Journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees

VOLUME 3 No. 8 AUGUST 2003 journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees

Watch on the Rhine - and the Danube

For months now, stretching into years, MoUemaim's Austrian counterpart is, of the Middle East has so monopolised course, Jorg Haider. Though Haider, the World interest that little attention has owner of a Nazi-expropriated country been paid to other parts of the globe. estate in Carinthia, does not have to Even we, who have every reason to resort to fraud, he performs similar high- follow events in the European heartland wire stunts. His (aforementioned) eve-of- closely, have only kept a fitful watch on war visit to Saddam and other maverick the Rhine and the Danube. actions have diminished his electoral Not that German-Austrian action - or, appeal - in spite of which he remains an essential, if semi-detached, member of more precisely, inaction - has not had a Austria's governing coalition. The (marginal) effect on the situation in Iraq. coalition's leader. Chancellor Schussel, it Schroder's election-winning pacifism almost goes without saying, sided with must have been a comfort to Saddam, Chancellor Schroder - and not with even if - so rumour has it - he President Havel or the leaders of delegated one of his many look-alikes Hungary or Poland - in the Europe-wide Gunter Grass to receive the soi-disant Austrian split over Iraq. pacifist Jorg Haider. sind unser Ungliick' - the Jews are our As a participant in the governing What one findss o puzzling about this misfortune). During the council debate a coalition, Haider is in a position to eruption of pan-German pacifism is that spokesman for the majority argued that obstruct Schiissel's proposed pensions 't has not lessened the regard in which since Heinz Galinski, postwar leader of reform. The ongoing pensions crisis Hindenburg is held. When the Berlin Berlin's Jewish community, drove threatens the country's financialstabilit y - Senate recently discussed a proposal to through Heinrich von Treitschke Strasse but, coincidentally, provides the rescind the Freedom ofthe City awarded daily en route to his office without demur, govemment with a reason for cutting off to the Reichsprdsident during the the name should remain! state subsidies to the cash-strapped Weimar years, the motion was lost. A more worrying straw in the wind is Jewish community. The 6,700-strong Israelitische Kultusgemeinde has already Hindenburg, let us remember, was, that Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass had to shed a third of its 100 employees. A Jomtly with Ludendorff, 'supreme war seems disposed towards joining point of contention between it and the •ord' m 1916-18 when, sidelining the nationalist historians Hke Jorg Friedrich, Compromise-minded Reichstag entirely, govemment concems the huge cost of who are engaged in a 'relativisation of security. The community is loath to the High Command waged a gruesome evil' summed up in the formula 'Dresden Suerre a outrance. Even ignoring entrust its security to the Austrian equals Auschwitz'. Possibly swayed by Hmdenburg's supine role during the police - and the state wants it to the bestseller status of Friedrich's work death agonies of Weimar, how can the dispense with the services of veteran depicting Allied air raids on German ^Pital of a country awash with pacifist Mossad operatives. cities. Grass has made the Russian Sentiment wish to honour a militarist - While these arguments rumble on, time drowning of German civilian evacuees in ^d an (ultimately) unsuccessful one - as well as cash - is rapidly running out the icy waters of the Baltic a central at that? and, even before the next edition of AJR episode in his new novel Im Krebsgang Joumal drops on your doormats, the Something equally disturbing has (Crab Walk - see review on page 10 of Viermese Jewish community - once the ^curred at the lower level of the this issue). richest and one of the most prestigious in •Municipal administration. The "borough But there is one bright light among the Europe - may have ceased its corporate council' of the Bedin middle-class encircling gloom: the demise of FDP existence. Hitler, who dubbed Vienna a district of Steghtz has refused to rename demagogue and fi^aud suspect Jurgen 'mongrel city' because of its Jews and ^^ Heinrich von Treitschke Strasse Mollemann, who put German-Jewish Slavs, will be laughing in hell - and [Jreitschke, a nineteenth-century relations under severe strain during the Haider won't exactly be weeping into his •^storian, notoriously stated Die Juden last Federal elections. beer either. AJR JOURNAL AUGUST 2003

