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Don't miss ... Shayn, Schon, Sheen Richard Grunberger p3 Reflections on the role of Mosley and Enoch Powell Slits in the battlements Qorio Tessler p5 The Street and the House The lost Heimat Bea Creen pi3 y fortuitous coincidence the death of Enoch journalists, academics, clergymen - engage in a Powell overlapped with the portayal of continuous dialogue with the electorate. Sometimes, Double BOswald Mosley on British television screens. admittedly, this exchange resembles a dialogue of The Mosley series makes several points which the deaf - as when the public clamours for the whammy help explain why sections of the electorate became restoration of the death penalty, yet Parliament lthough alienated from political democracy in the interwar favours more humane punishment. antisemiti.sm years. One was the age gap between an elderly po­ The reaction to Powell's demagoguery exactly Ais essentially litical elite and the young war veterans. Another thirty years ago showed what a mature democracy Right-wing, the Left was the fact that many Fascist leaders - the ex-La­ Britain is - because at the precLse moment that he is no stranger to it bourite Mosley, the ex-Socialist Mussolini, the acquired widespread street-cred he lost the confi­ (cf Proudhon). ex-Communist Doriot - had leftwing antecedents dence of 'the House' (i.e. the political elite). Which His compatriot which gave them popular appeal. A third point was proves yet again that democracy is the lea.st bad Roger Garaudy, the role of the boudoir in the rise of politicians like form of government devised by man D once an intellectual Mosley and Boothby. adornment of the A more caicial, last point is this: despite enjoying Communist Party, the sympathy of influential Establishment figures - has just been fined Lord Rothermere (and, less overtly, the Duke of Letts do it for Holocaust ' Windsor) - Mosley failed to gain a foothold in oland was the first country in po.stwar Europe to denial. ' Westminster, or even in local Town Halls. Pstage a pogrom - at Kielce. Germany the first to Simultaneously, It is a far cry from Oswald Mosley to Enoch witness the vandalising of a concentration camp site Poland has invited Powell, not least becau.se the latter held the - at Sachsenhausen. Austria the first to have a major the 13,000 Jewish Westminster Parliament in the highest esteem. Yet political figure - Jorg Haider - praise Hitler's policy. refugees from its there can be no burking the fact that Powell's 1968 Spain the first to have memorial mas.ses for Hitler 'anti-Zionist' purge 'river of blood' speech upset the political celebrated on the anniversary of his death. France the of 1968 to return equilibrium of this country more than any other first to have a prominent politician - Le Pen - dismiss to the country. public utterance since the war. six million-fold murder as 'a bagatelle of history'. The instigator of A postbag of 100,000 letters in support of the Now Latvia has joined this list of melancholy that massive speaker's anti-immigrant rhetoric .showed the size of 'firsts'. In March, the cobble.stoned .streets of Riga exodus was General his potential following throughout the length and resounded to the thump of marching feet as five Moczar, a .so-called breadth of Britain. hundred veterans of the Latvian Legion of the Waffen national Communist. Two things then happened. Powell him.self SS, attired in their wartime uniforms, assembled un­ President forbore to descend into the political gutter of white der Nazi banners to commemorate fifty thousand Kwasniewski, too, supremacism and be anointed by London dockers. legionaries who had died on the Ea.stern Front. once held a Party More importantly, though, the political elite - The far larger number of Jewish and Russian card. including the Conservative leadership - blackballed victims of the Latvian Legion testify to the savagery His guilty him; in con.sequence he dwindled into a prophet for which Stalin's earlier occupation of the Baltic confidence over the (of doom) crying in the wilderness. States provided a threadbare excu.se. scandalous events It could be said that the Tiber-foaming-with-blood If the demise of Soviet power facilitates reunions of '68 prompts the speech and its repercussions provide an object of superannuated murderers, it throws into question hope that Poland lesson in the workings of parliamentary democracy. the wisdom of extending the Nato umbrella to the n^ay ultimately Parliament is rather more than an assembly of very frontiers of Russia. The scandalous Riga rally, recover the liberal \ automatons who vote as instructed by their following on the election of President Adamkus in outlook of its • constituents or their Party whips. The political Lithuania (see our March issue), raises grave que.s- medieval King process is far more sophisticated than that. tions about the Bakic States' fitness to join Kaszimir D I Politicians and the whole array of opinion formers - democratic Europe D AJR INFORMATION APR/L 1998

bring any trouble", and then toured Profile France. Joining her younger sister at the Casino de Paris at the height of its fame, May was soon making a name for herself The Good Old Days and even began a film career. She re­ ay Mueller defies her 90 years turned to England when her beloved with a restless energy and mother fell ill and died, and never per­ M eternal enthusiasm for all things formed in France again. theatrical. She was born in 1907 in Lon­ May was appearing in five shows a day don's East End, where her tailor father at London's Prince of Wales Theatre died prematurely from overwork, leaving when, in 1935, she met her husband-to- his wife to feed, clothe and protect six be Herbert, a refugee from Berlin who girls and a boy on a meagre income by completed' his studies in dentistry at working for the United Synagogue. Edinburgh. They married in 1938 at the At school May loved reading, dancing Great Synagogue in Duke's Place and and singing. A teacher noticed her preco­ Herbert set up practice in South London's cious talents, telling her mother that she Elephant and Castle district. was destined for a stage career. Sure The second chapter of May's life was as enough, at the tender age of twelve May May Mueller in her days as Rose May, chorus girl wife and mother of their son Rudi, born joined Terry Freedman's stage school in and soubrelte in London and Paris. during the war. They were bombed out Hampstead O^ssie Matthews was another and moved to a flat in Hampstead where pupil) and started out on her professional Many Cooks', a show produced by Gracie they still live. May and Herbert are regu­ career as Rose May, performing in revue Fields' husband, Archie Pitts. It was a lar attenders at the AJR Paul Balint Day with Terry's Juveniles in Moss and StoU tough regime - on stage six days a week Centre. May retains her love of opera, Empires around London. and travelling to a new venue every Sun­ dancing and the stage, and is blessed In 1925 she broke into a topline show day. with a wonderful memory, still able to re­ at the London Hippodrome as a chorus In 1930 May joined the chorus line of cite 'The Lamplighter' by Robert Louis girl in the hit musical comedy 'Mercenary the Helen Greasley Girls at the Scala Stevenson, which she learnt in school at Mary'. A summer season in a concert Theatre in Bordeaux with her mother's the age of seven! party at St Anne's led to touring in 'Too injunction ringing in her ears: "Don't D Ronald Channing

And even the title Zeider (see p4) Benign apartheid stumped one of our multilingual proof ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING readers. of the ome years ago I took part in a panel The conclusion I draw from the above ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH discussion at B'nai Brith House, is that there has been regrettably little REFUGEES SFitzjohn's Avenue. Afterwards, dur­ mixing between us relative newcomers will be held on ing an informal chat among the and East European-descended co­ SUNDAY 2Ist JUNE 1998 panellists, the question of intermarriage religionists who constitute the bulk of 3pm at 15 Cleve Road NW6 Anglo-Jewry. One can think of several came up, and one lady said: "It's okay by Agenda:- me - my own son married an English reasons for this: Annual Report 1997 Jewess". Firstly, at the time of arrival the refu­ Hon.Treasurer's Report Having hitherto assumed that a mixed gees (especially from Germany) were Discussion marriage meant one between Jewish and largely middle-class, and Anglo-Jews Election of Committee of Management* non-Jewish partners, I was quite taken working class. Secondly, German-speak­ Guest speaker: aback. Since then I have become in­ ers tended to gravitate towards NW Her Honour, Judge Dawn Freedman London, whereas the 'Anglos' mainly oc­ creasingly aware of an intra-communal * No person other than a committee member dividing line that still exists between 'us' cupied a zone stretching from Stepney to retiring by rotation shall be elected or re­ and 'them' (i.e. between German- Stamford Hill. Thirdly, the staple occu­ elected a committee member at any general descended Jews and Anglo-Jews of East pations of the East Enders - tailoring, meeting unless:- European descent) after 60 years. woodwork, leather, furs - only absorbed (a) he or she is recommended by the Committee Let me quote three instances: A rec­ a minority of us newcomers. of Management, or ently widowed AJR member expressed I, however, belonged to that minority. (b) not less than twenty one clear days before consternation on receiving letters of con­ Though I look back upon the near- the date appointed for the meeting, notice dolence that ended with the phrase 'I decade spent in the rag trade with very executed by ten members qualified to vote at die meeting has been given to the Society of wish you long life'. 'What does it mean?' mixed feelings, I feel enriched by my die intention to propose that person for she asked. The phrase 'sitting on shpilkes' immersion in the still partly-Yiddish election or - which I once used to rhyme with speaking environment this entailed, both re-election together with notice executed by 'poems of Rilke's' - has aroused similar geographically and socially. that person of his willingness to be elected or re-eleaed. incomprehension around the AJR office. D Richard Grunberger AJR INFORMATION APR/L 1998

