AJN JUNE 12, 2020 6 SIVAN 20, 5780 NEWS 2020 • Queen’s Birthday Honours Mazal tov to our honorees

A record number of Jewish recipients have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Mazal tov to all who have made our community proud.

Naomi Milgrom • AC VICVIC

SHE may already have an AO to her name, but now In the architectural realm, Milgrom was jury Further, Milgrom is a former councillor of the Naomi Milgrom can add two more initials – AC. chair of Powerhouse Precinct at Parramatta Australian Business Arts Foundation (Creative Milgrom was named a Companion of the International Design Competition and three-time Partnerships ) and a former trustee of Order of Australia for her eminent service to the former jury member of the World Architectural the Jewish Museum of Australia Foundation. community through philanthropic leadership Awards. Aside from her professional roles in the and support for the promotion of the arts, Milgrom is a donor to MPavilion, the Hellenic Sussan group, in business, Milgrom was an architecture, design excellence and cultural Museum, Zoo and . advisory council member at the Centre for exchange, and to business. She was a member of the council of trustees Ethical Leadership; former board member at The group CEO and executive chair of retail at the National Gallery of Victoria, and former Melbourne Business School, the University of businesses Sussan, Sportsgirl and Suzanne Grae chair and director of the Australian Centre for Melbourne; former national councillor at the since 2003, Milgrom also holds innumerable Contemporary Art. other positions. Spanning international involvement in the Australian Retailers Association and director of She is founder of the Naomi Milgrom arts, Milgrom served with the Australia Council Magellan Financial Group from 2006-2014. Foundation, the annual MPavilion Project – a for the Arts as a commissioner for Australia at Milgrom has received honorary doctorates leading architecture commission and a cultural the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice in business from RMIT University and the laboratory for the community to engage Biennale. She is an international council member University of . She was and share – the Annual Living Cities Forums of the Tate Modern, London, and the Museum of awarded a Distinguished Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award from Monash University Photo: Facebook (Melbourne and Sydney), and the director of the Modern Art, New York; and is a member of the Menzies Foundation global patrons council of Art Basel. in 2010. Avoca Sofa, Otway Trestle Coffee Table & Johanna Ottoman by Kett. Photo by Lucas Nieuwenhuys. Lucas by Photo Kett. & Johanna Ottoman by Coffee Table Otway Sofa, Trestle Avoca

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Eddie Kutner • AM VIC Abe Schneider • AM WA

EDDIE Kutner has helped to shape the urban FROM building Australia’s first floodlit BMX landscape of one of Australia’s most bustling cities. racing track in the early 1970s to playing a One of the three founders of property development leading role in the sport’s development in group Central Equity, Kutner – a former developer and Australia and its inclusion since 2008 in the promoter of Melbourne’s South Bank Structure Plan – Olympic Games, Abe Schneider has contributed was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for more to bicycle motorcross than most. significant service to the property development and Since discovering BMX while competing financial sectors, and to science. in the USA at the end of his speedway racing “Thirty years ago, South Bank was solely industrial,” career, Schneider realised the sport’s enormous Kutner commented. “There was a huge piece of land that was amazingly positioned ... When we started we potential when it was still in its infancy. were a bit nervous but it didn’t take long for people “I’m a bit of a bulldog and believe everything to warm to it. We kept going and I don’t think there’s comes down to how badly you want it,” he said. been a year in the last 25 years when we haven’t “So I kept pushing for the sport – helping completed a development in South Bank.” establish the Australian BMX Association and Kutner, who is the deputy chair of Questacon: The then the national championships.” National Science and Technology Advisory Council, said his contribution to science education For his achievements, the life member is “not just interesting, but stimulating and immensely satisfying”. and former vice-president of BMX Western support – we’ll celebrate 50 years of marriage As the chair and founder of the Wonderment Walk, Victoria, Kutner commented, “I am Australia and BMX Australia – who served next month.” trying to use art as a basis to explore and promote scientific concepts and create a sense of as president of the BMX Commission within Schneider won an Australian Sports Medal wonder.” United Cycliste Internationale (UCI) from 2006 in 2000 and is an Australian Sports Federation Persisting through all his professional and philanthropic achievements is the support of his to 2018 – was appointed a Member of the Administrator of the Year recipient. family and colleagues. Order of Australia. Among his proudest achievements are “What stands out most is the longevity of my relationships with my family and workmates. Schneider, whose family moved to Australia convincing all delegates at an International It’s been very stable and calming which means I could focus on the things I love and am “with nothing” when he was 10, described BMX Federation conference in 1983 to join the committed to,” said Kutner, who is also the former vice-president and treasurer of Bialik becoming an AM as “a life-changing moment”. UCI, and delivering the inaugural speech to the College. “It’s incredible – I could not comprehend International Olympic Committee about why Paying tribute to his wife, Helen, and business partners Dennis Wilson and John Bourke, that they’ve given me the third highest honour BMX should be an Olympic sport. Kutner commented, “I share this moment with all of them and so many people who work in this country – not bad for a 1957 immigrant “That was my vision and dream – it was around us.” from Israel! ambitious and I had people asking what He added, “I’ve been very fortunate to grow up in Australia and enjoy all the opportunities “So I feel this is for all Jews in Australia, and medicine I was on – but it got done, and I’ve that its multicultural society has afforded me.” I particularly thank my wife, Barbara, for her thoroughly enjoyed the ride.”

