Journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees

VOLUME 1 No.4 APRIL 2001 journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees

Reacting outrageously to 'days of rage'

îiJune 1934 the non-Aryan, and f which goal one sacrificed his life, "erefore prematurely pensioned and the other his careen °ff' Dresden academic Viktor 'êmperer wrote in the diary he Cynical manipulation "Meticulously kept during his The current Palestinian twel •ve 'underground years': Authority-approved Intifada To ine the Zionists who want manipulates world opinion with to 80 back to the Jewish State newsreel footage of stone- °^ 70 AD [destruction of throwing children targeted by ^^•^salem by Titus] are just as Israeli sharpshooters. This offensive as the Nazis with their cynical strategy pays handsome losing after blood, and after dividends - pace Tom Paulin's 77i« 'Haviva Reik' carrying 462 Jeivish refugees to Palestine. Sclent'cultural roots'. scurrilous Killed in Crossfire (Observer ^nis cri de coeur of someone who proportionately greater increment than 18 February). The poem, which uses ^ârned for the liberal Gennany that ever recorded in any other country. This Klemperer's above-mentioned diary '^'^y existed in his mind, tells us more increase resulted from a huge inflow of, entry as its epigraph, states: We're fed ''ôut the diarist than it does about the firstly, Holocaust survivors and Balkan this inert/ this lying phrase/ like comfort 3ture of Zionism. Klemperer was a Jew Jews, secondly Sephardim from Arab food/ as another little Palestinian boy/ in % in the sense of ±e Nuremberg countries and thirdly Russian Jews. The trainers jeans and a white tee-shirt/ is ^^s. Rooted in German culture with intensity of their urge to settle in the gunned down by the Zionist SS/ whose ^^ry fibre of his being, he had an Jewish State is demonstrated by the fact initials we should/ - but we don't - dumb 'Motional block about acknowledging that during the same half century Israel goys -/ clock in that weasel word e total collapse of that culture which was involved in half a dozen major or crossfire. '•^ him in limbo. At the very same time minor wars. No other 'golden door' The mind-boggling enormity of the , ^ Zionists he maligned rendered an through which immigrants wanted to phrase 'Zionist SS' must make every ^^luable service to millions of lethally pass in all history was so bespattered reader with relatives serving in the "dangered European Jews. They did so with blood. Israel Defence Forces - a true citizens' ^ Conjuring up the vision of a return to Varying the lyrics of the 1920s army - howl with silent, impotent rage. ^ ancient homeland as an aspiration hit song Forty million Frenchmen As for the poet's conceit that Israelis, and ^rth striving for. Tragically unable to can't be wrong, we say that over four by inference Jews everywhere, look ^J that aspiration, the Zionist pioneers million asylum seekers who opted for a upon Gentiles as 'dumb goys' it is so ''1 created a mini-State inside British- virtual war zone cannot have been redolent of Julius Streicher's style that it andated Palestine which saved over wrong. This fact alone validates the ought by rights to lay Tom Paulin open to ^ a million Jews from ±e fate that Jewish State's right to exist. Of course, prosecution under the Race Relations '^^d otherwise have overtaken them. the Palestinians also have a right to legislation. We wonder, too, if the editor statehood - a right Israelis have long of The Observer would deem it politically golden door' been most reluctant to concede. correct, or morally tenable, to publish a Aft,e r the creation of the fully-fledged Latterly, though, there has been a shift in piece which puts the phrase 'dumb '^sh State, its population increased entrenched attitudes with two Israeli honkies' into the mouth, or mind, of a ^'ifold within fifty years - a Prime Ministers aiming for peace - to Black activist. Battleground Britain Israel at the Crossroads In the century that we have just quit, in Martha Blend which the readers of AJR Journal will have experienced their most active The current situation in Israel was the Barak had had no mandate for the years, it became axiomatic in Britain subject of a lecture at the London Jewish concessions squeezed out of him by 3 that things would inevitably continue Cultural centre by Robert Wistrich, corrupt and intransigent Arab leader. Faf to improve. That food and housing, Professor of Modern European and Jewish from using excessive force, the Israelis had History at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. goods and services, training and often used massive restrainL Despite this, Israel had the right to an undivided education, health and welfare, leisure the international press, espousing the Arab Jerusalem, he maintained, because the city activities and travel, would be ours in cause, saw the conflict in David and Goliath had been the focus of Jewish spiritual life abundance, and that our longevity terms with the Israelis billed as Goliath- for thousands of years before Islam was would be extended ad infinitum. The result of this opprobrium was that thought of; further, Jerusalem is only the Strangely enough, most of these Israeli morale plummeted. The people were third holy place for the Arabs after Mecca prophecies indeed became self- no longer confident of the justice of theii" and Medina; Arabs pray towards Mecca; fulfilling. But if we add our own day-to cause; the Israeli press was endlessly self- and whilst there is no mention of Jerusalem day experience to those reported in the critical while the Arab press poured out a in the Koran, it is mentioned 700 times in press, the good life remains a myth. daily poison stream of hatred. The the Bible. There had, he asserted, been a unreasonable demand for the right to A climate moving to extremes with good deal of Arab spin about the return of three million Arabs, which would whole communities either flooded out importance to them of the Al Akhsa create a dangerous imbalance in the region- or cut off by the worst snowdrifts since mosque which fuelled Arafat's claim for and the refusal of the oil-rich Arab states to the bitterly remembered 1947; total control of the Temple Mount. alleviate the miserable conditions of the railways continually disrupted Moreover, Israel had always allowed the camps in Gaza suggested that not peace bu' following loss of life at Hatfield and Moslems custody of the site out of respect the destruction of the State of Israel wa* Selby; motorways inevitably beset by for other religions, a respect which was not still the true aim. hours-long delays; London's reciprocated. Before the capture of It is difficult to accept Prof Wistrich's underground system inviting East Jerusalem in 1967, and while it was claim of restraint while we see the shooting passengers into crammed carriages at under Jordanian control, no Jews were of Arab children on TV. 