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Spirit of delight y fortunate coincidence this issue 'hits the costly war for another four years. Eric Rees p3 streets' on the day of the General Election. Even in a facetious mood Clark comes across as a Annual Report BThis means that we can make certain tricky customer. He has named his two Rottweiler comments of a political nature without laying bitches after Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favourite film p8 ourselves open to the charge of trying (in a miniscule director, and Hannah Reich, the intrepid woman pi­ way) to influence the election result. lot who flew Goering out of encircled Berlin. Let us start with a riposte to the one or two read­ Attaching the name of a person to a pet dog could ers who have criticised AJR Information for normally be seen as derogatory to the person, but it Unlimited exceeding its remit as the journal of a refugees' wel­ doesn't necessarily signify any belittling intent here bigotry fare organisation and meddling in politics. We because Alan Clark is known to esteem animals consider everything that affects the lives of our read­ above humans. s could be ers - which certainly includes the choice of In addition, he espouses totally amoral isolation­ inferred government - a legitimate topic for comment and ism in foreign affairs. When in Bosnia massacres from our debate. With most of us having been UK residents troubled consciences in the West, he persistently Aitem on the Crimes for close on sixty years we can surely divest our­ urged non-involvement on the grounds that no vital of the Wehrmacht selves of the refugee mentality (for all that the term British interests were at stake. exhibition in the remains enshrined in the Association's official Qa va sans dire that he's also strongly anti-Euro­ March issue, name). We are, or have been, involved in various as­ pean. However, the Editor doesn't want to reopen a sections of pects of British life to a degree that would make our barely sealed can of worms by linking anti- Bavaria's governing distancing from the political process a very lopsided Europeanism to xenophobia. And, apropos of Christian Social gesture. This doesn't give the journal the licence to xenophobia, let us, as we walk to our polling sta­ Union need to be peddle party-political nostrums, but it makes it al­ tions today, give profound thanks for one fact: for dragged kicking and most a civic duty to air the great issues of the day - all the sound and fury stirred up by the above men­ screaming into the such as Europe - in our columns. tioned political small fry, none of the heavy-weight democratic postwar Even if we must eschew party politics we need not contenders in the election battle bears any resem­ world. be mealy-mouthed about naming names of certain blance to Le Pen, Haider or General Lebed D Now the CSU's individuals who use the cachet of membership of Wolfgang Zeitlmann Parliament to affront our deepest sensibilities. One has called for limits such is Cyril Townsend, MP. He is proud to have ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING to be placed on been among the minority of the Commons who Jewish immigration voted against the War Crimes Bill. Not only that - will be held on from Russia. in Townsend's view the passage of the measure into SUNDAY 8th JUNE 1997 at 3pm Consider: present- law resulted from pressure exerted by an overly day Germany's powerful, and well-funded, American-Israeli lobby. AGENDA:- estimated 60,000 Similarly odious anti-Israel sentiments verging on Annual Report 1996 Hon.Treasurer's Report Jewish inhabitants the downright antisemitic have been expressed by Discussion amount to a tenth(!) Tony Marlowe (Con) and George Galloway (Lab). A Election of Committee of Management of thepre-1933 better known - and more ambiguous - figure is Guest speaker: Stephen Smith, Director of total. It reminds one the once-and-future MP Alan Clark, military histo­ of the Augsburg- rian, indiscreet diarist and former Minister. Clark Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial Centre born poet Bertolt used his not inconsiderable celebrity status to propa­ "FORGOTTEN PLACES:THE HOLOCAUST Brecht's post-1945 gate a revisionist view of British history - i.e. that - ITS MEMORT AND ITS MEANING" warning "The bitch Churchill should have made peace with Hitler after All questions for the Chair should be submitted to the is still on heat" D the fall of France instead of dragging on a ruinously Direaor at: I a Frognal, London NW3 SAL by I June 1997 lai P

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teered for the British Army. Profile Damned - not published Today he looks back on his five years in HM Forces - where he was speedily pro­ symposium on 'The Perils of A life of light and shade moted to the rank of sergeant in the Publishing' (Jewish Book Week) Pioneer Corps, and subsequently took A did little to raise the hopes of hough just turned ninety, Eric part in the Battle of Caen - as the happi­ putative authors in the audience. Frank Walters has astonishing powers of est time of his life. Cass of Valentine Mitchell said Jewish Trecall. He vividly remembers his publishing in the UK generally was factory-owner grandfather who headed uneconomic, in contrast to the situation the Jewish community of a small in France and the USA. There were, Moravian town. During the Great War however, some chinks of light: hitherto this grandfather found shelter for several concealed archives were being opened and hundred out of the many thousand yielding new material; also histories and Galician Jews fleeing the advance of the survivors' accounts of the Holocaust Russian army. were being bought by non-Jewish schools Already martially-inclined at nine, Eric and students. took charge of the children of the new­ Connie Webber, of the (non-commer­ comers and drilled them in marching and cial) Littman Library, said they only counter-marching along lines he had seen considered work of high scholastic stand­ soldiers of the local garrison perform. As ard for publication and asked authors to the grandson of the boys' benefactor he have a clear idea what they required from met with unquestioning obedience when a publisher, including whether or not they issuing orders like 'Habt acht! and valued a specifically 'Jewish' one. 