VOLUME 3 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 2003 journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees The BBC PC and the PM Great institutions, after a period of glory, along the path towards a settlement must slip into decline. In this they resemble have had a sobering effect on local Israel- great men. After all, in the 1930s Mahatma baiters from John Pilger to the Muslims in Gandhi advised German to adopt a Tower Hamlets who threatened to de­ strategy of passive disobedience vis-a-vis select their sitting MP Oona King unless the Nazi state, and last year Nelson she did something as obscene as Mandela wamed that a war on Iraq would likening the inhabitants of Gaza to Warsaw turn into a 'holocaust'. Ghetto dwellers. A similar decline of mental astuteness is The fact that Israeli-Palestinian observable in the 80-year-old BBC. This tensions have gone into reverse mode institution won huge plaudits during the from the constantly bloodier escalation of Second World War (and the Cold War) for the last two years is due partly to Israel's 'ts commitment to truth and freedom. steadfastness under relentless attack - Latterly, however, its attachment to these but, more crucially, to Saddam's supreme values has been eroded by the overthrow. Regime change in fraq has ever more dominant ideology ofthe 1980s radically transformed the situation of that and 1990s, i.e. PoUtical Correctness. most volatile region of the world. Even if PC has swept through the opinion- Saddam's malign ghost still hovers over forming classes of Britain - journalists, Prime Minister Tony Blair the country, the equation of terror with academics, lawyers, clergy, etc. - to such a success which he embodied for so long has 'degree that in any dispute their first Cruikshank's 'On the Road to at last been challenged - if not entfrely laid question is not which party is right and Armageddon', a documentary about the forest. *hich wTong, but which is First World, and effect of the war on Middle East historical If the world's number one trouble-spot *hich Third? A prime example of this is artefacts, as 'a breathtaking farrago of is now an admittedly still dangerous, but •^he strangely muted criticism of South distortions, historical illiteracy and even so, vastly better, place than five African President Mbeki over his stance appalling insinuations against Israel. The months ago, the fact has not been On AIDS and his support for the tyrannical effect of the programme was to blame recognised by a large section of opinion- Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Israel for imperilling the historical formers in this country. The latter, and Since the is the very monuments ofthe region. There was not a particularly the BBC, are loath to praise ^nibodiment of the First World, it appears single reference to the shocking defacing the Prime Minister for his courageous part "efore the bar of British public opinion as of historical architecture in East in transforming the Iraqi situation. Rather "^e presumed villain in any dispute to Jerusalem when it was under Arab than delighting in the tortiu^e chambers ^hich it is a party and, since the arch- control.' closed down, and sorrowing over the ^illains of the post-Cold War world - The BBC's bias in this particular area is killing fields revealed, they focus with Gaddafi, bin Laden, Arafat, the Taliban, so blatant that The Times commented: inquisitorial zeal on the missing weapons Saddam Hussein - all come from the Third 'Reporting the Middle East, it sometimes of mass destruction. They are, as the "''orld, PC-oriented opinion-formers seems so remorselessly anti-Israeli that Gilligan affair indicates, out to assassinate •"eadily find extenuating circumstances for Mr Dyke might as well be open about it Tony Blair by depicting him as a iple" Uieir atrocious conduct. and allow his reporters to appear speaking warmongering poodle of Uncle Sam. Mary The missing sense of revulsion felt in Arabic, riding a camel, stopping Tudor died with Calais engraved on her to '^^ UK at the monstrous toll of innocent occasionally to suck from a long pipe in a heart, and they are intent on incising "^es taken by Palestinian suicide bombers crowded souk.' WMD on the Prime Minister's political °*es less to than to the fact These two quotes from our largest- corpse. There is a remote possibility that nat Israel is widely perceived as a 'white', circulation quality newspapers show that, they will ultimately bring him down, as ^S-sponsored implant in the 'brown' despite indications to the contrary, the John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham the Middle East. This perception is strongly battle against the demonisation of the Lincoln in 1865. However, just as Booth's fostered by the BBC. whose reporting on Jewish state in this country has not yet bullets could not restore slavery, the rje Middle East seems woefully biased. been comprehensively lost. The fact that poison darts of Blair's detractors will not The Daily Telegraph characterised Dan Sharon has taken the first tentative steps put Saddam back into power. Berlusconi's outburst - Richard Grunberger benefactor or villain?

The Italian Prime Minister is hardly a David Rothenberg good advertisement for the As a representative of the AJR (under the form of pensions and cash payments democratic process (nor, for that the aegis of World Jewish Relief) on the to the most impoverished. matter, is President Chirac). He Board of the Claims Conference for proves that the deformation of the Board membership some years, I have become only too Italian body politic, due to such When the Claims Conference was aware of the misconceptions and entrenched forces as the Catholic originally established, there were 23 misunderstandings of its activities. Church, feudalism, bureaucracy and founding bodies. Since then there have Traditionally, where someone dies organised crime, is long-lasting and been many attempts to change or add to without heirs the state inherits their still awaits drastic surgery. these representative bodies to reflect property. Immediately after the fall of Berlusconi has, moreover, the changes in the world Jewish the Nazi regime, it became evident to execrable taste of saying he is community. Israeli and East the occupying powers (initially the comfortable with jokes about the European bodies felt they were Americans, later joined by the British Holocaust. The only possible underrepresented, while many felt the and French but not the Russians) that it response to that is outraged silence. US (and to a lesser extent the UK) was would be unconscionable for this to On the other hand, he has shown a disproportionately represented. Over refreshing tendency to cut through apply in postwar conditions to . the last few years there has been some politically expedient double-talk and Out of this situation the Conference on movement to increasing Board articulate uncomfortable truths. He Jewish Material Claims against numbers to redress this perceived has asserted that Western values Germany Inc. (the Claims Conference) unfairness. The AJR's own position is were not an optional equivalent to was born. Formally, it is a not-for-profit that we are a founding member of one of Islamic ones - but actually superior to organisation incorporated in the US, the original 23 bodies, the Council of them. Even his spat with the German and is recognised imder German law as Jews from Germany. Recently we have Social Democrat deputy in the the legal heir of heirless Jewish sat on the Board, together with a European Parliament contained a individual and communal property in representative of Jewish Care, as tiny grain of justification. The Germany. The proceeds of such representing World Jewish Reliei Germans of today like to project heirless property were to be dedicated (itself, as the CBF, another of the themselves as the goodie-goodies in to the Jewish people and to recording original 23 bodies). international affairs - which, given the facts and history ofthe Shoah and to the dreadful burden of their past, is The Claims Conference has attracted education. Subsequently, the Claims understandable - but pacifist bad publicity, much of it unfair, i" Conference was given similar status attitudes are of precious little use in connection with its actions as the agen in . the present dangerous world ofthe German Government. In winning The Claims Conference was situation, where countries from Iran unprecedented sums for survivors, the originally led by Nahum Goldmann who, to North Korea want to go nuclear Claims Conference had to accept that i though born in Russia, was educated at Lastly, the Germans and the French would be responsible for the the Musterschule in . Over also lay claim to the role of joint distribution of the very money it ha the years it has acted not only as the spokesmen for Europe. Their notion secured for those survivors while being heir of heirless property, but also as the that Europe should be equidistant bound by the formal and bureaucraUC champion of the dispossessed, leading from America and the Third World - rules laid down by the German the drive for compensation from the exemplified by EU Commissioner Government. The Government thus Patten's fondness for Arafat and German government to hundreds of Continued on pag^ ^ President Chirac's for Mugabe - thousands of refugees and survivors in shows the need for someone to take a more Atlanticist stance inside the AJR Journal EU. Currently, Italy and Spain go Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief JACKMAN • Ronald Channing Executive Editor some way towards redressing the Howard Spier Editorial and Production SILVERMAN balance - but they, plus the former AJR Journal, Jubilee House, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS Soviet-Bloc countries, and (hopefully) Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 4RL Tel: 020 8385 3070 Fax: 020 8385 3080 the UK, will in the long run build a e-mail; [email protected] 26 Conduit Street, London W1R 9TA www.ajrorg.uk true bridge across the Atlantic. Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 801 AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2003