'Whatever the extortionate charges; passage to and allowed to enter the Old City, their graves provocation, there must be better method^ through towns by car increasingly for on the Mount of Olives were desecrated of crowd control. As for the hostility of th^ those with expense accounts or the and their synagogues destroyed. West world's press, is it any wonder when so little super rich; another virulent disease Jerusalem was isolated, surrounded by effort is put in by the Israelis to counter the forcing our farmers into ruin. barbed wire and subject to attack from Jordanian snipers. one-sided views of such Ara" A health service demanding the spokespersons as Hanan Ashravi a'^'^ onset of diseases to be planned months David and Goliath Edward Said. It may now be possible t" or years in advance; accounts which Prof Wistrich believed that Ariel Sharon's make a more realistic assessment of Ara" cannot be accessed because the bank's visit to the Temple Mount - approved by intentions, but it would be a sad day f" computer has crashed; deliveries never Arab authorities - had nothing to do with humanity if all attempts at ration^ arriving at the appointed hour; and the the Intifada. As to the failed peace initiative. negotiation were to be abandoned. gasman cometh, but at charges that would shame Bill Gates; surly bus drivers tossing and bruising their often New date for AGM - Sunday 17 June 2001 elderly and poor passengers; shopping almost impossible without a car. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the The pressures brought by everyday ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES living continually diminish will be held on SUNDAY 17 June 2001 3 pm at 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 free opportunities to enjoy the company of Guest speaker: Lord Dubs our families and friends, to sit together 'From Kindertransport to the House of Lords' at mealtimes, relax with a good book, to develop creative pastimes and join Agenda: - Ore communal activities. Time is a Annual Report 2000, Hon. Treasurer's Report, commodity we appear to have lost. Discussion, Election of committee of Management* RDC *No person other than a committee member retiring by rotation shall be elected or re-elected a committee member at any general meeting unless:- AJR Journal Personnel (a) he or she is recommended by the Committee of Management, or Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief Û Ronald Channing Executive Editor (b) not less than twenty one clear days before the date appointed for the meeting, notice er Marion Koebner Staff Reporter executed by ten members qualified to vote at the meeting has been given to the AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, Association of the intention to propose that person for election or re-election together London NW3 6AL Tel: 020 7431 6161 with notice executed by that person of his or her willingness to be elected or re-elected- Fax: 020 7431 8454 e-mail: [email protected] Vive la difference? NEWTONS Richard G runberger Leading Hampstead Solicitors thirteen years ago, when I was of the 1300-strong youth organisation 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, appointed editor, something quite 'Young Austria'. Young Austria's London NWS SNB German counterpart, the 'Free Unique in the history of our • All English legal work •'^sociation occurred: an 'Austrian' German Youth', only managed to undertaken and German, •'^canie one of the AJR's movers and recruit half that number from among a Swiss & Austrian claims "akers. Looking at other institutions constituency that was twice as large. • German spoken ^^nerated within the refugee The German counterpart to the Free • Home visits arranged ôtnmunity - whether it be Belsize Austrian Movement - the Freie Tel: 020 7435 5351 Squar e Synagogue, the Wiener Deutsche Kulturbund - likewise had far Fax: 020 7435 8881 Library or the 1943 Club - one less popular appeal among the ^coities aware of a similar refugee community. There are P'"^Ponderance of German over cogent explanations for both Austrian workers for the cause. In phenomena. Teenage refugees from ^t, preponderance is too measured a Germany would, in the main, have PARTNER attended Jewish schools for several ^ - it might be more appropriate to in long established English Pâk of a German monopoly. years before emigrating and would Solicitors (bi-lingual German) Jiven when allowance is made for therefore have imbibed a different would be happy to assist clients ^^ fact that the arrival of German ethos from their Austrian with English, German and ^ftigees in this country began five contemporaries. As far as adults were Austrian problems. years before the Anschluss, and that concerned FAM activists were able to Contact Henry Ebner ^^y eventually totalled forty Myers Ebner & Deaner ^"otisand compared to half that "Looking at other 103 Shepherds Bush Road ^mber of Austrians, the discrepancy London W6 7LP hard to understand. WTiat makes it institutions generated Telephone 020 7602 4631 ^^n more incomprehensible is that ALL LEGAL WORK within the refugee UNDERTAKEN •ing the war - and especially before community... one '^^ formation of the AJR - the latter J^^stituted the far more cohesive becomes aware of a '^'^y of the two. There were three preponderance of , ^strian Centre club-cum-restaurants German over Austrian AUSTRIAN and GERMAN f^ndon (and smaller replicas in PENSIONS ^Sgow and Manchester) as well as a workers for the cause." Jîiber of distinct political groupings. PROPERTY iiough the Social Democrats and mobilise a nostalgia-filled sense of RESTITUTION CLAIMS îmiunists fought each other tooth Austrian patriotism among their EAST GERMANY-BERLIN ^d nail, the Communist-inspired constituents - whereas bitter On instructions our office will 5 '^^^ Austrian Movement (FAM) experience had taught the average assist to deal with your ^âged to fill the 3000 - seater German -Jewish refugee that German applications and pursue the matter '^'•Chester Hall in 1943. patriotism was anathema to him. with the authorities. 'Jther examples of a high degree of This may explain why Germans and For further information Sanisation among (admittedly left- Austrians showed different behaviour and appointment îhg) Austrian refugees was the patterns in wartime Britain, but please contact: ^kly appearance of the journal doesn't throw any light on their ICS CLAIMS ^^tspiegel, the continuous divergent conduct during the postwar 146-154 Kilburn High Road Perf, ormances of the exile theatre years. I wonder if any readers have London NW6 4JD Ute:^ndl, and, above all, the existence views on this. Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) Fax: 020 7624 5002 The AJR wishes its members a happy Pesach V][]EW]P(0)1[NT Role reversal Marion Koebner 4 by Ronald Channing In the perverse world of 1930s Nazi home reflected the financial hardship Germany, Jewish women played an imposed by the reduction in available Law 'n order important part in trying to conserve employment. Tips for women on how Just when did our perceptions of a 'normality' within the family. The sbc - to avoid stress and pleas to husbands law-abiding citizenry and a general year period up to the outbreak of war - not to criticise if the cooking fell short acceptance of the right to enjoy during which Nazi repression often of what they had been accustomed to freedom of ownership become took an unpredictable course and gave were further clues to the pressures ofl threatened? Was there a golden age mixed signals to the German Jews - Jewish families. when children could play safely in the challenged the traditional role of As the decade progressed, many street and walk to and from school Jewish women as the domestic pivot of Jewish women who had never worked unmolested, adults could travel on the family. Prof Marion Kaplan, 1996 now had to do so. Increasingly they trains late at night without fear of Fraenkel Prizewinner, painted a took on the role of breadwinner when muggings or molestation, and front picture for her Wiener Library work was no longer available for theif doors could be left open in the sure audience in which the gap between menfolk and - in the matter of whethei" knowledge that neighbours would Germans and German Jews deepened or not to emigrate - they also became protect the property should any rash as exclusionary and isolationist the decision-makers as men were outsider be tempted to help measures took effect. Whilst the April increasingly detained in concentration themselves to its contents? 1933 laws reduced male employment camps or had emigrated to find work- Can we deduce that crime in the professions, in the case of More women stayed behind for ^ continues to increase while society's teachers in Prussia, 1% of Jewish number of reasons given by Pro' attempts to reduce it are increasingly teachers dismissed were male and 4.5% Kaplan, including that there were more ineffectual? Evidence generally female. The "rampant joblessness" jobs for women (such as nursing hoitie indicates to the contrary. Last year among Jews in 1933 particularly staff), they were less at physical risK burglaries were down by 21%, car affected women shopworkers. and that many remained behind to care thefts reduced by 15%, and even for elderly parents. In 1933, women crimes of violence fell by 4%. Prof Kaplan had had recourse to However, street robberies rose by Jewish newspapers and memoirs in her represented 52% of the Jewish 14% and since 1980 conviction rates research. In newspapers, cookery population; by 1939, the figure had for recorded crime fell from 18% to a columns and advice on running the risen to 58%. paltry 9%. Although Britain's prison population, disconcertingly, is the Jawne exhibition at Haberdashers highest in Europe, there are plans afoot to build 2,500 extra places at a contribution to Britain's first Holocaus* cost of £700 million. No lesser Memorial Day. personages than the Chief Inspector, Presented by Senior Master Jo" and the Director General of prisons, Corrall, who had organised tb^ together with the Lord Chief Justice, translation into English of the la*^ apparently hold that 20,000 women, Dieter Corbach's detailed narrative- boys, elderly, mentally ill and petty the exhibition was opened by cases should not be incarcerated Headmaster Jeremy Goulding, afl'' at all. drew an opening night attendance o If a hard core of 100,000 criminals over 180 people who included Heni'5' Jon Corrall, Senior Master at causes 50% of offences, then more Grunwald of the Board of Deputies Haberdashers Aske's School, in front of police are required to combat their the Jawne School exhibition. and Audrey Atwell, MayoreS^ activities. Court procedures could be ofHertsmere. ^3 Apr simplified and speeded up, and The well-researched and extremely Dr Feo Kahn and Prof Rapha^' sentences should prioritise effective spirit detailed exhibition recalling the Loewe, both former Jawne teachef*' rehabilitation. Let us also consider history and fate of the Javrae School in and former pupil Fritz Bauchwit^' 'Ifor decriminalising the use of cannabis, Cologne, and that of its outstanding spoke to parents, pupils and frieflo but catch the pushers of dangerous drugs and target police intelligence headmaster Dr Erich Klibansky (see assembled at the school. Co-organis^ and resources at the robbers. January 2001 issue), was displayed at of the original exhibition, Diet^ Does anyone have anything better Haberdashers Aske's School in Corbach's widow Irene, witaessed tn to propose? Hertfordshire as the school's enthusiastic response to her work. SlAlit" •• Remembering Eleanor Rathbone Susan Cohen

•ê sixtieth anniversary of the committees, including the Advisory bounding of the AJR is a fitting time to ¥»•'-»> Committee of the Czech Refugee Trust •"sflect on the work of Miss Eleanor and the Central Committee for ôrence Rathbone, the British MP fî--:- Refugees, and was on the Advisory ^ho devoted much of her Council attached to the Refugee Political career to helping rescue Department of the Foreign Office. refugggg fieejjig Nazi and Fascist , .C.^^^^^K\ Eleanor Rathbone was also responsible Europe. Born m London in 1872, for setting up the National Committee •^'eanor Rathbone was the daughter of JttS?-';^ .«•; TI^M for Rescue from Nazi Terror in 1943. ^'Uiam Rathbone VI, a prosperous Norman Bentwich recalled how ^êrpool merchant and Liberal MP 'V Eleanor "befriended hundreds of Jews "0 instilled in her a profound sense of and helped them find refuge in ^îal responsibility and moral duty. gyn England." Amongst these were male ^6r leaving Somerville College, L -' -m internees with whom she made 'tford, in 1896, she decided to devote personal contact on her visits to ^""life to social service, and proceeded what she did for refugees in general, Huyton camp, Liverpool, and women ^ involve herself in a wide range of and for Jewish refugees in particular." whom she met on the Isle of Man. The Îfare, economic and feminist issues. The plight of the Jews, whom she saw passage of time has made the task of ''s casual dock labour system in as "the greatest sufferers, and the most locating the refugees, or individuals '-'^'erpool, the financial plight of oppressed" preoccupied her until her with whom Rathbone had contact, very 'dows and soldiers' wives, rent death. She fought her battle on two difficult. Nor is it easy to identify those ''bsidies, enfranchisement for fronts: the first was to try and prevent who had case files opened at the ^nien, the introduction of a family war, which, despite her close Central British Fund in Bloomsbury •jowance and concerns over cultural involvement with the League of House, and who were assisted, directly Pi^ctices in India and Afiica were Nations Union, was doomed to failure. or indirectiy, by Eleanor Rathbone. "ôngst the causes she championed. The second was to organise rescue Those who do remember her speak of operations, which involved her in a a compassionate and dedicated woman /ophetic words In broad range of activities intended who, for no cultural or religious reason, 1929 she was returned as the to maintain the momentum of felt a responsibility for the fate of the ^pendent MP for the Combined her campaign. Jews of Europe. Such humanitarianism '^'Versifies - one of only fourteen is a rare commodity, and many "^ên members in the House - and Relentless campaigner refugees have reason to be grateful to Altered Parliament with a formidable She asked relentless questions in the her and the handful of other Christian Putation in the world of feminism and House, badgered fellow politicians and activists who cared, and who dared to cial economics. But the focus of drafted memoranda. She had vast tip fight relentiessly for their salvation. 