'Kehrt Euch! - but his 'Kniet nieder Literary publisher Peter Halban recalled zum Gebetr (Kneel down to pray) that he had returned from living in Israel prompted instant mutiny in the side- in 1989 to establish his own company. In locked ranks. his opinion biography remained extremely The grandfather had also instituted a popular. cheder for these youngsters which Eric Chaim Bermant admitted that of the 30 loved to attend. However, when his par­ books he had written, only four had ents in Vienna heard about it they forbade proved 'best sellers'. He advised would- any further attendance (which Eric be authors not to let "good grammar get Walters regrets to this day). Not that the in the way of good writing". In the USA, parents were irreligious, but as members of a Reform congregation they had no he said, they did not all read, but they all Eric Walters, a self portrait. needed books! time for Orthodoxy. Prof. David Cesarani felt that academic Eric's father ran a factory producing Postwar he briefly returned to Vienna to works needed to be "well-written, read­ ribbons and cord. On matriculating Eric reclaim his murdered parents' factory able and interesting" so as to compete in went to a trade school prior to joining the and house. Repossession of the premises the market place. Fortunately, since the family firm. He recalls his father as a hard was relatively easy. However, reclaiming 1980s, a large general market for schol­ taskmaster, whom he gradually won over the looted machinery involved litigation arly works had emerged. The offer of by making inventions (such as an easy as well as exposure to blood-curdling in­ good advances with more aggressive mar­ method for inserting wicks into cigarette sults. (One profiteer from the keting was an example Jewish publishers lighters). The firm, and Eric's career aryanisation of Jewish property called should follow. within it, prospered till the Anschluss of him a Gaskammern Deserteur). March 1938. A month later a Gestapo D Ronald Channing Back in postwar Britain Eric started off man knocked at the door and told Eric to as a blouse salesman but soon switched come with him. When Eric asked what over to the manufacture of blouses and luggage he should take along the other skirts. He married a fellow refugee who, [til JACKMAN • joked 'Pack a toothbrush'. This was the however, suffered from ill-health and start of a journey to the inferno of could not help him in running the busi­ mff SILVERMAN Dachau concentration camp, whence he ness. His firm, nonetheless, expanded, COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS was transferred to Buchenwald - an even and at its peak acted as supplier to both worse hell - in October. British Airways and the Girl Guides' As­ In March 1939 he arrived in the UK sociation. Today Eric is - astonishingly and obtained employment at a bakery in - still in harness, though the scale of the Manchester. He baked at night, slept firm's operations has somewhat dimin­ mornings and devoted his afternoons to ished. Social life - such as it is - writing down every detail of his incar­ revolves around B'nai Brith and the 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA ceration in the camps. When war broke AJR; drawing is a favourite leisure time Telephone: 0171 409 0771 Fax: 0171 493 8017 out he got a job with a firm producing activity. cords for parachutes, but presently volun­ ORG I

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Spirit of delight an anyone name a soprano who made her stage debut at the age C of ten? After a 74-year career of public singing can still captivate audiences? Was an operetta star at the age of 15? Was a favourite of the operetta composers Lehar and Kalman? Sang the •"ole of The Merry Widow more than 2000 times? Made 42 films in six countries and four languages? Her name? Marta Eggerth, one-time star of operettas and films, widow and Two opera liings and one queen: left to right, Fram Lehar, Marta Eggerth and Emmerich Kalman. former stage-and-screen partner of tenor She and Kiepura first came together in I The show broke all records by running Jan Kiepura. Better known in Europe, she the German film Mein Herz ruft nach dir from 1943 to 1946. After the Broadway became familiar to prewar British cinema- (music by Robert Stolz) in 1934. Their run they performed the work in Chicago: goers through the English versions of four relationship got off to a curiously uncer­ not only in English but also in German of her continental films: the Schubert-in­ tain start, but it soon became apparent and Polish. Some time later they sang it in spired Unfinished Symphony, the comedy that they were in love - and matters French in Paris, then in Italian in Trieste. where is this lady?, with score by Lehar, were precipitated by Jan's declaration All in all they performed the work to­ The Divine Spark (based on the life of that Marta alone was worthy to interpret gether over 2000 times. Bellini) and the first of her Kiepura films, Puccini, reinforced by a magnificent After the war they sang in a variety of '^y heart is calling. Marta was born in presentation copy of the score of La operettas in America and Europe, with Budapest in 1912, the daughter of the Boheme. They married in Katowice in enormous success. Among them were Jewish coloratura soprano Tilly Herzog. 