Shia malevolence 'More than a change of address': Richard Grunberger a Second Generation conference In mid-June 10,000 demonstrators, is held in London shepherded by Shia clergy, marched through Basra to demand an end to Barbara Dorrity British occupation. They did so without let or hindrance, and laughably The first conference in the UK organised developed between one of her clients unmindful of the fact that in by and for the so-called Second and their parent, when the parent neighbouring Iran, where black- Generation has taken place in London. became seriously ill. Communication, turbaned mullahs rule over an The two conferences held in the mid- physical and emotional, which had increasingly restive populace, a similar 1990s were organised by Link, which previously been difficult, now blossomed demonstration against the authorities provides psychotherapy services to the in a manner which was healing for would have been brutally put down by Jewish community. both parties. police and chain-wielding vigilantes. Struck by the sell-out popularity of the Morning and aftemoon workshops Another fact the Basra marchers AJR's event 'Heritage of the Past: reflected a range of interests: creative seemed unconscious of was that, while Blessing or Burden?' (in October 2002, expression in writing and painting; they clamour for freedom, they are not organised jointly with the Jewish memory and memorialisation; tracing prepared to grant it to half their fellow- Museum), members of the Second citizens, i.e. women. Shia rule thus family history through official records Generation Network were inspired to and personal correspondence; dialogue constitutes a twofold dictatorship: an stage the conference, which took place at unelected clergy lord it over the laity - between descendants of victims and of the St John's Wood Liberal Synagogue and in each household the men rule perpetrators; mixed heritage and was generously supported by the over the women. (The difficulty of backgrounds; relationships between the Institute of Contemporary History and bestowing democracy on an generations; and Jewish identity. authoritarian-minded electorate has Wiener Library. It was a resounding success, with 150 participants from The final panel of three UK speakers - been amply demonstrated in Algeria, the playwright Julia Pascal, the human where a French-backed secularist around the world, including Israel, the rights worker Sheila Melzak and the government has long - and at huge USA, Canada, Germany and Austria. The cost in human lives - denied power proceedings were filmed and it is hoped a human ecologist and anthropologist Paul to fundamentalists enjoying book will also result. Maiteny - addressed links between family background and choice (conscious popular support.) Keynote speakers were Yolanda or not) of career. A third consideration the Basra Gampel, Professor of Psychology at Tel 'freedom' protesters totally ignored Aviv University, and Dina Wardi, a This was not a conference at which was highlighted by the ceremony at the specialist in psychotherapy with proposals, resolutions or action plans end of their march, which had three members of the second generation in were made. Issues relating to the 'third white-clad children standing on a dais Israel and author of the widely known generation' were barely touched upon- and chanting 'Down, down, tyranny - Memorial Candles (along with Helen The Second Generation in the UK is stiU down, down the Jews!' Epstein's Children of the Holocaust and in its early stages compared to that m In other words, while Hamas et at Ann Karpf s The War After, probably the America or Canada, and is still finding make no distinction between the IDF most well-known books about the out about itself. However, the energy at and Israeli civilians, the mullahs have Second Generation experience). the conference and positive responses not only Israel, but world Jewry as a Dealing most effectively with post-lunch indicate that the UK's Second whole, in their gun sights. They are lethargy was the American prize- Generation 'movement' still has mucn today's mini-Eichmanns; whereas he was a Schreibtischmorder (desk winning author Lev Raphael, who potential to develop its focus. murderer), they are would-be pulpit weaves his understanding as the son of For information about future events, murderers. survivors into his novels. contact Second Generation Network How perverse that this should be Particularly moving was Dina Wardi's on mailCffisecondgeneration.org '^ happening in Iraq, where Jews settled - account of the closeness which www.secondgeneration.org. albeit involuntarily - fully 1,000 years before the Anglo-Saxons came to AJR Journal Britain! This ancient community Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief produced immensely talented people JACKMAN • Ronald Channing Executive Editor SILVERMAN before its near-total extinction. 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Colours of skin and mind Richard Grunberger NEWTONS Leading Hampstead Solicitors advise on 'Brown is the new black', proclaims Cambridge light. (The recent TV series Property, Wills, Family Trusts Meera Syal of Goodness Gracious fame, about Burgess, Maclean et al entitled and Charitable Trusts and, as she is a television personality, Cambridge Spies could more intriguingly none would gainsay hen What her have been called 'Light-Blue Reds'.) The French and German spoken cryptic utterance means is that, in the phrase 'true blue' identified apukka Tory Home visits arranged rich mix of multicultural Britain, India - when the Conservatives were the the source oi Bombay Nights and curry - natural party of government. At the 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, has replaced the Afro-Caribbean as the time, they were also often led by blue- London NW3 SNB flavour ofthe month. bloods like the Marquess of Salisbury. Teh 020 7435 5351 Though in this context black and A colour which has only relatively Fax: 020 7435 8881 brown denote skin colour, in another recently entered the political spectrum time and place they had political is green. In the West as a whole, the connotations. In pre-Anschluss Austria colour denotes the environmental lobby the authoritarian Dollfuss/Schuschnigg - but in Germany, where the Greens govemment was dubbed die Schwarzen participate in govemment, they are both CONSULTANT because of its links to the Catholic eco-warriors and militant pacifists. In to long established English Priesthood (dressed in clerical black). the East, green is the colour of militant Solicitors (bi-lingual German) Since the Anschluss brought die Islam. Gruesomely masked Hamas would be happy to assist clients ^raunen (Nazi brownshirts) to power, it fanatics march under green banners with English, German and could well have been said in 1938 Vienna adorned with Koranic inscriptions; not Austrian problems. that 'Brown is the new black.' so long ago a 'little green book' - probably Contact Henry Ebner (Incidentally, black is not only connected inspired by Chairman Mao - contained Myers Ebner & Deaner ^th the clerical element in Roman the distilled wisdom of Colonel Gadaffi. 103 Shepherds Bush Road '-Catholicism. In Judaism too, the ultra- Things get even nastier when we get London W6 7LP orthodox are sometimes referred to as to the colour yellow. In popular parlance, Telephone 020 7602 4631 Schwarz; black-turbaned mullahs, of 'showing a yellow streak' denotes ALL LEGAL WORK Course, play a special role in Shia Islam.) cowardice. The 'yellow press' refers to a UNDERTAKEN No colour carries a heavier baggage of scandal-mongering corrupt media. l^litical meaning - both positive and Dostoevsky readers may recall that •^^gative - than red. In interwar Austria Raskolnikov's love Sonja carried a 'he rightwing militia leader Prince yellow prostitute's passport entitling her ^tarhemberg routinely referred to the to ply her trade. Even more defamatory AUSTRIAN and GERMAN îal Democrats as die roten Hunde (red was the connection between the colour PENSIONS ôgs). Contrariwise, the Red Banner yellow and the Jews - from the âs one of the highest decorations a obligatory pointed Judenhut of the PROPERTY So^Vie t citizen could aspire to - and Middle Ages to the Nazi-decreed Gelber RESTITUTION CLAIMS "ofe Rosa was the affectionate nickname Fleck, which earmarked millions of EAST GERMANY - BERLIN bestowed on the martyred Rosa wearers for slaughter On instructions our office will Li«cemburg. Contrariwise, two of the world's most assist to deal with your On this side of the Channel, where powerful entities - the Chinese nation applications and pursue the matter 'Clitics are less sanguinary, 'Reds under and the Vatican - glory in the colour with the authorities. ^ beds' caused a stir once, CND yellow. To the Chinese, whites look Jhanted 'Better Red than Dead', and Old 'underdone' and brownskins For further information labourites sang 'The people's flag is 'overcooked', while they themselves are and an appointment please contact: ^^Pest pink/It's not as red as you may the golden mean. A very pleasing pale ^' even before Tony Blair's arrival shade of yellow also happens to be the ICS CLAIMS at No. 10. colour of the Papal flag. Speaking of the 146-154 Kilburn High Road •'^tually, in Britain blue has more of a Pope - the white-red Polish flag London NW6 4JD "^8 to it than red. The colour is apparently depicts the watery discharge Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) Conlecte d with the two ancient and the blood flowing from the first Fax: 020 7624 5002 îniv,ersities : Oxford dark blue and wound ofthe crucified Christ. AJR JOURNAL AUGUST 2003

Sir Alexander Korda strode like a won an Oscar for Charles Laughton colossus across the inter-war and Film knight and virtually revived the home film immediate post-war history of the industry ofthe 1930s. He went on to infant British film industry - the Ronald Channing make such classics as Catherine the country's only film mogul. He Great, The Scarlet Pimpernel, produced films infused with British Sanders ofthe River, Things to Come, patriotism - even jingoism - often as Fire Over England and Storm in a a coded riposte, couched in Teacup. historical allegory, to the looming After a second interlude in fascist threat from Continental Hollywood, from 1940 to 1942, he Europe. Ironically, these most returned to London in 1943 to make British of films were crafted by some of the most memorable of teams which included writers, British films, including The Shop at cameramen, set designers, musical Sly Comer and An Ideal Husband soundtrack composers and (1947), Anna Karenina and The costume-makers who, like Korda, WinslowBoy (1948), The Third Man were refugee Hungarian Jews. (1949), and The Happiest Days of Professor Greg Walker of the Your Life, his last filmi n 1950. University of Leicester guided an Korda's films of the 1930s enthralled audience, invited by the displayed a distinct Institute for Jewish Policy Research, humanitarianism, several of them Sir Alexander Korda, the Parkes Centre at the University Britain's only movie mogul containing anti-fascist motifs. He of Southampton and the Jewish portrayed England as a country Council for Racial Equality, through Vienna the following year (making standing above and against a fascist a fascinating debate on Korda's two films), he began to earn the threat and favoured rearmament. An 'Enghshness and Jewishness'. reputation of a cultural chameleon. historical film calling for naval ships Born Sando Laslo Kelner, a village Despite little money or work, he was a plea for an expansion of the child, Korda attended a Jewish rapidly assimilated and presented RAF. Likewise, Leslie Howard's primary school and was brought up the image of a wealthy film man. For unforgettable Scarlet Pimpernel, in a Jewish cultural environment. Korda the ability to assimilate, as smuggling people out of Following the death of his father, in with many other refugees, was a revolutionary France, mirrored SAS the early 1900s he moved to school strategic move, particularly in an special operations. in Budapest, 'a city profoundly image-conscious industry. He Professor Walker believed that Jewish in character', where he followed a similar path in Berlin in Korda 'should be taken more changed his name from Kelner to 1923, making five films there before seriously as a political film maker- Korda, and then from Sandor to emigrating to Hollywood in 1927. Though Korda made pro-refuge^ Alexander. Having lived a Jewish In 1931 Korda arrived in London, and anti-fascist films while denying communal life, according to having apparently left all his his own Jewish ancestry. Professor Professor Walker, his Jewishness Jewishness behind him. Perhaps in Walker saw both his Jewishness and was by no means a marginal Britain there was too ready an his adopted Englishness as essentia^ influence. Yet he denied his ethnic acceptance of his downgrading his to his work. Indeed, he formed an origins. Korda's identity was always former religious identity. Yet Korda alliance with Winston Churchill and somewhat 'ill defined' as he chose to always remained generous to his other 'little Englanders'- manipulate his origins to suit his fellow Hungarian refugees. Paradoxically, it seems that, as a current needs. Director, screenwriter, producer foreigner, Korda picked up the Korda had begun his film career in and executive producer at one time essence of Britain's national culture Budapest, writing scripts and or another, Korda produced an and was able to present it on the directing a film each year from 1914 amazing string of 51 films, including screen to the British with gr^a to 1919. W^en he migrated to The Private Life of Henry VIII, which conviction. AJR JOURNAL AUGUST 2003