'ânor Rathbone's activities shifted numbers of specially published ^•iiatically with Hitier's accession to pamphlets distributed to inform J^êr in 1933, and she was one of the ordinary people of the human tragedy The author is currently writing a "^^t politicians to denounce the unfolding in Europe, wrote letters to PhD thesis on Eleanor Rathbone's î"man Chancellor in the House of the press, attended meetings and made life and work, with special opinions. Her words in Parliament on visits to prisons and internment camps. reference to her work for refugees. April 1933 were prophetic, for she When the British government interned She would like to hear from ^ned of "the re-emergence of an evil all enemy aliens in May 1940, fearing anyone who has any recollections .P'rit [in Germany] which bodes very 'fifth column' infiltration, it was the of, or had contact with Miss for the peace and freedom of Parliamentary Committee on Rathbone, or whose case, or that of a relative, was taken up by her ^^Worid." Refugees, of which she was the and who had a case file opened by "^•ctor Gollancz wrote in his obituary honorary secretary, that responded to the CBF at Bloomsbury House. ^^r in AJR Information in February the situation, pressuring goverrunent Contact details: Mrs Susan Cohen ^^ that "no one who did not have the to expedite the early release of anti- 'Gothic Cottage' Clifford Road, /•Wlege of working daily with Eleanor Nazis. She was involved to a greater or Barnet, Herts. EN5 5NY "hbone can have any conception of lesser degree with many other refugee "•ai«iS'*se;ss'V5>^- copy documents requested by applicants. Like me, others may find totally new The Editor reserves the right background information and in some to shorten correspondence instances perhaps achieve some form of TO THE subnnitted for publication closure - or at least help in formulating k EDirOR / their claim. Anne Kelemen New York, USA

LIMMUD WORKSHOP EXCLUSIVITY OF DEATH [Ed - The above was extracted from a Sir - May we point out that in Emma Sir - What is the point of 'proving' that the lengthy letter which also quoted Klein's report on the Second Generation Shoah was unique amongst the various extensively from the Food Magazine, the Workshop at the Limmud Conference mass killings mankind has undergone? At publication of an independent body (February 2001), the reference to the best it is a pointless exercise whereas at called the Food Commission] poet Leah Thorn should have been to worst, it is a pedantic playing with words Babette Lichtenstein, a Dutch-born [Prof Spiro responds: I am sorry Mrs Ellis which could be dangerous. Mass murder cellist, now living in this country. Leah was so upset by my profile of a highly occurred before the Shoah and has not Thorn, born in Britain of a regarded and successful second ceased subsequent to that genocide. Kindertransportee, was also present at generation scientist whose function, Rather than compare and evaluate the the workshop and read some of according to the remit of the FSA, is to various mass murders listed in your article her poems. (March 2001), is It not incumbent upon us provide advice and information to the David Clark, David Bernheim to fight racism and prejudice wherever public and government on food safety, Second Generation Network and whenever it occurs? nutrition and diet and to protect Martin Hasseck consumers by ensuring effective [Our apologies for the error - Ed.] London NW4 enforcement, monitoring and labelling.] RESTORATION OF DOCTORATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS Sir - I have recently learned that it v/as Sir - Britain is far too late in marking Sir - The question is not: should we be common practice, during the Nazi era, fof Holocaust Memorial Day - which includes grateful that we were allowed to live - German universities to revoke doctorates the Imperial War Museum. The many but would we have offered our home to awarded to Jews. Some universities, fo'' prominent Jewish leaders neglected to an unknown child? example Frankfurt and Munich, hav^ initiate a Holocaust Memorial Day; the Lenore Davies formally restored doctorates but I am stil' Jewish community is also to blame. Guildford, Surrey waiting to hear from Leipzig about the Maybe Tony Blair deserves more credit restoration of my mother's doctorate than he is given. Sir - Although it is true that the from there. Anita Lewy distribution of children from the This may be of interest to AJ" Las Vegas. USA Kindertransport was not the happiest (KT members whose parents' of News March 2001), but for the foresight grandparents' doctorates from a German PALESTINE'S INTENT of the organisers, the fate of these university were revoked and who wish t" dur Sir - Before the Six Day War, Israel's borders children would have been disastrous. establish whether their doctorates have '°Oting were unsafe, so separate roads were The majority of us found Jewish been restored. Posses made for the Palestinians. In reality, all the organisations to help us; we should Herbert Had *^nanc Palestinians want is the whole of Israel as remember that all this help was voluntary Llangybi, Monmouthshi^^ The it was before 1948. and must have placed a heavy financial aside $ Clare Parker burden on the Jewish Community in THANKYOU Iîyec London NWS those very hard times. Sir -1 started reading AJR Information i*^ FOOD STANDARDS Paul Bass 1941 when it was an information circula"^ Sir -1 was ashamed at the AJR giving space Sutton, Surrey and have read it continuously since then- in the loaded profile to such an ungreen am now 92 years old. I have enjoys'' reactionary as Sir John Krebs (Science VIENNESE DEPORTEES' FILES reading the articles over the years ano Notebook February 2001), lending Sir - Mr Francis Deutsch (February 2001 wish you every success for the future. unearned credibility to his weak cover-ups letters) wonders whether it is worth K Page' over BSE and GMOs. Prof Spiro seems jumping through all the hoops. I visited Newbury Park, Esse" unaware of Prof Krebs' cosmetic role in the National Archives in Vienna last endorsing the stranglehold the giant November. Everyone was extremely Sir - Thank you for the on-the-do* supermarkets wield over government and helpful and I was able to do my own arrival of AJR Journal which make* ^ntt< therefore nation. I consider the man photocopying on the premises at minimal such interesting reading. It was, 3f^ ^^ntr morally flawed and more in cahoots with cost. I discovered deeply moving is, helpful in my 11 - year - long effort t" ;Ham his paymasters than cognisant of his duty material, meticulously kept, date- get restitution. My father owned tW^ N\/V3 to the consumer and the noble calling stamped and annotated by the Nazi shops in Leipzig - where I was born sn of science. regime, sufficient evidence for the claims grew up - which were "aryanised" in 193"- *^lephj Mrs SJ Ellis we have all been urged to submit. The Helga Ehlert (nee Dresner) Wimbourne Minster, Dorset archive employs someone full-time to 10179 Befl'"^ Central Office For Arts and Events Diary April Holocaust Claims Men 2 Howard Isenberg talks about Toscanini. Club 43, 7.45pm, Michael Newman Belsize Sq Synagogue. 