1936: their partnership continued right Kalman's Csardasfiirstin, and Lehar's f'Jature and heredity conspired to create up to Jan's death in 1966. Not for noth­ Paganini and Der Zarewitsch. These ac­ "1 her a precocious talent. At ten she ing did the media dub them Das tivities won for the remarkable couple a "lade her professional stage debut at the Liebespaar. new generation of young fans. They also f^agyar Szinhaz Theatre, Budapest, in the But clouds loomed. Jan's and Marta's filmed Lehar's Land of Smiles in German "Important child's part in the French mu­ German film careers came to an end in and French. Their remarkable artistic sical Mannequin. 1936 because of their Jewish antecedents. partnership was brought to an end only In 1923 the eleven-year-old prodigy ap­ A transfer to Vienna, where in 1937 they when Jan was struck down by a fatal peared as soloist with the Budapest made Zauber der Boheme, was swiftly heart attack in 1966. He was only 64. 1 hilharmonic Orchestra. She also played overtaken by the onward march of Nazi The blow left Marta stunned and deso­ 3 child part in a musical by Paul aggression. They emigrated across the At­ late. For a considerable time she simply Abraham, who wrote a special coloratura lantic, took US citizenship and gave a lot hadn't the heart to sing. More than 30 f la for her. Marta, already a perfection- of time and effort to raising money for years later she is till devoted to the 'st, further nurtured her art by taking Poland. For Marta Eggerth a new experi­ memory of her 'beloved Jan': but her 'essons from Erszi Gervay, a fine opera ence was in store. In Chicago and other lively intelligence, her creative spirit and S'nger. At 17 she was chosen by the com­ cities in North and South America she ap­ her native artistry ultimately prevailed poser Emmerich Kalman to create the peared with her husband in opera - as and in due course she re-appeared on the 'eading role in Das Veilchen von Mont- Mimi and Manon. Her acting and singing American stage. She has given many suc­ ^aitre, which did much to make her the in these roles had immense charm, for her cessful concerts in Europe, often televised. "arling of Budapest, Vienna, Hamburg fresh, delicately-textured voice lent Even now, on the verge of 85, she remains ^nd Berlin. Among other composers who unforced pathos to her impersonations. In immensely active. In New York, she regu­ ^rote works especially for her were their scenes together, Jan thoughtfully larly gives master-classes, eager to '-ehar, Oscar Straus, Kreisler and Robert moderated his more robust tones to ac­ encourage young talent. In 1991 she sang ^tolz. Her film career began in Berlin in commodate hers. In the States Marta at the Richard Tauber centenary concert J.931; by 1937 she had starred in 25 began to rebuild her interrupted film ca­ in Carnegie Hall - and was accorded a uins. Even without her exquisite singing reer with two enthusiastically acclaimed standing ovation. Not long afterwards she *he might have been predestined to cin- performances in Judy Garland films. received an invitation to appear at the ^niatic fame. Slim, petite, dark-eyed, there Meanwhile, Jan had become a leading 200th anniversary celebrations of the l^as nothing synthetic about her good light of New York's Metropolitan Opera. Theater an der Wien. In 1994 the Aus­ 'ooks. With her gift of being natural and But they did not relish pursuing their ca­ trian Minister of Culture conferred upon ^'axed before the camera, she made reers separately. This problem was solved her his country's Cross of Honour First J^reen versions of famous operettas: in 1943, when they were engaged to­ Class for Science and Art. r^alman's CsardasfUrstin and Lehar's gether for a Broadway run of Lehar's Whenever I think of Marta's singing, I ^^ Zarewitsch among them. Famous The Merry Widow. The omens were pro­ remember the words Elgar quoted on the ^nors who appeared in her films included pitious. At the podium was none other score of his second symphony: "Rarely, Marcel Wittrisch and the legendary Leo than Robert Stolz, who had conducted the rarely comest thow, spirit of delight...." S'ezak. operetta's premiere in Vienna in 1905. D Eric Rees AJR INFORMATION MAY /997

Christian atmosphere. Life though, was far Reviews from idyllic: the sister fell fatally ill with a brain tumour, and Susi became the object PARTNER of her adopted father's sexual attentions. in long established English Solicitors She somehow survived these traumas, (bi-lingual German) would be happy Strangest story ever trained as a nurse, got married and had a to assist clients with English, German Jeremy Joseph with Susi Bechhbfer, son. Years later her dormant curiosity and Austrian problems. Contact ROSA'S CHILD. IBTauris,LondontNewrork 1997 about the past was activated by Bertha Henry Ebner t's an old cliche that inside every Leverton's talk about the work of ROK person there is the potential for one (Reunion of Kindertransporte) on the Myers Ebner & Deaner I book: the story of his (or her) own life. BBC's Womans Hour. She contacted 103 Shepherds Bush Road This certainly holds good of Kinder­ Bertha, guided by whom she began a London W6 7LP transportees whose lives developed so painstaking - and painful - journey of Telephone 0171 602 4631 differently from the way they had started exploration into her origins. Ultimately she off. But even the drama of those disrupted found out that the twins had been born in ALLLEGALWORK young lives pales by comparison with Susi Munich as the result of a - doubly-illicit UNDERTAKEN Bechhofer's story. Her biography has a - liaison between a Jewish domestic and a bizarre strangeness which would - if German Wehrmacht soldier. (An additional fictionalised - surely make it a by-product of this hybrid origin was Susi's 'blockbuster'. discovery of a half-sister in East Germany Susi was only three when she and her and Orthodox Jewish cousins in New NEWTONS twin sister came to England from Germany York). where their (unmarried) mother subse­ Rosa's Child'is unputdownable. It chron­ Leading Hampstead Solicitors quently perished in