An accusation Bill Oakfield

Haven of refuge him to the Public Record Office in Shapiro explains it this way: 'While Between 1939 and 1945 a total of London (now the National Archives at they were more than conscious of their 225,000 German and Austrian Jews Kew) and to hitherto classified obligations to their European perished in the Holocaust, including government files, sealed for over coreligionists, they were also 90 per cent of the parents of those 50 years. determined to protect their own who came to England under the This mosaic of evidence confirms positions in British society. For the Kindertransport scheme. We all think that a substantial number of Jewish Anglo-Jewish leadership during the that we know why our families died in refugees could have been saved and Nazi crisis the overriding priority was the Shoah. We thought that all allowed to settle in Northern to defend their status as loyal British countries had closed their borders to Rhodesia. Mr Shapiro presented his subjects and, at the same time, retain Jewish refugees in 1938/39. findings in 2002 in his book Haven in their stature in the Jewish Community Right? Wrong. There was one Africa (published by Gefen in Israel and not feel threatened by any country to which no Jew was ever and New York), in which he described antisemitic claim of dual loyalty.' refused a visa - the British protectorate all the settlement schemes which were I lived in England for 55 years and of Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). examined and rejected. know from personal experience that But the existence of this haven of this typical Anglo-Jewish leadership 'Aclosely guarded secret' refuge was kept a closely guarded view, while prevalent, was also wrong. Experts considered for mass secret by the very people who had I always found that British people had settlement 13 schemes, some of been charged by the British Colonial a sense of fairness and admired those which were eminently suitable, with Secretary to facilitate mass who were unafraid and stood up for huge, fertile areas of arable land and immigration of Central European Jews Jewish rights. ô Northern Rhodesia from mid-1938 plenty of water resources, and almost The fact remains that the Planning to the outbreak of the Second World empty of any population, white or Committee kept the matter a total War: the Anglo-Jewish leadership. black. The Anglo-Jewish leadership secret and even managed to convince The British Colonial Secretary, even sent out a Commission to Africa the British Government to retain the fâlcolm MacDonald, was the to examine the possibilities. But the file in secret archives. Even after the instigator of the scheme. The British Planning Committee procrastinated war was over, the people concerned Government, including the Foreign and did precisely nothing. Only 250 did not reveal what they knew. Secretary, Lord Halifax, was in favour individual Jews managed to reach The question has to be asked: why? 3r>d tried its very best to facilitate its Northern Rhodesia. Everyone was Because the Anglo-Jewish leadership 'rnplementation. MacDonald was admitted, some even without a visa, was ashamed of its disgraceful friendly with the Anglo-Jewish and all the time the availability of visas conduct and naturally did not want it 'eadership and persuaded Lionel de for Northern Rhodesia was kept a to become known that they had failed Rothschild, Lord Bearstead and others closely guarded secret. Not one letter, to save the endangered German and ^0 form a Planning Committee. not one telegram was sent to German Austrian Jews, including my mother However, this body, for reasons of its and Austrian Jewish escape and father, who perished at Own, refused to take the urgent steps committees. If the facts had become Auschwitz-Birkenau. Theirs was one of necessary to implement the scheme. known, thousands would have the most disgraceful incidents of 'n 1989 the Zambian Jewish besieged the British embassies for failure to save fellow Jews, for which Community commissioned Frank visas to Northern Rhodesia, especially they deserve to be condemned. Shapiro to research and write the after Kristallnacht, when people were Now in my 81st year, living with my bistory of the Jews of Northern desperate to go anywhere to escape memories of these terrible days, I will '^bodesia. Among the papers he the Nazis. never forget and never forgive. ^^^rnined were references to the So why did the Jewish Planning "^fîgration of European Jews in the Committee keep the Northern The views expressed in this article are ^^30s. Shapiro's historical quest led Rhodesian scheme a secret? Frank not necessarily those ofthe AJR - Ed. AJR JOURNAL AUGUST 2003