01442 254 360 Tues 3 Dr Anthony Grenville: Relations between Anglo-Jewry & Jewish Refugees Swiss banks from Central Europe 1933-1960. 6.30pm. Wiener Library. £2 (free to Friends). '^ Claims Resolution Tribunal (CRT) has Until 7 Woman In the Moon by Julia Pascal. 8 pm. Areola Theatre, London E8. °^sn appointed to implement a claims 020 7503 1646. Procedure for assets deposited in Swiss Until 22 The Jewish East End Then & Now. Jewish Museum, Finchley 'ânks before WWII. The Tribunal has Sun 22 Film: "All my Loved Ones", story of a Czech Jewish family who send their allocated up to $800 million (£540m) for only son to England on the transport organised by Nicholas Winton. Vera Gissing awards to claimants. While other aspects introduces the film and joins Nicholas Winton and Muriel Emanuel for a panel °* the Holocaust Assets Victims discussion. UCC. 7 pm. £5 020 7431 0435 ^'tigation, such as looted assets and the Mon 23 Marion Hamm: Cultures of memory: dealing with the recent past in ailure of Swiss authorities to help Jewish Germany. Club 43, 7.45pm, Belsize Sq Synagogue. 01442 254 360 "•^fugees, continue to be investigated, the Tues 24 Lecture on Czech Jewish Artists by Julia Weiner. UCC. 10.30-12.00. £7 ^âdline for filing a claim with the CRT for ^ dormant account is 5 August 2001. Wed 25 Film: 'The Journey of a Butterfly', documentary about Theresienstadt; '^^laxed standards of proof will apply Introduced by Dr Frank Reiss, foreign adviser to the Havel Foundation. UCC. 7pm. ^hen assessing a claim. Claimants are £5 020 7431 0345 advised to answer questions to the best Sun 29 One Day Seminar on Czech Jewry. Lecturers include Patrick Bade, Timothy °f their ability. McFarland , Professor Gabriel Josipovici, Professor Wilma Iggers. UCC. 10am - Spm. A list of the 21,000 names of Holocaust £30 to include lunch. 020 7431 0345 'rtims who opened bank accounts in Mon 30 Steffen Pross introduces his book In London treffen wir uns wieder ^Witzedand is available on the Claims (In German). Club 43, 7.45pm, Belsize Sq Synagogue. 01442 254360 ^solution Tribunal website: www.crt- 23 - 27 The Holocaust, Genocide 8c the Moving Image: Film & TV representations •°''9 or at www.dormantaccounts.ch since 1933. Imperial War Museum. 020 7416 5320 22 Apr - 20 May Czech Festival, including an exhibition of paintings and drawings, ^^neral Settlement Fund documentary about Theresienstadt, one day seminar on Czech Jewry and more. ^^ US and Austrian governments have Enquiries from UCC. 020 7431 0345 •^flounced a comprehensive 2 Apr - 4 May The vision of Fay Ponnerance Paintings 8i ballet designs. OfTipensation package for property Etz Chayim Gallery, Northwood Si Pinner Liberal Synagogue. 01923 822592 ^•Vanised' in Austria. Endowed with a *°tal of $360 million (£245m), the 5 Apr - 27 August - Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts 8i the Holocaust. ^fieral Settlement Fund will provide ex The contribution of artist-witnesses and survivors to post-war culture and the arts. ^'•atia payments of $7,000 (£4,000) to Imperial War Museum. 020 7416 5320 Ho|,ocaus t victims persecuted in Austria du'rin g WWII as compensation for the °ting of household goods and personal '^'^ssessions as well as for the loss of AJR 60th ANNIVERSARY YEAR ^^lancy rights. 'he Austrian government has also set 'AJR Information' ^^'de $112 million (£76m), over the next The Journal as a Resource for Research ten years, to widen the provision of social ^•êfits to victims not previously A symposium on Thursday 7 June 2001 at 2pm ^•^pensated. Anyone who received a Organised by University of Sussex German-Jewish Studies Department, Jâyment from the Nationalfonds Institute of Germanic Studies (University of London) and âpproximately £3,000) will Association of Jewish Refugees /^tomatically be entitled to a payment ^fn the General Settlement Fund and, 'th priority to the eldest victims, will be Guest contributors °^tacted in due course. Sir Claus Moser • Prof John Grenville (Birmingham) ^^nherhel p Prof Edward Timms (Sussex) • Dr Anthony Grenvilie (Historical w,•"'tte n enquiries should be sent to Researcher) • Richard Grunberger (Editor-in-Chief) Central Office for Holocaust Claims (UK), ârnpstead Gate, la Frognal, London To be held at the IGS 29 Russell Square, London WCl ^3 6AL. For assistance with the The AJR invites participants to a reception following the symposium. •^pletion of application forms please Î^Phone 020 7431 6161 for an Registration fee of £15 (payable to the University of London IGS) by 25 May to ^^Pointment. Administrative Secretary, IGS, 29 Russell Square, London WCIB SDP April 8. Here is a blueprint of some of the major works and an intimate study RG'S INTGRFACe of his creative process. Old Testament themes, such as Abraham's Sacrifice, Inter-faith exchange. Kabbalah- &. REVIEWS show the tenderness of the angel browsing pop idol Madonna and her towards Abraham, whose torment is film director husband Guy Ritchie, who peopled Snatch with yarmulka- visible under the seraph's embracing capped diamond traders, took Art Notes wing. Isaac himself is both tensed ecumenism one essential step further. Gloria Tessler against, and yielding to, the father who They partook of a traditional Friday- is potentially both protector and killer - night dinner chez Ali G (aka Sacha How to convey a whole city through a passionate rendering of one of the Baron Cohen), the Hampstead one art gallery? Tate Modern's Bible's most excruciating episodes. In Garden Suburb-bred rapper. Century City takes a chance on nine at these biblical subjects, both the Empathy. The up-and-coming a key moment of their history. The city, scenery and the characters betray a Austrian novelist Norbert Gstrein's Die as novelist Italo Calvi would see it, is a North European robustness. englischen Jahre, focuses on the life of a fictitious refugee. Gstrein, a metaphysical place of the revealed and The seductive Potiphar's wife in the the hidden. The Tate tries to grasp this devotee of the 'internal emigrant' shape of a portly 17th century Dutch Thomas Bernhard, studied in the USA, concept through the art of suggestion. matron is hardly the popular idea and currently lives in Zurich. Moscow 1916-30, emblazoned by Lenin of the