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Socialist & The bullet-scarred ballot sensualist C F Flesch, p4 or three hundred years Germans called France into silence. He may well have been a flawed negoti­ Leonora der Erbfeind responsible for a catalogue of ating partner, but to see him upstaged by Hamas in Hellman's Fmisdeeds from burning Heidelberg to occupying this fashion was not to Israel's advantage. •00th birthday, the Ruhr. The French had an even grimmer list of A Fortress Israel policy could, admittedly, work in P8 memories, climaxed by Nazi atrocities during the the short term - but we have seen where the laager Second World War. mentality ultimately landed the South Africa Nats. Yet from 1945 onwards these hereditary enemies One final consideration. The majority of the nine found it in their mutual interest - and in that of million Diaspora Jews know how much they owe to generations yet unborn - to draw a line under the the West's multicultural liberalism. Apprehension past. The result: the birth of the EU, and Europe's that the Jewish State of tomorrow might well not first half century of peace in a thousand years. share those values, will do little to strengthen world­ ^ed-brown Monet, Adenauer and Schuman who wrought wide Jewish solidarity. Russia these epoch-making changes, were farsighted states­ Still - we humans are so constituted that we al­ men with widespread electoral support. Peres, a ways look for the light at the end of the tunnel. So n the presidential statesman imbued with a no less grandiose vision, let us hope against hope that the new administration poll many alas, failed to elicit similar backing. in Jerusalem will 'renege' on their election prom­ I erstwhile The May election in Israel was less a contest be­ ises. It was, after all, their spiritual mentor Zhirinovsky tween head and heart than between rationality and Menachem Begin who confounded all expectations supporters voted gut-feeling. The country always had an intransigent by making peace with Egypt D Communist - a less core of religious and jingoist hardliners. What gave than surprising 'Bibi' victory were floating voters, whose gut reac­ switch. Though tion to the Oslo Accords (stipulating concessions Zhirinovsky's real that triggered more rather than fewer outrages) was father had, like the one of - understandable - panic. Communists' It ill behoves us who daily board buses free of spiritual one Hamas bombs to sit in judgment on Israel's voters. (Marx), been The Diaspora, nonetheless, has a huge emotional Jewish, both parties stake in the Jewish State - which obliges us to ex­ peddled press misgivings about the electorate's decision at a antisemitism. crucial juncture in the country's history. Clearly xenophobia Voting the hardline Right into power simultane­ 's a tiger Yeltsin ously endangers peace with the Arabs and civil peace needs to ride to among the Jews. Coming so soon after the Rabin as­ retain power and sassination it places additional pressure on the though Chechnya, fragile internal cohesion of Israeli society. alas, proved him 'Is this still my country?' sobbed many a left- adept at that, he leaning voter (with kibbutznik forebears who had remains the only laid the foundations of the State) on 30 May. The "Tiajor player question was echoed by Israel's Arab citizens, a committed to 700,000-strong group unconnected with Hamas - reformD or PLO - terror. Peres' defeat also shocked Arafat The Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem AJR INFORMATION JULY 1996

Deportations from Western Europe to Profile Auschwitz began in 1942 and were re­ ferred to in the British press, but the destination of the trains remained un­ Model member known! adeleine Brook, AJR Trustee and Asked by Weizmann and Shertok to Management Committee member, bomb the death camps, Churchill ordered Mgrew up in a Viennese middle- "get anything out of the Air Force you class family - her father was a can and involve me if necessary." Unfor­ manufacturer of clothing accessories - tunately, nothing of significance resulted. and attended the enlightened Churchill's efforts to obtain a joint An­ Schwarzwaldschule. The fact that her glo-American declaration on the mother had Swiss nationality enabled extermination of the Jews were nullified Madeleine, too, to escape to Switzerland by the Americans. In an article for the in 1938, while the father went to Sweden. 'JC he wrote that "Jews bear the brunt In Zurich she attended a commercial of suffering"; with his support, 4,500 college and obtained a business diploma. Jewish children were helped to escape Due to the Swiss phobia about refugees Madeleine's involvement in the work from the Balkans. overcrowding the labour market she first of AJR steadily intensified. After the Churchill called for Allied punishment had to work semi-illegally (at a sanato­ opening of the Paul Balint AJR Day Cen­ of war criminals specifically for their per­ rium for psychiatric patients) but was tre she assumed responsibility for secution of the Jews. He wrote to Foreign eventually allowed to look after refugee provisioning and running the shop in Secretary Anthony Eden of "the most hor­ children under the aegis of the Red Cross. Cleve Road. Her main contribution to the rible crime committed in the whole The postwar years took her to Sweden Association, though, has for many years history of the world" whose perpetrators and the USA, where she worked for a been connected with the annual concert. should be put to death. travel agency. In the early 1950s she mar­ She has helped with the sale of tickets - Revisionists have asserted that Church­ ried a fellow refugee and took up domicile and especially of advertising in the con­ ill's prescience and protests were not his in the UK. They had a son, and after some cert brochure (a key source of revenue). own - rather those of the Jews who paid time she became a rep for a firm making In this endeavour she displays a charm him to express them. Sir Martin Gilbert's rhinestone buttons. She involved herself in and enthusiasm capable of thawing the evidence substantiates the contrary. From community work as a member both of resistance of the most curmudgeonly po­ 1940 onwards Churchill refused to make WIZO and of AJR. tential advertiser. Characteristically, she peace with Hitler and mobilised every Widowed in the early 1970s, she married would not even let the recent onset of ill­ effort to defeat Nazi Germany and bring Henry Brook, becoming the stepmother of ness interfere with her work for the 1996 to justice those who had committed such the writer Stephen Brook (of The Club concert. We wish her a speedy recovery. unparalleled crimes. fame). DRG D Ronald Channing

The Wiener Library's ship in May 1940, Churchill came under AJR & the Wiener Library Bernard Krikler Mennorial Lecture pressure from Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and others to open negotiations joindy present Churchill and the with Hitler. He rejected their advice and ruled out any accommodation with Hitler, 'The Voyage of the Holocaust thereby avoiding Britain falling into the St. Louis' trap of 'Vichy' satellite status. ir Martin Gilbert adduced ample Contrary to the Foreign Office position Sunday 14 July 1996 proof of the consistency with which, that Jewish concerns were purely admin­ at 4pm from 1932 onwards, Churchill both istrative matters, Churchill ordered all S Harkness Hall.* publicised and condemned Nazi items of Jewish interest to be put in his I Birkbeck College, Malet Street, persecution of the Jews. despatch box. Despite British reverses in LondonWCl Having witnessed persecution in Ger­ Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic in many "solely on the grounds of race", 1941, Churchill assured Chaim Weizmann Director Maziar Bahari & survivors Churchill warned of the danger to Polish that the British White Paper restricting will take part in an informal Jews in Parliament and pleaded for mini­ Jewish immigration to Palestine would discussion mal immigration restrictions to be placed not be put into operation. That same year on refugees from Europe. He described Churchill commended a "Jewish state in Tickets:£5 (£3 concessions) German Jews as "stripped of all power", Western Palestine" to the War Cabinet. incl. refreshments declared a "foul and odious race", and Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June Apply to:Administrative Secretary, subjected to every kind of persecution. He 1941 brought SS killer squads into action. Wiener Library, actually spoke of the "blotting out" of Despite German messages being de­ 4 Devonshire Street, London WIN 2BH German Jewry. crypted at Bletchley Park, only a fragment Tel: 0171 636 7247 Immediately on assuming the premier­ of the scale of the killing was revealed. AJR INFORMATION JUL/ 1996

