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SOLICITORS 58 Queen Anne Street London \\11 ~l 9LA Telephone 020 7224 6006 Facsimile 020 7224 2764 \veb site 'vvww.simmons-stein.co.uk e-n1ail [email protected] Gary Simmons and Jeffrey Stein wish the '45 Aid every success SECTION I QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE VAUDIlY OF ART AS CHAIRMAN'S COMMENTS Page 4 DOCUMENTAllON OF THE HOLOCAUST Sam Dresner Page 37 SECTION 11 PAST AND PRESENT Page 5 ONE SMAll STEP FOR THE THE '45 AID SOCIElY AND THE BOND OF EUROPEAN UNION INTIMACY Aubrey Rose CBE Page 38 Reuven Sherman Page 5 THE YOUNG ONES, FOR THE MARTYRED ARllSTS MALES ESPECIALLY Marc Chagall Page 6 Aubrey Rose CBE Page 39 MENDEL PRETER'$ STORY SAM FREIMAN'S STORY Moniek Goldberg Page 7 Sam Freiman Page 39 SURVIVING SURVIVAL - THE WAY IT FELT MY LOST WORLD RECOVERED Ono Grunfeld Page 8 FROM THE PAST SURVIVING SURVIVAL - A PERSONAL Sam Frelman Page 40 PERSPEcnVE G-D AT THE WHEEL Otto Grunfeld Page 9 David Turek Page 41 A MILITARY FAMILY SHAVO UT, YIZKOR 5776 Janina Fischler Martinho Page 11 Rabbi Jack Riemer Page 42 MY VISIT TO POZNAN MESSAGE OF JOHN PAUL 11 TO THE Jerry Herszberg Page 13 CHIEF RABBI OF ROME Page 44 WHAT HAPPENED TO US CONTINUES TO LIVE KADDISH FOR A PRIEST WITHIN US FOREVER Stanislaw Musial SJ. Page 46 Ruto Krieger Horowicz Page 14 FR. STANISLAW MUSIAL EDMUND HOLKA Prof, Stanisl.aw Obirel< Page 51 Jerzy Lando Page 15 SECTION rv TO SCREAM WITH TH E VICTIM - 60TH LEONARD MONTEAORE MEMORLAL LECTURE ANNIVERSARY OF THE LODZ GHETTO - RESPONSES TO JEWISH IMMIGRAllON INTO Piotr Upinski, Jerzy KlOpiwnicki BRITAIN 1656 - 1914 Translated by Janina Fischler Martinho Page lS BASED ON AUTHOR'S 2003 MEMORIAL LECTURE B£LZEC: FINALLY LAID TO REST His Honour Israel Finestein Page 52 Robin O'Neill Page 21 SECTION V KURIMA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1942 SECOND AND THIRD GENERATION Page 54 Judith Sherman Page 22 REPORT ON '45 AID SECOND GENERATION DISCUSSION DEPORTATlONS 1942 EVENING 18TH MAY 2004 Judith Sherman Page 22 Philip Burton Page 54 PRESOV GESTAPO PRISON EXPERIENCE OF POLAND CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1944 Bryan Huberman & Caroline Spencer Page 56 Judlth Sherman Page 22 THE EARLY LIFE OF MY COURAGEOUS RAVENSBRUCK: SIEMAN'S SUBCAMP GRANDFATHER Judlth Sherman Page 23 Genna Splro Page 57 MY LAST EIGHT MONTHS IN THE I WANT TO BEUEVE WARSAW GHETTO Rachel Spiro Page 58 Edyta Klein-Smith Page 23 TRIP TO POLAND WHERE WAS GOD IN AUSCHWI1Z Melody Wilder Page 59 Mlchael Etkind Page 26 PHAB PAUL RUNS MARATHON ON BUCHENWALD AS SGT, PEPPER Michael Etkind Page 26 Paul Wilder Page 60 REVENGE? - PILSEN MAY 1945 MARATHON MAN Michael Etklnd Page 26 Jeremy Turek Page 61 WHAT IT TOOK TO SURVIVE WINDOWS ON THE WORLD Steve Mermelsteln Page 26 Talya Halkin Page 62 EMBARKATION OF FUGHTS TO UK BY "THE BOYS" SECTION VI IN 1945 WAS FILMED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT BOOK REVIEWS Page 64 Suzanne Bardgett Page 28 LOOKING BACK GOING FORWARD SECTION m BY HERMAN TAUBE HEREAND NOW Page 29 Michael Berenbaum Page 64 ADDRESS BYTHE CHIEF RABBI SECTION VII OR JONAltiAN SACKS - CORRESPONDENCE Page 65 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY BELFAST Page 29 lElTER TO LOUISE ELLlOT FROM FIVE PAST REALfTY AND FUTURE HOPES LADIES IN WINDERMERE Page 65 JONATHAN MARSHALL THE SECTION VIII DIRECTOR OFTHE PLYMOUTH REUGIOUS OBITUARIES Page 66 AND CULTURAL RESOURCE CENTRE HARRY BALSAM REFLECTS ON THE VISIT OF A Stephen & Colin Balsam Page 66 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TO PLYMOUTH Page 31 JUUA BENNET Hettle & Alec Ward Page 67 YOM HA-SHOA 18TH APRIL 2004 Delivered by IDA ZWIREK 1928 - 2004 The Chief Rabbi Dr lonathan Sacks Page 31 David Zwirek Page 67 THREE SPEECHES DEUVERED BY 17 YEAR OLD SECTION lX STUDENTS OF IMMANUAL COLLEGE Page 33 MEMBERS' NEWS Abigall lfield Page 33 Complied by Ruby Friedman Page 69 Joseph Skelker Page 34 SECTION X Naomi Grant Page 35 NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS IN MANCHESTER IF Compiled by Louise Elliott Page 70 Michael Etkind Page 35 SECTION XI SEFTON MEMORIAL PROJECT FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND 14TH JANUARY 2004 ANNOUNCEMENTS Page 70 Louise Elliot Page 36 SECTION XII YOM KAATZHAUT APRIL 28TH 2004 ANNUAL OSCAR JOSEPH Judith Sherman Page 36 HOLOCAUST AWARDS Page 70 3 CHAIRMAN'S ho of us in our 'Wildest the origin of all evil and corruption are using their people's sufferings as imagination would have conspiring to take over the world. an excuse for their atrocities. The W believed I hat fifty-nine Judaism itself is