the Shoah. Over here icles what must be the most amazing fate 22 Fitzjohns Avenue, the girls were adopted by a Baptist minis­ of any among the stories of ten thousand London NWS 5NB ter and his childless wife. Susi became Kinder who came over here in 1938/39. "k All legal work undertaken Grace and grew up in an all-encompassing DRG - Specialising in Wills and Estates ten self-critical and self-mocking, but al­ * German spoken Anatevka revisited ways self-respecting, is seen as a kind of ir Home visits arranged 'inward investment' for both cultural Desanka Schwara, HUMOR UNDTOLERANZ- 'k Associated offices in Hamburg, and physical survival. In this context the Los Angeles,Tel Aviv, Sydney, OstjiJdische Anekdoten als historische Quelle book examines the inter-relationship be­ Zurich 1996. DMSa. Monica RiJthers.TEWJES tween humour and toleration, the latter TOCHTER 1996. DM58. Bbhiau Verlag. Cologne, Tel: 0171 435 5351 being defined as positive acceptance of - Fax: 0171 435 8881 Weimar,Vienna. not indifference to - 'the other'. The hen, nearly four decades ago. 'other' here includes opposites (for in­ stance, rich and poor) and differences (as Fiddler on the Roof achieved between Jews and Christians). Wphenomenal success on stage and screen, it opened Western eyes to the No less intriguing an insight into the AUSTRIAN and GERMAN pattern of East European Jewish existence rich reservoir of shtetl culture. PENSIONS This world of East European Jewry has in the last century is to be found in of late been the subject of intense academic Monica Riithers' study regarding Jewish women. The far-reaching changes then research carried out at the University of PROPERTY RESTITUTION Basle. The work involved was by no means occurring in Imperial Russia affected easy, since much of the essential source them most unfavourably. Reduced to even CLAIMS material has disappeared. That the well- greater poverty, increasing numbers of EAST GERMANY- BERLIN filled basket of Yiddish jokes and Jews turned towards emigration, Zionism, anecdotes can act as a 'surrogate' re­ intensified preoccupation with religion or, On instructions our office will source for serious historical research may conversely, abandonment of traditional assist to deal with your come as something of a surprise. values. A feminine rebellion against estab­ applications and pursue the lished inequalities is convincingly However, this book uses, as its sub-title matter with the authorities. interpreted on the basis of the researched suggests, Jewish humour to draw conclu­ material in the context of childhood, up­ For further information and sions as to the behaviour patterns, bringing, education and marriage. The thought processes and attitudes typical of appointment please means these women adopted in their a time, a place and a people. contact: quest for release from uncompromising Clearly, the ability to cope with a ICS CLAIMS masculine superiority ranged from social largely hostile environment was an impor­ work to recourse to psychoanalysis by 146-154 Kilburn High Road tant precondition for existence in a visits to 'the doctors' in Vienna. London NW6 4JD self-contained entity, and humour served as a 'lightning conductor' to achieve the Both titles are thought-provoking texts Tel: 0171-328 7251 (Ext. 107) appropriate state of mind. of equal interest to the specialist and the Fax:0171-624 5002 In a sense, therefore, Jewish humour, of- lay reader. ^ ^^^-^ yvia/er AJR INFORMATION MAY 1997

deal with them and probably execute Failure of a mission them. But the same Italians also wanted Part 2 to take out a reinsurance policy with the riestley just had time to set off the soon-to-be-victorious Allies, and in any ignition and managed to destroy case were not the types to commit un­ Enjoy Pthat incriminating evidence before necessary atrocities. * Excellent food he was taken prisoner. Ziba landed near How did the story end? Nothing is '¥ Stimulating talk tne base of the valley, which lead from known about the later fate of Huetz. * Enlivening discussion Tolmezzo north towards the Ploecken Priestley never recovered his precarious 4" Meeting new friends mental equilibrium. After two disastrous pass into Austria. He tried his best to get at the away from the numerous German and marriages, he committed suicide. His son A;R LUNCHEON CLUB Cossack search parties, which scoured the survived him, but he could not be traced. area during a coincidental anti-partisan Ziba, on the other hand, contracted a onWednesday 2lst May 1997 drive. He managed to stay free for two very successful marriage and did equally at 15 Cleve Road, NW6 3RL nights and one day, but on the second day well in his career as a merchant in the in­ 11.45 for 12.15pm after his drop, he slipped and slid down a ternational metal trade. Long before his Guest speaker: Ernest Kaye mountainside, ending at the feet of some retirement, he had become Mr Tungsten, What else did they write? surprised Cossacks. They wanted to shoot adding yet another alias to all his previ­ composers famous for one work him at once, but he was saved by the ous ones Reservations (£7) approach of a countermanding German DAW Freud JS officer. This interference was against from Sylvia, Ren6e and Susie Hitler's 'Commando Order' decreeing Tel: 0171 328 0208 that all enemy saboteurs be shot on the Next guest spot, after the briefest interrogation. For SEARCH NOTICES Joanne Kessler - 18th June instance, the two British SOE glider Alfred & Edmund Philipp. Do you parties, who had set out to destroy the remember a shop in Rotenturmstrasse, Norwegian Heavy Water plant in Vienna, called Freudental und Bachwitz, or November 1942, and who had crash- a shop in Graben,Vienna, called Teltscher landed, were shot at once. But Ziba and und Philipp? If so you may recall the 1 tiestley were taken first to Tolmezzo, names of my great uncles Alfred & then to Udine and finally to Trieste, Edmund Philipp