Emeritus Professor Peter Zelas • AM NSW

EMERITUS professor Peter Zelas distinctly Medicine and its clinical school at Blacktown Specialists Without Borders and Medecins remembers being asked in class at Randwick Hospital in 2007. Sans Frontieres, treating patients in Malawi, Boys High School what he wanted to do when Upon Zelas’ retirement in 2018, having Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia, Nepal and Indonesia. he grew up, and answering “a doctor”. served for a decade in the key position of “That was a great experience, having the Almost six decades since he chose medicine clinical dean of the School of Medicine, WSU opportunity to treat patients who don’t have as a career – and 14 years since being awarded named a new library at its clinical school in his any health facilities, making a difference in a Medal of the Order of Australia – Zelas was honour. their lives – even in a small way – and learning appointed a Member of the Order of Australia Zelas told The AJN, “What spurred me on about their cultures.” on June 8 for his lifelong contribution to throughout my career was I loved talking to Among his other achievements are serving the field of surgery, health administration, patients, hearing their stories and doing my as chair of Sydney West Area Health Advisory education and humanitarian medical aid. very best to help them. Council and deputy chair of its governing He spent the last 45 years of his career “Then when I helped establish the [WSU] board, and receiving the Royal Australasian working at Blacktown and Mount Druitt medical school, I found a new lease on life by College of Surgeons Michael Donnellan Medal. Hospitals, and played a major role in discovering a love of teaching.” Zelas said he feels “overwhelmed” about his expanding their services, and establishing Between 2009 and 2016, Zelas also AM appointment. Western Sydney University’s (WSU) School of served as a volunteer doctor and surgeon for “I hadn’t expected it at all.”