Sir - It is sickening to read Tom Freudenheim's letter in the June issue. The Editor reserves the right How can anyone be so ignorant of the to shorten correspondence situation in Israel as to blame its prime I TO THE 1 submitted for publication minister for trying to protect his people? If we had only had this ^ EDITOR Jf small part of our ancestors' land during WWII, our families would have been saved I Clare Parker CONTROVERSY CONTINUES Then I read your articles -1 find myself Otto Schiff House, London Sir - I wholeheartedly agree with RJ nodding, slapping the odd thigh, Wolfe's letter (July issue) regretting the chuckling even, dancing (rarely), Sir - Readers like Mrs Brenman Wells vituperative attacks on the Editor. The wanting to tell friends that we are not and Caria Wartenberg seem to have pickiness of some of your readers the only sane people in the world, forgotten what happened to their reminds me of a little boy who says You there's this Grunberger guy who has sister and brother Jews in the can't play with my ball unless you do access to the media (well, sort of) and extermination camps. The Holocaust what I say.' Your critics can always write writes articulately, moderately and would not have occurred had we had to you and disagree, instead of being with good sense. the State of Israel then. Israel, in its so petulant. Great minds always try to Norman Bar short existence, has had to fight three persuade others to their point of view London N12 major wars. Even now the terrorists by sensible argument - not by cutting create a situation whereby the country themselves off from debate. Sir - Sadly I agree with the many letters can be destroyed. Some readers may be Frank Reichmann BA describing the Journal as 'unappealing' ashamed that we Jews are now Finstock, Oxon because of the current editorship. If standing up for ourselves, but until only the Editor would stop haranguing there is genuine peace between Israel us in his increasingly tedious articles. It Sir - So now we know. France and and the Palestinians, it is the duty of the is childish that, whenever letters to the Russia were against the war in Iraq state to protect its citizens. because they wanted their money editor are critical, these are Freddie Ingram back. The US started the war so 'they immediately followed by pathetic 'fan' Newcastle could increase the output of the letters of reassurance. Consequently, investment-starved Iraqi oil industry nothing ever gets changed. I have long and bring down world energy costs. No considered withdrawing from the AJR Sir - Once again, my compliments: the wonder you deplored the anti-war but, as a half-Jewish individual, I feel June issue is as interesting and protesters' slogan 'no blood for oil' - the need to be in touch, almost by any informative as ever; also entertaining they were trying to stop you putting means available. where appropriate. Inevitably there will cheaper petrol in your car! And what (Mrs) Ursula Dohan be the occasional 'minus' - such as the chutzpah to talk about France and London NW6 outbursts of waspish and bitter Russia being Iraq's principal arms polemics which surface now and then in your letters column. Free speech is- suppliers when the whole world knows Calling me the 'current editor is a of course, sacrosanct but 'family that, much worse, the US and the UK misnomer: I have been in the job since squabbles'are a painful phenomenon- supplied those elusive Weapons of 19881-Ed. Mass Destruction. Even after they knew CP Carter Rumsfeld's chemical weapons had Richmond Sir - what a charming and thoughtful been used on Saddam's own people. piece about the 'Jewish shmaltz gene' Bush's cronies continued to sell arms to you gave us! Hard to reconcile it with ANTI-AMERICANISM Iraq. I sometimes wonder if you write expressing at every opportunity your Sir - While I plead guilty to being very nonsensejust to provoke us. revulsion at 'liberals' and 'peaceniks', as much opposed to GW Bush, I am not, Jon Rumney if these were dirty words. Our crime? Sir, anti-American. Treaty enforcement London N20 We recognise that some aspects of by the UN Security Council is a move, Israeli policy cannot be justified, and perhaps one besmirched by crud Sir -1 am used to media which routinely we think the recent war against Iraq nationalist self-interest, bu present a one-sided picture of the was a bad idea. And are we so wrong? nevertheless a move towards ^n Middle East, hostile to Israel and So please, dear editor, would you turn international order, hopefully even comparing Israelis to Nazis. These off the venom, and keep delighting us more equitable one. President Busn biased media attitudes allow me to with the wonderful journalism action in first announcing the cultivate a sense of outrage and anger, which you so often demonstrate in 'unilateral pre-emptive strike' doctrine- maybe even an incipient and these pages. and then unlawfully invading 1''^'' comfortable paranoia, admixed with Marc Schatzberger (however awful its government)' just a touch of righteous indignation. York clearly indicates a return to the 'migh AJR JOURNAL AUGUST 2003 right' practice of the earlier Sir - Let me add something to this story nineteenth century-first half of the which does not appear to have been ARE YOU ON A LOW twentieth century. mentioned before. When the INCOME AND IN NEED Victory in Iraq may be a 'window of Australian authorities decided to send OF HOMECARE HELP? opportunity' for Israel now, but the Dunera boys back, 13 of them, all acceptance of unconstrained younger than 16, were put on a vessel AJR might be able to offer nationalist self-interest, can - nay, will which in due course reached Bombay. financial assistance. - pose the greatest threat to Israel There the captain simply dumped them Members who might not in future! on the quay. The Bombay Harbour otherwise be able to afford Francis Deutsch master turned to the minute Jewish homecare please contact: Saffron Walden Relief Association, which found an empty house right in the middle of the Estelle Brookner, Secretary AJR Social Services Dept REDRESSING THE BALANCE bazaar, where the 13 were lodged and Tel: 020 8385 3070 Sir - Granted what you write about looked after. France (May issue), Jews should not Practically every Sunday the whole lot forget what Napoleon, no less, did for came to lunch at the flat which I shared the emancipation of West European with Ernst Lomnitz and Phillip •lewry, what Zola and others like him Hodgson, Chief Civil Engineer, Companions did for Dreyfus, and what Sartre did Admiralty, India. of London for tolerance with his Quelques Our cook always prepared vast Incorporating reflexions sur la question juive. We quantities of food which disappeared Hampstead Home Care should be on our guard against in record time. A long established company the present fashion of being I came back to London after ten years providing care in your home Vehemently anti-French or, for that in India in 1947. I know that Ernst matter, anti-American. Lomnitz long maintained contact with Assistance with personal care General household duties Robert Miller the Dunera Bombay contingent, and I Respite care Leatherhead hopeto reach 90 soon. 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Winthrop also enjoys literary and I artistic references, alluding to painters, RG'S INT6RFACe Greek philosophers and poets, like Potsdam The Moses Mendelssohn NOTES Virgil, Homer, Delacroix and Dante. Centre for European-Jewish Studies Rossetti, whose winsome women with has organised an international Gloria Tessler luxurious locks and sensuous sighs, conference about the work of Magnus echo a familiar classicism and mirror his Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld, who in 1919 Grenville Lindall Winthrop read law at grief at the loss of his wife, Elizabeth opened the world's first scientific Harvard but the last 43 years of his life Siddal, the model for his painting and his institute for the study of sexology, were devoted to his passion: the study poem. The Blessed Damozel. Many were campaigned tirelessly for the abolition and collection of nineteenth-century art. modelled on Jane Burden, who married of anti-homosexual legislation in the He collected some 4,000 works, and his friend William Morris. Winthrop also Weimar Republic. He was actually finally bequeathed the lot to Harvard. A can't resist a sea-nymph or two, like dubbed the 'Einstein of Sex' in his Private Passion, at the National Sir Edward Bume-Jones's smug lifetime. Gallery until September, sponsored by mermaid, who has brought her Bonn The cabaret artist Georg ExxonMobil and organised by Harvard's unfortunate sailor to the sea bed without Kreisler, a Viennese-born Austro- realising he has drowned. phobe resident in Berlin, has been Fogg Museum, features some of these awarded the Prix Pantheon 2003. treasures. There is the French Aubrey Beardsley's succinct ink and graphite sketches executed during his Characteristic of his style is the song Revolutionary painter, Jacques-Louis 'Globalisierung': Ach, ich hdtte so gern Japanese phase are included. One, of David, as much a politician as an artist, einen MannlWie er aussieht darauf Salome gazing at the head of John the with his powerful and vivid portrait of kommt's mir nicht an/Ich mag jeden mit Baptist, is a cooler and more subtle Napoleon 1; William Blake, all hellfire Liebe im Blut/Nur kein fud Er kann version of Moreau's Apparition of the and mysticism; the doom-laden Schweizer sein oder ein Russ/Kann Baptist, which stops the voluptuous romantic pre-Raphaelites, including Japaner sein wenn er das muss/oder ein Salome in mid-dance. William Holman Hunt and Dante Bischof mit Krummstab und Hut/Nur The American provenance is kein fud Auch mit Eunuchen/Mocht Gabriel Rossetti; the emotional altogether calmer. One of Whistler's ich'sversuchen... French artists, like Jean-Auguste- three Nocturnes, hastily painted from Vienna Ursula Prokop's biography of Dominique Ingres and Gustave memory, is a blue and silver twilit view the philosopher Ludwig Moreau; and the cooler, dispassionate over the Thames to Battersea Church. It Wittgenstein's sister, Margaret Americans, like Walt Whitman and perfectly evokes the drift of this hour, Stonborough - Wittgenstein, Bauherrin, John Singer Sargent. Winthrop has even though it was once described by Intellektuelle Mdzenin (Bohlau Verlag). truly catholic tastes, and appears to Ruskin as 'a piece of dirt thrown in the reveals that in 1939 the family's large favour narrative works or those of face of art'. holdings of foreign currency were breathtaking splendour, such as Not all the victims of Nazism were exchanged for Reichsmarks and Moreau's sumptuously gilded Jacob and Jews. Expressionism was on the wing as deposited in German banks. In return, theAngel. the Third Reich marched in, and among the Nazi authorities declared their its greatest visionaries was Ernst paternal grandfather an Aryan, which Ludwrig Kirchner, whose exhibition at gave the family the quasi-protected status oiMischlinge. the Royal Academy continues until the Berlin The 2003 Jewish Film Festival end of September. His subjects share offers a wide range of entries, ranging an austere symmetry but no from Reconstruction, a documentary communication. Influenced by Van about a show trial of 'Jewish- Gogh, Munch and Chagall, Kirchner's intellectual parasites' in Communist view of German city life is one of urban Romania - to the Elvis Presley- isolation. Stylised, nonchalant women inspired farce Schmelvis: Searching fo'^ strut on a circle while men in dark suits the King's Jewish Roots. and hats balance precariously on Hollywood Jodie Foster, an Oscaf triangular plinths. We see that his irony winner for Silence of the Lambs, is ^ both skims the surface yet looks deeper. the process of making - and starring ^ For all its vibrancy Kirchner's work is - a film about Leni Riefenstahl, the full of dark presentiment. He notorious Nazi actress ano volunteered as an artillery driver in documentary maker. In pursuit of her 1915 to avoid conscription, but suffered controversial project, Foster has a breakdown which overshadowed the already met the 100-year-ol^ rest of his life. Ostracised by his country 'cinematic legend'. Filming itself is d^^ to start at the Babelsberg Studios early Aubrey Beardsley, and declared degenerate by the Nazis, The Dancer's Reward', for Salome, 1893 he committed suicide in 1937. in 2004.