biblical vamp. posters, demonstrates how art and Birthday. Armin Mueller-Stahl, The Society of Designer probably the best known German propaganda flourished out of the base Craftsmen's 10th winter exhibition actor of today, has turned seventy- metals of heavy industry and at London's Mall Galleries showed Born in Tilsit, to a father who was collectivist inspiration. From Vienna the work of some talented new subsequently shot as a Wehrmacht 1908-1918, we see that Jews, who deserter, and a mother who had to licentiate members. Last year's represented 10 per cent of the flee from the advancing Russians, he Japanese themes have inspired a population, dominated the arts. The started his career with Brecht's simplicity in design whose best Berliner Ensemble. Later he appeared influence of Freud is potent in the exponents are in jewellery typified by in Fassbinder films, played the second agonised paintings of Egon Schiele John Weiss' subtly embossed silver lead in Istvan Szabo's classic Colonel and Kokoschka. Paris 1905-15 is paper knives and pendants. Redl, and achieved international caught between cubism and the stardom in Shine and Music Box. Selected new licentiate. Erica figurative - another time of change and Roch's very Cinderella theatrical Obituaries. The poet and translator self-examination. There's the HC Artmann died in Vienna, aged 79- costumes are a ragbag of velvet and romanticism of the Ballet Russe and He achieved fame as a writer in nails, glass and wire wool. The pain the strong textures of artists like Viennese dialect who bridged the gap and pleasure principle is intensified by between the highbrow and the Chagall and Picasso. As for London - the way she sews real rose thorns popular. A volume of poetry entitled forget it. It was virtually invisible. into the costume! medana schwoazzn dintn (1958) was followed by im schatten der Faces peering out of boxes or burenwurst (1971), and dialect obelisks, cutlery that conveys translations of Moliere, Marivaux and humanity - these are David Breuer- others. Artmann received the Weil's subjects at his Roundhouse prestigious Bijchner Prize shortly exhibition. It screams Holocaust at before his death. you. He treats colour as monochrome: Austrian film actress Liane Haid died the paint is crudely applied and his in Berne, aged 105. She starred in the brash figures trail onto the canvas as 1922 silent classic Lucrezia Borgia though they are leaking. This liquidity, (opposite Wilhelm Dieterle), worked for Reinhold Schiinzel, and was Willy this sense of dissolution recalls Forst's favourite leading lady. Francis Bacon minus the intense anguish that derives fi-om Bacon's Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): Adolf Loos. painterly finesse. In an erudite speech Annely Juda Fine Art Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer for one of the exhibition sponsors, Kulturbesitz Nationalgalerie Jewish Policy Research's lawyer - art 23 Dering Street In a major loan exhibition fi-om the critic Anthony Julius - suggested that it (off New Bond Street) Tel: 020 7629 7578 Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the is too early for Holocaust art. If so this Fax: 020 7491 2139 British Museum, one of the greatest would invalidate all the work of writers collectors of Rembrandt's prints, is Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, two of the CONTEMPORARY PAINTING AND SCULPTURE presenting 90 of his 300 etchings until Holocaust's most gifted witnesses.

8 presented in such a way that designs Vliisic Review Reviews and illustrations, which include seven Krik Levi of Adier's superb and deeply moving Erev Pesach in Munich woodcuts, are placed on the left- hand pages, while the accompanying ôngst the most enticing tributes to A SURVIVORS' HAGGADAH. translations and commentary are ^^ great pianist Alfred BrendeL who (ed) Saul Touster. featured on the right-hand pages, thus *êlebrates his 70th birthday this year, a Jewish Publication Society, establishing a dramatic "interplay of '*o-disc set devoted to four of Philadelphia, 2000. images - of life and death", the hallmark ^Hubert's late Piano Sonatas (Philips of this book. *56 573-2) is surely die highUght. ^roughout his career, Brendel has Thus the sketch of Nazi ''emonstrated a particularly strong extermination methods is displayed ^finity for this composer, nurturing alongside an illustration of the ^very phrase and unexpected traditional Seder Plate and the well- "Modulation with great affection and a known enumeration of its fruitful êmingly infinite range of colours. The contents. Ma nishtanah is followed by a "Major advantage of the present set is reconstructed version of the authorised ât the performances were recorded at answers - some in Yiddish to comply * series of public concerts in London, with the injunction that they be given ^deburgh, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, in the vernacular so that even the *"d despite sometimes less than ideal one who is too young to ask may ôund quality, project a level of magic understand - and accompanied by a *"d rapt intensity that could rarely be woodcut entitled 'We dug trenches in an unending circle'. No less haunting is Achieved in the recording studio. This is the time of year when Jewish the reference to the bitter herb quoted Almost a hundred years after thoughts turn towards the festival of alongside gas chamber imagery. Time ^hubert, a prodigious talent burst onto Pesach, to Seder Night and children and again the words of praise ,6 Viennese musical scene to be asking questions and family and expressing joy and thanks for the ""^mediately proclaimed a genius by friends turning over the pages of well- deliverance from "hard bondage" are .'Mch luminaries as Mahler and Richard loved, well-used haggadot in which we overshadowed by unrelieved grief. Str,auss . His name was Erich Wolfgang read that ancient story, told many times Indeed, the revised litany of Dayenu ^•"ngold, best-known perhaps for his before and yet again. But not quite in becomes a "veritable anti-Hallel" ^Pera Die tote Stadt, and for later saving the way it is presented in A Survivors' grudge against The One who gave his 'Mfli himself and his family from Nazi Haggadah, whose origin dates back to people centuries of insult, injury and "^rsecution by accepting an invitation 1946, when 200 displaced persons, persecution, which only Zionist self- ^ *rite film scores for Hollywood. In men and women who had been slaves, action could bring to a realistic end. Scent years Korngold's output has not to Pharaoh in Egypt but 'to Hitler in And finally, "Pour out Thy wrath upon "joyed a much deserved re-evaluation, Germany, gathered in the Deutsches the peoples..." speaks for itself. ^d a new recording of his early piano Theater Restaurant in Munich for their ^'eces (Marchenbilder, 4 Waltzes and first Seder after their liberation. The title is a masterpiece of liturgical literature and graphic art. Like °i Quixote) sensitively performed by The Haggadah they used was