Dr Emily Matters • OAM NSW Dr Peter Conrad • OAM NSW

WHILE teacher Dr Emily Matters has received “A FEELING of gratitude” is what Dr Peter recognition during her lifelong teaching Conrad experienced when he heard the career with awards by teacher associations, news about receiving a Medal of the Order of she admitted that the Queen’s Birthday Australia for service to vascular medicine, and honour for service to education is “special”. to professional organisations. Matters, of Lindfield, Sydney, is currently “It was a feeling of gratitude to my former teaching Latin and classical Greek at North colleagues in the field of phlebology in that Sydney Girls’ High School, but is working they went to so much trouble to nominate at home doing remote teaching due to me and to pursue my nomination,” Conrad COVID-19. said. “All my career I have taught Latin and In the 1970s, Conrad co-founded the classical Greek,” she said. “It’s nice to see Australian and New Zealand Society of that those subjects are flourishing again Phlebology, of which he was the foundation with more students, but my only regret Photo: Melanie Schmidt president, and the convenor of the World is that these days it is only available at Congress in 1998. traditional-style private schools and selective Sharing how he initially became interested government schools.” She served as president of the Classical in phlebology, Conrad remarked, “I am When Matters was a child, she recalled Languages Teachers Association of NSW a general surgeon and when I trained in her grandfather being fluent in Hebrew, Latin (formerly the Latin Teachers Association) for general surgery in London in the 1960s, I disease in Australia and New Zealand and the and Greek. many terms since 1978, but her latest stint was fortunate to be trained in a very new continuation of my work by the presidents of “He was born in Russia and attended high from 2016-19 was her last. technique of injecting varicose veins and two societies of phlebology in Australia and school, despite harsh entry restrictions on “I was a founding member and after spider veins, which then became a much less New Zealand.” Jews, and studied the classical languages. serving as president for many years I decided traumatic alternative to treating vein disease Conrad also received the Lifetime “I picked up on the fact that he recited it was time to hand over to younger people,” than the surgery which was in fashion prior Achievement Award for the Promotion Homer in Greek and it was only later that she said. to that.” of Phlebology in Australasia from the I found out that most of the prominent Her teaching career included being head Tracing the development of these Australasian College of Phlebology in 2007. European classical scholars were Jews, but of classics at Pymble Ladies College from techniques has been particularly rewarding Currently doing medical-legal work that has not been the case in Australia.” 2006-10 and teaching Latin and classical – in fact, Conrad said, “The highlight of my assessing injured patients from various Matters has been a member of North Greek at North Sydney Boys’ High School career has been seeing the extremely high accidents, Conrad said, “It’s a new field and I Shore Temple Emanuel for many years. from 1994-2004. standard of treatment of all aspects of venous am enjoying it.” AJN JUNE 12, 2020 12 SIVAN 20, 5780 NEWS 2020 • Queen’s Birthday Honours

Dr Michael Briner • OAM QLD Tottie Goldsmith • OAM VIC

WHEN Brisbane Hebrew Congregation’s TOTTIE Goldsmith has played many roles – honorary heritage officer, Dr Michael Briner, but her latest one – the recipient of an OAM discovered an old safe in the historic shule has left her “shocked and touched”. built in 1886, he recovered rare documents “I just said, ‘really?’” she reflected on the dating back to the earliest days of the shule moment she learned of her new status. including the marriage register and accounts of “I give time to charity, but I never fundraising efforts. imagined being honoured for it. Then it sunk Made from rag cloth and linen paper, the in, and I thought, that is so beautiful.” marriage register was falling apart so Briner Goldsmith received an OAM for service to approached the Queensland State Library for the community, and to the performing arts. assistance in repairing and rebinding the pages The actress and singer rose to fame in the to preserve them for posterity. They are now 1980s after appearing in a role on The Young available by restricted white-glove access. Doctors aged 19, and later as a founding “That was very exciting and we are member of band, The Chantoozies. She has Photo: Rebecca Bana continuing to work with the library to restore He has been a fellow of the Royal Australian also appeared on television shows Prisoner: and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists old documents which are in a bad state,” said Cell Block H, Fire, Blue Heelers, Neighbours the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, since 1974 and a consultant to hospitals in UnderBelly Files: Infiltration Briner, noting that the library also created a and . Further, Challenge Cancer Support Group and the Brisbane including the Princess Alexandra The digital version for the shule. Goldsmith has also lit up the stage in Ross Dennerstein Foundation. Hospital, where he worked for more than 30 New Rocky Horror Show, Grease – the Arena For Briner, 74, Brisbane Hebrew Most of her philanthropic work, however, Congregation has been part of his life since he years. Spectacular and more recently, Sex with lies with the Olivia Newton-John Cancer first attended services as a child with his father. “For a couple of years I volunteered with the Strangers. Wellness and Research Centre, with which He joined the shule board in 1970, serving Indigenous community working with the IDEAS “Each time I get a job, I feel so blessed,” until 2018 including a term as president. He van to research trachoma in Queensland,” he she said. she has been involved for the past 12 years. was made a life member in 2016. The OAM is said. “I just love it. And the more I mature, the Goldsmith has been an ambassador since for service to the Jewish community and to The Brisbane Hebrew Congregation is the more I emotionally evolve, and the deeper it 2018. ophthalmology, following a lifetime of work third oldest synagogue in Australia after shules gets for me. That keeps me passionate.” “Giving has everything in it and I’ve got a as one of Brisbane’s leading ophthalmologists in Hobart and Ballarat. It has regular services But her zest for life extends beyond the lot of energy for it! I just like to help. It’s part until his retirement two years ago. conducted by Rabbi Levi Jaffe. arts – Goldsmith has been a supporter of of my nature.”