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The demonisation of Israel singular obsession with Israel contribute to its demonization." A NEW ANTISEMITISM? Ronald Channing DEBATING JUDEOPHOBIA IN REVIEWS 21ST-CENTURY BRITAIN Edited by Paul Iganski and Pervasive blackness Barry Kosmin the Arab World is barely remarked upon THE DARK ROOM Prof/7e Books/JPR. paperback £14.99 by British public figures," she observes. "Israel's behaviour is equated - Rachel Seiffert Timely guidance for those among obscenely - with Nazi Germany or South Vintage 2002 Britain's Jewish community who Africa under apartheid, comparisons harbour suspicions of a resurgence in grotesquely at variance with the Rachel Seiffert's entry for the 2001 antisemitism is provided by a collection demonstrable facts." She examines the Booker Prize has an aptly ambiguous of essays from leading Jewish churches' adoption of 'replacement title. The Dark Room denotes the intellectuals, edited by Paul Iganski of theology' in which God's promises to workplace of a photographer, and one the University of Essex and Prof Barry the Jews, including the Land of Israel, of the books protagonists is indeed an Kosmin, Executive Director of Jewish claim to have been inherited by obsessive taker of photographs. But Policy Research. Christianity. dark room here also refers to the empty The book addresses antisemitism Politics and religion are discussed by space in the German collective psyche from three perspectives: manifestation, Edward Kessler, Prof Geoffrey Alderman where human compassion should niedia, religion and politics. Mike and John DA Levy, who analyse calls for have resided. Whine, of the CST, draws on the an academic and economic boycott led The photographer is a physically fônitoring experience of the Board of by self-declared Jews such as Prof handicapped young man whose •deputies, and Chief Rabbi Jonathan Steven Rose. "Calls for Israel to be exclusion from the Volk community Sacks detects strong evidence of a treated as a pariah state stir the most drives him in upon himself. He is Worsening situation. Antony Lerman atavistic of Jewish existential fears," a loner, incapable of making 3nd Anthony Julius take less says John Levy, concluding that "They coherent conversation, even with alarmist stances. fall perilously close to the racist and his spiessburgerliche parents. His Since World War 11, support for the antisemitic." sensibilities are so atrophied that in State of Israel has been a key element in "Although the 'new antisemitism' is 1941, when he accidentally witnesses a ••ewish identity. Any attack on 'Zionists' not primarily to be found yet on the vicious Gestapo roundup of gypsies, he or 'the Zionist entity is taken as a veiled streets in Britain, a strong case can be only registers the colour contrast attack on the Jews, whether emanating made that it is to be found among left- between the black uniforms of the SS horn within Britain's Muslim population liberal elites in the media, churches, and the gaudy clothes of their victims. of Arabs and Asians from the Indian universities and trades unions." The In early 1945 Hitler's conscription of ûb-continent, or from the 'liberal' and editors prefer that it should more the halt and lame provides the crippled '^ft-leaning media. Prof Peter Pulzer accurately be described as photographer with a brief moment of "detects the selective omission of news 'Judeophobia', involving a manifest apotheosis. Enveloped in a Wehrmacht °f Arab anti-Jewish terror acts in so- hostility towards Jews. "The core greatcoat - supreme emblem of called liberal newspapers, pre- characteristic of the elite Judeophobia integration into the Volk - he stands ^rninently the Guardian and involves a campaign of vilification atop a pile of rubble and screams independent. Holocaust denial was also against Israel as a state: evident in an defiant affirmations of final German ^sed to undermine the foundation of obsessive focus on Israel's culpability for victory (Endsieg) at the advancing '^fael as a response to the losses human rights and civil rights abuses in Russians. Suffered by the Jews. Other its conflict with the Palestinians. Israel is The Endsieg is also an absolute article Contributors in this section include singled out for opprobrium whilst gross of faith for the protagonist of the 'Novelist Howard Jacobson and violations of human and civil rights middle novella in Seiffert's collection. Journalist Jonathan Freedland. elsewhere ... go relatively unnoticed as She is Lore, 12-year old daughter of Prof Robert Wistrich observes the they are not subject to the same high-ranking Nazis about to be whisked 'olerance accorded fundamentalist scrutiny. Furthermore, in a particularly off to Allied internment camps. The ^>Jslim clerics in Britain despite their spiteful element of the campaign of mother places Lore in charge of her four ^"'ng for the destruction of the Jews vilification, Israel is equated with even younger siblings, hands her îd providing recruiting grounds for Nazi Germany." jewellery - to barter for food - and ôung activists to train to commit They conclude that 'There is a strong orders her to undertake an odyssey Murderous acts. Melanie Phillips element of hypocrisy in the progressive from Bavaria to Oma in Hamburg. '^"jects to the demonisation of Israel media and among certain elites where It is the so-called 7ahr-nu//. Trains have ^^d the double standards which damn Jews and Israel are concerned. stopped running and the Allies have in the media while remaining Judeophobia provides a coalition of carved up the country into four fairly Quiescent about indiscriminate Arab interest in Britain for the new left, the watertight occupation zones. After ^âcks. Jews in general have become far right, radical Islamists, and human amazing hardships, including one ê target. The torrent of Nazi-style rights campaigners and activists, who death, the children reach Hamburg. En ^^fiocidal antisemitism pouring out of may be well-meaning, but in their route Lore experiences the burgeoning AJR JOURNAL AUGUST 2003 both of love and of awareness of truth. trilogy, is a tough survivor, something of France owed his life to French people She learns that newspaper a 'Mother Courage' figure. While the who either assisted him or kept quiet or photographs of mounds of corpses East German regime lasts, she is a both; and that ... distinguishes the were not, as she had previously strong supporter, even weeping at individual Frenchman and woman from thought, American fakes, but depicted Stalin's death. At the same time, she the policy ofthe Vichy government.' a reality of her compatriots' and - retains elements of Nazi thinking, Sensing the danger of his position, he particularly - of her own parents' telling everyone that 'Kraft durch 'arranges' to be taken across the making. Highly recommended. Freude' was true socialism. Spanish border by a guide. Once Richard Grunberger Paul, a middle-aged divorcee, has left arrived, he describes the atmosphere of his son Konrad in Tulla's care. Under her wartime Spain - out of the conflict, yet influence he becomes a neo-Nazi. While teeming with refugees who had 'made Closed circle searching on the internet, Paul it' to relative safety. discovers that his son, under the name Once more luck is with him as his CRABWALK of Wilhelm, is engaged in a heated parents, already over here, pull strings Gunter Grass cyber-dispute with another youth, who to get him an entry permit to England. Translated by Krishna Winston calls himself David (Frankfurter). In Here he ends up in the intelligence Faber2003. £16.99 reality, the latter is a non-Jew called service, listening to the bugged Wolfgang Stremplin, scion of a conversations of German prisoners who The odd title (in German Im Krebsgang) Protestant family. While Konrad sides apparently gave useful information on presages the typical Grass sideways with the assassinated Nazi, Wolfgang such matters as the launch of VI and approach - a mixture of allegory and assumesthemantleof the Jew, wearing V2 rockets. resuscitated history. It encompasses a skullcap and prayer shawl and making The author's personal optimism, zest three phases of the German past: the his mother cook kosher for life and resourcefulness shine Nazi heyday, its twilight and what The youths' argument brings them through a narrative of great perils followed. Events revolve around the together. They even meet by the overcome. 'Kraft durch Freude' holiday cruiser Schwerin lake where Wilhelm Gustloff's Martha Blend Wilhelm Gustloff, named after the Nazi monument once stood. When leader in Switzerland who was Wolfgang/David spits on the 'hallowed' assassinated in 1936 by a young Jew, site, Konrad/Wilhelm shoots him dead. David Frankfurter The circle seems closed. Grass's last line Annely Juda Fine Art In early 1945, as Hitler fights his last is: 'It doesn't end. It never will.' 23 Dering Street battles, the Germans attempt to flee John Rossall from the Eastern territories before the (off New Bond Street) advancing Russians. The Wilhelm Tel: 020 7629 7578 Gustloff has become a refugee A Story of great perils Fax: 020 7491 2139 evacuation vessel, loaded with some overcome CONTEMPORARY PAINTING 6,000 escapee civilians and a sizeable number of military personnel. Central JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM: AN AND SCULPTURE to the novel is the sinking of the ship in AUTHENTIC WAR-TIME STORY the freezing Baltic by a Russian Peter Hart submarine, with enormous loss of life. AuthorsOnLine Readers of our background must (www.authorsonline.co.uk), 2003 WANTED TO BUY suppress their feelings of disappointment that a staunch To survive the Holocaust as an adult German and liberal/left writer should choose to you had to be farsighted, young and highlight the sufferings of German tough. Money, influential friends and a English Book$ civilians, apparently convinced that good helping of luck were also among Germans must cease to see themselves the necessary ingredients. Peter Hart Established bookdealer uniquely in the role of villains. seems to have had a fair share of (AJR member) several of these. Among those rescued from the ship is always welcomes the unmarried Tulla Pokriefke, who Leaving Germany early in the Nazi invitations to view gives birth there and then to Paul. In period, he helps to set up a training adult life, he becomes a journalist in centre for refugees in France. When war and purchase West Germany and is the narrator of breaks out, he is interned by the French valuable books what follows in the novel. He is much as an 'enemy alien'. When the Germans exercised by neo-Nazi outrages after overrun France he is dumped in the For an immediate response, please contact: the Wende (the collapse of the GDR) unoccupied zone and later interned in a Robert Hornung and by his mother's urging him to write number of camps in harsh, though not 2 Mount View, Ealing, a 'true' German history, including events life-threatening, conditions. London W5 IPR like the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Undaunted, he escapes on a bicycle and Email: hornungbooksSaoLcom Tulla, whose malign presence will be is sheltered by an elderly Frenchwoman. Tel: 020 8998 0546 recalled by readers of Grass's Danzig He writes: 'every Jew who survived in (Spm to 9pm is best)

