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Poles and Jews Life Weaves Richard Grunberger P3 Itler and His Executioners Reduced the Generalised 'Victims of Fascism' AJ R Info r mation Volume LIV No. 3 March 1999 ±•3 (to non-members) Don't miss... I Reflections on a seven-century-long symbiosis OSHA - new plans j Man blacher p2 What a tangled web Poles and Jews life weaves Richard Grunberger p3 itler and his executioners reduced the generalised 'victims of Fascism'. population of Poland by six million, half of Things remained frozen till the demise of Soviet Home Is where the them Jews. The latter formed nine tenths of power. For the past decade democratic Poland has foots aren't H all Polish Jews; the three million Polish victims l^aniel Snowman p5 worked towards a rapprochement with Israel and formed one tenth of the endre Polish nation. These world Jewry - though disputes over the convent sombre statistics are not quoted out of any sense of (and the crosses) at Auschwitz have created 'martyr envy' - although that neurotic emotion obstacles on the way. Bloodstained infests the world Hitler bequeathed to us. Recently the fraught topic of Jews in Stalin's fieldgrey Polish-Jewish history can be viewed from bewil- security apparatus has resurfaced. It now seems that deringly different angles. Around 1350, at a time the case against UK resident Helena Brus will not he Crimes when waves of oppression and expulsion swept the be proceeded with. On the other hand Warsaw is of the rest of Europe, the Polish Crown offered asylum to still asking Israel to extradite Solomon Morel, and TWehrmacht' Jews fleeing the Rhineland massacres and granted the Jewish State is refusing to do so. It would Exhibition, trigger their successors wideranging autonomy. A last ves­ require the wisdom of Solomon to decide who is of recent neo-Nazi tige of this ancient liberal Poland flickered in the right D violence in Kiel, multicultural vision of Adam Miczkiewicz, the coun­ „/;<•(' tests the Germans' try's revered national poet. resolve to confront Then, from around 1650 onwards, a series of the past. Even anti- disasters impacting equally on Poles and Jews - first Goldhagen the Chimelnitzki pogroms and then the Partitions historians attest to of Poland - led to impoverishment and a the Wehrmacht's deterioration in Polish-Jewish relations that share in Nazi culminated in the Church-approved anti-Jewish atrocities. Many boycott between the wars. Bundesbiirger, Under the Nazi occupation the Polish Home Army however, ascribe all was indifferent to Jewish suffering, but fought such crimes to the heroically in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. After the SS - a myth war both Jewish survivors and Poles suffered grave designed to absoh-e disappointments. The former encountered hostility their own kin of climaxing in the Kielce Pogrom; the latter were guilt. This is where again robbed of independence by the Russians. humanly Stalin employed a small number of highly visible understandable Jews in the security services; these Jews, many lone self-delusion survivors, had ample reason to hate Rightwing merges with Poles. What they failed to realise was their own malevolent political built-in obsolescence'. In 1968 an antisemitic design. The miasma faction in the Polish Communist Party jumped on of neo-Nazism will the Kremlins anti-Zionist bandwaggon and only lift when instigated the expulsion of 20,000 Jewish civil today's Germans ser\'ants, journalists etc. from the country. realise that their The sixties also saw a bizarre convergence of anti- predecessors, with and pro-Communist Poles in the 'appropriadon' of few exceptions, Auschwitz. Rightwingers, habituated to calling acted as robotic Poland the Christ among nations', hyped Auschwitz sen^ants of a as a shrine to Polish martyrdom while anti-Zionist Stark exterior of Berlin's new Jewish Museum designed by Daniel monstrous regime D Soviet propaganda dejudaised martyred Jews as Libeskind. (See report on Page 16.) WSB AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1999 went to London to train as a nurse. She Profile met her husband and married after his demob. In those days hospital nurses had to be single - so she retrained as a Our friend from nursery nurse. Later she did teachers' training and eventually became head the North teacher of a nursery school. In addition obody would take her for one of she undertook research into nursery us', either in looks or speech. It teaching - work for which she was made N is a truism that refugees who an MBE. arrived as children are accent free. In parallel with her career, she and her Czech-born Suzanne Pearson, however, woodwork teacher husband not only doesn't merely sound English - she raised three daughters, but also did sounds Yorkshire-born and bred. additional fostering. Even so the scars of The only child of an assimilated the Holocaust have never healed. middle-class family, Suzanne had enjoyed For the last ten years Suzanne has been a happy early childhood. Things changed Suzanne Pearson giving talks to Sheffield schoolchildren drastically with the Nazi occupation of about her own experience of racism- Prague when she