriaTessler dancer who rose to balletic heights at here and leading buyers of books '^e London Coliseum, Tom one day from AJR members. ^^opped his points for a pair of callipers Immediate response to your letter ^"^d a sketchpad and turned dancers like SB's Column Alicia Markova, Anthony Dowell, Beryl or phone call. ''ey, Peter Schaufuss, Natalia Makarova, unique career. Vienna-born Alice We pay good prices and ^"toinette Sibley and Wayne Sleep into Schalek (1874-1956), became come to collect. bronze. A prominent as photographer, lec­ ^ recent exhibition at Merrifield's turer and author at a tiine when few Please contact: ampstead home, showed the sculptor women entered public life. As a war Robert Hornung MA(Oxon) ^ckishly in love with the form of the reporter for the Neue Freie Presse during 2 Mount View, Ealing, ancer rather than the character itself, WWI she was satirised by Karl Kraus. In London W5 IPR •^t for Merrifield the robustness of a 1939 she escaped to Switzerland and later Telephone 0181-998 0546 ^8as, the earthy quality that empowers made her home in America. An (Spm to 9pm is best) ^t longing to soar. Interestingly, the exhibition about her life and work at

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5 km between Danish Helsingoer and Danish rescue Swedish Helsingborg, but the Germans HOMECARE SERVICE n the Danish Island of Zealand, and their henchmen strictly supervised The AJR is pleased to offer Valloe is situated only one mile this passage. Further south, the crossing members the benefit of a Ofrom the shores of the Baltic. It is was longer but less likely to be inter­ Homecare Service scheme a proper castle with towers, a large rupted. Basically, the plan was to collect courtyard and a moat, but the drawbridge the Jews in safe houses near the coast The service is intended to help members remain in their own homes has gone. It and all the land surrounding and take them to the boats as soon as it_for s6me miles is crown property. these became available and the condi­ Financial assistance is available During the war, the administrator of the tions were right. Aage Krarup offered his where needed. castle was Aage Krarup, whose family own home, knowing that it needed only For further information please apply to the (including the present Mrs Freud) lived in one informer among the castle staff to Social Services team on a large house in the castle-grounds. trigger a visit by the Gestapo with fore­ 0171 431 6161 or write to In April 1940 Germany invaded Den­ seeable consequences. But the staff of AJR Social Services, I Hampstead Gate, mark and initially treated the Danes with Valloe were patriotic and silent to a man. la Frognal, London NW3 6AL kid gloves. Even the 7200 Danish and im­ Altogether over 7000 Jews were res­ migrant Jews were more or less left in cued in this way in a space of three peace. In the summer of 1943, this super­ weeks and the Gestapo managed to seize /f =^ ficially benevolent attitude changed. The fewer than 500. These were sent to Companions defeat at Stalingrad, the loss of Sicily and Theresienstadt but, due to the efforts of the ever-increasing allied bombing cam­ the Danish King, not transported any fur­ of London paign proved that Germany was not ther. If one assumes an average boatload Incorporating invincible. This gave heart to the peoples of 25 - 30 persons, then between 200 ^ Hampstead Home Care^ of the occupied countries, including and 300 crossings were necessary to take A long established company Denmark, and Danish resistance activities the Jews across the Kattegat, averaging providing care in your home increased. Hitler blamed the Jews and more than ten trips every night. The * Assistance with personal care gave orders to have them deported. The Swedes accepted these refugees hospita­ * General household duties plan was leaked by the German Attache bly and, in contrast to the Swiss, returned •*• Respite care FG Dukwitz and almost overnight the none to Germany. At the end of the war, * Medical appointment service Danes launched a rescue operation. The the returning Danish Jews found their Jews were to be shipped to Sweden by property untouched and Mr Krarup re­ OUR CARE IS YOUR CARE' fishing and rowing boats. The shortest ceived heart-warming letters from some 0171 483 0212/0213 distance between the two countries is just of them. n AW Freud