created Schindler's List and Shoah it serves as a ^^Xander Frey (Koch International by two Holocaust survivors and powerful reminder of that chapter in ^•assies 3-7427-2 HI) confirms that published by the US Third Army, part of our history whose wounds time has not ^^n at the age of 12 he was amongst the Allied forces of occupation of yet healed. And possibly, just ^s most sophisticated and clearly postwar Germany. It has now been possibly, it contains an answer to sfined musical personalities of the pre reproduced in a facsimile edition with the controversial question as to the ^"•stWorldWarera. an English translation. The book whereabouts of God at Auschwitz. Mother highly individual composer interweaves passages of the traditional this period was Nikolai Roslavets Pesach liturgy with two stories: that of David Maier "°8l-i944) a Russian Jewish musician the Hebrew people's release from "o rose to prominence in the pre- Pharaoh's enslavement on the one âlin era but was later tragicaDy hand, and the survival of the few from '-timised as a symbol of degeneracy Hitler's Final Solution on the other. In ."^ anti-Soviet formalism. Yet his learned and meticulously well- JACKMAN • •^slavets' Piano Trios 24, brilliandy researched Introduction to the present SILVERMAN ^••formed by the Trio Fontenay edition of the original work, Saul COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS ^êldec 8573-82017-2), are quite Touster describes in fascinating detail ^•Miarkable discoveries, strongly the manner in which the piece was put liantic in expression and daring in together by its talented makers: Dov "îTnony. 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10 Jârcel Reich was born in 1920 into a autobiographical Mein Leben •bourgeois family of mixed Polish- (Deutsche VerlagsAnstalt, 1999). ^^rnian background. He grew up in PROFILE In it he paints damning portraits - Richard Grunberger '^'and, but attended a German though not from personal PliTiary school. Aged ten, he moved to acquaintance - of the two German ^rlin where his mother had relatives. Marcel Reich-Ranicki literary giants of the last century: IT- Gerhard Hauptraann and Thomas I's teacher's last words to him were: Mann. In 1937 the author was appalled ^^fdhrst in das Land der Kultur' ('You to see Hauptmann share the 'royal' box ^^ going to the land of culture'.) And at the Schauspielhaus with Goering; it turned out - at firsL Marcel like his murderous neighbour, the Prospered at the Fichte Gymnasium quondam humanist playwright "^re he continued - astonishingly responded to the theatregoers' |imolested by Nazi teachers or applause with a Heil Hitler salute. Alas, '^'^ssmates - till 1938. Outside of Thomas Mann, Hauptmann's opposite •ôol, of course, the outlook grew not only in politics - the two men vied , ^1" darker. In search of company he for the role of Goethe's successor in Uied the Jewish Scouts among whom the Weimar Republic - likewise niet some kindred intellectual emerges from Reich-Ranicki's account P'rits. At one of their meetings they as a deeply flawed human being. Two ""bussed Kurt Tucholsky's Jewish of his sons, it appears, committed 'fliate-fiUed suicide note which had suicide; the third, the famous historian ^n trumpeted in Das schwarze Korps. Golo Mann, told R-R that he positively , ' Participants were deeply yearned for his father's death. pressed. But the mood didn't last. to the railway sidings, they contrived a ^'"cel received countervailing near-miraculous escape and went In the final chapters of the work the ^'tive impulses from literature - he underground. A fortuitous chain of focus switches from literature to s devouring the classics - and from circumstances brought them to the politics. Here the author 'brings to "Vgoing. semi-derelict, isolated house of Bolek, book' figures in German public life who •lis bizarre twilight existence, in an unemployed printer. Here, freezing still refuse fully to acknowledge the %h a precocious teenager tried to and half-starved, they lived in constant tragedy their counfry visited upon the hold reality at arm's length by fear of discovery. Even so, Bolek and world. One such is Prof Ernst Nolte *%,^rsin g himself in culture, came to his wife saved their lives - in exchange who ignited the infamous 'Hbr upt end in October 1938 when, for which they manufactured Historikerstreit of the 1980s; another is tosetherwit. h thousands of Polish Jews thousands of black market cigarettes, the playwright Martin Walser who in "lent in the country, he was and Marcel regaled them, 1999 demanded an end to the taboo on Polled from Germany. Even so, with Scheherazade fashion, with the plots of criticising the Jews. A third is Joachim ^ ' of his family already living in all the classics he knew. Fest, the newspaper publisher to ^rsaw, Marcel was spared the In late 1944, liberated by the whom R-R was indebted for advancing j^'^'iies of the deportees trapped in the Russians, they volunteered for a Polish his career. Fest is also an esteemed ., 'ân's-land along the border. For division of the Red Army in which historical scholar, who shocked many ^^ the real trauma set in after the Marcel - having also joined the Polish when he espoused Nolte's cause in the (j^'Hg of war, when occupying Communist Party - became an 'historians' feud'. When Fest's ^ "ân troops daily inflicted sadistic Intelligence officer. After the war he biography of Hitler appeared the *3ges on defenceless Jews. Yet even worked for the Polish KGB in London, publisher invited R-R and Tosia to the K ^ the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto where he shadowed rightwing launch party; to their horror they . ""cel had a life-enhancing emigres, and in Berlin. Back in Warsaw found that the guest of honour at this ] '^^rience; he fell in love with poetry- he was purged from the Party as a event was Albert Speer, and they were dissident cosmopolitan Jew, and Tosia obliged to shake the monster's hand. J, ^rking as a translator at the office suffered a nervous breakdown. How, the reader asks oneself, can R-R ^Judendlteste Marcel was charged Thereafter things improved. Marcel, bear to continue living in a counfry \ notifying part of the ghetto now 'polonised' as Reich-Ranicki, stained by the presence of murderers h [)j.^'Wion to pack their belongings in found work as a reviewer and translator and of apologists for murder? He ^ '^âtion for 'resettlement'. He and and started establishing contacts that himself provides the answer. What \ Ooj enabled him in 1958 to escape semi- ti ^' now newlyweds, had to stand by made it possible for him to stay in legally to West Germany. At this ^^^J^'essly while all their close relatives Germany, he writes, was the sight of point his remarkable rise to the •I^ ^ to the Umschlagsplatz en route to Chancellor Willy Brandt falling to his position of German Kulturpapst tjj, Glinka. When it was their own turn knees on the site of the desfroyed commenced. At its height he vkrote the . ^ niarched - with thousands more - Warsaw ghetto.