A Dickens of a claim drunk, would throw punches at fellow writers (e.g. Albert Camus) or policemen. JACKMAN• adness, it is said, is to genius near Refugee-descended Tom Kempinski re­ allied. Lord Byron was certainly fused to have his plays staged in Israel, 'a £ SILVERMAN Mknown as 'mad, bad and racist state on a par with South Africa'. COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS dangerous to know'. And now the Hilde Spiel returned to Austria twenty Journal of Clinical Psychology reveals years after the war partly because she felt that literati - poets, playwrights, snubbed by her London PEN colleagues novelists - are generally madder than Stephen Spender and John Lehmann. members of the general public. Back in Vienna fellow Remigrant To substantiate its thesis the Journal Friedrich Torberg, a staunch anti-Com­ pinpoints the degree of derangement of munist, promptly started a vendetta 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA individual writers on a scale from one to against her for advocating the lifting of a Telephone: 071 409 0771 Fax: 071 493 8017 SIX - and gives Evelyn Waugh top rank­ ban on Brecht's plays. ing. Unsurprisingly, Auberon Waugh Last, but by no means least: Erich Fried, objected to this. I can't see why he arguably the most eccentric of the whole should: when Waugh senior returned from galere of refugee writers. Admittedly, nis wartime mission to Yugoslavia he per­ Fried had a father who ran Kafka's a versely insisted that Marshal Tito was a close second. (Fried senior dubbed his NEWTONS Woman in drag. son, who limped and showed political Leading Hampstead Solicitors " also annoyed Auberon that the Jour- awareness at six, a 'Bolshevik cripple'). 22 Fitzjohns Avenue, "3l adjudges novelists the maddest, The damage wrought by Erich's physical London NW3 5NB playwrights relatively less mad, and poets father was further compounded by his 'A- All legal work undertaken fne least mad among all types of writers, spiritual ones: Marx, Freud and Wilhelm - Specialising in Wills and "ere, I rnust say, I agree with him. Surely Reich. Estates no-one was madder than the playwright Only such an 'inheritance' can explain "••endan Behan who, invariably drunk, an episode of Fried-specific macabre ris­ * German spoken ould boo performances of his own plays ibility. In 1934, when Hitler had already "^ Home visits arranged ff'om the back of the stalls. been in power for a year across the bor­ Another mad - sorry, I'll rephrase der, barmitzvah boy Erich entered his 'k Associated offices in •^at: maddening - playwright who is no Vienna synagogue singing the Horst Hamburg, Los Angeles, stranger to pubs is Harold Pinter. How- Wessel song - and was promptly thrown Tel Aviv, Sydney, Zurich ^^^••j if, impelled by curiosity, another out. Tel: 0171 435 5351 saloon bar habitue lets his gaze rest for His propensity for besmirching what Fax: 0171 435 8881 "^ore than a second on the famous Pinter Jews hold sacred resurfaced three decades ^ee, the playwright is liable to lunge at later when he wrote a poem virtually "'"1 with a shout of 'Who d'you think equating Zionists with Nazis, and gave it yoii're looking at'? the prayer-derived title 'Hear, O Israel'. ''^ith Pinter we are, of course, in the Jewish self-doubt left the poet with an Polish property •"ealm of Jewish literati - a disparate acute identity problem. Though wedded restitution S^oup ranging from giants of wisdom to the German language and naming his ollowing a short article on Polish '•^finio Levi) and good sense (Saul Bellow) British-born sons Hans, Klaus, etc. Fried property restitution in AJR near-homicidal screwballs like Norman never became a Remigrant; London- ailer. Mailer, the Erich Maria Remarque based, and married to an Englishwoman, F Information, Mr Ernest Hayman ^ the War in the Pacific, and frustrated he even discouraged his children from has kindly sent us a copy of a letter 'te-killer, once ran for Mayor of New learning German. received by him from Mr Piotr Polz, '^'^- Campaigning during an unusually Cut off in this way from their ever more Polish Consul in London. ^ winter, he was asked how he would famous father's work they had to rely on Mr Polz points out that, at present, ^al with the snow blanketing the city, him for the information that he was 'as there exists only a draft reprivatisation ^"d answered 'I'd p..s on it'. famous in Germany as Dickens in Eng­ law which may be modified following the ^o much for Jewish writers in general - land'. recent change of government. ^at about our own refugee writers? That claim is, I think poetic licence. I According to the present proposal, per­ . ^y> too, would amply repay investiga- also think that Fried's (sometimes poetic) sons entitled to claim back property lost 'on by mental health inspectors. pronouncements on sex - which cannot by nationalisation or migration are 'he Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti be quoted in a family newspaper - refute former owners, or their statutory heirs, if they are Polish citizens and live perma­ ^^ nie the distinct impression that, like the aforementioned statement in the Jour­ nently in Poland or persons living abroad atter-day Mr Rochester, he kept his nal of Clinical Psychology that poets are if they reacquire Polish citizenship and e hidden from the public gaze at comparatively saner than other groups of settle permanently in Poland tvithin the j^^mpstead. The polymath Arthur writers. D Richard Grunberger period stipulated to lodge applications for estler was a wife-batterer who, when reprivatisation D AJR INFORMATION JULY 1996

nately self-destructive) Crown Prince native Hungary and deported her from Reviews Rudolph. the small town where she had been In 1918 Austrian leaders of every hue brought up by caring Jewish (but strictly yearned for an Anschluss. Twenty years non-religious) parents. Although she lived Where murder went later Anschluss mindedness fused with anti­ to be liberated, she continued to suffer semitism to make the country give Hitler a years of illness and deprivation. She was unpunished welcome worthy of the Second Coming. brought to France by a fellow-survivor, only to be betrayed and humiliated. Even­ Gordon Brook Shepherd,THEAUSTRIANS,A Ten years after the war in which the Al­ lies had dubbed them Hitler's first tually she secured a place at the Sorbonne thousand-year odyssey. Harper Collins, £25.00. victims, fewer than 50% of Austrians as a mature student. She met and married hen the Habsburg court poet considered themselves a separate nation. a Hungarian violinist who suffered from a wrote "while others wage war That proportion, Brook-Shepherd informs psychiatric illness. For a time they lived in Wyou, happy Austria, marry" he us, has since increased appreciably. So far South Africa, where their son was born. was mixing a half-truth with a whopping so good - but what of the antisemitism They moved to Israel, then returned to lie. The half-truth was the notion that the in which the Austrians outdid their Ger­ South Africa. They came to London in Habsburg Empire resulted purely from man blood brothers? 1957 where she worked for various Jew­ dynastic marriages without resort to Simon Wiesenthal has alleged that the ish organisations. Her marriage finally arms. While Emperor Maximilian I Austrian tenth of the population of broke down and she obtained a divorce. (ca.l500), admittedly proved a consummate Greater Germany "accounted for" half of She remarried in 1970 and her son, by matchmaker, Austria had a major share in all Holocaust victims. Brook-Shepherd now an Oxford graduate, married a few the Turkish campaigns, the Thirty Years' ventures no opinion on this estimate but years later. But in 1979 he took his own War, the Seven Years' War, and the he reprints in full Wiesenthal's 1966 life in a fit of depression. Napoleonic wars. She, moreover, bears memorandum to Chancellor Klaus. An Today, 'life goes on' for the author of crucial responsibility for World War One, excerpt reads "Hundred-and-fifty mem­ this moving autobiography. She has shown and through her ecstatic reception of bers of the Austrian Police Battalions 12, remarkable courage in putting pen to paper Hitler helped precipitate World War Two. 314 and 322 operating in Poland, though and in doing so has performed a valuable So much for the half-truth; where the clearly identified as murderers, have had service. As Martin Gilbert points out in his court poet's true mendacity lay was in no action taken against them; some have foreword, there is a need for such memoirs his appellation of Austria as "happy". even been reinstated in the Austrian secu­ as hers to be published. Their authors Probably no other country has - pace rity services." speak, as she does, not only for themselves Schubert, Mahler and Hugo Wolf, Lenau The rest is silence. but for the six million who cannot. and Trakl and Raimund, Nestroy and n Richard Grunberger n David Maier Grillparzer - produced so many tor­ mented geniuses. Nor was it an accident that "curing the sickness of the soul", i.e. ii psychoanalysis, was pioneered in Vienna. Life goes on" Socialist and sensualist It would, in fact, require a latter-day Freud with an additional degree in PR to Trude Levi, A CAT CALLED ADOLF, Vallentine George Dreyfus ^composer) Volker £//s Pilgrim establish why a people so given over to Mitchell (The Library of HolocaustTesHmonies) (librettist) DIE MARX SISTERS, Bielefeld Opera 1995. rancorous self-pity as the Austrians fter the first performance of the should be popularly associated with hen Trude Levi was on holiday Magic Flute the librettist Emanuel Strauss waltzes, Lehar operettas and The in Germany some forty years A Schikaneder allegedly complained Sound of Music. The widespread misread­ W after the end of the war, she that Mozart's music had spoilt his ing of the Austrian mind was neatly was shown a small cat which, because of beautiful text. There can, indeed, be encapsulated by Pope Paul VI who, its habit of raising one paw, was called instances where music and text of an shortly before Waldheim's presidency, Adolf by its owner. Although trivial in opera are of equal importance, and this is called the country "an island of the itself, this incident upset her greatly and one of them. blessed." contributed to her decision to write about The plot of the 'Marx Sisters' hinges What is the source of the Austrian ma­ her life. She writes in anger, because she on the fact that Karl Marx was anything laise? Gordon Brook Shepherd, an expert suffered unspeakably in Auschwitz and but a model husband. In 1850 he fathered Austria-watcher, traces it to a deepseated Buchenwald, surviving only because her an illegitimate child on a domestic. This identity crisis. Are the Austrians a nation German guards left her for dead by the contradicted the public image he wished in their own right or a German tribe roadside; in sadness, because she had a to cultivate, and his blueprint for creating whom the Habsburgs severed from their disappointing first marriage and tragically a better world than under capitalism- blood brothers and yoked together with lost her son; in gratitude, because her Hence the birth had to be concealed; his assorted Slavs and Hungarians? second husband gives her 'a reason to friend and patron Friedrich Engels oblig­ Austro-German affinity runs like a red carry on' and to enjoy much of her ingly took responsibility. However, the thread through the calamitous prehistory present life, 'at least on the surface'. same mishap occurred in 1862 when of both World Wars. When Bismarck But her 'inner life' is still that of the Marx made another member of his house­ locked the waning Habsburg empire into former concentration camp inmate. hold pregnant. This time abortion the German embrace, the only prominent Gertrud Mosonyi (as she then was) was appeared to be the only solution. Today's Austrian to gainsay him was the (unfortu­ twenty when the Germans occupied her continued on next page AJR INFORMATION JULY 1996