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He is now into his third life, Ernest Kaye have t)een perfonned on TV and in tells me the minute we meet - that of a children's concerts, at home and abroad. musician: in his former lives he was an PROFILE In 1972, when his father died, Emest engineer and then an antiquarian. This and his sister sold the silverware Howard Spier isn't strictly true, of course - even antiques business and invested the throughout his previous existences, proceeds in the props-hire sideline. He music was unquestionably of the utmost left the computer industry when an importance. Precisely how important it is A man of three lives opportunity arose to develop his own to him now is evident from the two pianos College London, Emest did a seven-year business - Lewis & Kaye Hire - which which dominate the spacious room in his spell at GEC research on government provides the luxurious props we see in Hampstead home in which we meet. projects, including homing torpedoes, a such TV costume dramas as The Forsyte Emest Kaye, of course, isn't a refugee subject he found fascinating. In 1949 he Saga and Upstairs Downstairs and the from Central Europe. His closest claim to was offered a job with Lyons. Here he film Titanic. AJR fame is his wife, Marianne, who, he became a member of the team that Ernest's compositions have been msists, has had a far more interesting life designed and built LEO (Lyons performed by choirs at Hampstead than he has. Nevertheless, he's happy to Electronic Office), the first large-scale Synagogue and at West London accept my suggestion that we call him an electronic computer. Three years later, Synagogue, of which he is a member. honorary refugee'. He was, in fact, bom the computer was carrying out the One piece he composed - Meditation - 'n the north London district of payroll for 10,000 employees - years was part of a memorial service for West Canonbury. His father was a leading ahead of IBM! During this period, Emest London's Rabbi Hugo Gryn. silverware antiques dealer, beginning a kept up his musical career, studying the Recently, Emest was persuaded by a Props-hire business as a sideline. piano and composition. musical colleague to send his recent Maybe it was from his grandfather that Ernest inherited his musical talent. The / :r^-- Reverend Ben Zion Hoffman was a " ^ '^hazan at the Adath Yisroel Synagogue in 1 i 1- Stoke Newington. He had a beautiful •^' *-;. '.H*. =;% ^' ôice and he wrote all his own music. p i Ernest adapted one of his tunes for A ..••^ • "• K*: \.,. / • 'laneirot Halalu (which is sung at ^^B '' ''hanukah) for choir and orchestra. At the ^ge of six, Emest began to play the piano; Soon after he was taking lessons; at the ? *ge of eight, he began to compose. ,, li>zW The Kayes are a musical family. The •*^ ^y before we met, Ernest's son Charles ^pSi^^ '• "^d been giving a talk at the AJR Day Centre on the subject 'Lies Askonas and ^ôrg Solti: Two Refugees Who Make a M^ ^> difference'. Ernest's parents were not too happy .\ *oout his becoming a professional Ernest Kaye '^'isician, preferring that he go to It was in the mid-1940s that Emest work to OUP once again. 'My colleague University first. Moreover, the first sent compositions to Oxford played Meditation, turned to me with '^tstanding pianist Clifford Curzon University Press (OUP). At the time, the tears in his eyes and asked why it was '^•'sonally wamed him to regard music as music critic of the Times Educational "sitting in the bottom drawer"?' Two ^^ more than a hobby: it was a 'beastly' Supplement noted that 'The writing of days later, OUP called Emest to say J fession, he said, entailing a virtual simple teaching pieces is not an easy they wanted to go ahead with ck of control over one's life. In fact, process if the result is to have character publication. "^^st has always had an ambivalent and originality, as the limitations of the Ernest proudly showed me the . "^'tude towards his musical gift: despite pupil's technique and musicianship have beautifully produced publications of his ^ overriding importance, he was never to be studied in every note.' The critic Meditation, Ein Keilohenu and ^y convinced he wanted to make a found that Ernest's A Simple Suite Uvntichnom Yomar, together with the '^'"ofession out of it - any more than he 'possesses the necessary quahties and is even more imposing publication of his as fully persuaded he had the technical suitable for lower-intermediate grades.' Israeli Folk Songs and Dances for Flute ^^W-how required of a professional Ernest's song Come Away Death, based or Oboe, Cello, arui Piaru), all published Pianist on a theme from a Shakespearean play, this year in the Oxford Jewish Music «i 1942, having obtained a degree in was broadcast on the BBC Home Service series. His third life seems to be ^ônic engineering from Imperial in 1952. Many of his songs for children progressing very well.