Displaced placenames Richard Grunberger NEWTONS Leading Hampstead Solicitors advise on After a lifetime of referring to the place the Austro-Hungarian Lemberg became Property, Wills, Family Trusts as Leningrad', my friend grumbled, 'I Lwow in Poland, Litzmannstadt in the and Charitable Trusts can't get used to calling it St Petersburg.' I Third Reich, and is currently Lviv, capital tactlessly pointed out that at the time of of West Ukraine. French and German spoken its birth the city had actually been re­ A similar, but less complex, process of Home visits arranged named Petrograd. The Bolsheviks finally re-naming has been going on in post- renamed it after Lenin and, to emphasise colonial Africa. The Congolese capital 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, the break with the Tsarist past, they Leopoldville, named after the Belgian London NWS 5NB also renamed Yekaterinburg king who was the worst royal slave- Tel: 020 7435 5351 (commemorating Catherine the Great) driver in history, is nowadays known as Fax: 020 7435 8881 Sverdlovsk, and Tsaritsyn Stalingrad. Kinshasa; less justifiably Stanleyville, The whirligig of time brought further commemorating the intrepid joumaHst change: the last-mentioned hero city is who found Livingstone, has been now simply Volgograd, and Sverdlovsk renamed Kisangani. has reverted to its original name of Further south, the names of Britain's Yekaterinburg. top Empire-builders have also been CONSULTANT The latter change is - to coin a phrase - erased from the map. Zambia and to long established English good for the Jews. Since Yakov Sverdlov Zimbabwe have replaced the two states Solicitors (bi-lingual German) *as the local Bolshevik commissar who whose names commemorated Cecil would be happy to assist clients ;iv ed ordered the execution of the Romanovs, Rhodes. Salisbury, the South Rhodesian w/ith English, German and on is the less the Russian public are reminded capital, named for Britain's prime Austrian problems. ne of of his existence, the better. minister in the heyday of Empire, is now Contact Henry Ebner of cil A Russian town with a far more called Harare (and is in imminent danger Myers Ebner & Deaner have hghthearted - and tenuous - Jewish of being dubbed Mugabeville). 103 Shepherds Bush Road Ith a connection is Kaliningrad. In its previous Self-designated nation-builders of London W6 7LP -» as incarnation as the capital of East Prussia Mugabe's ilk already existed in the 1930s. Telephone 020 7602 4631 'el ief ^d coronation city of the Hohenzollern, One such, President Trujillo of the ALL LEGAL WORK 't was known as Konigsberg - which , informed the 1938 UNDERTAKEN ''ame (minus the umlaut) also happened Evian Conference on Refugees that his 'o be inscribed on Woody Allen's birth country was - uniquely - prepared to Certificate. The Woody Allen-Konigsberg accept several thousand German Jewish ''exus underhnes the irony of history that immigrants (grotesque as it may sound, J^ws have bestowed lustre, or at least he wanted 'Aryan-looking' Jews to offset AUSTRIAN and GERMAN Widespread name recognition, on several the dark skin ofthe bulk ofthe Dominican PENSIONS the German towns whose inhabitants were population). However, the outbreak of ^or the most part Judeophobes. , of war ten months after Evian restricted the PROPERTY Course, would have been well-known immigrants to a few hundred. Sometime RESTITUTION CLAIMS ^^en without help fromIrvin g (or Isaiah), later, in the postwar era, the president EAST GERMANY - BERLIN "Ut what would Breslau/Bresslaw have renamed the capital city San Domingo ^mounted to without Bernie, Bonn Ciudad Trujillo as a tribute to himself. On instructions our office will Without Izzy, Kassel without Sir Emest A nation-builder at the opposite end of assist to deal with your ^d Kissingen without Henry? Seriously, the spectrum to Mugabe and Trujillo, not applications and pursue the matter though, which US Supreme Court judge only in character but also in the degree of with the authorities. ^iitshone , or which power he could exercise (either over his ^i^tish film-maker Emeric Pressburger? For further information own people or internationally), was and an appointment Mention of the great cineaste touches Theodor Herzl. This visionary, imbued please contact: ^^ another interesting issue - the fact with the dream of the rebirth of a people hat the average town in Eastern Europe scattered to the four winds, is today most ICS CLAIMS ^3sted three different names. Pressburg inadequately commemorated. What, 146-154 Kilburn High Road '^rman) is also known as Bratislava after all, is Herzlia, other than a satellite London NW6 4JD 'Slovak) and Poszony (Hungarian); town of Tel Aviv boasting several deluxe Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) 'Inius (Lithuanian) likewise is Wilna hotels flankedb y azure swimming pools Fax: 020 7624 5002 ^'^issian) and Wilno (Polish). Uniquely, and verdant golf courses? AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2003

Claims Conference - benefactor or villain? Stamford Hill Tannhauser Continued from page 2 Richard Grunberger

obtained the credit for paying, leaving the opprobrium for bureaucratic The above heading most they could meet youngsters of similar rejection of individual claims to the emphatically doesn't refer to an background and converse in their Claims Conference. actual staging of Wagner's opera in mother tongue. In addition, the Similarly, the Claims Conference is N16. Those familiar with the work mingling of the sexes provided a not the paying agent on behalf of the will know now that its full title is insignificant draw. German Foundation 'Remembrance, Tannhauser and the Song Contest on However, in that particular respect the Wartburg. What I want to write Responsibility and Futiu-e' for Jewish the situation that confronted the about is a song contest - or, to use slave labourers other than those living in newly recruited intake was far from Wagner's term - Sangerkrieg (singers' the former USSR or Poland. Again, it propitious. Our bobby-soxers - to use war) that took place at a Stamford a contemporary expression - looked carries the blame for rejecting claimants Hill youth club just over 60 years ago. for boys in whose company they and for delays in payment caused I was 17, a newly recruited, fully might do something glamorous, frequently by the strict rules of the committed, member of Young such as going dancing at the Royal or Foimdation. Austria. It would be no exaggeration Paramount dance halls. Alas, most of Support for survivors/education to say that I considered the our lads were not cut out for that and grant making organisation my spiritual home. For role. Bespectacled, walleyed Rudi N, one, it had released me from the Another subject which gives rise to for example, resembled one of debilitating isolation I had felt since Dickens's bedraggled waifs and deeply felt and vigorously argued debate my arrival in London. For another, strays. Running him a close second is to what extent moneys paid out should coming from a Social Democrat sartorially was dark, fuzzy-haired Leo be used for assistance to elderly, needy home, I thrilled to the Marxist W, whose down-covered upper lip Jewish victims of and to what message (carefully wrapped in still awaited an encounter with the extent it should be applied for research, Austrian patriotic packaging) my razor Leo was so proud of having education and documentation of the new mentors were sending out. As an become a munitions worker because Shoah. The Board agreed a few years ago ex-member of the Socialist-Zionist (a) it helped the war effort, and (b) rt that 80 per cent of grants should be for Hashomer Hatzair, I didn't even baulk brought him closer to the proletariat assistance and 20 per cent for the at substituting the Vienna Woods for - he didn't take off his overalls even educational aspects of its remit. This Mount Zion as the focus for an exile's after leaving the factory. (No chance proportion was reaffirmed this year, but yearning - not least because the of him being admitted to the Royal if^ not before emotional pleas to apply more process was helped along by that garb!) Another of our stalwarts to 'survivors' now. camaraderie and a diet of lectures, as self-excluded from the Royal was Fritz well as readings from authors like All grants are recommended by an S, the group leader Overly serious Schnitzler and Karl Kraus. Allocations Committee, which has very and stiff of manner, he considered thorough review procediures, and are Stamford Hill being what it was - dancing a bourgeois frivolity; besides then approved by the entire Board. and still is - the youngsters Young he had two left feet. As for me, I wa^ There has been a move to create a Austria tried to recruit were of a no Beau Brummel. I wore shirts wit"^ frayed collars, socks with holes and separate allocations committee for somewhat more religious cast of mind than their contemporaries in scuffed shoes. grants to Israel, but this has not been other parts of London. The target agreed; payments for institutions such as Then one evening two newcomer 'audience' were either living with old-age homes in Israel are, however, fetched up at our meeting whose observant parents or Jewish discussed in advance with the appearance rocked the room. They landladies, or in single-sex hostels wore suits (of matching jackets an appropriate ministries in Israel. under rabbinical supervision. trousers!), collars and ties and thei'' All this pales into insignificance Our two-dozen-strong Stamford feet were shod in polished shoe^ compared to the fraught question of Hill group accordingly contained a And what's more, both sporte property recovered in former East sizable bloc of brand new recruits moustaches - a feature unknoWi^ Germany by the Claims Conference as quite deaf to the siren call of Austrian among Young Austrians, an successor to heirless property. patriotism (not to mention Marxism). frowned upon us as an expression The second and concluding part of this They had joined because we vanity. The specimen adorning the article will appear in the October issue. organised socials and rambles, where upper lip of the taller newcomer wa AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2003