Helen Mahemoff • OAM VIC

HELEN Mahemoff has been recognised with Holocaust survivors, so I’m driven to achievements at the centre and the broader a Medal of the Order of Australia for services dedicate myself to Holocaust education and community.” to Holocaust education and remembrance. remembrance. Mahemoff emphasised the importance The Melburnian has volunteered for “I’ve been privileged to volunteer at of funding to enable the JHC to enact its the Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) since the centre for almost 20 years and have landmark reconstruction which saw it move to 2002, and has been on its board and on established the Jewish Holocaust Centre temporary premises earlier this year. its executive since 2003. She is currently a Foundation which assures the centre’s “We are extremely grateful to generous fundraiser and co-chair of the JHC’s capital long-term sustainability, and more recently members of the community, as well as the campaign. I have been raising funds for the imminent federal and state government, for their In addition, Mahemoff pioneered the JHC redevelopment of our museum and facilities. outstanding support of our vision,” she told Foundation and has been its chairperson “The centre’s mission, and its message – as The AJN in February. “We are truly heartened since its inception. presented to tens of thousands of students by the response, as it is an endorsement of She stated, “I am very honoured to be each year – is so vital and relevant in today’s the vision of the survivors who founded the recognised for my efforts at the Jewish world. I am passionate about both education centre and the ongoing efforts of so many Holocaust Centre. Both my parents were and memory and am very proud of my volunteers.”