Anglo-Saxon tongue. Its modern name Shayn, Schon, Sheen only came into use when Henry VII, who, before defeating Richard III had PARTNER nce, at a gathering hostedby an been Duke of Richmond (in Yorkshire), In long established English Solicitors Israeli friend, hisdaughter lifted built his royal palace there. (bi-lingual German) would be happy Oher child out of the cot to sounds The fact that England has two to assist clients with English, German of universal approbation. A Mideuropean- Richmonds, one in the North and the and Austrian problems. Contact descended twenty-something sitting next to other in the South, confused Friedrich Henry Ebner me exclaimed 'the baby is shayn'. I von Flotow when he composed Martha Pondered whether shayn was the (subtitled Der Mddcbenmarkt zu Rich­ Myers Ebner & Deaner pronounciation she had learnt from a rela­ mond): one scene in the opera takes 103 Shepherds Bush Road tive old enough to have heard the place at Richmond Castle and the next in London W6 7LP Andrew Sisters' rendition of Bei mir bist Richmond Park, 200 miles away. Telephone 0171 602 4631 du shayn (which on the record rhymed And, having started this causerie with ^ith 'I try to explain'). one Jewish reference, let me finish with ALLLEGALWORK How much better, I thought, if that another. The most famous man UNDERTAKEN relative had seen Frank Wedekind's Lulu Richmond, Yorkshire, ever sent to parlia­ (or Berg's opera of the same name) be­ ment, was Leon Brittan, a second cause that work features a character - generation immigrant. Richmond's solid ^ho is both Lulu's first husband and burghers originally jibbed at selecting a victim - by the name of Schon. (This candidate who, in Harold MacMillan's GERMAN prompts the rather unpleasant reminis­ words, was "an old Estonian rather than RESTITUTION CLAIMS cence that the 'degenerate' composer an old Etonian". However, the Tory Have your claims to recover properties Alban Berg tried to 'sell' Lulu to grandee Willy Whitelaw - immortalised in in East Germany got stuck in legal Goebbels by accentuating the negative Mrs. Thatcher's phrase "every Party and bureaucratic delays? characteristics of the Jewish Dr Schon; in should have a Willy" - twisted their arms the event the ruse didn't work). and they relented. Today the former MP We, with our German Associates, shall Schon as an adjective rather than a for Richmond is the heir-apparent to be glad to give you a first assessment of what can be done free of charge. proper noun also has a regrettable con­ Jacques Santer's 'Euro kingdom' at notation in American street language. US Brussels. Please contact Izabela Stankowski slang boasts two pejorative terms for Jew: D Richard Grunberger Edmonds Bowen & Co., Solicitors kike and sheeny. The former is supposed 4 Old Park Lane, London WIY 3LJ to be the short form of keikele, a corrup­ Tel: 0171 629 8000 tion of kreisele, little circle. (Illiterate Fax: 0171 221 9334 Jewish immigrants would sign documents Czech compensation No pension claim enquiries please Of receipts with a circle rather than the ollowing the "Czech/German Dec­ ahhorrent cross). laration on mutual relations and Sheeny likewise derives from the lan­ F their future development" of guage of the immigrants. When January 1997, a bilateral agreement •ion-English speaking pedlars displayed establishing the Czech/German Fund for AUSTRIAN and GERMAN their goods to potential customers their the Future was concluded on 29.12.1997. PENSIONS sales patter always included 'das ist sebr The fund, to which the Federal Republic schon', probably pronounced in Juden- has contributed 140 million D-Mark, is to •^eutsch rather than Yiddish. The first be used for major social projects, PROPERTY RESTITUTION '*'ave of immigrants who arrived around including those benefiting victims of Nazi CLAIMS t850 - because of cheaper fares on persecution. EAST GERMANY- BERLIN •'steamships, the Hungry Forties, and the Although the official Czech position is tailed '48 Revolution - came from Ger­ that the Fund cannot deal with individual On instructions our office will many and not Eastern Europe. (These compensation claims, we have been assist to deal with your Pedlars, incidentally, bore names like advLsed that the Federation of Jewish applications and pursue the ^^ggenheim, Sulzberger, Levi-Strauss, or Communities in the Czech Republic (POB matter with the authorities. oldwasser, which, a generation or two 297, 110 01 Praha 1) has been authorised ''ter, had become household words), to "collect information about individuals For further information and 't seems a far cry from an American who could benefit from the.se social appointment please erogatory term for immigrants from projects". contact: Urther East to the English placename It is accordingly sugge.sted that claim­ ICS CLAIMS 3st Sheen. Nonetheless, let me impart ants should contact the Federation direct. 146-154 Kilburn High Road ^his arcane bit of knowledge: Richmond, However, persons already in receipt of London NW6 4JD urrey, appeared on medieval maps as compen.sation either from Germany or ueen, because its picturesque riverside from the Claims Conference etc., will not Tel: 0171-328 7251 (Ext. 107) ^cation prompted its first inhabitants to be eligible for assistance from the Fax:0171-624 5002 311 it the equivalent of schon in the FundD AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1998