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Jewish musicians. At the end Alf played North London: Milk and Honey INSIDE us a song called Mazel performed by a Walter Woyda presented tuneful extracts group of Jewish OAPs. from Larry Herman's musical Milk and theAJR Julie Franks Honey. Written in the mid-sixties, the musical is set in Israel. While it played to Next meeting: Tuesday 12 August. Stewart Mcintosh: How I Became a packed houses in the USA, it was never Broadcaster with the BBC World exported as were other musicals by the North and South London groups' Service' same author/composer such as Hello joint visit to Waddesdon Manor Dolly. A most enjoyable morning. We had a most enjoyable visit. Walter Brighton & Hove Sarid: 'the coffee Herbert Haberberg Woyda had made all the arrangements houses of Vienna' f Avith Waddesdon Manor, who provided Otto Deutsch, who grew up in a district Liverpool summer lunch us with an excellent guide. The house is of Vienna mainly inhabited by Jews, Our summer lunch was attended by 32 magnificent and the gardens beautiful gave a graphic description of what first- and second-generation refugees, and everything is so well looked after. Jewish life was like in the 1930s when with people also coming from Blackpool We had lunch in the garden and were coffee houses formed an essential part Harrogate, North Wales, Manchester taken on a tour ofthe various rooms. of the social life of the Jews in his and Wigan. After lunch Dr Naomi Lopian Herbert Wolff neighbourhood with their intricate spoke about her father's book Die lang( M rituals centred around a cup of coffee and Nacht, an account of his existence in a glass of water. For a short while we ghettoes and concentration camps n^ were transported back to the first half of Poland. Many in the audience felt the sad the last century. We could almost taste history acutely, both in memory and JD the whipped cream on the top of the guilt, not having suffered with thetf families who did not survive the Great day at Waddesdon for North and coffee. A fascinating reminiscence of a South London past which has gone forever. Holocaust. Gerryjayso" This proved to be an exceptionally Rudi Simmonds interesting day. It was also not devoid of Next meeting: Monday 18 August. Jack Bournemouth group visit Jewish interest in that a copy of the Gross MA, retired writer, producer, Balfour Declaration was on display in director: 'Get Me Out of the Film the Isle of Wight one ofthe rooms. Apparently the British Business' government ofthe time sent the original Meeting up on declaration to the Rothschilds rather Pinner: rebuilding lives the Isle of Wigh*' than to an official Jewish communal With the theme 'How We Rebuilt Our (from left to rig'' organisation. Lives', members recalled their personal Ruth Lansley, Herta KammeHi'i' Herbert Haberberg stories from the time they left Germany and and arrived in England. Thanks were AJR Groups' Blues and Jews in Essex due to individuals, including one Coordinator Myrna Glass Our guest, Alf Keiles, spoke on the dedicated Nazi, who helped us. history of Jewish artists from early Jazz Experiences ranged from hostel, being to modern music, and we heard many taken in by a family, school, internment, old and beautiful records. It was the domestic work, university, business or Some 30 of us took a coach trip to tb« influence of the American slaves with service of all kinds in the UK or abroad, Isle of Wight, with Herta Kammerling ^^ their mournful songs of the 'Blues' and even guarding the Queen at her our tour leader. Having had a picnic l^ which became the basis of Jazz. After the coronation. All had to work very hard to at Fort Victoria Park, we travelled acfO •- First World War everybody became achieve what they did and their lives the centre ofthe island, arriving for ^^ Jazz-crazy. There were about 100 Jewish might have been very different had they the Willow Tree Restaurant. Here we ha Jazz bands in existence, with famous not been interrupted. a most delightful surprise: we met K names such as Ted Louis, Al Jolson and Walter Weg Lansley, who has lived on the island m Sophie Tucker. In 1930 it changed to of her adult life and is one of four A) Next meeting: Thursday 4 Septemlier 'Swing'. The driving force behind the 2 pm: The Effects of the Holocaust members on the Isle. We got back Andrew Sisters was Victor through the Eyes of Survivors and the Bournemouth tired but satisfied. MaV Schoenberger, a Jewish refugee. Not Second and Third Generations', chaired have a repeat trip soon! ? . even the Nazi regime could silence the by Gerald Hellman George Etti*^

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Hull updated on AJR events presented a short extract of one entitled Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Over enjoyable tea and cakes at the home 'Have we moved from here yet?' on early 1 5 Cleve Road, London, NW6 of Bobby Seewald, AJR Northern Groups Jewish immigrants in Leeds. Tel: 020 7328 0208 Co-ordinator Susanne Green brought us Ruth Steme |XT_A IQ Kindertransport up to date on AJR developments. She Ix I ~r\J i\ special interest group also drew attention to the intended Next meetings MONTHLY MEETINGS AT CLEVE ROAD South London: Thursday 14 August. Northem get-together in Leeds on Monday 4 August 2003 Special Tea at Nightingale House. 9 September. 11.45 am for 12.15 pm Contact Walter Woyda on 020 8446 4354 Members reported on their visit to the for details Benita Hide 8i Eric Cohen AGM at Beth Shalom: those who had not North London: Thursday 28 August - will speak on the subject of been there previously were both our second anniversary the Village of Neve Shalom 'Peace is Possible' impressed and moved by the Centre and East Midlands: Wednesday 13 August. delighted to have participated in Contact Bob Norton for details Reservations required the event. Lunch £5 Inaugural meeting Please telephone Sylvia or Susie Bob Rosner llford: Wednesday 6 August, 10.30 am on 020 7328 0208 at Sinclair House. All members in the Next meeting: Sunday 9 November at area welcome. For further details Monday - Thursday °ob Rosner's house call Myma Glass at AJR head office on 9.30 am - 3.30 pm, 02083853070 Sunday 2 pm - 5.30 pm AUGUST Afternoon Entertainment: AJR GROUP CONTACTS Sun 3 CLOSED Mon 4 KT LUNCH - Kards & North London Games Klub Jenny Zundel 020 8882 4033 Tue 5 Opdahl Trio South London Wed 6 Mr Paul Coleman Ken Ambrose 020 8852 0262 Thur 7 DAY CENTRE CLOSED- Pinner (HA Postal District) TISH B'OV Vera Gellman 020 8866 4833 Northern holiday: 22 members from Sun 10 CLOSED Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Surrey Mon 11 Kards 8i Games Klub '''ewcastle and London enjoyed a Edmee Barta 01372 727 412 Tue 12 Lynda Styan - 5-day stay in St Anne's. Despite much rain, Brighton 8i Hove (Sussex Region) Ukalele Lynda ""embers found plenty to talk about, Fausta Shelton 01273 734 648 Enjoying each other's company and Wed 13 Jack Davidoff Wessex (Bournemouth) •^eing together Thur 14 Opdahl Trio Mark Goldfinger 01202 552 434 Sun 17 DAY CENTRE OPEN East Midlands (Nottingham) •-eeds HSFA: keeping records Mon 18 Kards 8( Games Klub aht' Bob Norton 01159 212 494 Tue 19 Ann Kenton-Barker- On the subject of 'Moving Here', Brett West Midlands (Birmingham) Bouquet of Flowers ^arnson spoke ofthe different 'waves' of Henny Rednall 0121 373 5603 Wed 20 Michael Heaton - "^migrants who arrived in Leeds - Irish, North (Manchester) Show Time Jewish, Caribbean and South Asian - and Werner Lachs 0161 773 4091 Thur 21 Ronnie Goldberg ^1 the recording of their lives and Leeds HSFA Sun 24 CLOSED Trude Silman 0113 225 1628 Mon 25 Kards & Games Klub activities. These records are now Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool Tue 26 Yacov Paul 'dialogued and stored in the National Newcastle Wed 27 Guyatherie Peiris/Bill "Archives (formerly Public Record Susanne Green 0151 291 5734 Patrick ^ce). Brett, who has worked as an Essex (Westcliff) Thur 28 Jenny Kossew Archivist cataloguing the records. Larry Lisner 01702 300812 Sun 31 CLOSED acros- Rabbi John Rayner (left) and SHELTERED FLAT AVAILABLE -teaa' Reverend Bernd Koschland (centre), both Kinder, officiated at Cleve Road, West Hampstead, at a memorial service for above the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre ,t Rutf Kindertransport (KT) Chairman Large, bright bedsitting room, David Jedwab. Also pictured is fully equipped kitchen, bathroom/WC, KT Acting Chairman Hermann lift. Rent £422 per month inc.c.h./h.w. Hirschberger, who delivered a eulogy. The service, which took Apply to Carol Rossen, v*'^ place in the presence of AJR Head Office, Jubilee House, David Jedwab's wife Sarah, was Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, held at the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Middx HA7 4RL Tel: 020 8385 3070