and I would very much where they endured three months' like to hear from you. Please contact solitary confinement in a Gestapo-run Peter Simpson (Schweitzer), Nutwood prison. House, Barrow Point Lane, Pinner, Middx. BELSIZE SQUARE It is not known how Priestley spent his HAS 3DRTel: 0181 868 0025 (please SYNAGOGUE time, alone in his cold cell. But Ziba reverse charge if out of London). stayed alert, and physically and mentally 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 ht. He did regular P.T. in his cell, and pre­ Heinz Schapira, pupil of the pared a prisoner's encyclopaedia. He Realgymnasium on the Stubenbastei in We offer a traditional style of scribbled everything he remembered on to Vienna until 1938, is requested to get in religious service with Cantor, the white-washed walls of his prison cell. touch with his fellow pupil George Weys, Choir and organ (^or instance the names of the then 48 79 Rowlands Avenue, Pinner, Middlesex states of the USA and the names of all the HAS 4BX.Tel: 0181 428 2802. Further details can be obtained flowers, rivers and Allied generals he from our synagogue secretary could recall.) It kept him busy and sane. Frankel/Fraenkel Family, originating from the village of Urspringen, Lower In January 1945, they were handed Frankonia, Bavaria from 1710. Martin Telephone 0171-794 3949 Over to the German army and transferred Frankel wishes to trace any member to a POW camp near Vienna (Stalag 17A) Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner (born in Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, "^i still kept isolated in a separate cell, Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine Hoxter or Hannover) or descendant of 'he daily threat of execution, which had the family Please write to Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, tormented Priestley in particular, had now Saturday mornings at 10 am 'essened; there were now too many wit­ Moshav Tirat Yehuda 30, Israel, 73175. Religion schiool: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm nesses. After a further transfer to Oflag Phone: ++972 3 971 12379. Fax: ++972 3 Space donated by Pafra Limited '"i they were liberated by the advancing 935 8932. Americans, just six months after being captured, on the 12th April 1945. Viktor Jabkowski/Japkowsky, who lived It is likely that Ziba and Priestley in Berlin, Germany Ingrid Numa wishes to BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE ^voided execution due to a legal wrangle trace his descendants. Was last heard of 51 Belsize Square, London N.W.3 oetween the Germans and their Italian al- practising as a solicitor in Los Angeles (or Our communal hall is available for '^s. Having been captured on what was San Francisco), had a son believed to be cultural and social functions. •Nominally their territory, the Italians called Michael. Please call 0171 254 1606. Tel: 0171-794 3949 'Claimed them for themselves; they would

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young recruits into the arms of the ex­ treme right. Old Coulsdon G Schmerling U^^^to^Se^i^ Surrey JEWS IN A (FIELD) GREY AREA Sir - I was surprised at the venom you SWISS GOLD COMPENSATION expressed against me, among many others, when you likened our Germanness Sir - During the winter of 1939 German Sir - My Jewish mother, who was shot to the collaboration of certain Mischlinge by the Nazis in December 1941, gave my Jews had to hand in all of their gold and who joined Hitler's killing machine. I am German father money to invest in a silver valuables at an official afraid that your Jewishness this time business which he ran from 1933 'purchasing' depot (offentliche overcame your usual great liberality. onwards. This was taken over in part by Ankaufstelle). The same happened all Romilly Street Peter Zander over occupied Europe. One was only the East German Government and then, London WI allowed to keep wedding rings. Rings on my father's retirement, was totally were removed on arrival at a camp, gold state run. teeth were removed from the murdered. Has anyone experience of trying to FROM DEICIDE TO The Germans took these valuables and claim compensation in a similar situation.' RECONCILIATION the Swiss deposited them in German Solihull Eva Larimer Sir - I have never understood why the accounts in their melted down form W. Midlands Jews have been held to 'blame' for the knowing their source either at the time or crucifixion of Jesus. It was, according to once the fate of Jews became public WHY WASN'T AUSCHWITZ the New Testament, Pontius Pilate, the knowledge. BOMBED? Roman (pagan) governor, who It would improve the standing of both condemned Christ to death and the Sir - On 21 October 1941 the Jewish countries if the two cooperated once Roman soldiers who carried out the Chronicle reported that Jews were being again in coming clean in the matter of sentence. gassed in lorries. In June 1942, the Polish how much was plundered for the loot to After all these centuries, and with the Government in Exile reported that since approach of the millennium, surely it is be returned to the diminishing band of September 1939 more than 700,000 time for Christians and Jews to acknowl­ survivors. Polish Jews had been murdered. In edge the fact that the founder of the Ipswich Frank Bright October 1942 the Polish representative Christian religion was a Jew, as an impor­ Suffolk gave detailed information to the Vatican tant step towards reconciliation. about the gassing of Jews. Barnwood Eugenie Summerfield In October 1944 a prison in Amiens SWISS GUILT? Glos Sir - I happened to be in Switzerland on was precision bombed and as a result 150 March 5th when President Arnold Koller French Resistance fighters managed to es­ cape. In April 1944 the installations of gave a televised address on the subject of STONES PRESERVED Auschwitz were photographed from the the country's history from the 1930s Sir - Visiting Worms