Taking Testimonies Forward': SPRING GROVE Conference at the British Library l»^\i 214 Finchley Road 11 London NW3 n November last year, the British issues raised. The conference was splen­ London's Most Luxurious Library hosted a conference under the didly organised by the National Sound RETIREMENT HOME title Taking Testimonies Forward', at Archive, under its Curator of Oral His­ I * Entertainment-Activities which over a hundred participants tory, Dr Robert Perks. * Stress Free Living discussed the future of the many and It was most valuable for representa­ * 24 Hour Staffing • Excellent Cuisine widely scattered collections in this tives of the many and varied * Full En-Suite Facilities country of Oral History interviews with organisations which hold or use Oral Call for more information former victims of the Holocaust and Nazi History interviews with Holocaust vic­ or a personal tour persecution. The conference was jointly tims to be assembled together over two organised by the British Library's National days. There was considerable exchange 0181-446 2117 Sound Archive, the Wiener Library, the of views and information and the discus­ or 0171-794 4455 Holocaust Educational Trust and Shalvata sion opened up promising avenues for (Jewish Care). the future. Among the most striking as­ It took the form of four central presen­ pects of the conference was the tension Simon P. Rhodes M.Ch.S. tations: from the perspective of the victim inherent in the relationship between STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST (Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Holocaust survi­ academic historians and the witnesses of Surgeries at: vor and musician), the interviewer (David the Holocaust, which provoked some 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp M&S) Wolgroch of Shalvata), the gatherer of lively argument. The AJR was repre­ Telephone 0171-624 1576 testimony (Bill Williams, historian of sented at the conference and one may 3 Queens Close (off Green Lane) Manchester Jewry) and the user (Tony hope that it will play its part in organis­ Edgware, Middx HAS 7PU Kushner of Southampton University). ing and supporting similar events in the Telephone 0181-905 3264 Each presentation was followed by inten­ future. Visiting chiropody service available sive discussion in smaller groups of the D Antony Grenville

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laughed; it was all great fun for them. told that he had been adopted as Labour Stent's remembrance At dawn we set off at short intervals, party candidate for the Aston division of my small party forming the rearguard. By Birmingham in the expected General of times past Everest standards it was not a difficult as­ Election. Army regulations apparently cent. No ropes, crampons or oxygen provided that in such cases the candidate india, 1944-1946 continued masks were needed. By 10 am we stood had to be repatriated and discharged. t was in India that I spent what I think on the peak. It was a glorious sight, well The gossiping consensus was that he was were the three most interesting and worth all the huffing and puffing. A bril­ not a true socialist and did not expect to I challenging weeks in my life. A fellow liant sun on a cloudless sky; before us win; it was just a typical ruse to get fraternity brother" of mine at Bonn, Fritz Nepal to the left, China we imagined in home. His name was Woodrow Wyatt. Benjamin, had by now become the the distant middle, Assam on the right. The rest, as they say, is history. personal dentist to the Maharajah of On the way down, always the more The military operations in the Far East Kashmir. He in\ited me to spend my tricky part, one of the boys twisted his were never really "my war". As soon as leave with him in Srinagar. The journey ankle. I had to carry him piggyback until possible after VE day I applied for trans­ alone was an adventure: by train to we could stop and put him on a ground- fer to Europe. I was turned down '^walpindi and then two hundred miles sheet, four of us each picking up a because at that moment my section was Or so by bus on the only access into corner. After reaching our base camp the hard at work helping to prepare the lo­ Kashmir before air travel. The road was boy was hoisted atop one of the mules gistics for the planned reconquest of Open to motorised vehicles by day and at and brought home. I don't think I ever Singapore. It was to be my first, albeit ^ight to camel caravans, bringing carpets very small, contribution to the war effort. and other merchandise from Afghanistan. It never came off: Hiroshima and Naga­ I almost got myself arrested while saki made it unnecessary. 