Ben Ami Gelin • OAM NSW Sue Morgan • OAM VIC Harold Sharp • OAM NSW

BATHURST resident Ben Ami FOR Sue Morgan, NEVER in Harold Sharp’s Gelin considers himself “a contributing to the wildest dreams did he think very lucky fellow”. Progressive Chevra Kadisha he would be awarded a Medal “I’m lucky to have been Victoria (PCKV) tahara of the Order of Australia for largely successful and I’m program is the most his service to the community, doing what I enjoy doing,” meaningful aspect of her and to charitable initiatives. the Israeli-born lawyer, who wide array of contributions Originally from Bondi, the has lived in Bathurst since which have earned her 80-year-old Erina resident 1984, said. a Medal of the Order of has been dedicated to the Gelin has received a Medal Australia for service to community for decades. of the Order of Australia for the Jewish community of While his involvement has service to music and to the Victoria. included the United Israel community of Bathurst. “It’s amazing how a Appeal and Masada College, frail people, people with “I feel very honoured. This background person can be Rotary International has been happened before, and it all kinds of disabilities and distinction makes it very, very honoured in this way – it’s an astonishing feeling,” she told at the forefront of his work. hasn’t happened since.” I’m on the board of several hard for me to stay humble,” The AJN. As the PCKV’s co-chair since 2015, what Morgan finds Joining the organisation In addition to his work committees.” he said. most significant about working with other volunteers in tahara in 1977, Sharp has been with Rotary, Sharp is the Gelin has relatives He has been president of is “how it brings people together in a caring way and builds a member ever since, director of Better Hearing in Sydney – Emanuel the Macquarie Philharmonia the community”. becoming president of Crows Australia (Sydney) and is a since 2018, vice-president of Synagogue’s Rabbi And she named her long association with Temple Beth Israel Nest, director of Rotary past chairman of the Central the Mitchell Conservatorium Jacqueline Ninio is his (TBI) – since 1997 – as very special to her, particularly her work Down Under and Australian Coast Mariners Football Club, since 2015, is a former daughter-in-law – and he with Indigenous people, as a founding member of TBI’s Social Rotary Health Research; and Macquarie Park Cemetery president of the Bathurst also visits Israel to see family, Justice Group and as a member of its Project Dignity group. governor of district 9680 in and Crematorium Trust, and Seymour Centre and is a but said Bathurst “is my “I’ve got to know young people of refugee background. 2002-2003. He is currently Charity Awareness Week supporter of the Bathurst community”. They taught me a lot and it’s amazing to hear their story – and chair of Rotary Oceania NSW; past director of Central Arts Council, in addition to Now in his 80s, he to be a support for them and walk with them, as they’ve been Medical Aid for Children. Coast Community Chest and being involved with and continues to work. through terrible experiences,” she reflected. Of the many Rotary Fairhaven Services; and past supporting several social “Many people ask me, Morgan has been a member of Spiritual Care Australia projects he has initiated, president of Sydney Grammar organisations. ‘When are you going to since 2011 and was on the executive committee of its Victorian Sharp reflected on the group School Foundation. “I’ve always been involved retire?’ And my answer to branch from 2014-16, creating a multi-faith calendar on behalf study exchange program Sharp mused, “I’ve been with the community. Music is that is, ‘My definition of of the organisation. he organised for those with very blessed. I came from one of my passions,” he said. retirement is, finally I’ve At Caulfield Hospital, she has been a social worker – and a disability as one of the a very poor family and I’ve “In addition to that I have made it to the point where was its inaugural pastoral care coordinator from 2008-14. greatest highlights. always been interested in supported other causes ... I I can do whatever I like.’ As well, Morgan has been on the Jewish Community “It was so rewarding. You helping people out who are am involved with a number And so I like working with Council of Victoria’s Spiritual Health Committee and has been had Australians on exchange less fortunate than I. That’s of entities that are involved in these committees and I like a pastoral care worker at Epworth Rehabilitation (part of in Arizona, and those from just what comes naturally looking after elderly people, practising the law.” Epworth Healthcare). Arizona in Australia. It never to me.”

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Dr Roger Pillemer • OAM NSW Les Gescheit • OAM VIC Dr Ivan Simmons • OAM SA