continued position: Karl Marx was, throughout, se­ politically correct' term choice had not riously obsessed with his Jewish origins. 5 YEARS AND STILL NO yet been invented, and would indeed have In the opera this is indicated by the neen inappropriate: women, particularly frequent presence of his parents accompa­ PROGRESS ON YOUR of the lower classes, had to do as they nied by recurring rhythms with PROPERTY CLAIM ^ere told; often with unfortunate results, undertones of the Sabbath celebrations IN BERLIN & EAST as in this case: the mother-to-be died in and the berachot. And the words are sung the process. in Hebrew. But Marx's parents were bap­ GERMANY? The action of the opera takes place dur­ tised and so, of course, was he. The opera We are specialists in speeding up cases. ing the night prior to the operation and its includes a scene in which the baptism is We buy and/or process claims. twelve brief scenes intermingle Marx's re-enacted, a very subtle indication of References of satisfied claimants with 'ireams, guilt feelings, unconscious desires Marx's subconscious guilt feelings. completed claims are available. 3nd memories. All this js shown not as Performers and the production were NAGEL & PARTNER tragedy, but grotesque comedy in a stylis- highly praised and, indeed, Bielefeld has 'le mixture of Victorian music hall and taken enormous - and successful - Contact our Representative Contact in Gernnany Monty Python. (Characteristically, the trouble over the matter. On the libretto inGB Phone 49 30 882 56 31 *^ast, in spite of the title, contains no fe- and the music there was less unanimity. In Solicitor Hans H. Marcus Fax 49 30 881 39 16 "lale singers). It is, perhaps, not surprising fact, a few members of the audience Phone 0171-629 8000 Uhiandstrasse 156 that the reviews next day offered widely Fax 0171-221 9334 10719 Berlin booed both librettist and composer. One 4 Old Park Lane different interpretations of the work caus- critic complained of lack of musical depth London WIY3LJ 'ng George Dreyfus to exclaim: "I have and development. Another called the opera H:^ forked on this opera for over a year. I am 'Marx with his trousers down'. Accord­ deeply grateful for, at long last, having ing to a third, with whom I agree, the ^eentold what it means!" score gave the content its serious dimen­ There was possibly a certain bitterness sion, was surprisingly effective and often AUSTRIAN and GERMAN m this remark. For most reviewers had created the impression of good film music. PENSIONS •overlooked a vital element in the com­ UCF Flesch PROPERTY RESTITUTION CLAIMS Then and now Perhaps it is time that this poet let herself EAST GERMANY- BERLIN explore words and images with more free­ '^ory Brainin Huttrer, NEW WORLD FOR OLD, dom. She has written amusingly and On instructions our office will ^chuco Publications, £4.25 accessibly and her work is appealing but assist to deal with your he title of this collection of poetry now she should spread her wings. applications and pursue the refers to the dark shadows of the D Jill Bomber matter with the authorities. TAnschluss in Vienna and the author's escape, at the age of five, with For further information and "er family to England, appointment please ^he has divided the poems into three 50 YEARS AGO contact: ections. The first, concerning her life ICS CLAIMS "•^w, ranges from sleeplessness to ageing REPORT FROM HOLLAND 146-154 Kilbum High Road ^"d from how to explain what 'lesbian' Of the communities in Belgium, France and Hol­ London NW6 4JD "^eans to one's grandchildren, to tran­ land, the Jews in Holland suffered by far the scendental meditation. greatest losses. From 140,000 Jews only 23.000 Tel: 0171-328 7251 (Ext. 107) have survived, and out of 25,000 Jewish refugees Fax: 0171-624 5002 Lhe second part concerns her childhood from Germany and Austria, not more than about and the title poem is one of the best. It is 3.000. 'tie most serious part of the work. One of the reasons for these heavy losses is the fact that Holland was totally dominated by the The third section is generally light- Nazis. Apart from the military occupation, the earted, verging on doggerel but she Netherlands were governed by a 'Reichssutthalter' PARTNER who enveloped also the civil administration in his tites with wit and precision about frus- in long established English Solicitors Nazi grip. Moreover, in that small and flat country .^ation in a hospital and on the telephone, it was almost impossible for a comparatively large (bi-lingual German) would be happy ne last poem of all, 'Mirage' moved me: group of people to disappear into hiding places. to assist clients with English, German 'I run towards the house and cry: Immediately after the deportation of a Jewish and Austrian problems. Contact I'm home from school!' family, all their assets and belongings were usually taken by the Nazis. Whilst decrees have been Henry Ebner There's no reply." issued for compensation, their practical results are Here she allows her feelings to come still negligible. Myers Ebner & Deaner titough but although her tutors describe There are 2,000-3,000 Jewish orphans who 103 Shepherds Bush Road were hidden by Dutch families. It is one of the er Work as satirical, I feel she has over­ greatest worries of Dutch Jewry to find ways and London W6 7LP bed it, to the detriment of its impact, means of bringing those children back into a Jew­ Telephone 0171 602 4631 •ogether with her unvarying use of rhyme ish atmosphere D AjR Informovon. }UIY 1946 ALL LEGAL WORK UNDERTAKEN ^^ rhythm it has become a strait-jacket. she played during the thirties. However, to state that Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau had to 'admit' his service in the Wehrmacht in a radio interview, is crass, witchhunting ignorance. Fischer-Dieskau was 16 in 1943 (he had already sung the Winterreise in a town hall in Berlin) and WHAT'S IN A NAME an antisemite, had a great many other se­ has on innumerable occasions referred to Sir - Your May editorial reflecting on vere character blemishes and was a genius his experiences in Russia where he was the Flick donation to Oxford is less than in one particular field - music (I don't force-drafted. After the war nobody did fair to Lord Weidenfeld. You are no doubt think much of his librettos). A work of more than he to help re-establish Ger­ aware - although you do not say so - art, once completed, stands and falls on many as a centre of artistic and cultural that the Ethical Committee examined and its own merits. Its creator no longer mat­ life. approved the donation. Lord Weidenfeld ters, nor do his opinions, unless they are Your correspondent represents a regret­ was among those who advocated that the propagated in the piece in question. table tendency for searching for the Flick family should compensate the There must have been a great many devil's tail behind every German. There former slave labourers. writers and painters who were anti­ are still too many Germans who learnt Grafton Road Sir Sigmund Sternberg semites. For that matter we could, if we nothing from the past, but one wishes London NW5 were so inclined, construe every Last Sup­ that other European nations with a sinis­ per or Crucifixion as an antisemitic ter past did half as much to cleanse outpouring. I am not aware that this pre­ themselves from an unforgivable past as MALIGNED THERSITES vents people of our race from admiring Germany did - and still does. Sir - The lines which Martin Anson them - and quite rightly. P.S. AJR Information, I often think, quotes in the May issue are from Fortune Green Road CF Flesch should not be a monthly, but a weekly Schiller's Das Siegesfest. In spite of his London NW6 publication. liberal outlook, Schiller took over Temple Fortune Hill F Shelton Homer's maligning of Thersites. In London NWl I contrast, my late father, Victor Ehrenberg, Sir - I judge music by its quality, I find wrote (Oxford Classical Dictionary, the personality of a dead composer article on 'Democracy'): "Beginning irrelevant. Adolf Hitler thought BIG BERTHA with Thersites, there were always otherwise, so he banned the music of Sir - You describe the special long-barrel movements against the rule of the noble Jewish composers. I have no wish to siege gun, which bombarded Paris in and the rich, as the lower ranks of free follow in Hitler's footsteps. 1917 and 1918 with very little effect, as people tried to win full citizenship" and Putney Hill GF Manley Dicke Bertha. This is incorrect. The I F Stone, in his 'The Trial of Socrates' London SW 15 rather squat 42cm mortars, used rather (Picador 1988, p34), describes the successfully in 1914, to reduce the Thersites episode in the Iliad as "the first FOLLOW MY LIEDER fortresses on the frontiers of Belgium attempt of the common man to exercise (Liege) and France, were nick-named Sir - Fischer-Dieskau never concealed freedom of speech". Dicke Bertha. They were, of course, both the fact that he was inducted into the If there were more justice in this world, products of Krupps. German army during the war. Thersites would be the patron saint of the Linden Lea F H Edwards Schwarzkopf and Richard Strauss were TUC. But there isn't, and the treatment London N2 . pragmatic Nazis, Mitldufer, like most which Thersites received from Germans; nevertheless, Austrians like Agamemnon and his cronies closely paral­ Schwarzkopf can justly be accused of lels that which Scargill has received from THE 'CHRISTIAN' having been ideological Nazis. Thatcher and hers. But let those of us KLEMPERERS Where on earth did John Levy get his who owe our lives to a more liberal Brit­ Sir - John Levy in his letter Follotv my information that Walter Legge was a ain remember Thersites with affection, so Lieder (May issue) mentions in passing Jew?! I have it on very good authority that in another 3,000 years, Scargill may that the conductor Otto Klemperer was that he came from a 100% Christian Eng­ be remembered similarly. 'of course a Jew'. What is, however, less lish working class background; he also Great Quarry Professor Lewis Elton known is that he was actually baptized was an antisemite, who gloried in the fact and became a Catholic. This is Guildford, Surrey that he had many enemies. Schwarzkopf documented in his cousin's, Victor therefore could not have whitewashed her Klemperer's, recently published diaries: Nazi past by marrying him. BAYREUTH-FIXATED Ich ivill Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten; Carisbrooke Road Henry Mortimer BERNARD Tagebucher 1933-1945, Berlin; Aufbau- Leicester Sir - I have no axe to grind for Bernard Verlag, 1995. Levin. In fact, I read The Times in spite of In connection with this, it might be of his articles. Hence I am not at all Sir - To insinuate that Elisabeth interest to mention that Victor Klemperer interested in his opinions, let alone his Schwarzkopf married Dr Legge only to himself became a Protestant in 1912, the "logic". hide her Nazi past, is malicious nonsense, very year his father. Rabbi Dr Wilhelm We all know that Richard Wagner was even if one is not enraptured by the role Klemperer, died. Victor Klemperer suf- AJR INFORMATION JULY 1996 rered from a severe assimilation complex. BRICKBAT This is well illustrated in his, and his Sir - I do object to the tone of some of Paul Balint siblings', decision to place the announce- the recent articles and letters in the AJR Day Centre "lent of their father's death in the journal. I was particularly incensed by OPEN DAY newspaper omitting the title Rabbi. Richard Grunberger's article on Richard In 1934 Victor Klemperer recalls the Wagner and Bernard Levin. Whatever Sunday 11 August 1996 'ollowing verse which he wrote in 1912: Wagner's attitude towards Jews - and at 2pm wdrst Du als Pastor heimgegangen there are many people in England and the Es stiinde hier in grossem Prangen world over who hold similar views - he Family and friends L>och starbst Du armer Gottesdiener wrote immortal music which gives are all welcome to join us for Nar leider Gottes als Rabbiner enjoyment to millions of people, including an enjoyable afternoon out at Die Wiirde musste mit Dir sterben myself. For this alone the man should be 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 Sie ist nicht gut fiir Deine Erben. accepted despite any controversial views Entrance £3 This time Klemperer asks himself: he may have held. After all, he was including tea & refreshments How has this omission helped?'. entitled to his views as long as he did no /^iddleton Road Yvonne Alweiss personal or physical harm to anyone. He London NWl I was arrogant and self righteous - so what? I do feel that AJR Information should BAMBERG REMEMBERS confine itself to matters concerning Ger­ '^T - I was very interested in your report man refugees and leave controversial ^n 'Bamberg' (May issue) as I have matters to newspapers which specialise in rarnily connections with the town. It is these subjects. BELSIZE SQUARE Red Lane GVWolf encouraging to hear that the permanent SYNAGOGUE exhibition Juden in Bamberg has been Disley started by Herbert Loebl. Cheshire SKI2 2NP 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 tton Rood Nora Henry (nee Loewi) London NW3 We offer a traditional style of THE FLICKAFFAIR religious service with Cantor, Sir - I have just returned from Hessisch- Choir and organ Lichtenau, near Kassel, where during the WiNNERTAKES NOTHING war I was a slave-worker in an 80% c • Further details can be obtained Flick-owned factory. ^^i" - I felt both elated and humble on from our synagogue secretary 'I'scovering that I had won first prize for Here during the last few weeks I got translating the Buchenwald Camp song. I quite involved in the Flick affair, partly to Telephone 0171-794 3949 ^ni giving the money to the budding stop Friedrich Flick having a chair created 'holocaust Museum at the Imperial War in his name, partly because there are a Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner number of my camp-mates who having Museum. Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine . May I take this opportunity of express­ returned to Hungary after the war, could ing my appreciation of AJR Information: not apply for compensation from the Ger­ Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, mans. I am still hoping to be able to Saturday mornings at 10 am 'ts high journalistic and literary stand- Religion school: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm ^tds, not to mention its values, are a persuade the present Flicks to fund a trust ^"ght. I should love to be able to give at least to help these ex-slave-workers Space donated by Pafra Limited you first prize in the editing stakes. who today are old and living in penury. ^^ester Close Bea Green Oakhampton Road Mrs Trude Levi London SWI3 London NWl DORMANT ACCOUNTS IN SWISS BANK REFUGEES FROM MUNICH "•"HETHIRTIES REMEMBERED Did your Family wish Sir - My attention was recently drawn to 't - I am extremely grateful for your to provide for you? Printing my search notice about Edith Fay the existence of the 'Jiidisches Museum 'n the April issue. Munchen', when I was sent a copy of Hans H. Marcus has now joined .' am including a tribute to her in an ar- their brochure. Edmonds Bowen & Co. of '^le that I am writing on my former According to this, there appears to be a 4 Old Park Lane, London WI Jewish friends. As a schoolboy at Steyning lack of documentation of the fate of Jews as a Consultant and will assist you to tammar School in West Sussex, I met from Munich who fled from persecution. trace funds deposited in Swiss banks y first refugees from Germany and A request is made for such family histo­ before the Holocaust. earnt of Nazi horrors at first hand in the ries and data to be sent to Dr. Andreas For details of our terms '930s. Heusler, Stadtarchiv Munchen, Winzerer- please contact Hans Marcus ^"fnerton Close Eric Unfield strafie 68, 80797 Munich. 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Happy 100th birthday! In March 1933 harassment of Jews forced the family to seek refuge in Eng­ eonora Hellman celebrated her land where, faced with widespread WHO'S WHO IN THE AJR 100th birthday at Heinrich Stahl unemployment, they found life to be hard Head Office: LHouse in London surrounded by her and refugee aid organisations like the AJR Ernest David - Director children, grandchildren and great­ (of which she later became a member) Carol Rossen - Assistant to Director grandchildren. and the CBF did not yet exist. The family Agi Alexander -Head of Social Services Born Leonora Kohn in Ebelsbach, became members, and the boys were Bar­ Norah Gittings - Social Worker southern Germany, in 1896, her parents mitzvah, at Hampstead Synagogue. When Wendi Wilson - Social Worker sent her to finishing school in Hanover in 1966 Fred Hellman died, Leonora be­ Ruth Finestone - Social Worker before she embarked on a career as a came an active member of Belsize Square Estelle Brookner -Social Services Assistant Debbie Picker - Volunteers Co-ordinator book-keeper and stenographer. With a Synagogue, visiting housebound and hos­ Katia Gould - Sheltered Accommodation wry smile, she recalled her days as a pitalised members and helping wherever young lady being chaperoned to dances there was a need. Richard Grunberger- Editor AJR Information and fancy dress balls, wearing long crino­ A true matriarch, Leonora derives enor­ line dresses and travelling in horse-drawn Ronald Channing - Publications and mous pleasure from her ever-growing PR Manager carriages. The outbreak of World War II family, members of which came from Andrea Goodmaker - brought this lifestyle to an abrupt end. Publications Australia and America to celebrate her Assistant 100th birthday together with all her car­ Gordon Greenfield - Accountant ers and friends at Heinrich Stahl House. Highlight of this very special day was the Day Centre: arrival of the Queen's Telegram which Sylvia Matus - Day Centre Organiser brought a smile and a tear to her face D Renee Lee - Assistant Organiser Joanne Fresco - General Assistant Joan Kupler - General Assistant Esther Blumstein - Care Assistant Susie Kaufman - Catering Manager South London's memories Jeff Heywood - Head Chef Ya'akov Azulay - Assistant Chef embers of South London AJR Adil Bouanani - Kitchen Assistant recounted their experiences to Mary Matovu - Kitchen Assistant M other members at a recent Janine Brockiner - Sunday Organiser meeting of the group. Joseph Pereira - Caretaker Ludwig Mayer talked about his late sister David Drey - Driver Clara who was a journalist with Reuter's news agency and South London News. Walter Woyda played compositions fea­ turing Joseph Schmidt and talked about AJR 'Drop in'Advice Centre the celebrated tenor's life. Mr H Perls at the spoke about his early training as a dental Paul Balint AJR Day Centre mechanic in South Africa which led even­ tually to his qualifying as a dentist in 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL England. between I Cam and 12 noon on the following dates: Leonora Hellman celebrates her 100th birthday at Among other equally fascinating contri­ Heinrich Stahl House, London. butions, Helen Aaronson described the Wednesday 3 July managerial position she had held at Thursday II July Leonora married her childhood friend Phillips in Nigeria, while Herbert Wolf re­ Tuesday 16 July Fred in 1920. He spoke fluent Spanish called the years he worked for Marks & Monday 22 July Wednesday 31 July and regularly visited both Mexico and Spencer. Everyone made their presenta­ Thursday 8 August Cuba before being enlisted into the army. tions with great good humour. and every Thursday from Mrs. Hellman recalled Germany's hyper­ 'The Music of Moscheles' luill be pre­ 1 Gam to 11 noon at: inflation, when what was sufficient sented by Henry Roche at the next house-keeping money at the beginning of meeting of SLAJR on Thursday 18th July AJR, I Hampstead Gate, la the week would buy only a loaf of bread at 2pm at South London Liberal Syna­ Frognal, London NW3 6AL at the end. However, with their two sons gogue, Streatham SW16. Please call Ken No appointment is necessary, but please bring Paul and Gerald, they came to enjoy care­ Ambrose on 0181 852 0262 for further along all relevant documents, such as Benefit free holidays in the Rosenau, Saxe information. Books, letters, bills, etc. Coburg and Schloss Banz. O Ruth Leggett AJR INFORMATION JUL/ 1996