SO well-trimmed that it might have wenn die Nacht beginnt/Weht von secured him employment as a stand- Transjordaniens Bergen her ein kuhler Jewish immigration in for Anton Walbrook. Alas, the Wind/Um das Lagerfeuer stehen featured on sojourn of the two men-about-town Manner ohne Zahl/Einer spricht und national website among us ragged-trousered jedes Wort klingt hart wie Ronald Channing philanthropists was brief. The Anton Stahl:/Niemals wollen, lassen wit's Walbrook lookalike took a boat to geschehn dass die Grenze bildet 'Moving Here', a new website recording America; left high and dry, the other der Yarden. and illustrating the history of immigrant groups settling in Britain in the last 200 swapped socialising for evening (When the sun sinks and the night years, gives prominence to the Jewish class study. begins/A cold wind blows from community which was established prior As luck - or, more precisely, ill-luck - Transjordan's mountains/Around the to and during the twentieth century. Would have it, our girls' craving for a campfire stand men without Sponsored by the National Archive, and touch of glamour did not remain number/One of them speaks and every the result of two years' research, the Unrequited for long. Within weeks of word sounds hard as steel:A/Ve shall website also features the Caribbean, the 'clotheshorses' departure, three never allow it to happen/that the Irish and South Asian immigrant Somewhat younger and less Jordan should form the frontier.) commimities. standoffish newcomers made their The reason why we hardcore Young Drawing on the resources of 30 Appearance at the group. The trio's Austrians knew exactly what went on museums, libraries and archives, the lynchpin was the quite impeccably in the enemy camp was that Rudi N new website offers 150,000 dociunents, suited Herbert H. Herbert who turned had crept into their meeting place illustrations and historic photographs of out to be a veritable teenage Svengali ahead of time. Duly discovered, he all kinds, making it one of the largest with handsome features often presented himself as a potential projects of its type ever undertaken. Screwed up into a lopsided, sardonic convert eager to hear the Zionist case 'Moving Here', which can be found on 9rin. His adjunct, Siggie R, had a set out. Naturally he was laughed to www.movinghere.org.uk, is a free tendency to go for the jugular under a website which enables visitors to see derision, and then mock-serenaded display of surface affability. 'If you first-hand records of the experiences of with an Alpine folksong of jaw- 'ooked at yourself in the mirror", he people who left their homelands and dropping banality: 'Black-brown is the orice told me pointedly, 'you would made a new life in Britain. It also hazelnut/1 am Black-brown too/ Black- ^ee you have no choice but to be allows migrants to add their own stories ^Zionist!' brown must be my girl/ Just the to the archive. same as I.' Lowest in the trio's pecking order Among the documents available for Rudi's report was delivered to a ^tood Sam L. This was paradoxical inspection are registers of the Jewish 'because Sam, offspring of poor Polish rump of 13 Young Austria members - Free School dating back to the "^migrants to Germany, was the whereas our previous meeting had nineteenth century. Home Office ^ntryists' greatest draw: he was tall attracted 25! Were we depressed -you records of the names and details of ^r>d slim and had Rudolf Valentino bet! But then, having been worsted by Jewish refugees granted asylum during 'Ooks allied to a Tino Rossi-type the power of song, we fought back World War II and photographs ofthe few singing voice. with the only available weapon to us, clothes and mementos brought by a i.e. more song: Kindertransport child. Listed as a And it was largely in the sphere of Hampstead psychoanalyst, Anna Freud ^ong that the subsequent battle for Wie uns die Luge auch schmahend was officially designated a female ^^e allegiance of our Stamford Hill umkreist/Alles besiegend erhebt sich enemy alien, but granted exemption der Geist/ Kerker und Eisen zerbricht group's two dozen members was from intemment. British Jewry's Book seine Macht/ wenn wir uns rusten zur bought out. We Young Austria loyalists of Honour lists the names of all Jewish letzten Sclacht/ So flieg du ^^nt through our standard repertoire servicemen who served in the British flammende, du rote Fahne/ Voran dem ^^ anodyne folksongs, roared out to Army in World War I. '"^e accompaniment of the slapping of Wege den wir ziehn/ Wir sind der AJR's partner in last year's record- 'preferably /.ederhosen-clad) thighs, Zukunft getreue Kampf er/ Wir sind die breaking Continental Britons Arbeiter von Wien. 'Ollowed by less full-throated exhibition, the Jewish Museum, is a ^^empts at yodelling. (Although lies mock and encircle us/ major contributor to the 'Moving Here' ^t meetings of Herbert's rival The spirit will arise victoriously/ Its project and provided no fewer than .^^ion, meanwhile, Sam wowed the power smashes iron and prison. When 16,000 images of Jewish migration to, 'steners with Yiddish and Hebrew we prepare for the final battle. Unfurl and settlement in, Britain. The website '^^lodies before launching into an the flaming scarlet banner/ Lighting offers a unique resource for those ^^Ocation of a Jewish state on both the path that we pursue/ We are loyal interested in Britain's diverse heritage ^'^es of the Jordan: fighters for the future/ We are the and an accessible resource for Jewish ^enn die Sonne untergeht und workers of Vienna.) people keen to explore their roots and cultural origins. AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2003

They had been persuaded to take part by Gerhard Jochem, one of the city fi£'nms% The Editor reserves the right archivists in Nuremberg much to shorten correspondence involved with the history of Jews in the I TO THE 1 submitted for publication city. In his spare time he has created a comprehensive website on this V EDITOR J subject. We had two sessions with teenage schoolchildren who appeared well PUTTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Sir -1 always look forward to reading informed, although none seemed to Sir - Jon Rumney (August issue) states your front-page leader, if only because know any Jews. They wanted to know that 'the whole world knows that the it so frequently gets the adrenalin a great deal about what had USA and UK were Iraq's main weapons flowing! Maybe it is good for you, like happened to us, and we were able to suppliers.' Well, one source which does exercise and five portions of fruit, to tell them and to stress that they not know that is Jane's 1990 Survey achieve a beyond-average long life. It needed to know so as to make sure (pre-Gulf War 1) of the world's armed is far too soon to argue that the that such things could not forces. It clearly shows the Iraqi forces invasion of Iraq was a good thing for happen again. the Iraqi people - history will tell. as being equipped mainly with Russian We found that the young generation Moreover, it is probably near and French weaponry. It would also of Nurembergers were sincerely impossible to plant democracy appear that Mr Rumney is unaware of puzzled and distraught at the events without extensively preparing the soil. who supplied Saddam with the Ozirac of the Hitler years and felt strongly Furthermore, it was the British nuclear reactor, namely France. Had it about the guilt of their fathers and government that taught the Iraqis and not been destroyed in 1982 by the grandfathers. We met a great many the Kurds that might is right. We used Israeli air force, Saddam would by people who expressed their personal 1990 have been in possession of the the RAF and gas-filled bombs to do so - empathy and were involved in 'Mother of All Weapons of Mass weapons of MD! A lesson the activities to make amends. (Herr Destruction'. have not forgotten. Jochem's address is: Stadt Nuremberg, Jacob Brauner The real point at issue is that we Stadtarchiv90317, Nuremberg.) London NWl 1 were sold this military venture almost Susan Sinclair solely on the information that Saddam NO TO THE NAY-SAYERS Hussein possessed WMDs and could VIENNA COMMUNITYS FINANCIAL Sir - If action against Saddam had to be deploy them in a very short space of PLIGHT 'sold' to the Anglo-American public on time. Knowing this evil character, Sir - It would be a laudable gesture if the WMD premise, to be discarded as a would he not have used them if he AJR members of Austrian origin would 'wild-goose chase', perhaps it is could? Would it have hurt if we had taken Hans Blix's advice and given the each contribute an affordable sum because there is no international UN and their inspection team a few towards a donation to be sent to the agreement on when, if at all, the weeks longer? France, Germany and, Augarten Schule in Vienna. Your humanitarian consideration should indeed, many other nations did not compassionately worded appeal vviH prevail. share the opinion of Bush and Blair I surely call forth a generous response! When does inconvenience, see no reason why you should be so Name and address suppH^" subjectively (perhaps) experienced, inspired by Alistair Campbell. And become oppression, then persecution, finally, just to put my money where my 2003 AGM then genocide? At what point are mouth is, I will make a donation to the Sir - The best conducted and shortest 'outsiders' entitled to intervene? As an AJR welfare fund if any real weapons AGM I have ever attended! ManV internationalist, my answer is 'the of mass destruction are found in Iraq. congratulations to the managemen sooner the better', but the nationally- Herbert Layton inclined may be expected to hesitate. team. And what a good idea to hold i Gloucester Can you not imagine the reaction in at the Holocaust Centre in Laxton, i° the USA years ago at any suggestion of enable our Northern and Midlands armed intervention to deal with the NUREMBERG COLLOQUY members not to have to travel so i^^- 'terrible wrong' being done to the black Sir - Readers might be interested to and all of us to meet. May I suggest we population of the old South? And read about the Zeitzeugengesprach hold future AGMs in Laxton every would America think otherwise now? (Period Witness Colloquium) in early three years. Alan S Kaye June. There were five witnesses, two Eric Neman Elstree Chalfont St Giles from England and three from the US. AJR JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2003