And so it goes on. The treason trial grandparents and his adored and feared Review fizzles out. The boys keep on slinking father. And still more about his dumpy, around back gardens. Proffy overlooks unglamorous and yet so subtle step­ Jerusalem from the flat roof of his home, mother. Father to the man and incidentally spies, quite harmlessly, It all ends in a wild chase and gun-play Amos Oz,PANTHER INTHE BASEMENT, on Ben Hur's elder sister Yardena. in which father and son nearly shoot translated by Nicholas de Lange, Vintage, £5.99. Only at the end does Oz break through each other, where he learns that his the time warp, to tell us how archetypally abductor is his grandfather, an his is a charming, often amusing, Proffy, Ben Hur and Chita have slid into international crook; his grandmother is a slim-volume novel about the adulthood. famous actress whom he has always Tdeadly serious time when the DJohn Rossall adored from afar; his mother was also a world held its breath in anticipation of criminal, whom his father arrested and the fate about to befall the Jews who had then married not long after. escaped from murderous Europe into And yet, this is no farce. It is a piece of Palestine. The State of Israel was about to The light between Grossman's magic realism, shot through be proclaimed and war was about to with philosophical 'discovery' that life is ensue. We know the outcome, but the the light between dark and dark. This players in this drama did not. dark and dark bleak view is enlivened by humour and Oz has set himself a difficult task. The David Grossman,TI-IE ZIGZAG KID, translated even some sentimentality. Few writers story takes the child's eye view as re­ by Betsy Rosenberg, Bloomsbury, £14.99. could have run these various themes called by the mature man. Through his together, but Grossman does. He kept me narrative you sense the blind optimism of nce again David Grossman spellbound throughout. early teenage, as well as the occasional carries us away into his DJR tremors of fear and the nearby drum Oconvoluted world, into his Israel, beats of destiny. And on top of that you which is at one and the same time so get intimations of perfectly ordinary teen- familiar and yet so different from the age-cum-family problems. cliched descriptions the place often The first person narrator, probably Oz attracts. What we witness here are the For ever Zeider himself, is a member of an underground adventures of a near barmitzvah boy e would stand by the edge of group dedicated to freeing Jewish Pales­ which would have astonished Mark the grubby old public swim­ tine from the 'British yoke'. His fellow Twain. W ming pool drying ourselves, my conspirators are another teenager whose The barmitzvah kid is Nonny, wayward zeider and I. As likely as not he would codename is Ben Hur, and a third one, son of a very odd Israeli police officer. tell me once again about how he would Chha. The narrator himself is known as Nonny's mother died tragically shortly af­ go swimming back in der heim some­ Proffy, because he is a studious boy who, ter his birth; his father's girlfriend Gabi is where in Poland. I would listen to this unlike the other two, can actually spell Nonny's official and much loved step­ fragment of his boyhood. Always I saw difficult words and find places on a map. mother. Together they lay on a him in some Arcadian setting of endless Ben Hur is the leader of the group, but pre-barmitzvah 'adventure' trip from Jeru­ pine trees and velvet gra.ss sloping down Proffy has the big ideas. Chita is the salem to visit his uncle, in Haifa, whom to a still lake. It was always early dogsbody. he deeply dislikes. morning. He would emerge from a log Proffy has been accused of being a trai­ It all goes haywire. An elegant, mono­ cabin, nm to the water and fracture its tor and faces a court-martial. Of course cled 'diplomat' befriends the boy who stillness with strong strokes. He would go these immature boys are not real guerril­ manages to be both shy and forward, on swimming till he was lost to view. las; they are playing at it. But they are a and Nonny is kidnapped (without realis­ There were no other people, no other mirror picture of Palmach, Irgun and the ing it at first). He gets to drive the houses, no other movements. It was aO Stern Gang. And what is Proffy's act of powerful engine, with much hooting and idyll I clung to from which I had ban­ treason? It is friendship with the British tooting, while the 'diplomat' holds the ished pogroms and poverty and the police sergeant Dunlop, an ardent self- driver at bay with a gun; then they jump fearful little community huddled over taught student of biblical Hebrew (and the train and drive off in stolen cars. their prayers and sewing machines. perhaps an ever so slightly suspect ad­ By now Nonny has turned into Tammy, That was my story, not his. And when mirer of Jewish youth). disguised as a gid in frock and wig, and we went on day trips to Southend, East Proffy's father is writing a history of his smart kidnapper now looks like an London's seaside, in his sixties he would Polish Jewry, but also has connections old dodderer. Thus they fool the police set out to swim the length of the pier anu with the real Underground. The British who have begun to look for them. back, a mile or so each way. My boob'* search the family's home, and if such a Nonny mistakes all this for a prank or­ without fail went through the identic"^' search can be funny, even delightful, ganised by his dad and stepmum; torments of anxiety. "The meshiggerid"' then this one is. The embarrassed British occasionally he becomes a bit suspicious, He's gone out too far again." I was fre^ officer gets a guided tour of the father's but by and large he treats it as a lark. In from all such fears. For he was always extensive library and, of course, finds reality this dangerous adventure turns the intrepid boy swimmer in the pu''^ nothing. Proffy firmly believes that his into a rite of passage in the course of lake who always came back. And he did- father is hiding the plan for a Jewish which he learns a great deal about him­ And even in death still does. super-weapon. self, about his mother, his kidnapper, his D Harold Rose'' AJR INFORMATION APR/L 1998

judgment, man in the case of the Titanic, actually causes harm, reiterating the evil Slits in the battlements had no intrinsic power over his situation. energies that emerged from these times in u een Titanic yet?" I asked a friend. The Holocaust is, of course, vastly dif­ a way we may yet be too dense to "Oh no," he replied dismissively. ferent. It is a dramatic historical episode understand. The first calls for an s "And I've no intention of doing so, which cries out to be studied for all the imaginative leap of understanding on a either." "Why not?" "Because it's bad deeper meanings which teach us about massive scale. The second, for the taste, isn't it?" "Is it?" "Yes, well I mean man's potential inhumanity, about the banishment of all ugly memories lest they there are still a handful of Titanic demonic traits which lie dormant within reproduce themselves. Can we empathise survivors around, and it's bad taste to his character and which, if aroused by if we remove ourselves from artistic commercialise such a terrible event in political or psychological circumstances, events which try to bring the sense of their lifetime." can prove ungovernable. But despite the other's .suffering nearer? The rectitude of his reply certainly lessons of history, is it still voyeurism to Well, I did see Titanic. And like many gives pause for thought. We have entered repeat the pain and anguish of victims? others I came out shaking, having experi­ an era where people put bad taste and Fragments, a Holocaust memoir by enced the virtual reality of drowning, political correctness in the same boat, if Binjamin Wilkorminski, first published in falling, freezing to death and enduring you'll pardon the pun. The conceptual art Switzerland in 1995, won several literary every anguish the fates felt moved to in­ We saw at the Royal Academy's Sensa­ prizes. The Guardian has described the flict on tho.se poor victims. There is a fine tions exhibition, for instance, generated author as a major literaiy discovery, rank­ line to be drawn, it .seems, between empa­ one of the fiercest debates on bad taste ing with Primo Levi. At Jewish Book thy and voyeurism. And like so many last summer. Murder, torture, paedophilia, Week last year, I bought a copy of the things, it is a question of balance. the Damian Hirst offerings resembling slim volume and tentatively asked its n Gloria Tessler some ancient sacrifice, the notorious even more tentative author, a shy but Gloria Tessler's biography of Lady Jakobovits is to Hindley fingerprint portrait - all human wellknown clarinettist in his day job, to (and animal) death was there. Yet I left sign it. Fragments is about an infant's be published in the autumn. the gallery, oddly not with any specific Holocaust, a description of events in the revulsion, but with renewed .sensitivity to author's early childhood which builds life it.self. I suddenly felt that the cumula­ slowly and excruciatingly to the most tive effect of the exhibition was to throw harrowing visions of Nazi depravity. "ght on the inten.se relationship between These visions are like slits in the battle­ people and animals when they are at ments of the child's war: too young to their most vulnerable. make sense of the tragedy and the tor­ Since the subject of what does or does ture around him, he describes what he sees, not with the recherche perception "ot con.stitute bad taste in art is so topi­ BELSIZE SQUARE cs') the first analogy that springs to mind of adulthood, but with the infant's imme­ 's the Holocau.st. Certainly this was the diacy. The child cannot understand, SYNAGOGUE most terrible event of the mid 20th cen­ cannot ca.stigate, and so, most devastat­ tury because an active will to murder, ing of all, he simply accepts. There is no 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 torture and commit every bestiality comment, only the silence that known to man flourished unchecked in Wilkormirski imposes upon himself when We offer a traditional style of the terror comes too close. And the guilt religious service with Cantor, Hitler's Germany. Certainly there are still Choir and organ ' ^'"'^ivors and refugees in nearly every that we feel when we share the torments <^"orner of the earth. But apart from the with this young child that we could do l^olocaust TV soap that was so lambasted nothing to prevent. Further details can be obtained y critics some years ago (although it did As well as drawing us all closer into from our synagogue secretary "lake a superstar out of Meryl Streep) you the young Wilkormirski's private hell, his rarely hear people condemn as bad taste book may well be literature as therapy Telephone 0171-794 3949 the plethora of Holocau.st art, literature for a writer who can never redeem for 'tnd drama still pouring out of the inferno himself or for others the cost of his hide­ Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner °f the Nazi period, still inflaming our col- ous experiences. But what about us? As Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine ^ctive memory late into the 20th century, we stare through the slits in his battle­ Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, •^n the contrary, we should remember, ments are we merely voyeur.s? Or have Saturday mornings at 10 am Religion school; Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm you hear people saying: Don't let the we come to hold his hand tightly, to wait t^emory die. in the silence and pray that our empathy, Space donated by Pafra Limited ° why does the term bad taste so or sensitivity to the pain he conveys to easily spring to mind with films like us, will enlighten the worid and cause it 'ttanic rather than the Holocaust? You to grow kinder? f'd argue that watching people scream There is a theory that you cannot BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE drown or freeze to death becomes understand another's suffering unless you 51 Belsize Square, London N.W.3 ^ct of voyeurism insensitive to the have been through it yourself. There is Our communal hall is available for *^iTiory of those who suffered so terrible another that claims the endless repetition cultural and social functions. on film of unpleasant events, such as c Unexpected a death. Because, apart Tel: 0171-794 3949 "1 a series of crucial errors of Hitler's grating broadcasts to the masses. AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1998