Synagogue a few air and much detail was visible; a few until now. years ago (front page picture, December days later US planes bombed the indus­ I was deeply impressed by the sincerity issue) I was told that when the building trial complex around Auschwitz, of the speaker and by the way he dealt was virtually destroyed in 1938 many including IG Farben. with his subject; no evasions, no denials, stones were carted away and stored for Macclesfield Marianne Walter no cant. Talking about collective responsi­ safe keeping in the nearby cathedral. Cheshire bility he said "Guilt is always a personal When the synagogue was rebuilt after the matter." I believe this statement strikes a war these were incorporated in the new building. cord with us Jewish survivors of the Nazi STRIPPING THE WHITEWASH years. Heaton Park Drive Rudi Leavor FROM THE WEHRMACHT Bradford The President and most Swiss are sin­ Sir - The Wehrmacht lost its political cere in wishing to clear the tarnished independence at the end of 1941 when image of their country. Their Bergier com­ Hitler removed General Brauchitsch, the GOLAN WINES mission has been given access to all Commander-in-Chief, and assumed Sir - 1 have already advised Georg available documents and will publish their supreme command himself. Abendstern that all wines from the Golan findings this year. In the meantime, let us Its present-day successor is the guaran­ Heights winery are labelled strictly acknowledge the Swiss contribution to the tor of Germany's internal stability; as according to the current EU wine Holocaust Fund and their proposed Foun­ with all other German institutions, a line labelling regulations absolutely correctly dation for Solidarity, in which they intend was drawn under the past some 50 years as 'Produce of Israel', as it is the Israel to invest seven billion Swiss francs. ago and it is totally undesirable to alien­ authorities who are responsible for the Llanidloes HK Meyer ate today's army (recruitment has export documentation. Powys already fallen as a result of the exhibition) / 4 Antrim Grove Peter Hallgarten Wales by raking up its Nazi past and driving London NW3 AjR INFORMATION MAY 1997

FRANCE'S FLICKERING Sir - "Born and bred in England," said SCREEN George III, "I glory in the name of Election of Committee Sir - May I add the name Sacha Guitry Briton." Mutatis mutandis, I might say of Management to your interesting synopsis (January just the same: my parents, like George's, issue). were from Germany. When they died, I The following members will be proposed kept up my subscription to AJR During the occupation he collaborated for election or re-election to Information. What a good read the with the Vichy regime in making films, the Committee at magazine is! What an interesting range of hut not politically. He negotiated with the the AGM on Sunday 8 June 1997 correspondents you have. Germans to get French actors released *Mr A.C. Kaufman, Chairman You assume that you have an intelligent from POW camps. He helped a number of *Mr WD. Rothenberg.Vice-Chairman Jews, including Tristan Bernard and readership and treat it accordingly. Well & Treasurer Colette's husband. After the war he was done! *Mrs E.S.Angel, Secretary arrested, but eventually cleared of all Waveney Road Stephen Meyer Mr R Dannenberg,Trustee charges. Leeds Mr C.W. Dunston,Trustee 0«ed AW Freud Mr M.Durst,Trustee Surrey ^ • NOWT BEYOND OUR KEN Mrs J Field Mrs G.R. Glassman Sir - Having known Kenneth Ambrose Mrs J. Kessler for over 60 years, I was disappointed by Mrs S. Landau A PAEAN TO POSENERS his profile (April issue). Ken has done Mr H.E. Levy Sir - May I add another name to Rabbi more than most of us for the AJR and William Wolff's list of distinguished his profile does not do him justice. •"Committee members retiring ' rovinz Posen families (March issue) Already when serving with the RAF on by rotation and being proposed namely, that of the Birnbaum family of the continent, he sent reports about for re-election. 'ietz whose members included the Jewish DP camps to the AJR c/o Dr Anyone wishing to propose any other founders of the department stores Rosenstock. Over the years he wrote member for election as Hon. Officer, Hermann Tietz (Hertie) and Kaufhof, as various articles for AJR Information and Trustee, or Committee member must Well as of Gebriider Tietz, a wholesale did proof-reading for the paper. His submit to the Director,AJR, such a naberdashery firm founded in 1813, subsequent voluntary activities included proposal signed by ten members which transferred its seat to Berlin in the acting as secretary to the trustees of the qualified to vote at the meeting and with J 860s. One of the scions of the Gebriider Marchioness disaster. the signed agreement of the person f^ietz branch was my uncle Ludwig Tietz, His (privately printed) The Suitcase in being proposed founder of the Deutsch-Jiidische the Garage differs from many other fam­ no later than Friday 16 May 1997 J'*gendgemeinschaft and the ily histories in that it has numerous '^('ichsausschuss der jiidischen photos going back to the mid 1800s, be­ htgendverbdnde, as well as mentor of the sides documents from the Nazi period. first editor of AJR Information, Werner Copies have been acquired by Sir Martin 5 YEARS AND STILL NO ^osenstock. Gilbert, the Imperial War Museum and PROGRESS ON YOUR Church Road RichardTait Sussex University, where Ken recently PROPERTY CLAIM ^chmond, Surrey gave a talk. Southwood Lawn Road Eva Trent IN BERLIN & EAST London N6 GERMANY? CORRECTION We are specialists in speeding up cases. S'r - I am not the co-inventor of the We buy and/or process claims. "Modern screen wiper (January issue p4). References of satisfied claimants with 'hat was in existence long before I was 50 YEARS AGO completed claims are available. f'orn. My company, Tudor Accessories limited, was the first in the UK to KING CHRISTIAN OF NAGEL & PARTNER introduce electric windscreen washers. DENMARK Contact our Represenutive Contact in Germany ^'gbgate F S Worms inGB Phone 49 30 882 56 31 The death of King Christian X of Denmark will be Fax 49 30 881 39 16 '-ondon N6 ' . mourned among Jewry all over the world. The Solicitor Hans H. Marcus stand made by him in 1943 on behalf of the Jewish Phone 0171-629 8000 Uhiandstrasse 156 population in Denmark aroused at that time Fax 0171-221 9334 10719 Berlin BOUQUETS --?