NARROW FOCUS map' currently on offer. Thank god Sir - Having been a subscriber to AJR for the Israeli citizen Daniel ARE YOU ON A LOW Journal for some years, it pains me to Barenboim. He recently gave a concert INCOME AND IN NEED point out that the title Association of in Ramallah and is laying the Jewish Refugees is clearly a misnomer. foundations for a Palestinian youth OF HOMECARE HELP? In your otherwise excellent orchestra. This emphasis on our AJR might be able to offer publication, I have read in great depth common humanity is building bridges financial assistance. between our two peoples. Surely about Austro-German refugees, but Members who might not never at any time has there been any better than erecting fences. otherwise be able to afford mention of East European Jewish Inge Trott homecare please contact: refugees. Am I to take it that your Cheam, Surrey Estelle Brookner, Secretary journal/association does not wish to AJR Social Services Dept take cognisance of the existence of OSTRICHES AND CRABS Tel: 020 8385 3070 Polish Jewish refugees? Sir - As a regular reader oi AIR Journal, Bob Kutner I am shocked by the continuous Glasgow venomous letters directed against you. Haven't these people learned VOLTE-FACE Companions anything since 1939, when the world Sir - How splendid! Germans refuse to stood by while 6 million Jews were of London 90 to war! Incorporating exterminated? They remind me of the M Goldenberg Hampstead Home Care so-called Nauman-Juden in Germany London N6 between 1933 and 1935 who said A long established company MATERIAL SOUGHT Hitler didn't mean us - only the providing care in your home The author of two published historical Ostjuden. Assistance with personal care studies, I am gathering material for a I am surprised to read your review of General household duties Respite care "Ook on the nature of British support Crabwalk by Gunter Grass, whom I Medical appointment service ^or Nazism up to 1945. I would always thought to be a liberal, modern Welcome any recollections, German. According to Frederick •OUR CARE IS YOUR CARE' 'mpressions, sight of any documents. Forsyth's Odessa File, the Wilhelm 020 7483 0212/0213 Photos, etc. Any readers who feel able Gustloff was sunk by the Russians *o assist my research should contact because it contained a large number •i^ethrough the Editor of German army personnel and several A^ SPRING Martin Page hundred SS men, mostly guards of the GROVE MA Oxon Riga ghetto, in which thousands of 214 Finchley Road German Jews were exterminated. I London NW3 speak from experience as I was a 'ACCUSATION London's Most Luxurious member of the British army party ^ir - The subject which Bill Oakfield has RETIREMENT HOME which investigated this affair in late "^^ised (August issue) is obviously a • Entertainment-Activities summer 1945. ^^ry important one. This is the first • Stress Free Living ^'^e 1 have heard of it. Naturally I have Ossi Findling • 24 Hour Staffing • Excellent Cuisine • Full En-Suite Facilities ^0 opinion as to the facts, but I London NW4 Wonder whether this is not a case of Call for more information or a personal tour ^'storical importance to the Jewish ALEXANDER KORDA Community in the UK. Should it not be Sir - While not detracting from the 020 8446 2117 "^^estigated by an independent importance of the films of Sir or 020 7794 4455 ^^rnmission of enquiry? Alexander Korda (August issue), he [email protected] Frederick Hirsch certainly was not 'Britain's only movie Pinner, Middx mogul.' John Schlesinger, whose funeral took place on 5 August at the Simon R Rhodes M.Ch.S. STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST ''^^'CES AND BRIDGES Liberal Jewish Cemetery in Willesden, Surgeries at; . '^ - Clare Parker is sickened by the made many famous films and was 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp M&S) 9riorance of anyone daring to blame highly regarded in Britain and the US. Telephone 020 7624 1576 ^^ron for 'trying to protect his He was the son of a Jewish 3 Queens Close (off Green Lane) '^^ople.' His so-called protection has paediatrician who brought 13 German Edgware, Middx HA87PU ^^ulted in many more civilian deaths Jewish children to Britain in 1939. Telephone 020 8905 3264 ^^ri ever before. He would be better Mrs HL Vajifdar Visiting chiropody service available ^^^ised to conform fully with the 'road London SW13 AJRJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2003

enter the painting - but is it Paradise? The remarkable Finnish painter RG'S INTGRFACG Gallen-Kallela followed Gauguin to a NOTES Enfant terrible Nigel Kennedy, the pursuit of primitivism, in his case the publicity-generating musical celebrity, biting rawness of his own northern studied at the Menuhin School as a Gloria Tessler landscape. child and had his fees paid by the For me, Friedrich's Winter What is ftradise? The Greeks had a school's founder. Recently he has Landscape - an icy fir tree mirrors a word for it and their Arcadian myths become fascinated with Poland, where distant, ghostly gothic church - makes he married, bought a house and infused the pastoral traditions of the the most formal statement. He offers no recorded with a klezmer band. Renaissance. Now, the National easy answers to heavenly seekers but a Literature Prize Wiimer Gyorgy Gallery has jointly cnrated Paradise Christian response. But perhaps of all of Konrad has just published the Shoah with Bristol City Museum and Art them, two opposites most attract. Mark novel Gliick - good fortune - with Gallery until the end of the month. Rothko's Untitled is an epiphany to Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt. Many of the ideas of the Old Masters Recounting the fate of an 11-year old yellow. It says least and yet its dazzling, express love in a rustic setting. But Jewish boy in 1944 Hungary, it is, in unchallenged colour expresses mood Claude Lorrain's Landscape with fact, entirely autobiographical. and longing beyond substance. Stanley Narcissus and Echo, showing the Critics have faulted the work for its Spencer's The Lovers or the Dustmen recumbent Echo sighing at her lover's total lack of emotional engagement vain indifference, implies that even buys into everyone's real longing - that with the past. Paradise is an imperfect state. Paradise is finding oiu^ loved ones Impotent eyewitness Joseph Roth, waiting for us. There is nothing ethereal the posthumously revered author of about his stocky, mouthy dustman's Radetzky March, spent the 1930s as an wife, literally lifting him off his feet in embittered exile in , gradually her sheer joy at their reunion. Heavy, drinking himself to death. His writings wooden, expressive, iconic - and utterly during that bleak period have now heavenly. been published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne under the title Die William Roberts and his brother-in- Filiale derHblle aufErden (A Branch of law Jacob Kramer are respectively the Hell on Earth). Tortoise and the Hare in the Ben Uri's Birthday The Bro.oklyn-born celebration of these two remarkable children's author and illustrator Modernists. Opposite in character and Maurice Sendak has turned 75. World Paradise: Landscape with Narcissus and Echo work patterns, they were linked by famous for Where the Wild Things Are, by Claude Lorrain. Copynght 2000 N^tionaJ Callety, London Roberts's marriage to Kramer's sister, Sendak has been dubbed the 'Picasso Samuel Colman's Arrival of the their Muse, Sarah. Kramer was the of childhood' in Time magazine. Queen of Sheba evokes all the wildfire talent in tune with the Treat in store The National Theatre munificence of a royal visit - but Modernist age. The more circumspect will restage Odon von Horvath's Tales Paradise? Well, Paradise is actually Rogers worked slowly and rigorously to ofthe Vienna Woods, first shown in the derived from the Persian for royal a more precise pattern. Kramer offers 1970s, in October The play, a mordant pleasure garden, so perhaps so. us his dazzling and luminous talent, expose of the typically Austrian mix 01 sentimentality and sadism, was Frimgois Boucher's Landscape with a whether it is the portrait of Sarah in written in 1930. Despite this, the Watermill may romanticise peasant life blue, or his more stylised Jewish National Theatre's posters for the play paintings, personified best by his but it ignores rural poverty. John featiue photographs taken during the Constable's Cornfield is an elegy of masterpiece The Day of Atonement of Nazi eight years later. remembered childhood, while in 1919. Although the genre includes The Obituary Leon Uris, who in 1958 Poussin's Bacchanalian Revel, with Flame, Japanese Woman and Mother and achieved overnight fame with his nymphs and satyrs dancing before a Child, it is thejewish work which seems novel Exodus, has died aged 78- fearsome sculpture of Pan, Paradise to foreshadow the terrible events of the Though fiction. Exodus used the panders more to sex and ritualism. mid-century. factual background of the Royal Navy Paul Gauguin fled to his Nirvana in Roberts's work anticipates Stanley turning back Palestine-bound Jewish the South Pacific. He gave us luminous Spencer in its hybrid human forms DPs and generated widespread work idealising primitive rites, but died slotted mechnically into what he might sympathy for Israel when Otto Preminger transformed it into 3 disappointed. What can one say about regard as the machine age. Yet his Hollywood epic. Uris returned to Monet's incomparable Water-Lily Jewish portraits are astonishingly Jewish themes with Mila 18 (about Pond? In soft greens and acquamarines, accurate, and he managed to capture an the Warsaw Ghetto uprising) ^no its beauty makes you gasp and long to elusive Jewish essence. MiotlaPass. A culture brought vividly to life FILM REVIEW