only French king to be canonised, but he was not the only mediaeval monarch to be considered holy. Leaving aside the saintly queens St Margaret of Scotland and St Jadwiga of Poland, there were also the royal patron saints of Bohemia and Hungary, St Wenceslas and St MAUERBACH AUCTION late Sir James Goldsmith. The Stephen respectively (plus the ducal pa­ Sir - We were astonished to read in your Referendum Party was non-political. Its tron saint of lower Austria, Leopold III of February issue Mr Eckhaus' denial that sole purpose was to promote a Bat)enberg). funds from the Mauerbach Benefit Sale referendum to see whether this country Deddington Francis Steiner had been received by the Central indeed wanted ever-closer ties with Oxfordshire Committee of Jews from Austria in Israel. Europe which would ultimately lead to Twenty five percent of the net pro­ federalism. In the (admittedly unlikely) ceeds of the Mauerbach Benefit Sale event of the Referendum Party's winning OFFENBACH (29.5 million AS) were in fact transferred the last election, it would have held the Sir - I would like to add to Gaby Jacobi's to the Central Committee of Jews from referendum, abided by the decision, and letter (February issue). Austria in Israel in May 1997, some nine would then have dissolved itself. Hardly The rabbi referred to was her late fa­ months ago. a disreputable programme, one would ther. Max Dienemann, a prominent leader It is interesting to note that Mr Eckhaus have thought. of Liberal Judaism. On his 60th birthday neglects his own role in the "bitter dis­ Finally, I am puzzled as to why all this in 1935, he was honoured with a pute" surrounding the Mauerbach Benefit should incur the editor's ire. I wonder Festschrift with contributions by the likes Sale and his failure so far to appoint a why those of us who owe our lives to of Leo Baeck and Martin Buber. representative of his organisation to serve this country's generosity and courage in Offenbach town remembers and hon­ on the control commission of the the last war, should be so eager to see it ours the pa.st of its JewLsh fellow citizens, Mauerbach Fund. giving up its independence and sover­ by publications and events, and fosters Hofrat Paul Grosz, President eignty. Neo-Nazism is rife in the former the new Jewish community in their midst Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien GDR and in France. Perhaps the AJR today. should tread a little more warily. I was sent a three-volume work from the Morgoret Avenue Gerda Mayer Oberbuergermeister's Office entitled Zif IT OCCURS TO ME... London E4 Gescbichte der Juden in Offenbach arn Sir - Ernest David's February comments Main, which makes fascinating reading. are very much to the point. Let, above A world famous centre of fine printing all, the successors of the German and BARTERING FOR JEWS in the '20s and '30s Offenbach produced Austrian Nazis put their house in order. Sir - I take whatever Prof. Bauer says a special edition of the Haggadah in Let them very belatedly do justice with a large dose of salt. 1927, edited by the late Dr S Guggen­ where they have so far dismally failed by Slovakia was not occupied until 1944. heim with the assistance of leading paying out justifiable compensation, pen­ Not one Jew need have died if the direc­ typographers and illustrators, such as sions or restitution. tives had come from on high. As it was, Rudolf Koch, Fritz Kredel and Berthold Guildford Henry Fulda father Jozef Ti.so's flock rounded up their Wolpe. The Offenhacber Haggadah was Surrey Jewish neighbours, stuffed them into re-issued as a new edition of 600 copies waggons and paid the Germans to gas with hand-coloured illustrations by them. This cost was offset by the looting Kredel in I960, printed by the Max Dorn HUBRIS of Jewish property which, as in the Czech Presse in Offenbach. The editor dedi­ Sir - I really must protest at the repeated Republic next door, lasts to this day. cated the work to his trusted friend and appearance in your columns of letters Ipswich Frank Bright teacher. Rabbi Dr Max Dienemann, who congratulating you and your journal. Has Suffolk had contributed much to the original hubris no limits? edition. Anyway, the points made are blindingly Aberystwyth William Dieneman obvious. I have written only two letters MISATTRIBUTION to you. Both have been published. What Sir - Your mini-editorial mentions "Irish further evidence is required of the intel­ extremists like William Joyce". lectual content of your paper and the William Joyce was an American, born AWELCOME GESTURE intelligence of its editor? in New York. His parents were natural­ Sir - On January 16th the Jewish Enough, Sir! Embarrass us no more. ised American citizens. Chronicle reported that gravestones had Chalfont St Giles Alan S Kaye Putney Hill GF Manley been vandalised in one of the Jewish Buckinghamshire London cemeteries in Berlin. This happens to he the cemetery where my late grandfather is buried. HE STOOPED TO CONQUER ROYAL SAINTS We wrote to the authorities in Berlii^ Sir - I find myself in agreement with your Sir - November's front page editorial calls and this is the reply we received: correspondent H K Meyer, and was sorry for correction. Your grandfather's grave is in order and to read your intemperate attack on the St Louis of France may have been the has not been overturned. The violation O' AJR INFORMATION APR/L 1998 the gravestones is a regrettable and sad HONOURS "Ah", she said, "it's a little place on the incident, but something good has come Sir - Please convey my sincere congrat­ East coa.st named after my husband's fam­ out of it. ulations to Mr Yogi Mayer on being ily - Summerminton". The day following the vandalism some appointed MBE. It happens that our surname was the young stone masons in training repaired Every time I come across his name in unoriginal (cf. Nigel Lawson) choice, in and erected the overturned gravestones your splendid publication I can't help preference to Levy, of my father-in-law free of charge and with voluntary labour. wondering if he is the same gentleman when he went into general practice in Calderstones Dr Ellen M Shiffman with whom I and some other likely lads the Chelsea of the nineteen twenties, Uverpool played ice-hockey in the mid-thirties at when antisemitism could well have the 'Wintermarchen' ice-rink in the threatened the size of his patient list. So, Leibnitz Strasse. He won't remember me, intending not to be outdone, it occurred I was at least three or four years younger to me to inform her that we came from TIMES COPIES AJR than he. "...a little place on the East coast, named INFORMATION I took a walk to this place during a re­ after my husband's family - Leigh-on-Sea". Sir - In your evocative piece titled cent visit to Berlin. Alas, the Fortunately the M.O.'s list size was not "Naustalgia (p3, March issue) you 'Wintermarchen' has become a huge car at risk on that occasion. referred to your ante-natal memories of park. Fairdale Gardens Suzanne Lee the Habsburgs and continued: "When Salmon Street GUnter Busse London SWl 5 British journalists filed endless stories London NW9 about Princess Diana... I berated them 'nwardly for not drawing the obvious BINDERS parallel with Empress Elisabeth...". Sir - The avid reader who would like The day after I read your article. The CRI DU COEUR binders for this revered publication will Times had a supplement on Austrian Sir - I was born of a Jewish mother and a find that it is too small for A4 by 22mm holidays (27 Feb). One long item about Jewish father. I am not a Reform convert. and too large for A3. However, a "Sissi" was headed: The life of the Emp- Yet I celebrate Xmas and have a Xmas standard .so-called banker's box, a .sturdy re.ss Elizabeth mirrors Diana's, even down tree in my house. Contrary to folded open cardboard contraption from to the gym visits, says Sebastian O'Kelly. expectations and paradoxically, / feel any office supplier, is at lea.st the right The Habsburg's queen of hearts. Just a Jewish. There must be many ex-Austrian depth and has done .sterling service for coincidence, of course, yet a remarkable Jews like me. Are we Jewish or not my invaluable collection since I joined in one. according to Henry Schragenheim? Who April '92, and one box holds 70 issues ^^therhall Gardens Michael Hellman cares what he thinks? tidily. An index has not been so easy to London NW3 Cheam Inge Trott come by. Surrey Ipswich Frank Bright Suffolk NAUSTALGIA '^'r - Apropos of your report in the SB's COLUMN ^March i.ssue) that a newly built hou.se in Sir - I have always read SB's column with a mixture of delight and irritation. the Midlands was named "'VINDOBONA", Anna Cropper can go one better: When I bought my Delight, because it evokes a splendid house in Ealing in 1948, it had already period in the world of entertainment; and heen named "VINDOBONA" by the irritation, becau.se it does not identify the Dalia Friedland 'English seller. When I expressed surpri.se, authors, composers and performers who star in their own play he was in turn surprised that I should were Jewish - surely an essential piece of Know the origin of the word. information for your readers. ACROSS 'Well", I .said, "actually it means one of Hampstead High Street Ludwig Berlin ^o things to me: one is the name the London NW3 ?HE BRIDGE "omans gave Vienna". "That is interest- '"8", he replied "but I didn't know". "The The true story of two v/omen other" I continued "is the name of a ROMANCE OF v/ho survived the Holocaust 'enne.se coffee house at the corner of JEWISH SURNAMES against all the odds ^alfi.schgasse and the Ring". "That's it", Sir - 1 am reminded of an incident during he explained, "I named the house after my husband's .spell as the M.O. of a at the this cafe because I met my English wife peacetime cavalry (i.e. tank) regiment New End Theatre there, when I had a coffee one Sunday, somewhere in Germany. 27 New End, Hampstead, NW3 aking a rest from installing Austria's first It was ladies' night in the officers' mess, 28th April-1 Oth May Sound installation into the Apollo and I was seated next to the titled lady Cinema". who was the adjutant's mum; we had lit­ Details of performances yNDOBONA" Alfred Lane tle in common and conversation was from Box Office: 0171 794 0022 ^'oremont Road flagging. I enquired where her home (See page 15) '•ondon vv; 3 was. AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1998