Message from the Director PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE accompanied by John t the time I am writing this Field (Piano) little article, it is just over three Tel. 0171 328 0208 Wednesday 17 THE SUNSHINE weeks to the year's longest day SINGERS A Open Tuesday and Thursday 9.30am -6.30pm, and at 5pm it is dark enough to put on Monday and Wednesday 9.30am - 3.30pm, Thursday 18 FOUR STRINGS the lights, while outside it is grey, cold Sunday 2 pm - 6.30pm. EACH - Lucy White Wet and windy. (Violin) & Juliet Davey Perhaps by the time you read these Morning Activities - Bridge, kalookie, scrabble, (Piano) Words, we may have had a glorious sunny chess, etc., keep fit, discussion group, choir Sunday 21 DAY CENTRE OPEN June and are looking forward to a splen­ (Mondays), art class [Tuesdays and Thursdays). - NO did summer Perhaps or perhaps not. ENTERTAINMENT The world used to laugh at the English­ Afternoon entertainment - Monday 22 YOUTH MUSIC man's preoccupation with the weather, CENTRE ENSEMBLE but now weather forecasts have become JULY 1996 - Violin - Viola - •nternational, and people everywhere Cello & Piano Wonder if it's going to freeze or burn, Monday 1 JERUSALEM 3000 Tuesday 23 SONGS MY MOTHER and if one needs to put on a sweater or CELEBRATION TAUGHT ME - Sylvia take an umbrella. Whole industries de­ SONGS - Noa Hartman 8c Sergei pend on the weather. Recently I spoke to Lachman (Soprano) Bezkorvany (Violin) a restaurateur who said he had lost hun­ accompanied by accompanied by dreds of customers because of bad William Hancock Geoffrey Boywer Weather, while the gas companies' profits (Piano) (Piano) soar because of the unending winter. Tuesday 2 GLENDA JACKSON MP Wednesday24 GOLDEN GREATS OF Even more important is the effect of talks on 'Women in JEWISH MUSIC - Weather on people's attitudes to life. If it Parliament' Nina Gottesman 's fine and expected to stay that way, Wednesday 3 THE GEOFFREY (Guitar) pavements sprout tables and chairs in STRUM & HELEN Thursday 25 CLOSED- FAST rront of cafes, and there is a general air of BLAKE DUO OFAV cheerfulness around, while grey skies Thursday 4 SUMMER MUSIC &: Sunday 28 DAY CENTRE OPEN bring with them a grey approach to life. SONG - Sue Kennett - NO But before you rush to tell me, I know (Soprano) accompanied ENTERTAINMENT that too hot is just as depressing as too by Gordon Weaver Monday 29 LET ME SING FOR '^old. It's just that a blue sky is such an (Piano) YOUR SUPPER - uplifting sight. Sunday 7 CHILDREN FROM Douglas Poster Although science has not managed to THE LONDON Tuesday 30 MUSICAL '^ure or prevent countless illnesses, there is SUZUKI MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT by an impression that perhaps one day it SCHOOL - Directed Doris Samuel •^'ght do so, but masters of the universe by Jane O'Connor accompanied by Marian ^f not, nobody believes that the science of Monday 8 JUDI - BIMBI & Hartman (Piano) l^ankind will ever master the weather. It RUFUS MERRI- Wednesday 31 HERE IS MUSIC YOU 's beyond the reach of democracies or of FROWDE Entertain for WILL REMEMBER - "'ctators. This is just as well. One does the Summer - Anthony Hawgood •lot have to have a too pessimistic view of accompanied by June (Tenor) Arlene Coyle human nature to fear what might happen Moore (Piano) (Soprano) accompanied '' man ever learned to control the Tuesday 9 THE DULCET TONES by Geoffrey Whitworth Weather. One could imagine monopolies WednesdaylO THE BERKELEY TRIO (Piano) selling fine weather. If the polar ice caps Thursday 11 MY SONG OF LOVE Could be melted, millions of people would - Katina Seiner '^'e from flooding. On the other hand we accompanied by '^'ght produce a new ice age, from which Daphne Lewis (Piano) AUGUST too, there would be few survivors. with Guest Artist Laszio Thursday A PARTY On the whole, I think it is undoubtedly Easton (Violin) AFTERNOON - ''etter not to be able to control the Sunday 14 DAY CENTRE OPEN Dorothy Sayers (Piano leather. Surprisingly, there are not many - NO & Accordion) fegions in the world where it is perfect, so ENTERTAINMENT Sunday DAY CENTRE OPEN ^e might as well put up with the delicious Monday 15 OPERA OPS - - NO Uncertainty, because not many of us have Accompanied by ENTERTAINMENT the option of moving to these few areas of Margaret Gibbs (Piano) Monday THE GEOFFREY paradise. In any case, it gives us a subject Tuesday 16 OPERA YOU LOVE - STRUM & HELEN Or conversation. Have a nice day! Sara Meadows BLAKE DUO D Ernest David AJR INFORMATION JULy 1996