THE PITV OF IT ALL: A PORTRAIT OF Grosz-Deutschland JEWS IN GERMANY 1743-1933 REVIEWS Amos Elon MAX Allen Lane, 2003 Directed by Menno Meyjes deluded 'yekkes': didn't history teach (with John Cusack, Noah Taylor) This study of the Jews in Germany - of them a lesson! But this argument is On selected release their close but ultimately tragic misconceived, based as it is on the relationship with their fellow Germans - deterministic notion that Hitler and the The year is 1919, the place Munich. will be of great interest to AJR Journal Holocaust were inevitable when plainly Here Max, a Jewish gallery owner, who readers. It provides a wide-ranging they were not, and that events after lost an arm in the war, casually coverage of German-Jewish culture, 1933 somehow devalued the encounters a fellow veteran, the dirt- brought vividly to life by a sympathetic achievements that preceded them, poor, would-be-painter and part-time author Elon discusses the great names which is illogical. political agitator They form from Moses Mendelssohn through Elon has the gift of spotting the a tenuous bond. Max tries to wean Heinrich Heine to Albert Einstein, while telling incident and the striking figure, Hitler off politics and cajole him into skillfully focusing on lesser figures like and of bringing out their significance concentrating on art. The latter the banker and liberal politician Ludwig for German Jewry. His book is an oscillates between the two careers - but Bamberger and the popular novelist enjoyable read, though it conveys some the last reel delivers a double whammy. Berthold Auerbach, whose lives and weighty intellectual and cultural Whipped up by Hitler's first speech to careers embody key aspects of the history. He does not shrink from the fledgling , some of his German-Jewish experience. examining the problems associated listeners get drunk and beat a Jew - who Elon makes clear that he is writing with assimilation and conversion, the happens to be Max - to death. Hitler, history and not sociology and that he tribulations that afflicted German Jews meanwhile, sits in a nearby bar, waiting aims to depict individuals who are who wished to be accepted as Germans to show the gallery owner his painfings representative of a particular social without being scorned as Jews. He in the hope that he might exhibit them. culture, rather than analysing carefully examines German Max's non-appearance robs Hitler of exhaustively the entire social group, antisemitism, as manifested in the his last chance of becoming a painter German Jewry, from which that culture nationalistic fervour that swept Prussia As the door marked art closes, another, 9rew. And what a culture it was! after its defeat by Napoleon, in the marked politics, opens and he steps Starting with the arrival of Moses 'Hep! Hep!' riots of 1819, the political through it. Mendelssohn in Berlin in 1743, Elon antisemitism of the late 1870s, and the This picture of the late developer takes us from the early emancipation crisis years after 1918. Hitler torn between artistic fame and through the salons of Henriette Herz Unfortunately, the later chapters are political power is neat, but historically ^nd Rahel Varnhagen to Heine and marred by factual errors. We are told inaccurate. This wouldn't matter Ludwig Borne in the mid-nineteenth that Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his overmuch if Max didn't suffer from century, then to the unique cultural, successor as King of Prussia, Wilhelm I, greater flaws as well. The first of these is Intellectual and scientific flowering that were father and son, not brothers, and the depiction of Max's Jewish family as German Jewry gave to the world under that 'der alte Fritz' (Friedrich II) was 'one conspicuously wealthy in contrast with the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar of the founders of the royal house of the Germans around them. There were f^epublic. The sheer wealth and Hohenzollern'. Eugen Levine, the plenty of wealthy non-Jews - such as the profusion of German-Jewish culture in Communist leader in Munich in 1919, Bechstein piano manufacturers - 'ts relatively brief span takes one's becomes 'Erich Levine', the present in Munich who financed Hitler •breath away; and Elon is the man to campaigning statistician E. J. Gumbel from early on. <^elebrate it. becomes 'Gimbel', and Ernst von Nor does the movie adequately show The history of German-Jewish culture Salomon, author of the anti- many Germans' immediate postwar 'Cannot be uncontroversial given that it denazification text Der Fragebogen, is reaction against the Kaiser and Prussian ^f^ded in the Holocaust. Surely, the rechristened Erich. To compare Karl militarism. Because Bavaria had hostile argument runs, the Jews of Kraus with Marshall McLuhan is resented Prussia's primacy in the Germany were utterly misguided in unsatisfactory, while the view that Kaiserreich, it now briefly turned left. In ^^eking to embrace German 'Bildung', Theodor Fontane's novels 'celebrated early 1919 Munich actually saw a to assimilate Into German society as the old-fashioned, straitlaced, frugal (somewhat anaemic) Soviet German citizens of the Jewish faith', common decency of the Prussian rural government in power When this was ^^d to adopt the values of German gentry' will surprise admirers of Effi bloodily overthrown, the region's move humanism and liberalism. Those who Briest - Elon ignores Die Poggenpohls, to the right was far more pronounced ^'aim, like Daniel Goldhagen, that all where relations between Prussian than in other parts of Germany. German culture was imbued with an aristocrats and Jews form an important (In Berlin, for instance, the ^^erminationist' antisemitism and that theme. A future edition should correct assassination of the Jewish foreign ^'^e Holocaust was a disaster waiting to these blemishes on a fine book. minister Walter Rathenau in 1922 "^Ppen, look down pityingly at these Anthony Grenville provoked a general strike.) Third, the character of Max doesn't Choir, as well as the Jewish Youth Choir Donations to The Barry Weinberg Fund quite convince. As a promoter of One of the highlights of the festival for Jewish Music are welcomed to avantgarde art, he doesn't shock us by was the whole day of Jewish Choral support ongoing Jewish choral music having an official mistress - but this Workshops at SOAS. The star of the day festivals. Please send your cheque to bohemian touch is at odds with his was Stephen Glass himself, working 'JMI Barry Weinberg Fund and further synagogue attendance and solicitude with all voices on choral techniques. The information may be obtained from JMI, for his children. workshop day culminated in a concert PO Box 232, Harrow HA 1 2NN and the But for all its faults, I would not by three choirs which covered a wide JMI Website www.jmi. org. uk. dismiss the film out of hand. It evokes a range of Jewish musical styles, from fime when giants - Georg Grosz, Max traditional synagogue setfings by a Ernst, Otto Dix - bestrode the German warm-toned London Jewish Male Choir art scene and affords us glimpses of conducted by Clive Hyman to the The Chairman, their oeuvre. Moreover, a longish modern drama of Julian Dawes's cantata sequence featuring a giant mincer The Death of Moses', performed by the Management daringly - and, alas, not very Alyth Choral Society under their Committee successfully - recreates an Expressionist conductor Vivienne Bellos. The evening happening which might have been ended on a high-note by the Zemel and Staff wish scripted by Kurt Tucholsky and designed Choir under their new director Benjamin all AJR members by John Heartfield. Wolf, with the audience joining in a Last but not least, Noah Taylor's stirring finale of Yerushalayim' and a happy, healthy portrayal of Hitler, aged 30, should 'Hava Nagila'. earn him an Oscar The actor has and peaceful The climax of the festival was the final truly transformed Hannah Arendt's concert at St John's Smith Square, where Neiv Year. phrase 'the banality of evil' from a individual choirs had a small showcase verbal construct into palpitating and the massed choirs were conducted repfilianfiesh. and accompanied charismafically by Richard Grunberger Stephen Glass, whose strident Star Wars-style setting of 'Baruch Haba' Annely Juda Fine Art launched the evening. Enthralling was Creative Jewish music in all the Puccini-esque lyricism and 23 Dering Street its forms rhapsodic, improvisatory style of the (off New Bond Street) Canadian cantor soloist Gideon Tel: 020 7629 7578 THE FIRST JMI BARRY WEINBERG Zelermyer making his UK debut, Fax: 020 7491 2139 JEWISH CHORAL FESTIVAL supported by the sumptuous sonorities St John's Smith Square, London of the Shabbaton Choir and Ne'imah CONTEMPORARY PAINTING This concert was the climax to the first Singers, notably in works by the British AND SCULPTURE JMI (Jewish Music Institute) Barry composer Samuel Alman. Among the Weinberg Jewish Choral Festival, mixed choir's fervent renditions Glass's dedicated to the memory of the arrangement of the Israeli folksong 'Eli, outstanding Jewish musician and Eli' was most poignant. Glass's WANTED TO BUY scholar, who died suddenly last year at concluding 'Prayer of Thanks' elicited the age of 53. The exceptionally fine enthusiastic audience participation. German and choral singing was the result often days Yet the highlight was the incisive, of choir leaders' master classes, schools' pure-toned singing by the choirs of English Books workshops and massed choir rehearsals the Jewish Free School, Ne'imah conducted by invited guest conductor Preparatory School and the Jewish Established bookdealer Stephen Glass (Barry Weinberg's Youth Choir, with Finkelstein's tuneful (AJR member) nephew and son of AJR Groups Co­ 'Prayer for Peace' radiating touching always welcomes ordinator Myrna Glass), an acclaimed optimism. choral conductor and arranger who is invitations to view now the Music Director of the large Barry would have been very proud. and purchase Share Hashomayim congregafion in The festival, which hopefully will valuable bodks Canada. become an annual event, exemplified those values for which he stood - For an immediate response, The festival, presented under the creative Jewish music in all its forms for please contact: auspices of the JMI and co-ordinated Robert Hornung the enrichment of the wider community. by Vivienne Bellos, Music Director 2 Mount View, Ealing, Malcolm Miller at the North Western Reform London W5 IPR Email: hornungbooks@aoLcom Synagogue, was hosted by the Zemel Tel: 020 8998 0546 Choir, Alyth Choral Society, the Malcolm Miller is a member of the Milter (Spm to 9pm is best) Ne'imah Singers and the Shabbaton Piano Quartet.