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people who worked at the Bergen- Central Office for Search Notices Belsen Displaced Persons Camp with the British Army of the Rhine Holocaust Claims 1945-48? If so, please contact Michael Newman and At Moussey Commonwealth War David Brummer Graves Commission cemetery in Judith Weinstein, 95 Old Mill Road, France, there are two graves with Great Neck.NY 11023 USA; email Dachau Book of Remembrance The organisers of 'The Book of crosses on them that should have [email protected]. Remembrance' project, founded in 1999 Stars of David. The men are Lehmann family, from Nordenburg, by private initiative, wish to set a symbol of 5550151 Sgt R Friedlaender aka East Prussia. I believe my family (22 remembrance for those who suffered in Lodge and 13301351 Cpl Boris members in total) were deported to the camp at Dachau, Germany's first Kasperovitch aka King. We Minsk in Russia. I arrived in England concentration camp (established 22 March 1933). It is an attempt to 'put faces and desperately need to contact as a Kindertransportee in January surviving relatives of these men in names on the anonymous masses who 1939 and lived in Glasgow until suffered under the Third Reich'. order to have this change made and internment. In 1940 I joined the to show that our men were there. The rapidly growing collection Pioneer corps and later transferred to comprises separate testimonies describing Any information, please contact the Intelligence Corps 6th Airborne ex-inmates' experiences of their time at AJEX Archivist Martin Sugarman on Division. My name was Erwin Dachau as well as their lives before and 020 8986 4868 after 7.00 any Lehmann, my father's name Louis after The project will be kept in the Dachau evening and leave your name and Lehmann. Any information on my Concentration Camp memorial grounds. The long-term aim is to collate eyewitness number if nobody is available. family, please contact Langfield Lewis testimonies of 'life in Dachau' in the native on langfordlewis@btclick. Usbeth Samson, also known by her language of the former inmate and to niarried name Lisbeth Hamel, born publish them in one volume. Berlin 10 September 1901. Believed Survivors of the camp or those familiar to have emigrated to England in with survivors' experiences at Dachau who 1930s; last known to be in London Arts and Events Diary would like to provide an account in the form of a biography are asked to contact in 1962. Information about her August project leader Sabine Gerhardus at sought on behalf of relatives in FernpaBstrasse 42, D-81373 Munich. The Israel. Please contact John Levy on Until 5 September Traces' by Julia telephone number is 00 49 89 760 9174, 020 8349 3686. and she can be reached on email at Winckler, an exhibition of 10 info(5)gedaecht nisbuch.de. Further Johanna Hirsch (nee Lewy), born photographs in collaboration with information about the project is available 05.08.1877 in Schildberg, the Goethe Institute. The project on the website www.gedaechtnisbuch.de. emigrated to London 31.01.1939, focuses on the search for traces of 3nd Margarete Helbing (nee family lives cut short by Nazi Slovak Compensation Fund - deadline approaching Schijler), born 24.04.1879 in persecution. Winckler examines the A SKK 850 million (approximately £13.5m) Elberfeld, emigrated to England role of the artist as a mediator and an fund has been established by the 1938, died 14.01.1969 in archivist of history, memory and government of the Slovak Republic to fânchester. Any information on modes of visual representation. provide compensation to Holocaust ^hese two doctors, please contact Wiener Library, tel 020 7636 7247 victims and to 'finance projects concerning ^t Monika Ebert, Spessartstrasse The Bridge The Wiener Library will be the social and cultural needs of the Jewish ^0, D 81677, Munich, Germany holding a fortnightly, early evening community in Slovakia'. tel/fax 0049 89 92 401 807, email study session over an 8-week Application forms and further information are available by contacting '^[email protected]. period in the autumn, looking at the Council at: Kancelaria Rady, P.O. Box post-Holocaust Judaism and '^fred Joachim Fischer wrote in 115, 820 05 Bratislava 25, Slovak faith. Contact Katherine Klinger on Republic. The Council's website is the 1950s for the AJR journal and 020 7636 7247 or email www.holocaustslovakia.sk and they 'âny other periodical publications, [email protected] can be reached by email at '^n the internet I can find a man by kancradaOstonline.sk. that name who was a refugee in The deadline for applications is 31 ADVERTISEMENT RATES ^^rkey in WWII. If any information. August 2003. Please contact Vilhjalmur. Orn FAMILY EVENTS First 15 words free of charge, Further help *'lhjalmsson on [email protected] £2.00 per 5 words thereafter. Written enquiries should be sent to CLASSIFIED, SEARCH NOTICES •âs anyone information on a group Central Office for Holocaust Claims (UK), £2.00 per 5 words. ^ôrmal or informal) of former Jubilee House, Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, BOX NUMBERS - £3.00 extra Middx HA7 4RL. 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Tea at the opera Ronald Channing Newsround

Such was the success of last year's serving an even more delicious tea Conference on antisemitism to take place in Germany presentation of excerpts from from 2.30 to 5 pm on Sunday 31 German President Johannes Rau has opera favourites at the AJR's August, a little earlier this year to announced that Berlin is to host next annual tea, and so persistent was take advantage of the better year an international conference on the the demand for tickets, that it was weather and lighter evenings. rise of antisemitism in Europe and means of combating it. President Rau an easy matter for the AJR to If you have not afready secured conceded that not all Germans had decide to repeat the event for 2003 your participation by completing a learned the lesson ofthe past. - with, of course, an equally well- booking form and forwarded this to European Union adopts 'no tolerance' chosen musical programme. the Functions Secretary at AJR attitude to antisemitism Once again, members of the Head Office, together with your Israeli delegate Avraham Toledo told the delightfully-named 'Garden Party', cheque, please do so as soon as Organisation for Security and Co from the Covent Garden opera, will possible as, once again, space is operation in Europe that tough measures are necessary to combat the ensure their singing will be as limited. Please note that, with the rising wave of anti-Jewish attacks in enjoyable and exuberant as ever. recent relocation of the AJR's Europe. The European Union issued a As last year, Glenys Groves, offices, your form should be sent statement describing the conference as sending a 'timely and strong signal of soprano, and Scilla Stewart, to: AJR, Jubilee House, Merrion "no tolerance" towards antisemitism'. mezzo-soprano and piano, will be Avenue, Stanmore, Middx HA7 joined by Adrian Martin, tenor, and 4RL. Telephone enquiries should Reparations claim by Greek siblings fails Roy Gregory, baritone, in a feast of be made to 020 8385 3070. Four Greek siblings who survived one of Continental songs. We look forward to greeting you the worst Nazi massacres of the war The London Marriott Hotel in at this year's AJR Tea and Opera, have lost their claim for reparations Grosvenor Square is pleased to where you will undoubtedly meet after Germany's supreme court ruled there was no legal basis for individual welcome AJR members and many old friends and compensation for war crimes. Had the friends once more and will be acquaintances. court accepted the claims, Germany feared a bill running into billions ' pounds.

Rare painting by Austria" x£ieAmUoiiv%m/ 2003 Expressionist sold in London auction The 1916 work Krumauer Landschaft, a The AJR invites you to an ^-.tsk rare painting by Austrian Expressionis AJR Celebration Tea Egon Schiele which was looted by tn^ with Light Opera Nazis from its Viennese Jewish own^'' performed by after the Anschluss, has been sold by 'The Garden Party' Sotheby's in London for £12 million. The from Covent Garden on painting had been on public display i" Sunday 31 August 2003 Linz gallery since 1953 until it ^va* returned this year to the heirs of tn 2.30pm to Spm original owners. It is the most valuab London Marriott Hotel, looted artwork to be restituted. Grosvenor Square, . London Wl Berlin synagogue and school comp'^ opens doors to neighbours A full tea Neighbours were given the chance will be served see for themselves what lay behind t £20 closed doors when the Rykerstrass^ Please complete and return enclosed Synagogue in east Berlin and the Hons booking form. If you require further Lauder school housed in the sam information, please telephone complex opened to the public for * 020 8385 3070 first time for a mini-festival.

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