'Crossing from the Punjab into Kashmir, I had to wait for repatriation until it ^e Maharajah was a Hindu; the bulk of was my turn in the summer of 1946. The ''is subjects were Muslim; ergo neither King thanked me for my services; I was °eef nor pork was allowed to be eaten, allowed to continue to call myself Cap­ '^y friend Fritz had unwisely asked me to tain, but for the time being was not yet ^ke several tins of corned beef along for accorded the privilege of a British pass­ '''s family. On the bus some kind officer port. Earned me that smuggling constituted a D Ronald Stent Criminal offence and advised me to peel off the labels. A suspicious customs offi­ cial queried the contents. He only Relieved my fib that I was passionately tond of canned lamb, because a British THE BALFOUR DIAMOND army officer would never stoop to lying. JUBILEE TRUST The children of the white officers and in conjunction with C'vil servants in India were spoiled brats, AJEX oossing their ser\ants. It was in this debilitating climate that they were molly­ coddled. A New Zealand schoolmaster Capt. KW Stent, left, in Debit, April 1945 ^f^d his wife established a boarding ^ehool in Srinagar run on the Spartan felt as "high" and satisfied before or 'ines of Kurt Hahns Gordonstoun. Part of since. invites you to celebrate ^e compulsory- curriculum for the boys My messmates in the Compound were the publication of as to swim across the big Dal Lake and a socially mixed bunch: civilian old India o climb a local Himalayan peak of some and Burma hands. Regular Indian Army The AJEX Chronicles 16,000 feet. My friend Fritz had told the officers, British emergency commissioned by Henry Morris headmaster that I had Alpine experience officers attached to the Indian Army, such on ^ gross exaggeration) and he invited me as myself and former British NCOs who Monday 28th February 2000 o take part in the annual climb and take had been emergency commissioned. We 6.30pm charge of a squad of 10 boys. We set off may also have had a few Hindus and at a Central London venue '^ay or two later, a party of 30 boys Muslims; I can't remember. On the whole Call 0171 258 0008 'th three teachers, as well as porters we got on well. But there was one British (office hours) "^^ a couple of mules to carry our gear Major who stuck out and was not popu­ ^^ provender. On day three we reached lar. At whatever time of the day I ^ end of any vegetation; beyond that happened to enter the mess, that man ^•"e was only snow and scree, shielded was sitting on a barstool nursing a gin y a wall of vividly red rhododendron and tonic. I often wondered what his job Erratum - January issue ^shes. We pitched our tents, just as a was but he did not encourage conversa­ 30,000 Jews (not 300,000) managed Viol ent rainstorm descended, washing tion. Suddenly, a few weeks before VE to secure refuge in Switzerland. aw'^ y our tents and all. The boys day in Europe, he had disappeared. I was

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SciencE Notebook HOUSE DOCTOR 'A nice cup of tea' Why NICE may not be best hen tea was first introduced his year the British government with particular problems. Special rules into England in the middle of have decided to initiate the have had to be introduced to allow GPs Wthe seventeenth century it was TNational Institute of Clinical to prescribe Viagra privately to their a luxury item. Wealthy ladies kept their Excellence (NICE), in order to decide health service patients. In our practice supplies in locked tea caddies to prevent what treatments are appropriate for of 6,000 patients nearly every patient the servants helping themselves. The provision by the health service. The who has requested Viagra has met the high tax on tea contributed significantly criteria used to make their decisions are health service criteria, but even then the to this: only in 1784 was the tax reduced clinical effectiveness, appropriateness total number on this medication prob­ from 119% to 12y2% ftoo late to save the and cost effectiveness of the treatment ably does not exceed 20. American colonies which had rebelled under consideration. Committees such as NICE may change over this very tax in 1773). Tea is now Whilst this sounds very sensible and the whole basis of the relationship be­ the cheapest of all drinks except tap water even laudable, the criteria being dis­ tween patients and their GPs. Up till and is- Britain's favourite beverage with an cussed are those applicable to now patients have been treated by their average consumption of 3'/2 cups a day. populations not individuals. Decisions, doctors based on their individual needs, What is it about tea that we like so such as that relating to the anti-flu drug with medication that their physician be­ much? First of all, we enjoy the physical Relenza, manufactured by a British com­ lieves will be appropriate and effective and psychological comfort of a hot drink. pany, Glaxo, acknowledge that for for them as individuals. Now medication It warms us in winter and cools us in individual patients the drug might well will be considered as appropriate only if summer by making us perspire. Black tea be effective, but for whole populations it is suitable for a population as a whole leaf also has a pleasant aroma, its infusion the cost and clinical effectiveness is not and takes into account the effectiveness possesses an attractive red colour and the sufficient to allow it to be prescribed by and the cost of the treatment as benefit­ drink has an agreeable, slightly astringent the health service. An additional compli­ ing the whole population but