presented as a Israelis have a grim advantage over years after our liberation and fifty-six sinister, immoral religion, based on the rest of us. Their enemies have no years afrer the rebirth of the State cabals and blood rituals, \vhile doubt that their objective is to of Israel , we would have to focus Zionists are systematically equated destroy tsrael. Without that clatity, it our minds once again on anti \\11th or identified as criminals, racists would be dHficult for a democracy to Semitism around the world. It seems or Nazis. The aim is not simply to take measures needed to win. paradoxical that at a time when Jews de-legitimise Israel as a Jewish State Americans after September 11 th are enjoying so much freedom and and national entity in the Middle believed that Al Queda's mission was prosperity with equal rights and East, bur to dehumanise Judaism and to hann the United States in every opportunities with all other citizens the Jewish people as such. conceivable way. The Europeans are that the "old cancer" of anti-Semitism Tt is not surprising that the not so convinced that the terrorist should be rearing its ugly head again. promise of a reward in heaven and threat is mortal! lsrad understands In spite of a falling Jewish population the constant propaganda and exhor that its enemies respect only in this country, the emphasis on tation [0 kill the infidels has resulted strength. To provide the best condi Jewish education has never been in the creation of a volunteer army of tions for peace, Israel has to greater. There are more Je\vish suicide bombers who are threatening convince the Palestinian leadership schools now than ever before. Jewish not only the Slate of Israel but also that terrorism \-vill not succet::d the stability of the world. contribution to the social, cultural, and to eliminate a11 options except Unfortunately, far too many states artistic and economic life is, in negotiations. " men are hiding their heads in the proportion to their numbers, far Tt is most upsetting that there are sand. They do not understand (he higher than the average of the popu many Jews who publically condemn, impending danger or perhaps they lation. Yet their Concern for their sometimes viciously, the Israeli gov do not want to understand. safety and future is real. Undisguised ernment that was elected to defend Fortunately, President Bush, as well anti-Semitism in the Western world her citizens. The Israeli government, as our Prime Minister, Tony Blair, do continues to be nurtured both by o[ course, like every other govern unders[and . They also understand secular and religious bodies and by ment, is not beyond criticism, bLH it the Israeli predicament. the Left as well as the RJght. In needs to be measured against the There are too many people in Britain the number of anti-Semitic damage it can do. Their cIiticisln, England and in the Western World by very often, gives ammunition to our incidents rose 7Y}o in the first who, influenced by the biased media, enemies and undennines the exis quarter of the last year and four believe thal if only Israel would be tence of the State of Israel. They Jewish cemeteries and Lhree syna more conciliatol)', all the problems in mean well but their action is not gogues have been attacked and the Midd le East would be solved. much different from the way some covered in swaslikas and excrement. They ignore all the efforts that Jews behaved in the Ghettos and The Chief Rabhi Jonathan Sacks previous lsraeli governments, espe received a letter telling him to leave Cially that o[ Rabin, Peres and Barak, concentration camps when they Britain, saying "\\That Hitler did will have made to achieve peace. If, collaboraled with the Nazis. At least, seem like a wet week-end ID by a miracle, the Israeli-Palestinian they collaborated with the hope lhat Blackpool". conflict were ro be solved, the threat their lives would be spared. Those Anti-Zionism has become a from lvluslim fundamentalism would who criticise Jews today do not subterfuge for anti-Semitism. The still be looming large on ou r horizon understand how the Jews were present conflict between Israel and and it would need urgent anention. despised and humiliated when there the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza The German people in the 1930s 'Aras no jev.rish State. If Israel were to is fuelling a new Judeophobia. It found it convenient 10 ignore where be overwhelmed by her enemies, the needs to be stressed lhat present day the consequences of Hitler's racist consequences [or the Diaspora Jews anti-Semitism, although serious, in policies would lead.