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Alice Schwab celebrated artists, can be seen at Annely the stage, as nothing short of miraculous; Juda Fine Art, at the re-scheduled time of her performance was described as of 'un­ 31 October 1996 to 18 January 1997. diminished fiery freshness'. This exhibition will be David Hockney's It would have been a 100th birthday. first show at a private gallery in London Austrian Radio told the life story of Hun­ since 1989. garian-born Attila Horbiger, stage and At Camden Arts Centre from 12 July to film actor who started his career in 8 December the next exhibition will be Prague where he met his future wife Paula t the National Portrait Gallery (1 New Contemporaries, the UK's most im­ Wessely. Of undisputed talent, he was August to 13 October) Literati: portant annual showcase for students and politically, alas, the opposite of his Photographs by Mark Gerson will recent graduates. From David Hockney to brother Paul, whose anti-Nazi activities A Damien Hirst, the exhibition has consist­ he on display. For over forty years Gerson earned him a prison sentence during the has been synonymous with photographs ently launched the careers of British war. Attila acted up to the age of 90, of writers. This exhibition charts the rich artists. dying in 1987. The three Wessely- diversity of his talent. Ben Uri Art Society exhibitions will in­ Horbiger daughters are all actresses; the clude one of over 60 works from their middle one, Christiane, a member of the collection to be shown at the University Zijrich Schauspielhaus, starred in the film Gallery, Leeds, from the 7 September to 1 comedy Tafelspitz (screened at the November 1996. It will include David London Goethe Institute last month) Bomberg's Ghetto Theatre, Samuel opposite Austria's favourite actor Otto Hirszenberg's The Sabbath Rest, and Schenk. Jacob Epstein's portrait bust of writer Birthday. Franco Corelli, the Italian Sholem Asch. Heldentenor, most prominent during the From 4 July to 9 August the Royal Wa- fifties and sixties, had his 75th birthday. tercolour Society is showing their summer Although he sang mainly at La Scala in open exhibition 1996, at the Bankside Milan, he made notable appearances at Gallery D the New York Met and sang Cavaradossi in Tosca at London's Covent Garden in 1957 0 SBs Column