not taste which delivers a stimulating lift af­ cation is that your health service doctor necessarily the individual. terwards. This mild stimulus is due to the is not allowed to privately prescribe a At a time when practitioners are being presence of caffeine in the original green drug for a patient unless it is in a lim­ urged to consider their patients as indi­ tea leaf, converted to black tea by a proc­ ited category. It is unclear whether your vidual customers, decisions about which ess of fermentation which produces the National Health GP is able to prescribe treatments can be given have shifted to coloured tannins or flavanoids. Relenza for you, even privately. a population-centred basis. The new Black tea on its own produces an as­ Similar problems have occurred with century could be as confused as the tringent or puckering feel in the mouth the drug Viagra, which again is re­ last. which is greatly reduced by adding milk. stricted to only certain male patients n Dr Max Bayer This is because casein, the main protein in milk, forms aggregates inside which Regretfully, personal correspondence cannot be entered into the tea flavanoids become sequestered. Similarly, by adding acid, such as the cit­ ric acid in lemon juice, tea has a more oooooooooooooooo mellow taste than black tea alone. People living in hard-water areas of Saved from Britain, like the south-east, are well Nazi TOWER aware of the dark films which form on Germany ... I THEATRE CANONBURY PLACE black tea brews. However, as these only cared for in ISLI NGTON occur in water which has percolated England LONDON Nl 2NQ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO through limestone and so contains cal­ cium and bicarbonate, films can be avoided with the use of a special filter to Diane Samuels' soften the tap water. Dark tea films are actually quite harmless, but unsightly - some people just skim them off with a Kindertransport dry spoon. More irritating are the depos­ its they leave in cups, mugs and teapots. Try adding some crystals of washing February 12, 15 to 19 at 7.30 soda, then boiling water and stir. After a Matinee Sun Feb 13 at 3pm few minutes the stains will be much Box Office 020 7226 3633 (2pm-8pm) easier to remove. So enjoy your cup of tea: comforting, Sponsored by stimulating, cheap and good for you. CARUON D Prof Michael Spiro

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chaired by Bill Williams, Fellow of the lion has already been raised. Mancunian nnemorial Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester Bill Williams is an advocate of 'history University and a former trustee of the from below' and this technique will in­ or a country' geographically removed Manchester Jewish Museum. form the Shoah Centre's approach. from the perpetration of the worst Following a decision not to extend Drawing heavily on the traditions of a Fgenocide in history, Britain is doing Manchester's Jewish Museum, a separate people's history, the emphasis will not be reasonably well in the provision of committee was formed to establish a placed on the emergence of the perpetra­ historical and educational centres dedi­ Shoah Centre, working in co-operation tors or the evolution of their modes of cated to the Holocaust. The Imperial War with Beth Shalom and the Imperial War destruction, but rather on the experience ^^useum's Holocaust wing is due to open Museum. A site was identified in the bor­ of their victims, underpinned by the oral 'ater this year; Beth Shalom, in the depths ough of Trafford which it is hoped will testimony of survivors and refugees, by of Nottinghamshire, has welcomed tens be shared with the northern outpost of personal photographs, artefacts and •^f thousands through its doors; Jewish the Imperial War Museum. Both buildings documents drawn from survivor and refu­ Museums around the country incorporate have been designed by Daniel Libeskind, gee sources. Holocaust material; and now there is the the architect best known for his Berlin "I see it as a national museum and Prospect of a brand new centre in Jewish Museum Manchester is a multi-cultural society," Manchester's erstwhile dockland, the Among other organisations offering the says Bill Williams, who is deeply commit­ Shoah Centre. project their support are Trafford Council, ted to the project. "We hope our project The concept resulted some five years Arthur Andersen and Manchester Univer­ is worthy of all those who went through ago from discussions between Manches­ sity's Centre for Jewish Studies, A the Holocaust experience. It is one way ter's Second Generation Group and the full-time co-ordinator has been ap­ of promoting the ideals of humanity and trustees of the Manchester Jewish Mu­ pointed. The whole project is estimated justice." seum which led to a working party. to cost £8 - ±9 million of which £0.4 mil­ D Marion Koebner