• feelings of admiration among all freedom loving 4 Old Parl< Lane citizens. "If the Germans want to introduce the London WIY3LJ Jir - I would like to join those who Yellow Star for Jews in Denmark, I and my whole ^'fpress their appreciation of the high family will wear it as a sign of the highest standard of AJR Information and would distinction" - these words of the Danish King will long be remembered in the history of mankind. AJR ''Ke to take this opportunity to say For over five years King Christian defied the thank you" for all the work you do on invaders and resisted their attempts to degrade ^ur behalf. and expel the Jews. His memory will long be I Hampstead Gate treasured. ^^esterfield Gardens Dr Hannelore Braunsberg AjR /nformotion, Aloy 1947 IA Frognal, London NW3 London NW3 AJR INFORMATION MAY 1997

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Membership - December, making a total of 162 of whom People have still been requesting help in n updating of the membership records 82 help at the Day Centre, 74 visit and be­ making their claim for payments from the showed that AJR has over 3400 friend isolated and vulnerable members Austrian Nationalfonds and from the Claims A members and that in 1996 the 231 new including several outside London, and 6 work Conference Article 2 Fund. Regrettably, a joiners exceeded the 118 members who died in the office. We even have a volunteer who negative reply was received to the petition and the 58 who let their membership lapse. agrees to organise Bar and Bat Mitzvahs for sent to the German Bundestag for changes to This proves that despite our current age people who never had one, and a Minyan at the law on pensions and compensation. AJR, profile, there is still scope for attracting new funerals. with WJR and Jewish Care, made arrange­ members. A Volunteers' Newsletter has been launched; ments to work with some German lawyers on an outing was organised for over 20 volunteers pension and health compensation claims. The German government has been quite intransi­ The Paul Balint AJR Day Centre to see the play 'Kindertransport'; volunteer support groups have been set up. gent in not relaxing the rules for those victims he 10th Anniversary Celebration Week We are privileged to have such an enthusi­ of Nazi persecution who, for various reasons, was enjoyed by members, visitors and astic band of voluntary helpers as we would have missed out on payments. staff. Among the visitors were Glenda T not be able to continue to provide essential Jackson MP for Hampstead, John Marshall services without them. MP for Hendon South and the Mayor of SelfAid Camden. Glenda Jackson returned to give a elf Aid still assists about 70 members and talk in July and John Marshall organised a Sheltered Accommodation from April 1996 it has been possible to tour of the House of Commons with tea on ince the AJR considers it to be desirable Spay grants of up to £20 per week the terrace. The second night Seder was for the sheltered accommodation at 15 without affecting the level of Income Support. conducted by Rabbi William Wolff. Other SCleve Road to be covered by a resident In addition to regular monthly grants, events were the two holiday weeks in caretaker, the opportunity was taken, when payments were made in respect of a variety of Bournemouth, a day trip to Westcliff, a one of the eight sheltered flats fell vacant, to needs such as televisions, synagogue Volunteers' tea party and the Chanukah Tea extend it into the loft. In this way, more space membership, improved heating, holidays etc. Dance. was created for caretaker Joseph Pereira's We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Members of the Balint family visited the family, and a two room flat became available B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck (London) Trust Fund Day Centre and saw that their generous fund­ for letting. which continued to make grants for twenty of ing was actively appreciated. Katia Gould continued to handle appli­ our clients in 1996. The year saw the introduction of chiropodist cations for sheltered accommodation both for The Annual Concert in the Queen Elizabeth and optician services while sales of clothes and the AJR and the Otto Schiff Housing Associ­ Hall, when an audience of nearly six hundred underwear continued to be popular. ation. heard extracts from opera and operetta per­ Although attendances for the year were formed by artists from the European Chamber broadly up to the previous year's levels, Social Services Opera, raised £7,000. members have become increasingly frail. This he Social Service team consisting of Agi results in a more intensive work load for Day Alexander, three social workers and an AJR Information Centre Manager Sylvia Matus and all her staff assistant, handled a case load of 228 and volunteers, who have to give more physi­ T s it has done for the past half century active clients and a large number of one-off the journal served as a conduit of cal assistance. In 1996 the Day Centre miscellaneous cases. information on all matters of refugee received £17,000 in legacies and donations This means that 7% of total AJR member­ A concern: restitution, compensation, pensions and an Open Day in summer raised over ship are clients of Social Services. Nearly half etc. £1000. of them are in the 80-90 year age-band. It is During the past year we managed to attract Plans were developed for the launch of an clear that as members get older, a greater first-time