was eleven. War was Arrived in the UK, she lived with a Asked about her motivation, she quotes only a few months away. Like several Woodcraft family in Sheffield. Though the programme of the Anne Frank hundred more Czech-Jewish children, under these circumstances she picked up Foundation: 'The rejection of Suzie owes her survival to the intrepid English quickly, she did not, because of discrimination must start at an early age; rescue work of Nicholas Winton (plus, in wartime disruption, receive much of an each of us has a personal responsibility her own case, fundraising efforts by the education. She left school at fourteen towards achieving that goal.' Woodcraft Folk). and, after a false start in a drawing office. OSHA Chairman announces new plans for German banks' residential care and sheltered accommodation complicity ver the past few years the Otto accommodation in a new location rather irm evidence that Deutsche Bank, Schiff Housing Association has than attempt to repair the present building. Germany's largest, part-funded the Ofaced increasing pressure on its The search for a site has commmenced. Fconstruction of the Auschwitz death financial resources, due primarily to the Once a satisfactory location has been camp was revealed in recently need to provide higher levels of care to identified a further two years or so are likely discovered documents. The bank's increasingly frail residents coupled with the to be required for completion of the new historian, Manfred Pohl, said that their uneconomical fees paid by Local premises. In the unlikely event that a branch in the Polish town of Katowice Authorities. satisfactory site could not be found, OSHA knew of the purpose to which the loan Following an extensive review it became would of course have to re-examine its long- was being put. Degesch, a subsidiary ot clear that .sub.stimtial funds would have to term strategy. Frankfurt-based Degussa precious metal be spent on certain properties to ensure The Council and Executive Group of smelters which manufactured Zyklon the maintenance of high standards of OSHA are well aware of the uncertainty that B gas, was also a recipient. Deutsche accommodation. As a consequence the these decisions, no matter how important Bank is currently hoping to secure a OSHA Council has decided to sell two for the future, will have for tenants, $10 billion takeover of the US properties - Heinrich Stahl House in the residents, relatives and volunteers. OSHA has Bankers' Trust. Bishops Avenue and Eleanor Rathbone undertaken to do all within its power to Together with the Dresdner Bank, House (which is one-third owned by the safeguard the interests of everyone involved. Deutsche Bank is being sued in New AJR) in Highgate, as both are in need of Tenants and residents will be given the York by 10,000 Holocaust victims and extensive refurbishment. utmost consideration and no-one will be their relatives for profiting from These two properties are relatively asked to move without extensive confiscated Jewish property and stolen poorly located for public transport, shops consultation and di,scu.ssion of all options. assets deposited with the banks. and other facilities and, even after major The Otto Schiff Housing Association Following a study by historian Johannes investment, would be unable to meet the remains committed to providing an Baehr, the Dresdner Bank, which had future requirements of tenants and exceptionally high quality service to its close connections with the SS, is residents. clients for many years to come and is reported to have agreed to contribute to Heinrich Stahl House stands on an confident that the changes now being a Government-led compensation fund extremely valuable site in the Bishops initiated will ensure that this commitment for former slave labourers due to be Avenue and a proportion of its land value will te met. estabUshed this year. could be used to provide new D Allan Blacher DRDC -4 - AJR INFORMATION MARCH 1999 What a tangled web the father's own serfs had murdered him, this fulfilment of his repressed PARTNER life weaves wishes brought on his first epileptic fit. in long established English Solicitors Characteristically the theme of parri­ (bi-lingual German) would be happy he recent Glenn Hoddle brouhaha cide is also central to Dostoevsky's The refocused attention on an impor­ to assist clients with English, German Brothers Karamazov (which novel like­ and Austrian problems. Contact Ttant issue, namely the prejudice wise contains a reference to the blood ^surrounding physical handicap. One of libel charge against the Jews - a charge Henry Ebner ue more effective ways of countering Alyosha Karamazov, Dostoevsky's fa­ such prejudice is to point out that vourite character, signally fails to refute). Myers Ebner & Deaner 'Beethoven and Smetana went deaf, 103 Shepherds Bush Road Given all this, the epileptic 'Hilton and Jorge Borges became blind, London W6 7LP Dostoevsky, an antisemite and fanatical Alexander Pope and Toulouse-Lautrec anti-Westerner, would make an unlikely Telephone 0171 602 4631 *ere deformed, and Dostoevsky suffered hero for the disabled.
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