he Volksoper, Vienna's second opera house, will start the autumn 'tarold Pinter, photograph by Mark Gerson, season with Gounod's Faust National Portrait Gallery T followed by Carmen and Zar und Also at the National Portrait Gallery Zimmermann. Then there will be weeks '»5 June - 15 September) there will be of Johann Strauss, Kalman and Lehar ^n exhibition Assembling the Family: works, interspersed by performances of Israel's Finest Wines Offenbach's La Perichole, Kiss me Kate ' holography and Family Portraiture, from the sponsored by Marks & Spencer. This ex- and My Fair Lady. "'bition will explore the history of early The Quadfliegs, father and son. Will Golan Heights family photography up to 1890, and con­ Quadflieg's reputation as a veteran Ger­ trast it with the work of contemporary man actor has been overtaken by his son Yarden, Golan & Gamla Christoph who is a television 'regular'. photographers. Write, phone or fax This year, father and son gave readings The Degas exhibition at the National for full information Gallery continues until 26 August. It will entitled 'Vdter und Sohne' in several °t shown later this year at the Art Insti- German cities reciting from the works of House of Hallgarten ^"te of Chicago. Schiller, Schnitzler and Thomas Mann. Dallow Road, Luton LUI 1UR The Eve Arnold In Retrospect and Almost re-born. Critics hailed the reap­ "*^rck Jarman, A Portrait exhibitions at pearance of 82-year old Hungarian Tel: 01582 22538 the Barbican Art Gallery continue until 8 all-round star Marika Rokk in a sing-and- Fax: 01582 23240 ^iJgust. These exhibitions will be fol- dance show, after years of absence from '^wed (12 September-15 December) by ^•"win Blumenfeld: A Fetish of Beauty. •^'umenfeld was an innovative fashion Annely Juda Fine Art BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 51 Belsize Square, London NW3 photographer and this chronological exhi­ ?3 Derina Street (off New Bond Street) bition shows some 250 photographs from Tel: 0171-629 7578 Fax: 0171-491 2139 Our communal hall is available for J^'umenfeld's life in Berlin, Amsterdam, CONTEMPORARY PAINTING cultural and social functions. •^^ris and New York. AND SCULPTURE Tel: 0171-794 3949 '^avid Hockney, one of Britain's most

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RESTITUTION NEWS AJR ANNUAL Rarely has there been such a pleasant and happy atmosphere. Intellectual it was Swiss banks GENERAL MEETING not, but enjoyable it was. Many people epeated intervention from Jewish complimented us on the innovation and circles to the Swiss Bankers' Sunday 9 June i 996 were impressed by the talent shown by Association finally introduced a the singers from the European Chamber R hanging the Annual General new system to facilitate the search for Opera. accounts of Holocaust victims. New Meeting to a Sunday clearly proved popular as more than a Once again the AJR owes a large debt guidelines have been issued and anyone C to the volunteers and staff who worked who wishes to claim should contact: hundred members attended, a significant increase on last year. so hard to ensure the concert was a suc­ Swiss Banking Ombudsman - cess, and we look forward to seeing Max Kochmann, speaking on his retire­ Mr Hanspeter Hani, another large audience enjoying the 49th ment as Chairman, said that although Post Office Box 8027 Zurich, concert on 14 September 1997. there had been many changes since he Switzerland. DED A claim form and data sheet for tracing joined the Management Committee in dormant accounts will then be forwarded, 1977, principal issues were still relevant as well as details of charges for the to-day - the relationship with the Otto search. Schiff Housing Association, pension prob­ Eli Wiesel's motivation lems and the search for new activities. n 1945, one of the first things that the In the coming years he anticipated that Property in Eastern Europe young camp survivor Eli Wiesel asked AJR would work even more closely with We have been advised that the United for on regaining his freedom were a pen Restitution Organisation, at 18 Otto Schiff, for example by seeking to I and paper to keep a diary; he has made provide services to people in their own Gruzenberg Street, 65811 Tel Aviv, Israel, an entry every day since. In London on a homes, and would try to encourage is ready to assist former Polish and Roma­ short visit for the publication of the first younger people to join. Mr Kochmann ex­ nian citizens, who previously owned real volume of his memoirs {All Rivers Run to pressed his gratitude for the support he estate, to submit their claims for the re­ the Sea, Harper Collins), Professor Wiesel had received from staff, volunteers and turn of their rights and property. spoke at a meeting, organised by Jewish the Management Committee. URO's telephone number is: Care, of his "adjustment to death" - 00 9723 517 5204 David Rothenberg, Hon. Treasurer, an­ where the act of living itself appeared and their fax number is: nounced that the AJR Charitable Trust abnormal. Immediately after the war he 00 9723 517 0655 had guaranteed a substantial proportion settled in France and in 1949 went to Basic conditions for Romanian claims: of Otto Schiff's planned expenditure for Israel as a French journalist and still 1. Romanian citizenship (passport) valid the refurbishing of Osmond House. writes his books in French. Officers and members of the Manage­ before 29 January 1996. "To live without a past is worse than to ment Committee were declared duly 2. The property claimed should still be in live without a future". Prof. Wiesel sug­ elected. Mr Andrew Kaufman, the new existence (i.e. not demolished). gested, yet he complained that mankind Chairman, thanked Max Kochmann and 3. Proof of ownership; and for heirs, was ill-equipped for the next century - presented him with a gift in appreciation certificate of inheritance. preferring space exploration to bringing of his long service to the AJR. Although The claims for Romanian compensation people closer to one another. While he, he regarded himself as representing the have to be submitted BEFORE 29 JULY the author of more than 30 books and a next generation, he would seek continuity 1996 at the district commissions or with Nobel prizewinner, admitted that writing allied with a need to respond to changing the Bucharest Municipality. was an agony which he would prefer to circumstances. avoid, he regarded the obligation to edu­ The proposed changes to Rule Five of Voyage of the St. Louis cate younger generations as his main the AJR's constitution were unanimously motivation. r-i nrj^ approved. The AJR now has confirmation that a A stimulating address was given by number of the survivors from that ill- George Clare who put forward the con­ fated passage will be present on Sunday troversial thesis that Germany had been 14th July at 4pm for the showing of the no more antisemitic or racist than any film The Voyage of the St. Louis at other country. (Excerpts to be published Harkness Hall, Birkbeck College, Malet in our next issue)D Street, London WCl. One of the most poignant scenes in the film shows children playing a game called 'passports' where two small boys guard 48th Annual AJR a gate on the ship and refuse entry to Self Aid Concert other children who have replied "yes" to the question "are you Jewish?" However, Not only did the concert of highlights you will be admitted to the film if you from poplar opera and operetta raise contact the Administrative Secretary of £6,500 towards the funds of Self Aid, the Wiener Library on 0171 636 7247 to whose expenditure is due to rise this year, reserve seats D but a good time was had by all.