who have yet to spend a day at the Cen­ AjR's new social worker GLORIOUS FOOD! tre when they can enjoy such a luncheon, are invited to do so at the ear­ ikki Sender has joined the AJR's othing differentiates peoples, reveals liest opportunity. Please ring either N Social Service Department primarily their geographical origins or assumes N Sylvia, Renee or Susie on 0171 328 0208 to care for an additional 80 clients, greater practical importance in main­ to make a booking. If you require assist­ responsibility for whose welfare is being taining their culture than the style and ance with transportation we will do our transferred from World Jewish Relief. ingredients of their cooking. Confinental very best to help. ^ ^^^^,^ ^^^^^.^^ After graduating from Manchester Uni­ Jewish cuisine of the pre-war era versity, Nikki, who is 27, entered the continues to represent a unique culinary field of social work, specialising in the style which is still enjoyed by people of Typical luncheon menus: particular needs of Jewish clients with central European origin. Whether fried, Menu 1: Scotch broth; schnitzel with Norwood, Ravenswood and, most re­ boiled, steamed, pane or au naturel, if lemon tvedges & duchesse potatoes, Danish cently, Jewish Care. With further studies properly prepared such dishes bring great sweet & sour cucumber salad, or pancakes in p.sychotherapy, Nikki is well qualified pleasure to the eaters and much filled with asparagus; fresh fruit salad. to guide and support people through satisfaction to their creators. Menu 2: Cream of cauliflower soup; lamb difficult periods in their lives. Yoga, The catering team at the Paul Balint hotpot, or asparagus quiche with green walking and 'lots of vegetarian cooking' AJR Day Centre in West Hampstead often beans; plum crumble. help Nikki to unwind after a day spent take pride in re-creating or adapting Menu 3: Lentil soup; fried cod with sharing people's problems, concerns and some of the special dishes which mem­ tartare sauce & lemon wedges, parmentier emotions. ^ ^^^ bers can recall from their childhood. The potatoes & cauliflower with parsley sauce, basic luncheon menu is changed twice a or stir fry vegetables & rice; lockshen week, providing a daily choice of two pudding & cream. main courses and a salad or baked potato Menu 4: Vegetable soup; goulash, pilaff AJR Pinner depending on the time of year. All ingre­ rice & broccoli, or fish veronique; apple Membership of AJR's new group in dients used are kosher, fresh and strudel & cream. Pinner is expanding rapidly, meeting on prepared that day on the premises by the Menu 5: Chicken soup; chicken meatballs the first Thur.sday of every month. Willy AJR's own professional cooks. in tomato sauce with pasta shells, or Ungar recalled the 'Dunera Boys' one­ For many, lunches at the Day Centre vegetable plait with tomato sauce; baked way passage to Au.stralia. E.sther Hoh is to are a highlight of the week. Members apple with vanilla sauce. talk on Ethiopian Jews in April, Richard Grunberger appraises emigre writers in June, and Evelyn Friedlander reveals Maintaining mobility and Georgian synagogues in all their glory in July. For programme details call 0181 866 independence 0185. leading supplier of mobility aids for A the less able and elderly, all of 'Legacy* which help to maintain a person's AJR volunteers went to London's Cockpit independence, displayed them for AJR Theatre to see 'Legacy', by Shaun3 members at the Paul Balint AJR Day Kantor. The play tells the story of ^ Centre. 'Keep Abie's' representative Chris young Jewish-American man who risks Dwyer was in attendance. his life attempting to save a Jewish Among a wide range of items were a photographer in Nazi Germany by wheeled walking frame, a grip with pretending to be her husband. which to grasp things just out of arms' The play, which has already toured in reach, an easy-to-use potato peeler, a the UK and Germany and been seen by back support for chairs, a non-slip TV many schoolchildren who disclose theif tray, an adjustable bedtable, and a tailor- own racist experiences, is an educational made orthopaedic armchair for maximum event both realistic and very moving- ^ comfort. follow-up discussion between the audi' Keep Able have nine branches nation­ ence and the cast - most of whom ar^ wide, three of which are in London. non-Jews - revealed that they themselv'"^* They also offer home assessments on had been deeply affected by the expeO' larger items and in-store advice from ence. Sadly, neo-Nazi antisemitism had qualified therapists. For a product range also been encountered at a performance in Croydon. and price list telephone 0181 201 0810. Members assess various aids to mobility and DRDC independence at the Day Centre. D Debbie Picl^^ AJR INFORMATION APRIL 1998

Volunteer award The indefatigable Irene White, known • • • Viewpcint • • • and admired by many in the AJR as the organiser of AJR Information's tapes for Pope pourri blind and partially sighted members, has been nominated for a Whitbread Volun­ ope John Paul II was elected has held the conservative line firm on teer Action Award in recognition of her to the throne of St Peter in birth control, abortion and women exceptional and unflagging contributions P1978, the first non-Italian to priests. Although a newly-elected Pope to the welfare of others. Established in double as the Bishop of Rome for 450 cannot revoke the decisions of his im­ conjunction with the Home Office and a years. The elevation of this robust mediate predecessor, John Paul packed number of national volunteer agencies, Polish prelate from Krakow to the near the College of Cardinals with a further the award came as a complete surprise to god-like status the position confers, was 22 like-minded cardinals. Cardinal Arch­ Irene who sees it as a spur to greater a reflection of the Church's support for bishop Lustiger of Paris, a hidden child efforts for those, like herself, of refugee Poland's many Catholics at the height of of Jewish birth, is to be found among origin to this country, and certainly not the Cold War and a vote of confidence those of a more liberal persuasion. as an excuse to ease up or retire from in Karol Wojtyla's ability to survive According to custom, on the death of active service! longer than the one month his John Paul, the papers of Pius XII, who immediate predecessor managed to succeeded to the Papacy in 1939, should hold down the job. be opened for scrutiny in the Vatican's Two decades on, John Paul's increas­ archives. Lord Janner's ongoing attempts ing frailty returns the question of St to uncover the origins and destinations Peter's next successor to the agenda. The of gold looted from Holocaust victims cu.stomary denials and obfuscations have succeeded in .securing the release Enjoy which emanate from the current crop of of some 26-year-old edited volumes * Excellent food candidate cardinals only serve to whet from the archives. Questions on gold • Stimulating talk Vatican-watchers' appetites for the smuggled from Nazi Croatia by the Vati­ • Enlivening discussion delicate manouevres which precede the can and used to finance an escape =f Meeting new friends inevitable Sistine Chapel conclave and pipeline and South America haven for confirmatory puff of white smoke. Nazis should not wait for a new reign AjR LUNCHEON CLUB During his reign, Pope John Paul 11 to be an.swered. D Ronald Channing onWednesday 22April 1998 at l5CleveRoad,NW6 3RL 11.45 for 12.1 Spm PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE Guest speaker: Maurice Soffa 15 Cleve Road, West Hampstead. NW6 'University of the Third Age' Mon. & Weds. 9.30am-3.30pm.Tues. 9.30am-5.30pnn.Thurs. 9.30am-6.30pm. Suns. 2pm-6.30pm •* Delicious 3-course kosher lunches • art classes * keep fit * bridge * games • optician * Reservations (£7) * dentist * chiropodist * library * discussion group * shop * clothes sales * from Sylvia, Renee and Susie * advice on pensions & social security * outings & holidays * Tel: 0171 328 0208 * daily musical entertainment programme • Call Sylvia Matus - 0171 328 0208