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14 llseWolff 1908-2001 ' ^irst met Ilse when I was 25. My Prof Heinz Wolff Ilse was a 'good' person in every f^other had died in Berlin - of an acute superbly happy, this would have been respect. She maintained a network of "sart infection - when I was 10. enough. However she was a very special close friends spanning a vast private Although Ilse was my father's second person. Having had a distinguished universe. Her greatest torture was the *ife (I thoroughly approved - my career with the Wiener Library, and thought that she might inadvertently lather asked me!), she became, in all having survived a serious illness, she have hurt someone's feelings and she ••aspects but her DNA, the much-loved suddenly found herself in the position of would not rest until the rent, often Qrandmother, great-grandmother an entrepreneurial publisher, having on imaginary, had been mended. I have and mother in-law of my family, and the sudden death of my father become never heard anyone speak ill of Ilse; "^y friend-in-chief. If, in my eyes, Ilse owner of Oswald Wolff (Publishers) Ltd. and she had a compassionate heart, as ^sre to have had no other merit She ran the company for a further her contributions to countless except that of having made my father ten years. charities testify.

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15 From jackboots to Armanis Newsround IBM'helped the Nazis' Ronald Channing Holocaust survivors have issued proceedings against IBM in the New "In Western Europe there is nowhere minority communities in fear and York courts alleging the company's where right-wing organisations have a killed indiscriminately. Non- complicity in the Holocaust by the chance of obtaining power," was the Europeans were prime targets for actions of one of its subsidiaries- reassuring view of Graeme Atkinson, violence and even murder. Fascist The allegations are based o"^ co-ordinator of an international anti groups in Germany alone killed 138 information in the book IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black serialised i" fascist network and European editor of people during 1999 and 2000, reported The Sunday Times. Searchlight magazine. He was Atkinson. Problems of social disorder, addressing a seminar on "The Far such as the desecration of graves and No safe haven The Government may withdraw Britisf Right in Europe' organised by the places of worship, which should be citizenship from suspected Nazi ^^' London Jewish Cultural Centre. While dealt with by the police forces, were all criminals living in Britain. The issue i* parties of the far Right had gained too often ignored by the authorities. being urgently reviewed by the Hom^ representation in government - as had Secretary. Austria's Freedom Party - this was not New style fascism Today's fascist elite had abandoned Lithuanian extradition moves the same as taking full executive the jackboots and Nazi uniform, Lithuania is to apply for the extraditio'^ responsibility. However, his was not an of Anton Gecas, a Lithuanian living "^ preferring to present themselves to invitation to complacency about Scotland, to face war crimes charge the media in Armani suits. contemporary organisations of fascist after the provision of fresh evidence W Paradoxically, this 'respectable' side of groups whose ideology paralleled that the US Justice Department. Gecas denied fascism did not favour violent allegations that, as platoon command^ of the Nazis. activities; leaders like Jean Marie Le in Lithuania and Belarus, he ki"^ Increasing influence Pen saw them as counter-productive. thousands of Jews. Over the past 15 to 20 years Atkinson Undoubtedly organisations such as Protective coat observed that fascist groups had Combat 18 and the British Fascist All 2,700 concrete steles forming ^^^' gained in influence, pedalling the Party needed monitoring and Berlin Holocaust Memorial will ", prejudices of racism, homophobia and Searchlight magazine was second to covered in an anti-graffiti coating ^'^ the information centre will ^^ none in uncovering their hatred antisemitism, and racist violence and protective anti-sabotage glazing. At ^'^ intimidation had become a daily and violence in order to immunise request of the architect, Peter Eisenma"^' occurrence across Europe. people against the venom these there is to be no barbed wire " Marauding bands of skinheads were organisations injected. watchtowers. seen as a youth culture with a capacity Graeme Atkinson also believed it Resistance honour for violence and lawlessness, and the "important to understand the A bust of Sophie Scholl, executed by t"^ extreme Right had attached itself to implications of the debate on asylum Nazis in 1943 for distributing \eai\ei^^ these youth sub-cultures through and immigration as it could lead to an fellow students, has been placed in "^ , sales of CD records, jackets, T-shirts upsurge in activity by fascists and hallowed company of Goethe, Kant an Frederick the Great in the 'temple and other merchandise, at the same other right-wing organisations". The Valhalla' near Regensburg. She is the be< time propagating the pohtics of words 'immigrant' and 'immigration' first anti-Nazi female resistance mem violence. The income generated had acquired a pejorative connotation to be honoured. thereby provided funds for further and this had been introduced into the Nazism poll K militant activities, including the debate on asylum seekers, not least in More than a third of Germany's 14 to 2S purchase of weapons. sections of the media bent on stoking year olds interviewed recently beli^ Lievitable failure at the ballot box by up passions. It afforded an Nazism had its "good points." rue %y parties of the extreme Right, invited unwarranted degree of respectability highest proportion of those respond' violence and terror as attractive to fringe organisations. Similar positively to questions about Naz' lived in East Germany. alternatives. "Most of their activity is campaigns had already brought for violence and against the law", said political breakthroughs in Italy, Oscar nomination ^ Atkinson. In the main the adherents of France, Austria and Belgium. "Their Deborah Oppenheimer's document^ ^ the far Right were "no-hopers and ideology is fundamentally genocidal," film telling the stories , Kindertransportees, Into the Arms Atkinson concluded, and no-one absolute losers", but they could carry Strangers, has been nominated fo"" out acts of terror as did the London should assume there could never be a Oscar in the Documentaries categofV- ^ bomber who for 21 days held London's repetition of the Shoah.

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