10 What on earth is a humble Jewish Britain's second law centre, in London's refugee from Vienna doing in Saffron Paddington district. He regards this as Walden, that seemingly pristine Essex PROFILE one of the major achievements of his market town and reputed repository of life. Later he moved to the Commission Howard Spier undiluted Englishness? Happily I am (to for Racial Equality, as head of its some extent) reassured by Francis legal section. Latterly, issues of Deutsch, a lifelong campaigner for asylum/immigration have occupied his human rights, that the town has a strong A humanist first distinguished legal career liberal, and Quaker, influence. Given and foremost In the late 1970s Francis's decades of that the Deutschs' last address was 'denial' came to an end. Having been Hendon - on which thickly populated other voluntary organisations such as asked to prepare legal guidance on Jewish neighbourhood they claim to the Quakers. On his return to England, 'ethnic origin', he came to see himself as have alighted by chance - their choice of he was invited by a Quaker acquaintance a Jew not by race or religion, but by Saffi-on Walden seems all the more to take up a position as a law clerk in ethnicity. A 'very liberating' discovery, remarkable. In a most timely move (can Hull. He did the requisite articles and he declares. Francis's wife Sheila, a this be the workings of chance alone?), duly qualified as a solicitor Back in practising Christian from a rural West the AJR's unstoppable Myrna Glass London, the law office where he worked Country background, ponders over her has just started up a group in was directly across the road from a husband's metamorphosis from 'denial' nearby Cambridge. juvenile coiu"t - at least one influence on to 'acceptance'. In Vienna things weren't easy. Francis's decision to specialise in Currently, besides being a member of Following a period of imemployment, juvenile law and its reform. the AJR and its Kindertransport section, Francis's father took a job as a bank Meanwhile, Francis and his wife Francis is a prominent member of clerk; he died in 1932. Francis's mother Sheila, a child care worker (as their two Saffron Walden UN Association and Was a partner in a milliner's salon. Music daughters were to become), threw remains committed to CND as well as to played a very important part in the boy's themselves into the Campaign for Amnesty International. He retains a life: his mother was an amateur pianist, Nuclear Disarmament (CND) firm belief in a law-governed system of her sister a professional opera singer movement. In 1961, prior to a mass international relations. In his view, the A Kindertransportee, Francis was 13 years old when he arrived in the UK. He Was taken in by a young Methodist •ninister and his wife in Bristol. Francis Was to all intents and purposes adopted hy the family and remains in contact to *^his day with their three daughters. He recalls a 'cultural-adaptation' difficulty with the minister's wife which 's more amusing now than it was then: Don't speak with your hands!', she Would affectionately tell the Jewish boy from Vierma. Francis Deutsch Francis confesses that from the 1940s sit-down demonstration in Trafalgar Iraq war was illegal. Would he join the Onwards he was in a state of 'denial' Square, of which he was a leading Labour Party now? 'Just about!', he about his Jewish origins. He would have activist, Francis was arrested and answers through clenched teeth. ^one anything to be EngHsh. He joined charged with incitement, but acquitted Last year Francis was awarded a BA in |he Labour Party in order to, as he puts after a jury trial. A year later he agreed Humanities from the Open University. 'I 't, 'repay something to England'. to be 'bound over to keep the peace.' found studying very enjoyable', he told Francis took a course in economics (it Francis believes the authorities were the local newspaper. 'It keeps the *ould be sociology in today's parlance) alarmed at the growing strength of the working discipline, having to spend so ^^ the LSE. Among early influences on unilateralist movement and is as many hours behind a desk and it also his life as a human rights activist were convinced as ever that he was framed by makes you appreciate free time.' *^ishop Mer\yn Stockwood, whom he the police. Francis describes himself as a "^^t in Bristol, and Professor Hilde From CND Francis moved into the humanist first and foremost. Despite my Himmelweit. wider sphere of civil liberties, being for habitual scepticism, I came away from ^n^mediately after the war Francis several years an elected member of the our meeting convinced that, despite the ^Pent three years in Germany with the executive committee of Liberty, then passing of the years, Francis is no less Jl^ternational Voluntary' Service for the National Coimcil for Civil Liberties. an idealist now than when he was a ^ce, working in collaboration with In the 1970s he became the first head of teenage transplant fromVienna .

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of us went to the Edinburgh Playhouse to travel in the 1840s, to be supplemented by INSIDE see Fiddler on the Roof. The essence of the accommodation, special ticket vouchers, occasion was summed up by Edinburgh and meal vouchers in all parts of the world. branch chairperson Frangoise Robertson: On a sad note, in the last few weeks the theAJR 'We carry a burden with us and it is a great group has lost three of its original relief to share our common background. The members: Kurt Glass, Regina Slater and most important thing is the social Camilla Topping. We mourn them all. Inaugural meeting in connection, particularly with other groups, Paul Samet Cambridge area and knowing we're not alone.' Next meeting: Thursday 4 September. Judy Gilbert Sixteen of us (including a visitor from Gerald Hellman will chair a p£mel on The Tel Aviv) met at the home of Anne Bender, Effects of the Holocaust Through the who also provided the splendid It was very stimulating to make contact with Eyes of the Second and Third refreshments. AJR's Myrna Glass members outside our local circle. We also Generations' outlined the development and current found Marcia Goodman's update most activities of groups in her area: the South interesting: many of us didn't fully Sheffield: an unusual history and Midlands. We decided to meet bi­ appreciate just how much was being done by Agnes Grunwald Spier told of her arrival in monthly, initially in members' homes AJR Social Services. In addition, it was very this country as a baby brought out of with, usually, a speaker. Lisel Eisner - encouraging to hear about future plans Hungary by her mother and of the absence tel 01223 356721 - offered to be our contact regarding the formation of new groups. of offers of help from the Jewish community person. We all enjoyed the day immensely and would she and her mother joined in Surrey. This Francis Deutsch like to express our special thanks to sparked a lively discussion on the reception Susanne Green for ensuring everything ran given to Jewish refugees or newcomers Next meeting: Wednesday, so smoothly. 17 September, 2-4.30 pm. Guest speaker during both recent and earlier Walter Knoblauch Alf Keiles persecutions. Dorothy Fleming Northern meeting in Sheffield New group for South West Midlands a great success Next meeting: Thursday 13 November. At the kind invitation of Ruth Jackson, we Among those present were two magistrates, 'Steve's Story'. 12 noon, lunch a* held an inaugural meeting to form a new Cafe Simcha, Kingfield Hall, Brincliffe at least five former university lecturers, branch. Having exchanged stories about Crescent, Sheffield; 1.30 meeting i" several teachers, a former GR an OBE, and how we came to be where we live now, we the vestibule downstairs from goodness knows who else. There should be ended our discussions by enjoying Ruth's above. Contact Steve Mendelsson on a list somewhere (maybe there already is!) delicious tea. The next meeting will be in 01142630666 of the achievements of former German the Forest of Dean on 21 September. refugees in this country. Such a list would at If you live in or near Gloucestershire, least give a flavour of the contribution made South London: a most enjoyable Herefordshire or Worcestershire, please to this country by those able to settle here. afternoon contact Ruthjackson on 01386 552264. Any interest? Walter Woyda spoke about, and player Richard Newton Dorothy Fleming records from, the musical Milk and Hotiey by the composer Jerry Herman, the theme We had it all in Bournemouth Essex group strolls down of which is a group of Americans visiting It was the best time in Bournemouth I've Memory Lane Israel. We liked the story, loved the mus'*^ and had a most enjoyable aftemoon. ever had. On our trip to the beautiful It was supposed to be a surprise 75th Anne Poloiv"^ Compton Acres we were looking forward to birthday party for our chairman Otto a relaxing walk in the famous gardens, but Deutsch, but then we found out that there Next meeting: Thursday 18 Septembef- we had to seek shelter from the rain were three other birthdays - those of Fritz in a fiiendly cafe for a generous tea with AJR Life President Ludwig Spiro »* Spitzer, Miriam Stein and Alfred Buechlen It 'Internment Camp' clotted cream buns. When the rain turned would have been a really happy occasion, into a deluge we only had five minutes to get especially as Bertha Leverton was Otto's Northern groups' day out at back to our coach. Helped by our guardian guest. Among reminiscences about angels - Sylvia, Carol and Annie - we made it Cleve Road memorable holidays. Otto recalled all safely to the Ark and met in good spirits for retiuming to Vienna in 1953, visiting the Despite the horrendous heat, we ally dinner. home he last saw in 1939 and shedding a few enjoyed our day out in London, especi' Hana Nermut tears remembering the times he had playing the meetings, fellowship and catering ^ with his sister. Cleve Road, before a most interesting vis' to the Gilbert art collection. It was ^ Edinburgh Northern get-together Larry Lisner wonderful experience and, on behali Thirty-eight of us received an update on Next meeting: Tuesday 9 September Northern group members, we thank tho claims issues and group reports. Among involved for giving us such a good day. those present were Ernest Levy OBE and Bob Rosner (Hull gro^P^ his wife, Vicky Gruneberg, who spoke of her Pinner and the 'Napoleon recent visit to Germany, and Rabbi Rose of of Excursions' the Edinburgh Jewish community who told Joy Hooper gave a highly entertaining talk Brighton & Hove Sarid and Jewish us about his grandfather's amazing release about Thomas Cook, the 'Napoleon of business ethics by the . After a salmon lunch, most Excursions' who introduced cheap mass rail In his extremely interesting talk 12 AJRJOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2003