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Also at the Tate is an exhibition of sculp­ birthday. tures, paintings and drawings by Per Obituaries. The name Max Colpet, Kirkeby, one of Denmark's leading con­ who died in Munich aged 92, may not be temporary artists. Until May 26. familiar to everybody but many of his D Barry Fealdman song lyrics became immensely popular. Colpet who emigrated to the United States in 1933 was a great friend of Billy rinces, Poets and Paladins, at Wilder's; he wrote hundreds of lyrics the British Museum until April 13, both in German and English, for the likes Pprovides a rare opportunity for see­ of Hans Albers, Edith Piaf, Nana ing works of exquisite beauty from Maskouri and Marlene Dietrich (including Turkey, Iran and India, most of which the latter's global hit Where have all the have never before been exhibited in flowers gone). After the war Colpet re­ London, from the collection of Prince turned to Germany where he staged and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan. The German versions of Irma La Douce and exhibition not only includes all the major West Side Story. One of Austria's promi­ periods of Iranian painting, but also nent younger actresses, Nicolin Kunz, important Mughal and Ottoman paintings, daughter of the late lamented baritone together with paintings from Rajput and Erich Kunz, died on New Year's Eve. She nineteenth century works produced for had been a member of the 'Josefstadt' the British in India. The sixteenth century ensemble D Iranian paintings are especially notable for their intricate patterns, pure colour, superb drawing and rich decoration. 60th Anniversary Francis Bacon: The Human Body, at On the 10th November 1998 the German the Hayward Gallery until April 5, is the television network ZDF plans to transmit first major exhibition of Bacon's work in a programme about the Kindertransporte. the UK for over ten years. Included are Scrolls of the Lair, Sii>ifi»i Solomon. IH40-I905. Art Former Kindertransportees willing to paintings from 1945 to the mid-1980s, Treasures of HiigUind. Royal .Academy nil April assist in the preparation of this both single canvases and triptychs, many programme should contact the Editor of of them embodying the imagery for AJR Information D which Bacon is so well known. His con­ tention that paint can make a direct SB's Column assault on the nervous system is well Annely Juda Fine Art demonstrated. German playwright. The works 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) Concurrently at the Hayward is an exhi­ of the German dramatist Gerhart Tel: 0171-629 7578 Fax: 0171-491 2139 bition to mark the ninetieth birthday of A Hauptmann (1862-1946) are large­ CONTEMPORARY PAINTING the pre-eminent photographer Henri ly unknown to the British public. AND SCULPTURE Cartier-Bresson. Shown are many of his Although he reputedly showed Right- Tiost famous photographs portraying Eu­ wing tendencies during the 1930s (when rope from the 1930s to the 1970s. His he was an old man) he had earlier images are memorable for superb tech- expressed deep sympathy for the GERMAIN and t^ique, keen observation, understanding underdog. This was particularly evident EJVGLISH BOOKS and compassion. in his drama Die Weber (The Weavers) Turner and the Scientists, at the Tate which just received a new production at BOUGHT Gallery until June 21, focuses on the the Volksbiihne, Berlin. Other recent Antiquarian, secondhand and 'mpact that scientific technological and revivals at Berlin's Kammerspiele such as modern books of quality architectural subjects and ideas had on Der Biberpelz and Der rote Hahn always wanted. the development of Turner's art. There refocussed interest on this key figure in We're long-standing advertisers ^re iTiajor loans from British and foreign German drama. here and leading buyers of books niuseums and galleries, as well as many The Munich Opera Festival (25 June from A)R members. '^ss familiar works from the Tate - 31 July) promises an impressive pro­ Immediate response to your letter Collection. gramme ranging from Mozart and Wagner or phone call. Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolf­ events to ballet, Lieder recitals and con­ We pay good prices and son de Botton Gift, a display of 50 certs. These feature such international come to collect. Works given to the Tate Gallery by Janet stars as Placido Domingo and Montserrat Caballe and a number of British partici­ Please contact: •^e Botton, is on view until April 26. Robert Hornung IVf A(Oxon) pants, including Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, *^aintings, drawings, sculptures and pho­ 2 Mount View, Ealing, nographs by mainly American and British Margaret Price and Dennis O'Neill. London W; IPR artists, including Andy Warhol, Frank Birthday. Internationally-known film Telephone 0181-998 0546 Stella, Julian Schnabel and Richard Long, and theatre director, opera producer and (Spm to 9pm is best) range from the 1960s to the present day. designer Franco Zeffirelli had his 75th

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Leo Baeck's next president Exile Archive FORTHCOMING EVENTS he Exile Archive has been tuart Willner is to be installed as the -APRIL 1998 established at the Institute of Snext president of the Leo Baeck (Lon­ Germanic Studies within the past don) Lodge of B'nai B'rith, having already T held several senior offices including those Ongoing: Surviving the Holocaust academic year - 1996-97. Founded in 1950 with the Russian Jewish as an independent research establishment of vice-president, secretary of the Leo Partisans: Story of Jack within the University of London, the Insti­ Baeck Housing Association and co-chair­ Kagan, Jewi.sh Mu.seum, tute differs from other organisations, man of the Cultural Activities Committee. During his presidential term B'nai B'rith Britain, Zionism & British handling exile material in these important Jews: Jewish Museum, respects: (a) it is the only national centre is undertaking a major international reor­ ganisation which, by next year, will bring Camden Town (until 21 for Germanic studies in the UK and as June) Sun-Thurs, 10am-4pm, about the merger of lodges in Great Brit­ such has become an officially recognised ±3 national research re.source, open to all re­ ain with those in Europe within a single Brussels-based organisation. Life & Times of NM searchers (including members of the Rothschild, 1777-1836: Since his retirement in 1990 Stuart has public); (b) it benefits from its geographi­ Museum of London, London been an AJR volunteer and serves on the cally central position in London; (c) the Wall, EC2 (until 26 July) exile material is not confined solely to the house committee at Balint House. Tues-Sun, £.4 1930s and 1940s but has a wider historical n RDC Thur 2 Ethiopian Jews: Esther perspective, since there have been Ger­ Holt, Pinner AJR, 1 Cecil manic migrants to this country both in Honour for Leon Greenman Park, 2pm previous centuries and since. Whitechapel-born Auschwitz survivor Sun 5 100 Years of the Bund: The institute had already had entmsted Leon Greenman received an OBE from Majer Bogdanski and Esther to it the papers of individuals such as the Queen at Buckingham Palace in Brun.stein. Jewish Mu.seum, Finchley, 3pm, i2 Rudolf Majut, Herbert Thoma and recognition of his lifetime's fight against Mon 6 Heines Leben und Werke Berthold Auerbach, who fled persecution fascism in Britain. Leon, who lost his wife (IN GERMAN): Elsina under National Socialism in Germany and and only child in Auschwitz, still attends Stubbs MA. Club 43, Spm Austria during the 1930s, together with the Jewish Museum in Finchley most Mon 20 The Suez Crisis in tho.se of distinguished British academics, Sundays to impress upon younger gen­ Perspective: Laurie Milner, such as William Rose and Jethro Bithell, erations the need to condemn inhuman who sought to help them settle, find em­ historian. Imperial War acts unreservably and, if necessary, to Museum. Club 43, 8pm ployment and get their work published. fight for basic human rights D However, since the setting up of the Thur 23 South London AJR Get- Together: Prentis Road Research Centre for German and Austrian Synagogue Exile Studies within the Institute, the President re-elected Mon 27 New Ways of Laser Library has begun to attract archival do­ Israel's President Ezer Weizman has been Treatment: Julian Winer nations from other emigres, and has re-elected by the Knesset to a .second BSc DO MRO. Club 43, Spm material relating to both individuals and term of office. Weizman is noted for his Tiie 2S Journey Imagery in outspoken comments and support for the organisations (e.g. the Isle of Man intern­ German Political peace process D ment camps). Archival material collected Discourse: Andreas so far comprises a variety of formats: cor­ Musolff, Aston University. respondence, literary manuscripts, birth, German Research marriage and death certificates, naturali­ Colloquium, Sussex sation papers, compensation forms, 50 YEARS AGO University, 5.15pm photographs and personal accounts of May the experiences of exile life. JAN MASARYK Tue 5 British Pacifist's Rescue of The papers are preserved and managed What an inauspicious beginning for a year in which a German Jew: Nick as part of the .superb research resource Mahatma Gandhi Is assassinated and Jan Masaryl« • '• Tucker. Su.ssex Univer.sity, which the Institute's Library offers. Quali­ commits suicide. 5.15pm fied staff are on hand to receive and Jan Masaryk was a good and trusted friend of the ORGANISATION CONTACTS integrate material as well as an.swer en­ Jewish people. He had inherited from his great fa­ Club '43, at Belsize Square Synagogue. quiries and both published sources and ther an unquenchable thirst for freedom which he shared with Benes and the best part of the Hans Seelig 01442 254 360 archival material are described in elec­ Czechoslovakian people. This love and respect of Jewish Museum, Camden Town, 129/ tronic databases. liberty made him the natural advocate of all op­ 131 Alben Street, NWl 7NB. Tel: 0171 It is intended to expand this new pressed and persecuted. 2S4 1997, and at Sternberg Centre Archive, and anyone who has interesting His practical help for all Jewish causes when he re­ Sternberg Centre for Judaism/ material for which the Institute may pro­ sided in London during the war has gained him Jewish Museum, Finchley, 80 East vide a suitable home is invited to contact many friends in our midst; his courageous stand at End Road, N3 2SY. Tel: OlSl 346 2288 the International forums of Geneva and Lake Suc­ University of Sussex Centre for the Librarian at Institute of Germanic cess will earn him for ever an honoured place in Studies, 29 Russell Square, London ECIB the memory of Israel • German-Jewish Studies. Diana 5DP. Tel: 0171-580-3480; Fax 0171-436- AJR lnformatior\,April 1948 Franklin 0181 3S1 4721 or 01273 678 771 3497 D Jennifer Hogarth, Archivist