that "from the standpoint of the Church, at Minsk, Faulhaber remained silent. Cardinal sins "'there was no objection to any truthfid He did protest, however - and success­ ardinal Faulhaber, mentioned in race research". Nor was there any objec­ fully - when the Nazis ordered the Prof Feuchtwanger's review of tion to ''the aim of keeping the nature removal of crosses from classroom walls CHitlers Pope (Dec issue, p41) was (sic!) of a people as pure as possible, nor in Bavarian schools during the war. a covert racist and antisemite. A German to the notion of a community of blood, to n Dr Herbert Loebl OBE Nationalist, he had closely identified deepen the sense of nationhood." (author of Die juden von Bamberg) Christianity with Germanism already in In the same series of sermons, 'he 1914 War. After 1918, as Archbishop Faulhaber defended most (!) of the "Old" ^' Munich, he evinced strongly anti- Testament as divine revelation, but made 'heral and anti-democratic sentiments. In a distinction between the Jews of biblical V J ^ pastoral letter of 1920 he attacked the times and those of his day: " We must not ^eimar constitution and in 1924 he let our dislike of the (present-day) Jew af­ 'ashed publicly with Konrad Adenauer, fect the importance we attach to the books BELSIZE onsequently, a large part of the clergy of the "Old" Testament". '^'J the Catholic press found themselves Theologically, he decried the Jewish re­ SQUARE ^ the same side as the Volkiscbe (ethno- ligion in these sermons: "after the SYNAGOGUE acists) and other enemies of the crucifixion of our saviour, God handed 51 Belsize Square, NW3 4HX ^dgling German democracy. the Jewish people a bill of divorce." During the early Nazi period, the During the war, Faulhaber had church We offer a traditional style P'"'est Alois Wurm, among other clergy, bells rung whenever a Nazi victory was of religious service with Protested about Catholic silence in the announced, no matter how large the cost Cantor, Choir and organ in human lives and suffering and even ^^ of the persecution of the Jews, Further details can be obtained when the defeated countries were Catho­ aulhaber rejoined that "-the Church had from the synagogue secretary lic Poland and France. After Hitler Occupy itself with more important Telephone 0171 794 3949 ^'*estions than to plead for them ". On survived the attempt on his life in June ^ conclusion of the Concordat, in July 1944, Faulhaber sent him a letter of con­ Minister: Rabbi Rodney J Mariner ^3 he wrote to Hitler "that which the gratulation and recited a Te Deum in Cantor: Rev Lawrence H Fine '^ parliament and parties failed to do, thanksgiving for his survival in the Regular Services: . ^'^ farsighted statesmanship achieved Church of our Lady at Munich. Friday evenings at 6.45pm '^ ^ix months". Faulhaber did not protest about the Saturday mornings at 10am J. hile in his fifth advent sermon on 31 early crimes of the Nazis, nor about Religion School: Sundays at 10am to 1pm , ^cember 1933 he had preached, that Kristallnacht, nor about the deportation Nursery School: 9.15am to 12.15pm ^ love of one's own race ... should and murder of the Jews. In 1943 when Belsize Under 3's: 9.30am to 11.30am *iei< ^er turn into hate of other people, he Dr Alfons Hiidebrand, a German officer, Space donated by Pafra Limited confirmed in the preceding words reported to Faulhaber what he had seen

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subscription for Kindertransport member­ NEWSROUND Kinder find a new ship. When renewing their AjR membership, as it falls due, they may Holocaust denier sues publisher home within the AJR similarly indicate their wish to affiliate David Irving is suing author, Deborah n behalf of the AJR, Chairman with the Kindertransport special interest Lipstadt and Penguin for publishing a Andrew Kaufman extends a group (abbreviated as KT-AJR) on the re­ book describing him as a "Holocaust Owarm welcome to former RoK newal form. denier". Irving claims that he never members, convinced that the AJR will Bertha Leverton reminds former RoK denied the existence of the Holocaust provide them with an ideal home within members "that many of us are now arriv­ and that the defendants were part of an which the proud traditions of the ing in our more mature years when a "organised international endeavour" to Kindertransport movement can be little extra help can be much appreciated. destroy his career. securely maintained. The offer of membership from the AjR opens up an opportunity to benefit from War criminal could face extradition Having held an immensely successful a wide range of additional services which Konrad Kalejs, 86, who has admitted international reunion in London last year, include meals-on-wheels, a day centre, a commanding men in the Nazi death the executive committee of the Reunion monthly magazine, social services and squad Arajs Kommando has