Richards included many biblical quotations and rabbinic interpretations of Paul Balint AJR Day Centre the subject with emphasis on the 15 Cleve Roaci, London, NW6 difference between law and ethics. A Tel: 020 7328 0208 Jewish Association of Business Ethics has been formed. The subsequent THE LUNCHEON CLUB discussion brought up many interesting points. FIRST OF THE NEW SEASON Rudi Simmcmds Wednesday 17 September 2003 11.45 am for 12.15pm Next meeting: Monday 15 September At KT-AJR's monthly luncheon at the Day Centre in West Hampstead, Bertha Leverton Keith Markson West Midlands enjoys garden party (left), who chaired the meeting, invited a 'How does a nice Jewish boy lunch number of Kinder to recount their own special circumstances and experiences become a piano man?' Thirty-two of us had a great time at the when their parents sent them to seek home of Leon Jessel at the now-annual Early reservations please! relative safety in Britain. Among those Garden Luncheon Party which Leon Lunch now only £5 recalling their 'hard or soft landing' as Please telephone Sylvia or Susie hosts. The food was first class and the children were (from Bertha, left to right) Service excellent; even the weather Ruth Barnett, Prof Leslie Brent, Elfriede on 020 7328 0208 stayed fine. We decided that for our next Colman and Peter Langford, with Otto meeting we wanted a film about Israel and Deutsch from Southend |XT_ AID Kindertransport We're trying to organise this as well as a Ix I ~r\J t\ special interest group date for our upcoming meeting at the MONTHLY MEETINGS AT CLEVE ROAD Progressive Synagogue. AJR GROUP CONTACTS Brighton & Hove (Sussex Region) Monday 1 September 2003 David Bloom Fausta Shelton 01273 734 648 11.45 am for 12.15pm Cambridge Rev Bernd Koschland Next meeting: Thursday 11 September. Lisel Eisner 01223 356721 will speak on Contact Henny Rednall for details Dundee Susanne Green 0151 291 5734 'Josephus Flavius' Informality in Harrogate East Midlands (Nottingham) Lunch £5 Bob Norton 01159 212 494 hiformality now seems to be the main Reservations required Edinburgh Please telephone object of our meetings and we found Fran^oise Robertson 0131 337 3406 • on 020 7328 0208 Ourselves chatting away about the past. Essex (Westcliff) Present and future, seemingly Larry Lisner 01702 300812 Monday - Thursday Concentrating on life's coincidences. We Glasgow heard ofthe successful day out in London, Claire Singerman 0141 649 4620 9.30 am - 3.30 pm, "le forthcoming get-together in Leeds on Harrogate Sunday 2 pm - 5.30 pm ^ September, and the plaimed holiday in Inge Little 01423 886254 SEPTEMBER Afternoon Entertainment: '^t Annes next year. Hull Bob Rosner 0148 2649156 Mon 1 KT LUNCH - Kards and Inge Little Leeds HSFA Games Klub Trude Silman 0113 2251628 Tue 2 the Kentertainers N*x t meeting: Wednesday, 24 Liverpool Wed 3 Michael Heaton September at 1 Masham Close, Susanne Green 0151 291 5734 fiarrogate Thur 4 Guyatherie Peiris/ Manchester Bill Patrick Werner Lachs 0161 773 4091 Sun 7 CLOSED "•orth London: an unusual Newcastle Mon 8 Kards 8i Games Klub ^iibition Walter Knoblauch 0191 2855339 Tue 9 Mike Marandi ^me 30 members attended Stewart North London Jenny Zundel 020 8882 4033 Wed 10 Opdahl Trio ^clntosh's talk on how he became a Pinner (HA Postal District) Thur 11 Jack Davidoff ^roadcaster with the BBC Worid Service, Vera Gellman 020 8866 4833 Sun 14 CLOSED ^ry interesting it was too. The more so Sheffield Mon 15 Kards 8( Games Klub *^ it seemed to have been Stewart's Steve Mendelssohn 0114 2630666 Tue 16 Nicola Smedley at ^bition since childhood to become a South London Wed 17 LUNCHEON CLUB Ken Ambrose 020 8852 0262 ''^Ws reader. Such ambitions offer at least Thur 18 Madeleine Whiteson South West Midlands (Worcester area) ^ Variance to the usual ones of becoming Sun 21 DAY CENTRE OPEN Ruth Jackson 01386 552264 "^ engine driver or spaceship pilot. Men 22 Kards 8i Games Ktub Herbert Haberberg Surrey Edmee Barta 01372 727 412 Tue 23 Jenny Kossew N, Wed 24 Wizo Singers ext meeting: Thursday 18 Wessex (Bournemouth) Thur 25 Ronnie Goldberg Ptember Mark Goldfinger 01202 552 434 West Midlands (Birmingham) Sun 28 CLOSED ^^*' meeting: llford: Wednesday 17 Henny Rednall 0121 373 5603 Mon 29 Kards & Games Klub /Ptember. Contact Myma Glass for Myrna Glass, AJR South and Midlands Tue 30 Katinka Seiner & Groups Co-ordinator "etails Laszio Easton 020 8385 3077

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Death Rothschild. Our dear cousins, the sisters Meet old friends - make netv ones AJR NORTHERN REGION Hanni and Inge Rothschild, passed away in July. Inge died 1 July, Hanni 13 July. They will be Come and join us for a fantastic holiday at 'GET-TOGETHER' greatly missed by their family and friends. the Cumberland Hotel In Bournemouth. Including Northern England, Scotland Gretchen Cohen, Pat and Rosalynne. and North Wales at Sunday 2 November - Friday 7 November Stem. Lotte Stern born Munich 3 June 1918, Sinai Hall, LEEDS LS8 died 27 July 2003 at the Royal Free Hospital. £300 plus £20 single room supplement on Tuesday 9 September Sadly missed by family and friends. Including transport, sandwich lunch on 11.00 am to 4.30 pm outward journey, half board, outings and Condolence £15 to include morning coffee, entertainment. The AJR express its condolences to buffet lunch, tea and transport to and Management Committee member Gaby Call Carol Rossen or Joan Altman on 020 from Leeds Glassman on the sad passing of her mother in 8385 3070 as soon as possible as (£12.50 for those wishing to travel Amsterdam. numbers are limited and demand is high. independently) My appreciation to you To book, please contact I am tjiking this opportunity through the AJR Susanne on 0151 291 5734 or Joumal of thanking my many friends for their Estelle at Head Office on 020 8385 3070 very good wishes during my recent stay in ACACIA LODGE hospital. I had so many cards and am so grateful Mrs Pringsheim, S.R.N. MATRON to all of you for thinking of me. I am pleased to For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent say I am now out of hospital and making steady (Licerjsed by Borough of BameO THE HOME CARE PRACTICE progress. Margot Magnus, Stanmore, • Single and Double Rooms. Middlesex. • Ensuite facilities, CH In all rooms. Home specialists offering • Gardens, TV and reading rooms. a wide range of Miscellaneous • Nurse on duty 24 hours. Personal Care and Support Wliere She Comes From, by Helen Epstein. Has • Long and short term and respite, Including trial period If required. anyone a copy I could buy or borrow (I will, of in your own home. From £350 per week We can provide long or short term course, pay postage both ways)? Harry Stadler 020 8445 1244/020 8446 2820 office hours tel 01483 275464. 020 8455 1335 other times assignments living in or out. 37-39 Tonington Park, North Finchley, Please call Jenny Flavill, Manicure & Pedicure in the comfort of your London N12 9TB own home. Telephone 020 8343 0976. our Care Manager for a no obligation chat on Day Centre Tel 020 7328 8404 Shirley Lever at the Paul Balint AJR Day Leo Baeck Housing Association Ltd Fax 0207 624 5002 Centre. New Clothes for sale, dresses, Clara Nehab House underwear, cardigans, etc.Wednesday 3 and Residential Care Home Thursday 18 September 9.45-11.45 am. All single rooms with en suite bath/shower Chiropodist. Trevor Goldman at the Paul Short stays/Respite and 24 hour Permanent Care SOPHIE'S NURSES Balint AJR Day Centre Wednesday 24 Large attractive gardens Ground Floor Lounge and Dining rooms Suite 51 Park Royal Business Centre September between 10am-11.30am. Lift access to all floors 9-17 Park Royal Road Easy access to local shops and public transport London NWIO 7LQ THE CARE AGENCY Enquiries and further information Telephone 020 8961 4401 please contact: The Manager Fax 020 8961 0875 Provides you with professional Clara Nehab House 13-19 Leeside Crescent email: [email protected] sympathetic, affordable care in London NWII ODA www.sophiesrecruitment.com your own home. Phone: 020 8455 2286 Sophies (SRS) Healthcare at home will Live in and hourly rates. enable people to live full and independent Telephone us on 020 7482 2188 SWITCH ON ELECTRICS lives within their own homes and continue Fax: 020 7482 3985 Rewires and all household to enjoy comfort and security electrical work PHONE PAUL: 020 8200 3518 BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE (^jytou^ Home Care 51 Belsize Square, London NW3 ALTERATIONS Care through quality and professionalisi^ Our communal hall is available for Celebrating our 25th Anniversary cultural and social functions OF ANY KIND TO LADIES' FASHIONS 25 years of experience in providing the tiighest Tel: 020 7794 3949 I also design and make children's clothes standards of care in the comfort of your own home West Hampstead area 020 7328 6571 "DROP IN' ADVICE SERVICE -> . V Members requiring benefit advice please telephone BELSIZE SQUARE APARTMENTS Linda Kasmir on 020 8385 3070 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 Tel: 020 7794 4307 or 020 7435 2557 J hour to 24 tiours care to make an appointment at AJR, Modern Self-catering Holiday Rooms, Registered through the National Care Standard Commissi Jubilee House, Merrion Avenue, Resident Housekeeper, Moderate Terms our 24 hour telephone 020 7794 932 Stanmore, Middx HA7 4RL Near Swiss Cottage Station www.colvin-nursing.co.uk