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at the time) so my father renounced his The lost Heimat right to repossess. From an interview with Bea Green that In Munich things were a bit different. I NEWTONS appears in 'Miinchner Nachkriegsjabre' didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. I Leading Hampstead Solicitors published by the City of Munich, 1997. was amazed at how much I could re­ 22 Fitzjohns Avenue, member. In a way it felt like coming London NW3 5NB was 26 years old when I came back home; at the same time I felt I'd been 'k All English legal work here with a group of architectural banished. Was I happy? Was I sad? There undertaken and German, I students. I myself didn't study archi­ I was with a group of students who Swiss & Austrian claims tecture but was teaching languages. I was didn't .speak German. I was responsible ^ German spoken curious as to how I would react to this for them, I had to look after them. It was * Home visits arranged city. When we arrived we met some my Munich, my town. We stayed some­ journalists that wanted to talk to us. They where near the main station that first -k Associated offices in Hamburg, interviewed me and asked me all sorts of night. The very station from which I had Los Angeles,Tel Aviv, Sydney, Zurich questions. I remember well what I told left some twelve years earlier. So I had them: that I was impressed by the come back. But it was no longer my Tel: 0171 435 5351 amount of reconstruction that had taken Heimat. It was like coming home but I Fax: 0171 435 8881 place. In London things were going more was no longer at home there. I had been slowly. But people were going on and on excluded, banished, almost like some about the amount of serious damage biblical character. bombs had caused, to the point that 1 Once when I returned in 1983 with my JACKMAN • asked: Well, and who started it? The husband we went out to have a meal; the J interview appeared in the paper next day smell was so evocative, reminded me so SILVERMAN ~ all but that last sentence. That did much of my childhood. You cannot get COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS annoy me at the time. that smell anywhere else in the world. There was a lady I met, the wife of a That's Munich: potato salad? sauerkraut? colleague of my father's. She stated: beer? I don't know. I cried, that's all. My 'There you are. How lucky you were. husband asked: "What's the matter"? "I You escaped all this". I was shocked but don't know", I answered. Five minutes too diffident then to say anything. later he asked: "Einished"? "No" was all I 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA I also went to see Dr Spanier who'd could say. Even today I don't know Telephone: 0171 409 0771 Fax: 0171 493 8017 '^een our family doctor. He'd been a doc­ whether I cried for something lost or tor in Theresienstadt and had survived. I something found. I recounted this to a remembered him as very tall and stout, good friend of mine who comes from ^e opened the door - he'd shrivelled, Wales and she said: "We have a word for •^nly his head was still large - he nearly that feeling in Welsh: hiraetb". It's a kind cried when he saw me. He opened his of Heimweh, a retrospective longing, the 3rms and said: "Beate, my infant!" It was pain of irretrievable loss. he who'd delivered me. 1 don't think I ever felt hate. I was furi­ Well, then we drove to Walchensee ous and disappointed, yes, and also sad. ^here we had always gone for our holi­ Going along the Prinzregentenstrasse I Israel's Finest Wines days. We got to Einsiedel and then, came to the house that my best friend round the bend, there lay the lake. Just Lotte Schwarzschild used to live in. She'd from the before the driver had stopped to give gone, disappeared, no trace of her. That Golan Heights someone a lift. That bothered me at the made me sad. But there were also good t'rne. I should have preferred to be quite people in Munich, decent people who Yarden, Golan & Gamla alone so I could savour the moment to were not Nazis. They felt powerless Write, phone or fax the full. I did savour it all the same; it through fear. Fear for themselves and for full Information ''Vent straight to my heart. I had created a their families. Not many dared stand up "foment of space for myself. I went all to terror D House of Hallgarten over the village, everywhere, but espe­ Dallow Road, Luton LU1 1UR cially to the little house that used to Tel: 01582 22538 belong to us, in which Dr K now lived, LEO BAECK HOUSE Fax: 01582 23240 •^e had bought it from my father when The Bishop's Avenue, London N2 the Gestapo threatened to burn it over ANNUAL €DCN DAT our heads if we ever went there again. ERRATUM - In Heine in England, pS, Apparently Baldur von Schirach wanted &CAZAAK March issue, the line 'I met murder on It. So rny father managed to sell it to a the way/He had a mask like Castlereagh' Sunday 21 June 3-5pm client of his for a fraction of its value. He (from The Mask of Anarchy) was wrongly could have got it back after the war. But Entry £3 incl. tea & cakes attributed to Byron. The poem is by r K was a decent chap and his wife was (children free) Shelley D Jewish (which my father had not known