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Kindertransport revival FORTHCOMING EVENTS - Theatre. JACS, 2pm JULY 1996 Tue 30 Monty Moss, Chairman of or the uninitiated, the opening the Covent Garden clothier scenes of Diane Samuel's play Mon 1 Liszt & the Faust Legend: Moss Bros, tells members F Kindertransport, revived at the John Elton MA(Oxon). about the famous Palace Theatre, Watford, offer a potted Club '43, 8pm company's history. history of the escape of some 9,000 Tue 2 Doris Samuels entertains JACS, 2pm children from the threat of Nazi with piano and song. Ongoing: Yiddish Theatre in London oppression prior to the outbreak of World JACS, 2pm until 10th November. war II. Leaving their parents behind to Tue 2 Newgate Prison to Botany Jewish Museum, Camden their fate, the children adapted and Bay, a talk by Cyril Town, Sun-Thurs, adopted new lives and identities in Silvertown. Jewish 10am-4pm, £3 England. Museum, Finchley, 8pm, £2 August Diane Samuel's play only comes to life Sun 7 Erich Korngold, Hollywood Sun Rabbi William Wolf: when the daughter of today's generation Composer: His Life & 'Present German Jewry', finds written in an old German story Works presented by Stanmore Community book that her mother's name was Eva musicologist Jessica Centre, Honey Pot Lane, and not Evelyn. Seeking to discover her Duchen. Sternberg Centre, 2.15pm, £2.50. Booking own origins, firstly she tackles her grand­ 8pm, £6.50 (£5 members) 0181 882 1638/452 9681 mother - played with northern matronly Sun 7 Ronald Senator, composer: aplomb by Jean Boht - who admits to Presents his book Requiem ORGANISATION CONTACTS adopting her daughter, and then Eva- Letters, Royal Overseas Club 1943, meets at Belsize Square Evelyn, played as a mature middle-class League, 7.30pm, £7.50. Synagogue. Hans Seelig sophisticate by Diane Quick. Evelyn de­ Booking, Spiro Institute 01442 254 360 nies any memory of the past until forced 0171 431 0345 JACS at Belsize Square Synagogue, into briefly admitting historical realities, Mon 8 Club '43 End of Season NW3 4HX. Tel: 0171 794 3949 before returning to her adopted persona. Party: Hans Freund Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, The child Eva-Evelyn is played with as­ entertains. 8pm London Wl. 0171 636 7247 sured switches between English and Tue 9 Alan Miller shows slides &c Sternberg Centre for Judaism, 80 East German accents as appropriate by Julia recalls holidays in Rome & End Road, Finchley, NW3 2SY. Malewski, making her first professional Lincoln. JACS, 2pm Tel: 0181 346 2288 stage appearance. The set, an all-purpose Sun 14 Yiddish Theatre: illustrated Jewish Museum, either Sternberg attic, takes us from 1938 Germany to talk by Ruth Schneider, Centre (as above) or at: contemporary F^ngland. daughter of dramatist & 129/131 Albert Street, Camden Town, Kindertransportee and AJR member actress Abish & Clara NWl 7NB. Tel: 0171 284 1997 Henry Goldsmith was pleased that the Meisels. Jewish Museum, University of Sussex Centre for message of Kindertransport was being Camden Town, £5 German-Jewish Studies. Diana taken to non-Jews. His own recollections Sun 14 Voyage of the St. Louis: Franklin 0181 455 4785 or of the loss of his family who were de- AJR/Wiener Library, 01273 678 495 Ported to Minsk brought emotions that Birkbeck College, WCl, Spiro Institute, Kidderpore Ave., time could not erase. 4pm, £5 London NW3 7SZ. Tel: 0171 431 0345 DRDC Tue 16 Rose Younger presents selections of poetry amd humour. JACS, 2pm AJR MEALS ON WHEELS Thur 18 Moscheles, the Jewish OPEN DAYS IN THE Variety of high quality kosher Composer: talk and piano frozen food available, ready made recital by Henry Roche. OTTO SCHIFF HOMES and delivered to your door via .South London AJR, 2pm. AJR Meals on Wheels service. Call Ken Ambrose on 0181 Osmond House Tea Party 852 0262 for venue 14 July at 3pm Service available to members Sun 21 Jon Silverman, BBC Home Entrance £3 in North and North West London. Affairs Correspondent: 3-course meals cost £4 each Journalist of the Year gives Balint House Cabaret plus £1 per delivery. an illustrated talk on by candle light Reporting War Crimes. Phone Susie Kaufman on Belsize Square Synagogue Spiro Institute, Kidderpore 4 August 0171 328 0208 Ave., NW3, 7.30pm, £10 for details and assessment interview. incl. refreshments. Heinrich Stahl House Booking 0171 431 0.345 Meals can also be collected from I September at 3pm 15 Cleve Road, Mondays-Thursdays. Tue 23 Ruth Schneider gives a fascinating history of Jewish Entrance £3

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the yolks, alternately with the ground Cooking with Gretel Beer walnuts. Tip mixture into the prepared Bring your friends baking tin and bake for about 35-45 min­ to an evening of utes - until the top feels slightly firm and Supp&c (£, Mu»ic the cake has shrunk slightly away from the sides of the tin. ^eandMiqfit Whilst the mixture is baking, put the wine into a thick saucepan, together with Sunday 4 August 96 the water, sugar, orange rind and the at 6.45 for 7pm spices. Heat gently until the sugar has dis­ Belsize Square Synagogue Hall solved, then bring to the boil. London NW3 Carefully remove the cake from the tin In aid of and allow it to cool a little on a rack, then Balint House Residents' Fund set it in a warmed deep dish. Slowly strain 'A most enjoyable evening' the hot wine mixture over the cake, al­ Tickets at £ 18.50 from: B'soffene Liesel lowing it to soak up as much as possible. Judith Unikower (Drunken Lizzie) Serve warm, cut into slices with the re­ 41 Sunbury Avenue NW7 3SL maining wine poured over it - with a and Miriam Cohn his was my contribution to the bowl of lightly whipped cream flavoured 3WillowWayN3 2PL Continental Cook-in at Osmond with rum if you want to be extravagant D THouse, a very light, moist pudding doused in mulled wine. You can use ground almonds - unskinned - instead Continental cook-in SPRING of the ground walnuts or even a mixture Continental cook-in at Osmond of walnuts (or almonds) and good House was a splendid occasion to GROVE breadcrumbs, but in that case be rather A disprove the old saying that 'too 214 Finchley Road generous with the rum. And if you like a many cooks spoil the broth.' Four expert London NW3 stronger taste, use the wine undiluted Continental cooks were invited by Tony London's Most Luxurious with water. I baked the pudding in a loaf Shepherd, Otto Schiff Housing RETIREMENT HOME tin which gave six generous portions (in Association's Chief Executive, to •* Entertainment-Activities fact I doubled the quantities and made demonstrate their favourite recipes to "*• Stress Free Living two puddings as we were catering for four of Otto Schiff homes' own head * 24 Hour Staffing twelve at the lunch), but a ring mould, chefs. * Excellent Cuisine savarin tin or a Guglhupf form would all Susie Kaufman, catering manager of the * Full En-Suite Facilities be equally suitable. Paul Balint AJR Day Centre, introduced Call for more information For the pudding: the session and AJR's head chef Jeff or a personal tour 3 eggs Heywood prepared the main course, 0181-446 2117 Huhn mit Jdgersauce. Dorii Neal, former 3 lightly heaped tablespoons caster or or 0171-794 4455 icing sugar head of home at Heinrich Stahl House, 3-4 lightly heaped tablespoons ground excelled at making the soup, including de­ walnuts licious nockerln as well as cauliflower 1 tablespoon rum with crispy fried breadcrumbs, and some HILARY'S AGENCY farfel to embellish the menu. It was left to Specialists in Long and Short-Term butter (or margarine) for the cake tin Live-in and Daily Care me to provide the pudding, B'soffene ground walnuts for the cake tin RESPITE AND EMERGENCY CARE 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar Liesl (Drunken Lizzie), which is my recipe CARE FOR THE ELDERLY for this month's AJR Information. HOUSEKEEPERS For the mulled wine: RECUPERATION CARE Considering that we were new to the MATERNITY NURSES 'A pint (1/41) red wine (medium dry) kitchen it all went off very well indeed. NANNIES AND MOTHERS' HELPS '4 pint (1/81) water Afterwards we 'ate our work' in the EMERGENCY MOTHERS Caring and Expenenced Personnel Available 2-3 tablespoons sugar beautifully-set dining room at Balint 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar We will be happy to discuss your requirements House where we were joined by Alan PLEASE PHONE 0181-559 1110 A little cinnamon rind Blacher, Chairman of Otto Schiff homes, 2-3 cloves Tony Shepherd and senior members of Pared or finely grated orange rind staff. Having passed this ultimate test, the Simon P. Rhodes M.Ch.S. Butter and flour (or dust with ground chefs planned to prepare the same menu STATE REGISTERED CHIROPODIST walnuts) a loaf tin or other suitable cake for their residents. They were also looking Surgeries at: tin. Pre-heat oven to Mark 4, 350''F, forward visiting the Cafe Royal at the 67 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (opp M&S) 180''C. Moisten ground walnuts with special invitation of head chef Herbert Telephone 0171-624 1576 rum. Separate eggyolks and whites. Berger and hoping to learn some of the se­ 3 Queens Close (off Green Lane) Whisk yolks with sugar and vanilla sugar crets of one of the world's great Edgware, Middx HAS 7PU until thick and almost white in colour. banqueting houses. Telephone 0181-905 3264 Whisk eggwhites until stiff and fold into D Gretel Beer Visiting chiropody service available

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Obituaries Zivillinge von Niirnberg (1946) Meine Freimde die Poeten (1959) - and eventu­ SELF ASSESSMENT? - NO PROBLEM! ally moved back to Europe. Here, UKTAX RETURNS? - NO PROBLEM! Hermann Kesten alternating between residences in Rome and Basle, he acted as a mentor to the MICHAEL H. SCOTT he death of Hermann Kesten snaps postwar generation of German authors D posterity's last link with Weimar & COMPANY Tliterature. Born into Nuremberg's Chartered Accountants Jewish middle class in 1900, Kesten made Walter Sharman his name while still quite young. His first alter Sharman, who has died Tel: 0181 907 9200 Fax: 0181 909 1503 novel Joseph sucht die Freiheit earned him aged 82, was born into an 132 Kenton Road, Harrow the prestigious Kleist Prize, in the same Wobservant family near Kassel Middx. HA3 8AL year as he became a director of the and received industrial training in knitting Kiepenheuer Verlag. Post-1933 he ran the technology. Coming to Britain in 1938, he Amsterdam-based emigre publishing found work on a Trading Estate near house AUert de Lange, sponsoring works Newcastle, in which town he settled per­ GERMAN BOOKS hke Klaus Mann's Mephisto, while manently. He married a fellow refugee, We are always buying: continuing his own writing career. Bool