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Photos of Kinder artefacts Arts and Events Diary Central Office for exhibited at Terezin September Holocaust Claims Michael Newman and A photographic exhibition of personal Until 5 September Traces' by Julia Winckler, David Brummer objects carried in their suitcases by the an exhibition of 10 photographs In children of the Kindertransport when collaboration with the Goethe Institute. Insurance claims final deadline The project focuses on the search for traces of they arrived in Britain from Nazi- The closing date for submitting family lives cut short by Nazi persecution. occupied Europe in 1938 and 1939, has applications to the International Wiener Library, tel 020 7636 7247 Opened in the former Terezin Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance The Bridge The Wiener Library will be holding concentration camp in the Czech Claims is 30 September 2003. The a fortnightly, early evening study session over Commission was established in Republic. The photographs are an 8-week period in the autumn, looking at complemented by engravings of post-Holocaust Judaism and faith. Contact November 1998 to settle unpaid life fragments of original text taken from Katherine Klinger on 020 7636 7247 or email insurances bought in pre-war Europe telephone conversations, letters and [email protected] from a range of insurance companies. To interviews with Kinder by British artists Sun 7 European Day of Jewish Culture and date, more than 90,000 claims have been Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre. Heritage 2003. Includes: filed and more than $30 million (approximately £20 million) has been The exhibition, which received the Exhibition on rescue from Prague in 1964 awarded. support of ex-President Vaclav Havel, of 1,500 Torah scrolls. Westminster Synagogue, Kent House, Rutland Gardens, Following an agreement signed last Was opened in the Ghetto Museum by London SW7, 10 am-4 pm; 'Playing Sinatra'. October with a German government and Its director and by today's mayor of Comedy by Bernard Kops. Last performance industry foundation, a list of almost Terezin. Music composed in the Ghetto 3.30 pm, New End Theatre, Hampstead tel 400,000 names of Holocaust victims who Was played at the ceremony and the 020 7794 0022; 'History and Religious life of held insurances has been compiled. Prize-winning film describing the the Jewish Community", Jewish Museum To view the list as well as further details history of the Kindertransport, Into the Camden Town, London NWl, tel 020 7284 1997; 'Jewish Immigration and Settlement of how to claim, please visit the Insurance Arms of Strangers, was shown in the in London', Jewish IVIuseum Finchley, Commission's websitevvvvw.icheic.org. 'Museum cinema. The exhibition is Sternberg Centre, 80 East End Road, London For information on the status of a claim planned to travel to several other N3, tel 020 8349 1143 that has already been filed or to receive European and UK venues. Mon 8 Dr Charmian Brinson: The BBC an application pack, please freephone ^his month marks the unveiling of a Austrian Service in Wartime'. Club 43 0800169 8318. Sculpture at London's Liverpool Street Mon 15 Dr Sorrel Kerbel: 'German Jewish Station, the point of arrival for many of Writers of the 19th Century'. Club 43 Austrian fund extension ^^e children of the Kindertransport. Tues 16 Panel discussion: 'Has the quest for The filing time period for an Austrian ^he sculpture commemorates the fertility compromised ethical values?' Panel compensation fund has been extended ^^raordinary campaign which ensured members: Dame Ruth Deech, Human until the end of this year Austrian ^he survival of 10,000 children of the Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Holocaust victims who have not yet 'nany individuals whose lives were at (HFEA), Dr Simon Fishel, pioneering received the AS 105,000 (approx. £4,500) '''sk under the Nazi regime in Germany, embryologist, Rabbi Chaim Rapoport. award in respect of lost tenancy rights expert on Jewish medical ethics. Chair: Sara ^i^stria and Czechoslovakia. and stolen personal valuables must Nathan, journalist and lay member of HFEA. submit claims by 31 December 2003. 7.30 pm. Jewish Museum Camden Town, tel 020 72841997 The heirs of Austrian survivors who died on or after 24 October 2000 can also Mon 22 Mr Robin Hanau: The "New Age" Holocaust apply provided the claim has not been and the Contemporary World'. Club 43 '^'ison Macleod previously settled. Mon 29 Dr E. M. Batley: '"Reforming the he twilight of the gods comes late Whole World": Masonic Secrecy and David Brummer Treason in ISth-Century German/. Club 43 ^d cannot bring us back to life. The Claims Office expresses its thanks to ^% our ghosts can see the knife ORGANISATION CONTACTS David for his diligent work over the past ^ve at the heart that planned our fete. ten months. We wish him well for Club 43 Belsize Square Synagogue. Meetings ^6 hover, silent, in the smoke the future. r^ burning towns that still rejoice 7,45 pm. Contact Hans Seelig tel 01442 254360 ^ think us dead. We need no voice Further help ^cause the barbarous caimon spoke. Written enquiries should be sent to ADVERTISEMENT RATES Central Office for Holocaust Claims (UK), FAMILY EVENTS Jubilee House, Merrion Avenue, ^ fly with fliers taking aim. First 15 words free of charge, Stanmore, Middx HA7 4RL; by fax to 020 £2,00 per 5 words thereafter. he dam is down, the river spilled, 8385 3075; or by email to CUSSIFIED, SEARCH NOTICES ne vallev drowning, thunder filled. [email protected]. Assistance can be Juds £2.00 per 5 words. ^gnient was tardv, but it came. provided strictly by appointment at the BOX NUMBERS - £3.00 extra H^. * many iimocents have died Holocaust Survivors Centre in Hendon, DISPLAY ADVERTS North London. For an appointment, the gods' twilight, who can say? per single colunnn inch 65mm £12.00 burning, the German mothers lay COPY DATE - 5 weeks prior to publication please ring 020 8385 3074. •iildren where we are, side by side.

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The strong ones Rev Bernd Koschland Newsround

'All the men of Israel assembled in the Both on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Israel renews ties with Austria King's [Solomon's] presence at the Kippirr we read a section in the Israel has re-established diplomatic relations with Austria. The pilgrim feast [Sukkot] oiEthanim, the Musaf service called Zichronot, announcement was made during the 'Remembrances'. Remembrance seventh month' (1 Kings 8:2). They visit to Jerusalem of Foreign Minister assembled for the dedication ofthe first works in two ways: we remember Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the highest- Temple in Tishri, the seventh month ourselves, who and what we are and level official visit in the three years since beginning with Nisan. Ethanim is one what we have or have not achieved. Israel reduced contacts with the of the four months preserved by name Then, hopefully G-d will remember us, Austrian government. Israel recalled its in Hebrew in the Bible; Tishri, as He had remembered the Patriarchs ambassador from Austria in February Cheshvan etc. are of post-exilic and Matriarchs and will allow us to bear 2000 when the far-right Freedom Party of Jorg Haider joined the coalition (Babylonian) origin. Thus Ethanim has the good fruits of their and our actions government, led to much rabbinic interpretation. of the past. As Joseph was released from prison, so we hopefully free Jewish agency shift on immigration Ethanim comes from ethan, meaning ourselves on Yom Kippur from the to Germany 'strong, mighty' and refers to the prison of our misdeeds and actions, In response to the growing number of 'strong ones', the Patriarchs, who, through contrition and humility, fasting immigrants from the former Soviet Union choosing to settle in Germany according to one opinion, were born in and prayer 'There is none righteous on rather than in Israel, the Jewish Agency Ethanim/Tishri. In this same month earth who does only good and never has decided to make a parallel effort to the two Matriarchs, Sarah and Rachel, sins' (Ecclesiastes 7:20). support reinvigorated Jewish and also Hannah, were 'remembered' With the solemnity over and peace of community life in Germany, According by G-d and gave birth, each to a son. mind restored, we turn to joy, the to recently released figures, about Diuring this month Joseph was also 19,000 former Soviet Jews moved to Festival of Joy, Sukkot, the harvest released from prison. Germany in 2002, while about 18,000 festival, which gives physical strength went to Israel, These comments must be and might for the coming year through Art works restituted to British and understood as midrashic symbolism for the ingathering of the harvest. This German heirs they reflect a deeper meaning behind completes our re-creation, our spiritual German museums have restituted ai^ the almost month-long celebration of and physical regeneration which we works to the British and American heirs festivals. undergo in Ethanim, the month in of Jewish dealers forced to sell up by the We begin the New Year with a period which the world was created and Nazis, According to a report in the Jewish Chronicle, one of the pieces, a of serious reflection of the past and mankind with it. sculpture of St George and the dragon present. To use current jargon: 'Have Ethanim also means 'perennial, ever- attributed to a fifteenth-century artist we achieved our targets of the previous flowing streams'. 'Water may flow over was later procured by Hermann year? Where have we missed? What us without cleansing or we may use it Goering, The restitution came shortly targets are we setting for the coming to cleanse. In this way, we must allow after the German government had year?' The bases of these targets lie the nmny Mitzvot related io Ethanim to established a commission to find fa"^ solutions in cases of disputed with the past generations, the take hold of us and not flow over us ownership, Patriarchs, our own patriarchs and without any effect: They must raise us 'Turkish Schindler" dies matriarchs, our parents. Have we lived to new spiritual heights and help us Selahattin Ulkumen, the 'Turkish through the year ahead: 'Do not grieve, up to the standards that were set for us? Schindler', has died in Istanbul aged 89- If not, why not? As individuals we can for the joy of the Lord is your strength.' A Muslim diplomat, he was the Turkish deceive others with our thoughts and (Nehemiah 8:10). These words of Ezra Consul General on the island of Rhodes, actions; if we are truly honest in our and Nehemiah signify our joy in the where he saved 42 Jewish families itot^ own minds, we cannot deceive Lord is through the fulfilment of His deportation to a Jewish death camp- "^ ourselves, never mind others. If we commandments, for then His joy will 1990, having become known as the 'Turkish Schindler', he was awarded the look sincerely and honestly into our be in us and He will deal kindly with us in His great mercy. title of 'Righteous among the Nations' bV hearts, we must come to realise our the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memoria nearness to the targets set. Shanah Tbya/i -Happy New Year! Authority,

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