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Obituaries SEARCH NOTICES Greta Barmas to this country shortly before war broke Marie (Margot) Loewenstein (nee out; the rest of the family, alas, did not Hamburger), born 14 December 1896 In iennese born Greta Barmas has survive. Initially working as domestic in Nikolai, Kreis Pless, Schlesien, emigrated to died, aged 87. The daughter of a various capacities; she later worked with Great Britain on 26 August 1939, former V soft drinks manufacturer, she had Madame Leiberg and later still as book­ wife of Dr Karl Loewenstein. American spent her early years less in study rather keeper in a handbag factory. post-graduate research student Is seeking than in sport which remained a lifelong When she retired she devoted her en­ Information about her. Replies to: Tom hobby. (She could still do handstands at ergy and common-sense approach to the Lampert, Gneisenaustr. 98, 10961 Berlin, 80). She trained as a book-keeper and residence of the Otto Schiff House in Germany Tel: 0049 30/ 695 09148). came to England as a domestic just Netherhall Gardens, as well as to the Leo before the Anschluss. Baeck (London) Lodges Day Centre at David Stewart, ex 3-Troop, 10 Com­ In 1940 she married John Barmas who, Daleham Gardens, where she and her mando. Your old friends are getting older after war service, worked in advertising. team "fed" the hungry". Last but by no and fewer.Those of us still living, in the UK, They had a happy marriage, but Greta means least she will be remembered for USA, Canada, NZ, Germany and elsewhere, Was widowed relatively early. However, her untiring efforts, together with would love to hear from you and/or your the family circle was renewed when her Margarete Jacoby, for the AJR Club and family. Alice & Colin Anson, 22 Elm Avenue, daughter Susan married and eventually its annual bazaar at the Hannah Watford. Herts. WD I 4BE (UK). Tel: 01923 made her a grandmother. Karminski Hou.se. 24 1924. Greta was an AJR member and a volun­ teer, both at Berkeley Street Synagogue Laura Howe adds to our obituary of Prof Emil Klein (1873-1950), lived and in the canteen of the Western Oph­ Anita Kaufmann. with his family and practised Naturheil- thalmic Hospital. She is mourned by her It was a great joy to have known her; kunde (treatment with natural remedies) surviving sisters and Susan's family. her gaiety and lively spirit were very in­ 1908-24 In Berlin's Hansa and Weissensee fectious. Not only did she drive AJR districts, then In Jena till 1933 before members to and from the Day Centre; returning to Berlin, assisted by his son she would help when she could, to get Thomas. Imprisoned in Theresienstadt Irma Woodman shopping or take home someone just dis­ with his wife 1942-45. Returned to Jena ur community recently suffered charged from hospital. Car rides with postwar. Biographer Dr Winfrled Llebrich, the loss of Irma Woodman, born Anita were great experiences. She drove Moselstr. 43, D-16341 Zepernick. Tel/Fax: Oin Homburg, who died in her very well but fast. Simultaneously, con­ 0049 30 944 5783. wishes to meet or 97nd year, after a long and painful illness versation was fast and amusing. hear from anyone who knew Klein or bravely born. I shall remember her with great affec­ reladves personally or as a patient 1933-42 Irma Woodman and her brother came tion D Simon Family of Krefeld. The Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition Project Office wishes to speak to former emotionally and intellectually. I very residents of Krefeld who may recall the 'Across the Bridge' strongly recommend its performance". Simons. Documents detailing the family's A number of Jewish and Christian or­ attempts to join their daughter Martha cross the Bridge portrays the ganisations have associated themselves and her husband Hugo Hochschild In encounter of two women who with the production at the New End Chile require amplification. Please call A survived the camps and a death Theatre in Hampstead from 28th April to James Taylor or Petra Wostefeld on 0171 "larch against all odds. 10th May and details of performances 416 5204/5285/5286. This one-act play, written and and a discu.ssion with the authors after performed by Anna Cropper and Dalia the fall of the curtain are available from Zoldeszter. A daughter of the late Rabbi Friedland, was premiered at the Beth the Box Office, Tel: 0171 794 0022. Bernard Zoldeszter of Romania (later of Shalom Holocaust Centre, then n Ronald Channing Budapest and a confidant of Theodor performed to great acclaim at Yad Herzl) is seeking knowledge of anyone ^ashem in Israel, and features specially with that name. Please phone 0171 435 composed music by Ayala Asherov. Anna Cropper, whose career spans 40 0720. Fifty years after their liberation, Victoria years, is well known for her m-jiny television "incent and Trude Levi meet, share their roles which include Jewel in the Crown, Refugee photography project. Aus­ experiences and delve into their mean- has won awards and performed leading trian student photographer Robert I'lg, in an attempt to comprehend the roles for Britain's foremost playwrights. Flelschanderl, taking an MA at Goldsmiths issues of survival. Dalia Friedland, who trained with Anna College, wishes to interview and take Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem's lead- at the Central School of Speech and pictures of German-speaking refugees in "^8 historian, said: "I have seen quite a Drama, returned to Israel to became a their London homes. Please contact him t^umber of plays on the Holocaust and leading actress with Habima, Israel's via Debbie Picker at AJR office. D '"is one is unique; its impact is great. national theatre. AJR INFORMATION APR/L 1998

Oona King recalled her childhood as NEWSROUND Warning against the the daughter of a black American father (a lecturer at LSE at the age of 22) and a Fears re-awakened by resurgent Right Newcastle-Jewish mother (a teacher), Hungarian neo-Nazis growing up in North London with an Six hundred neo-Nazi skinheads of the ona King, 30-year-old MP for early active interest in politics. To suc­ Hungarian National Eront Line marched London's Bethnal Green and ceed in being adopted as a parliamentary through Budapest carrying German war­ OBow, warned that support for candidate she set out to gain the confi­ time flags and proclaiming Nazi heroes of the extreme political Right was on the dence of the Muslim Bangladeshis, the WWII. Hungarian Holocaust survivors, increase across Europe. It was an largest single group among her constitu­ now eligible to receive $400 from the unpalatable if surprising fact that electoral ents, and to allay their fears on account Swiss compensation fund, harbour fears legitimacy had been regained by them of both her Jewish and Negro ancestry. which make them reluctant to join the list relatively few years after World War II. Ms. Since the election of May 1997 Oona of claimants. King was addressing a meeting of the King has represented the poorest and Guild of Jewish Journalists at the House of most ethnically diverse parliamentary Berlin memorial Commons. constituency in Britain. On arriving at the Four new designs for a Holocaust memo­ The situation in France - where Jean Commons, she was genuinely surprised rial in Berlin have been shortlisted. Marie Le Pen had begun campaigning to be told that there had been only 239 Opponents, questioning their size and with insignificant support, yet his party women MPs in its entire history, a total appropriateness, are calling for the now polled up to 40% in certain constitu­ which included herself within the impres­ project's cancellation, but Chancellor encies - should act as a warning against sive intake of 120 'Blair babes'. Kohl has indicated that the chosen design any complacency in the UK where racial "The world is becoming an increasingly is to be built early next year. problems could no longer be swept un­ multi-cultural village", she stated, "conse­ der the carpet. January had witnessed the quently we should be entering the long Pilsen Great Synagogue opening of the first branch of the Ku- prcx:ess of reconciliation". She hoped that The Great Synagogue in the Bohemian Klux-Klan in Britain in her constituency. her own contribution would help to lay town of Pilsen in the Czech Republic, Among a considerable body of per­ the groundwork for greater understand­ Europe's second largest, has been re­ verted material posted on the uncensored ing between the Muslim and Jewish stored and reopened with a grant from international computer information ex­ communities in Britain. Prejudices had to the Czech Government. As Pilsen's 3,000 change, the Internet, a so-called 'game' be put aside and it was incumbent on the Jews nearly all perished in the Holocaust, entitled Gas Chamber gave points for the Jewish community to keep these matters the synagogue will be used for exhibitions number of Jews killed and bonuses for at the top of the agenda. and concerts as well as High-Holyday stealing gold and killing gypsies! D Ronald Channing services.

Papon testimony Testimony favourable to Maurice Papon, who is standing trial for authorising the Second generation those who did not survive, came through deportation of 1,560 Jews to their deaths clearly. in Germany, makes acquittal a possibility. at Beth Shalom A wide-ranging question and answer Witnesses connected with the Resistance session elicited the following points: a gave evidence that Papon warned of considerable factual knowledge is re­ round-ups of Jewish families and asked embers and friends of the Second quired to make any sense of a personal for Jewish children to be taken to safer Generation Network from Lon­ story; it is sometimes 'risky' to speak areas. Mdon, Bristol, Birmingham, Man­ about survivor experiences; it may be chester and Liverpool gathered at Beth beneficial to bring together people from Castle for sale Shalom Holocaust Memorial Centre in different racial or cultural backgrounds. Colditz Castle in Saxony, which held Nottinghamshire to air their particular The day was very full and the winter 1,500 Allied officer PoWs during the war, concerns with its Director, Stephen Smith. weather mild enough to allow us to enjoy is seeking a buyer willing to restore its Stephen recalled how, as a teenager, he the memorial gardens. We felt cared for by 700 rooms and decaying fabric. Eleven had learned of the Holocaust during a the Smith family and very moved by what British and twelve French officers con­ family visit to Israel and begun a journey we had .seen and experienced. founded the Germans' belief that escape which, including years of study, eventu­ D Margaret Arenias from the castle was impossible. ally brought him to realise his vision of Second Generation Network Beth Shalom. Three threads ran through Internet antisemitism its exhibits: a narrative of the Holocaust A report commissioned by the Inter-Par­ from the victims' perspective, photo­ liamentary Council Again.st Antisemitism graphs which added a visual image and The AJR wishes all identified more than 600 antisemitic and eye-witness accounts. The message that other racist web sites, mainly American those of us who are connected to these its members militia, white supremacist and neo-Nazi events, through our own history as mem­ groups. bers of either the first or the next a Happy Pesach a RDC generation, have a duty to speak for

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