1 The Riding, London NWll Opposite sides of a shared SEARCH NOTICES Teh 0181-458 0419 history Wesel. Searching for erstwhile Jewish citizens of Wesel, lower Rhine, for ix hundred people crowded into the research work. Contact: KH Schulte, Am lecture theatre of the Royal Lochtenberg 42, 41844 Wegberg, GERMAN and ENGLISH Geographical .Society at a conference S Germany. organised by the Second Generation BOOKS BOUGHT Trust. They listened to the son of Ludwig Bamberger. A Jewish banker Antiquarian, secondhand and modern survivors from Nazi concentration camps who worked in London for his uncle's books of quality always wanted and the son of a high ranking Gestapo firm Bischoffsheim & Goldschmidt in 19th Most subjects, but especially chief discuss how they had been brought century. Biographer would like to identify together in a group set up by Professor descendants, archives or publications ARCHITECTURE, ART PHOTOGRAPHY about those families. Please write to Bar'On in Israel. The BBC documentary MUSIC Benedikt Koehler, 9 St. Augustine's Children of the Third Reich was also EROTICA shown, followed by a question-and- Mansions, Bloomburg Street, London SWIV2RG. MOUNTAINS, LANDSCAPES, GARDENS answer session moderated by Lord Alf EASTERN EUROPE, ASIA. POLAR REGIONS Dubbs. 'Lizy' Hofbauer. Gertrud Hofbauer FEMINISM, ANARCHISM, ANTI-FASCISM The object of the meeting, a precursor (Mrs. Chinn) is seeking her sister Lizy, ECONOMICS & PHILOSOPHY to a major conference planned for Berlin born I July 1926 in Vienna. Last heard of SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE in 1997 and aimed at descendants of the in April 1941 c/o Frau Bloch, Vienna I Holocaust, was to learn from history as a Rotenturm Strasse 31. Our mother BIBLIOGRAPHY & FINE PRINTING step to a more positive future. Clarisse Hofbauer was Swiss from Zurich, MANUSCRIPTS & ORIGINAL DRAWINGS Many of the second and even third gen­ family name Lang. Father Adolf Hofbauer had a shop in Vienna I Vorlaufstrasse, Immediate response to your letter eration have been affected by the events or phone call. Tuchlauben. Family of 5 children lived in of the Holocaust. Some have not. It is our We pay good prices and come to collect duty to the victims of the Holocaust not Vienna II at Untere Augarten Strasse 36/ to forget them, nor the circumstances in 22 till March 1938, then various ad­ Please contact: ^hich they were murdered, but the need dresses in Vienna: 1940 - Porzellangasse Robert Hornung, MA (Oxon) 2 Mount View, Ealing, of present and future generations is to 49A, 1941 - Seegasse 3/3. Please ring or LondonW5 IPR build a climate of relationships in which write to Mrs G Chinn, 11 Guy Thorny- croft Court, Toll Gate Road, Ludlow, Telephone 0181-998 0546 events of this kind would be unimaginable. (5pm to 9pm is best) DED Shropshire SY8 ITL.Tel 0158 487 59120

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but officially paid with worthless German NEWSROUND One Man's War marks. Part 11 Now, suddenly, everybody was a Hitler worshipper builder, but nobody had any references. Swiss banker Francois Genoud commit­ Master builder What proof did you have that you built St ted suicide at the age of 81 in immitation ed Cross parcels were issued Paul's Cathedral? Meyer was not an edu­ of his hero, Adolph Hitler. A life-long occasionally. This helped a lot and cated man, but he was very shrewd. All supporter of National Socialism, Genoud R was the centre of much activity he asked for was a wooden board, some was suspected of protecting Nazi war and conversation. I constructed for myself sheets of paper, a pencil and ruler and criminals and controlling war treasure in a little stove from a discarded meat and some details. He then submitted three Swiss banks. He gave financial support vegetable tin into which fitted another plans, which also consisted of a quantity to the defence of Adolf Eichmann and slightly smaller one with a handle fixed. I surveyor's estimate. When the German Klaus Barbie and to anti-Israel Arab ter­ cut an opening into the front of the outer colonel saw what Meyer presented, his rorists. tin to house a small can from a lower jaw dropped. Regaining his compo­ CheesebiJrgerkrieg Shippam's paste container. Into this sure, he shouted, "I don't want to see Following Israel's recent elections, the container, I put a little beef dripping with anyone else", and after he found out that significant increase in the representation a little cloth as a wick, so I could brew Meyer spoke German (he spoke precious of religious parties in the Knesset has myself a cup of tea. The tea leaves were little else) he was over the moon and or­ encouraged Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem used a number of times, eventually dried dered beer for everybody. to call for the closure of the city's non- and rolled into a cigarette. The milk was Meyer selected a team of about a dozen kosher Macdonald's fast food restaurant. thick, sweetened, condensed. I often men, none of whom were solicitors or ac­ Candidate swapped a tin of meat for two tins of countants in civvy street, and they did an German-Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis has milk or jam; the sugar was more excellent job. decided to stand as a Liberal Democrat important to me and, quantity-wise, I was These twelve men were allowed to carry (FDP) candidate in next year's elections also better off. An Australian, who came six wicker baskets between them in and for Frankfurt city council. Frankfurt's to our block to play chess, noticed my out of the camp. Officially, these baskets Jewish community of 6,000 is the second little stove and asked me to make one for were destined for carrying firewood, but largest in Germany. him. He frequently smuggled lard from the Germans knew that an extra slice of the kitchens (where he had contacts), Newspaper Jubilee bread was not much of an enticement to which replaced the dripping as fuel. His do this hard work and that they had to The Berlin newspaper Jiidische All- name was Jack Ellis and we became great look the other way sometimes, as long as gemeine Wochenzeitung has marked its friends. it did not breach security or facilitate es­ 50th anniversary with a souvenir edition In our barrack was one soldier whom capes. which recalled war crimes trials, missing nobody could fail to notice because he person reports, compensation issues and This working party left the camp gates was abnormally short. Much shorter than the attitudes of Germans towards the every morning and was checked and King Hussein, more like Ronnie Corbett. Third Reich. counted several times and the same again At that time I had never spoken to him - on its return. One evening a Hauptmann Oxford chair he came from a different unit, the Royal Richter stood at the camp gates. He was The Oxford Chair of European Thought Engineers - but I knew he was from Vi­ from the Abtvehr or Intelligence. He is to be established with the support of an enna. His name was Franz Meyer, he had shouted, "Corporal Meyer, what are you anonymous donor. Dr. Gert-Rudolf Flick white hair and was about 45 years old. carrying in these baskets?" Everybody withdrew his funding following criticism One day our captors announced they knew Meyer by name. Meyer knew that from Holocaust survivors and other were looking for a master builder to erect the officer could order the baskets to be Jewish organisations which objected as a small house or guardroom just outside tipped over, but that didn't bother him at his grandfather Friedrich Flick had made the perimeter fence. Among others Meyer the moment. He worried about a crystal extensive use of slave labour to found the applied for the job; holder of an Austrian they finally got hold of for a radio set. family fortune. diploma of a master painter and deco­ Meyer was extremely quick witted, in fact Cesarani's return rator he was also an excellent carpenter he outwitted the German officer. He Prof. David Cesarani is to return as and builder. With the chance to go outside jumped to attention, saluted, and shouted, director to the Wiener Library from the the camp one automatically became an 'Teh melde gehormsamst (Beg to report) I Manchester University post he held for oisher (Yiddish for entrepeneur). One am smuggling four loaves of bread." Af­ the past year. He will also take up a new could take out chocolate (absolutely none ter a pause the officer replied, "Thank chair in twentieth-century European available in Germany) and smuggle any­ you for being so honest - lassen Sie Jewish history at Southampton University. thing in. One immediately became sich's gut schmecken!" New master persona grata to various committees (to be continued) D H PWeiner Lord Woolf has been appointed Master of inside the camp. The radio operators the Rolls, the second highest judicial needed parts for their illicit sets, the office in England. Lord Woolf has earned escape committee had lists of things they AJR required and were prepared to pay for. a formidable reputation not least from his 1 HAMPSTEAD GATE One could look for civilians prepared to chairmanship of inquiries and government 1A FROGNAL, LONDON NWS part with musical instruments for the reviews of judicial practice. Tel: 0171-431 6161 DRDC camp orchestra, bribed with chocolate.

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