WHEN he was in high school, FOR Les Gescheit, 97, DR Ivan Joseph Simmons’ Roger Pillemer “really wanted” receiving a Medal of the “exceptional teachers” were to be a mathematics teacher. Order of Australia for his many one of the reasons he pursued “But my father told me that decades of service to Caulfield a career in dermatology. I was going to be a doctor. So I Shule and the Theodor Herzl He now describes teaching went into medicine,” he said. Club is exciting news. medical students as one of the That decision has now seen The former Hungarian most satisfying aspects of his him honoured with a Medal Holocaust survivor arrived in career. of the Order of Australia for Australia in 1949 and recalled “I’ve enjoyed teaching service to health through spending his first Rosh and some of those I taught medical advisory roles. Hashanah at the shule, where as medical students went on He told The AJN the honour he would play a key role. to do dermatology. That’s specialists, impairment “It was our second home,” been a very enjoyable aspect sector at various public was a “complete surprise”. assessors and ran the training Gescheit recounted he told The AJN, sharing of being a dermatologist,” hospitals in .” “I’m delighted and program at the Workers memories of Caulfield Shule fond memories of bridge honoured,” he said. as it was in 1949 and the remarked Simmons, who Through all his positions, Compensation Commission tournaments at the iconic applying clinical knowledge Pillemer qualified as an from 2003 until recently. various reconstructions that club. One year, the club said he was “very surprised” orthopaedic surgeon in South have taken place since he first about receiving a Medal of the has been a very satisfying He has also been heavily donated a total of $60,000 component. Africa in 1973 and was awarded involved in presentations to became a member in 1959. He towards Israeli projects. Order of Australia for service “There are very few internal the prestigious ABC (American- the legal profession, giving founded the Caulfield Youth Gescheit was an executive to medicine, particularly to medical problems which don’t British-Canadian) Travelling presentations at the NSW State Club Organisation known as committee of the Theodor dermatology. have a dermatological aspect Fellowship a year later. Legal Conference from 2005 to “CYCO” and chaired the shule’s Herzl Club from 1967-71 and He is currently director of “If you are going to be 2014, and regularly presenting youth subcommittee in 1963. became president in 1971 for Ashford Dermatology, and associated with them,” he said. a surgeon, it is always a at other conferences and firms. He served as president of a marathon term that ended a fellow of the Australasian “That was also an appeal as far good sign if you built model “I was recently appointed the shule in 1989-91, after his in 2000. Along the way, he College of Dermatologists. as dermatology is concerned. aeroplanes or did woodwork as the lead specialist to vice-presidency of 1986- was also a member of the He was also a lecturer in I’ve always thought it was when you were growing up,” the newly formed National 88, and had been honorary club’s executive committee dermatology at the University a very interesting aspect of he quipped. Permanent Coordinating secretary from 1960-85. and a life member of its of Adelaide. medicine.” He has also held a number Committee, which was formed Gescheit’s other passion foundation committee. “The fact that I have been In 2018, Simmons received of advisory positions. by Safe Work Australia to was for the Theodor Herzl “For many years, I was able to go so long non-stop a Certificate of Meritorious Since 2002 he has been establish national impairment Club, a social organisation he strongly involved in both the has been a fairly good effort. Service from the Australasian involved in training medical guidelines,” he added. played a pioneering role in. shule and the club,” he said. I’ve worked a lot in the public College of Dermatologists.

Professor Natalie King • OAM VIC

“TO be so close to the process of curating and described. “I came back and progressed various Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2017 with artist conceptualising is an enormous privilege and very degrees in art history and museum studies.” Tracey Moffatt, commissioned by Naomi Milgrom. rewarding,” said Professor Natalie Rebecca King, Having curated a wide range of exhibitions “This was the first solo exhibition by an who received a Medal of the Order of Australia for with international standing, King indicated a few Aboriginal artist in the Australian Pavilion ... To her service to the contemporary visual arts. professional highlights. present her photographs, film and stories in the “Artists are guardians of the imagination ... My “One of the most rewarding exhibition projects international arena for 600,000-plus people to see job is to be an enabler,” remarked King, who is was when I curated the survey exhibition of an exhibition that you curated was phenomenal.” based at the University of Melbourne as a professor Aboriginal artist, Destiny Deacon, for the Museum of visual arts. of Contemporary Art in Sydney. That was the first King also regularly collaborates with an Beginning a law degree at university, King comprehensive survey of her work and she looks Aboriginal curator, Djon Mundine. travelled to Florence partway through her degree very closely and humorously at dispossession and It is a “profound cultural gesture of where she studied Italian and visited world- the Stolen Generation.” reconciliation for Indigenous and non-Indigenous class museums. “It was like falling in love,” she Another highlight was curating the Australian curators to work together,” she said.