avoided of Kindertransport decided to discontinue sheltered accommodation. It is a most British deportation by returning to the 'RoK' name by the end of 1999, but generous offer, one which allows the Australia. The Australian government said to provide continuity under the Kinder to maintain our own identity it would co-operate fully with Latvia 'Kindertransport' name within the AJR. within the AJR and should definitely be should they wish to bring war crimes Bertha Leverton, founder president and taken up". prosecution against Kalejs who is inspiration behind the RoK movement, is suspected of being involved in the murder retiring from office but intends continu­ Bea Green adds, "Having spent a won­ of over 30,000 people, mainly Jews. ing her association with her many friends derful three years as guests within AJR* on a personal basis. The AJR has been offices, from where the London reunion Holland owes Jewish debt pleased to appoint Bertha a life member was organised, we are more than happY A Dutch government commission has in recognition of her twelve years' out­ to join forces as an AJR Special Interest reported that Amsterdam's Stock standing work on behalf of the Jewish Group and look forward to keeping '" Exchange owes Dutch Jews many refugee community and the members of touch with each other for many more millions of florins in compensation for RoK wish to place on record the im­ years to come". wealth seized during "WWII. It was said mense debt owed to Bertha for her David Jedwab is already planning the that the Exchange "facilitated and contribution to enhancing their lives and first edition of KT-AJR's new magazine legitimised the expropriation of Jewish welfare. which, as well as retaining some familiaf assets". In order to safeguard the memory of features, will include a new format and New leader for Germany's Jews the Kinder's shared experiences - coming logo, photographs and be called 'KT" Germany's Jewish Community, which to Britain as refugee children without Kindertransport Newsletter'. represents approximately 90,000 has their parents in 1938 and 1939 - and to U Ronald ChannH elected, Paul Spiegel, 62, president of the continue to support their close friend­ Central Council of German Jews, ships and unique camaraderie, it has following the death of Ignatz Bubis. been agreed that all former RoK mem­ Spiegel wants to speed the integration of bers will be invited to join the RGs Yiddish ABC the tens of thousands of Soviet-Jewish Association of Jewish Refugees. In addi­ Acheln (from Hebrew ochel to eat) cf th^ tion to the many benefits available to all immigrants into the Jewish community. German spoonerism Was niitzt "^' AJR members, 'Kindertransport' will retain Judge eases woman's plight schonste Kachelofen, wenn man kan" its identity as 'a special interest group' A British civil court has intervened for the nichts zum Acheln kofen? within the AJR, publishing its own maga­ first time in the divorce proceedings of Baldower (from Hebrew ba'al maste zine and maintaining its network of links an orthodox couple. The husband denied and davar the word) Mainly used in the with Kinder throughout the world. KT- his wife a get (religious divorce), which phrase ein mieser baldower, a nasty, " AJR will retain an office and telephone the judge ruled would cause hardship ugly, fellow line (0171 431 1821) within the AJR to and "grave injustice to the wife" and which enquiries and correspondence Chochem (Hebrew derivation fro''^ refused the husband's application for a habam, sage) a wise guy. It also occur should continue to be directed. civil divorce. in intensive form, e.g. Oberchochem Former members of RoK joining the Jewish traders in Vatican protest AJR for the first time are offered an intro­ Draikop (from the German words for ^ Jewish street traders protested outside St ductory membership subscription of £15 turn and head) scatterbrain or conniver Peter's church in Rome when their for this year, to be paid direct to the AJR. Esroigim nach Sukkes (lit. citrons aft^ licences to sell religious souvenirs in the They should complete a membership ap­ the Feast of Tabernacles) Locking t" Vatican precinct were not renewed. The plication form on which to indicate their stable door after the horse has bolted demonstrators, who sell Christian holy affiliation to KT-AJR, enabling them to be Farshlepteh krenk (German derivatio images and artefacts, said most religious so identified on the computerised mem­ lit. a sickness that hangs on) An ^^ r souvenir sellers in the area were Jewish bership records. lessly protracted matter, e.g. the suit o and had held licences in their families for Those who already are AJR members Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Dickens' Bl^^. generations. D NP will no longer have to pay an additional House U To be continue"

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