Brian Lasky • OAM VIC Ekaterina Danova • OAM VIC Dr Edmond Adler • OAM WA

BRIAN Lasky has volunteered A MEDAL of the Order of FROM helping advance oral in almost more leadership Australia in this year’s Queen’s surgery in Western Australia positions for Cranbourne Birthday Honours is the to treating Australian pilots Golf and Country Clubs, Golf culmination of decades of at overseas airforce bases, Victoria and Golf Australia achievement for Melbourne’s Dr Edmond ‘Ted’ Adler’s than there are sticks in two Ekaterina (Katya) Danova, significant contribution to sets of golf clubs. 90, a veteran presenter and dentistry, and his contribution That level of service to journalist on the SBS Russian to the community through golf was recognised last program since 1996. volunteering, has been Monday when Lasky became “I feel really honoured – recognised with a Medal of a recipient of a Medal of the and happy that through my the Order of Australia. Order of Australia. Upon his election in achievements I have lived up because she was Jewish. She Adler, 92, said he got into “Whenever there was “I started playing golf at 2001 to the board of Golf to Australia’s faith in allowing arrived in Australia in 1996. dentistry by chance. a new, successful dental Cranbourne when I was 14, Victoria, Lasky chaired four me to start again here,” the Apart from radio, she “Just as I finished school operation around the world, and it has a very special place committees, managed the Russian immigrant reflected. is the editor of Menorah and was pondering what to I tended to want to go there in my heart because of its elite men’s, colts and junior Ekaterina miraculously magazine, a member of the do, I found out the University and learn how it’s done. Jewish history and the reason teams, became an accredited survived World War II. When Shalom Association, and the of Western Australia (UWA) “So in 1981 after going it was founded,” Lasky said. national referee, and golf the Germans invaded the co-author of Melbourne – My was establishing a faculty of to Gothenburg in Sweden, I “In the early 1950s many rules education convenor. Soviet Union in 1941, she hid Love!: New Pages from its dentistry, so I thought I’d sign introduced titanium implant golfers in Melbourne, including He has even refereed at 18 in a cupboard in her town of History, published in 2007. up.” procedures to Australia and my father Harold, were refused Victorian Opens, and many Simferopol in the Crimea. No stranger to awards, After graduating, Adler Singapore.” registration as members by Australian Opens, assisting Her traumatic period as a she was presented with worked as a consultant Shortly after the Korean other clubs simply because top players with queries recluse lasted two-and-a-half the Medal of Achievement oral surgeon at Royal Perth War, he joined the Australian they were Jewish, so they about tournament rules. years until the fortunes of the from the Russian Australian Hospital, Princess Margaret Air Force Reserve “which was started their own.” “I thoroughly enjoyed Nazi invasion forces declined. Representatives Council in Hospital for Children and the a very interesting experience, Lasky became Cranbourne being inside the ropes with She eventually emerged, 2015 and was the Russian Repatriation General Hospital. as I got to treat personnel Country Club’s vice-president them, so to speak, and I joining a partisan unit. With Jewish Association’s Shalom He became a founding and even did oral surgery in 2008, and its fourth always knew Greg Norman her parents killed by the Person of the Year in 2008. committee member, at an Australian air base in president in 2013. was playing when the car Nazis, Ekaterina was adopted “When I came to Australia, president and an honorary life Malaysia”. An honorary life member parks were full.” by the Danov family. I expected better living member of the Dental Study Upon retiring, Adler of Cranbourne Golf Club, he Lasky said of receiving an After the war, she suffered conditions than in Russia,” Group of Western Australia, became an active volunteer first joined in1965, served as OAM, “It’s great to have that discrimination in the Soviet she told The AJN, “but I wasn’t and honorary secretary and for the Perth Chevra Kadisha assistant treasurer, greens recognition,” but added, “I Union and was not admitted expecting it to be a whole treasurer of the Australia and from 1993 to 2008, and sub-committee member, vice- did all these things because I to postgraduate work at new second life for me, filled New Zealand Association volunteered for many years at captain, and for nine years as wanted to give back to a sport a university in Leningrad with colour and productive of Oral and Maxillo-Facial his old university, UWA, in its club captain. I’ve always loved.” (now St Petersburg) in 1953 achievement.” Surgeons. visitors’ centre.