contributions from figures of note in innovative series of Luncheon Club sessions in number become clients of Social Services. the community, such as Rabbi Julia 1997. The introduction of 'Care in the Commu­ Neuberger and George Clare. Others new to nity' implies a continuing and rising work the journal whose participation we welcome Catering load for a number of years, since Local Au­ are Rabbi William Wolff and the academic thorities provide fewer services and keep more he high standard of catering at the Paul Tony Grenville. of the elderly frail in their homes, before pay­ Balint AJR Day Centre continued to Our bulging correspondence column impress members. Susie Kaufman with ing for residential care. There has been an T continues to attest to the involvement of the Head Chef Jeff Heywood and their staff once increase in the number of home visits required, readership. A slightly facetious demonstration again produced 24,000 kosher meals. with follow-up to monitor provision of help. of this were fifty replies - some from as far Catering was provided not only for members A somewhat unexpected phenomenon has afield as the US and Chile - to a reader's at the Centre and in their homes, but also for been the rise in cases of younger people re­ query about a German nursery rhyme. On a a number of special events such as the quiring assistance in a number of ways. The more serious level 'Letters to the Editor' celebrations of Max Kochmann's 75th needs and experiences of AJR members are vibrated with the clash of opinions on such birthday and retirement, and to mark Sylvia different from those in the community in gen­ contentious issues as Jews and Germans, Matus's and Renee Lee's twenty years eral and AJR sets out to meet them. Britain and Europe, and Israel and the Arabs. service with the AJR. Liaison with OSHA and other organis­ ations is well established with frequent Volunteers meetings to discuss cases of common concern. AJR outside NW London ebbie Picker joined the AJR in June as A telephone and mail service is provided for group in Leeds, constituted as the Volunteers' Co-ordinator. She has 'out of town' members, while the regional Holocaust Survivors' Friendship given talks to many organisations, groups play their part in the social services A Association, became affiliated to the D process. including an audience at the Limmud AJR. The Manchester and South London Conference; has set up stalls at University groups are both active with regular meetings. events; has designed new recruitment leaflets Pensions For example, Manchester organised a trip to and had reports published in the Jeivish nquiries on foreign pensions and Beth Shalom. The regional groups are of value Chronicle, Shalom and Second Generation compensation have not diminished. not only in providing companionship but in Voices. EThese have generated an increase in new identifying problems and providing assistance 33 new volunteers were recruited from June membership. where necessary.

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Staff and Volunteers Finance Report a two-roomed flat where previously only a new Sunday session organiser joined one roomed flat was available. The benefits of the team at the Paul Balint AJR Day AJR: Self-Aid-Report for the year 1996 this will be felt by all those attending the Day A Centre, while at Hampstead Gate we AJR CHARITABLE TRUST: Continuing Centre during 1997. recruited a replacement Volunteers' Co­ stability Summary figure for the year ended ordinator and a new Receptionist. In all, AJR PAUL BALINT AJR DAY CENTRE: 31st December 1996 employed 25 people, full-time and part-time, Increase in Meals on Wheels Income: 1996 1995 and benefited from the services of over 160 he overall financial position of the AJR Takings - Day Centre volunteers. The Hon. Officers, Management and AJR Charitable Trust has stabilised. and meals on wheels 78,662 78,403 Committee and membership are proud to ex­ The continuing high level of legacies, 33,341 press their appreciation of the devoted efforts T Donations received 9,244 although it is slightly lower than the previous of both staff and volunteers in maintaining 87,906 111,744 year, continues to reflect the toll of passing Less outgoings: the high standards of service to which the years. membership have become accustomed. Premises expenditure (net) 31,375 33,740 AJR Salaries 86,031 74,292 The Management Committee here has been a welcome small increase Catering costs 161,268 152,336 he Management Committee was in the revenue from membership fees Sundry expenses 19,600 15,174 saddened by the death of Madeleine Tand subscriptions and the fall in the 296,274 275,542 Brook, one of its most active members. T level of donations has been more than Deficit Funded from Her devoted work at all times, particularly for outweighed by a slight increase in overall Charitable Trust (210,368) (163,798) the Annual Concert, and her cheerfulness legacies. Although the costs of producing AJR during her illness will be long remembered. Information have increased slightly, this has See page ? column .' for details of nomina­ partly been compensated by the 22% increase SelfAid of Refugees tion for the new Management Committee. in the level of advertising revenue. There has been a substantial increase in the level of individual aid grants given. This has Income and Expenditure Account arisen because the level at which Social Secu­ The Year in Retrospect and Plans for Year ended 31st December 1996 rity Benefits are clawed back has been raised the Future Income: 1996 1995 during the year, thus enabling us to increase e have during the year continued to Membership/Donations the help we can give to those members of our strengthen our commitment - that and Legacies 173,563 156,525 community who are the most needy. Wof acting as an extended family to Grant from Self Aid 5,000 5,000 all our members. This involves personal one- 178,563 161,525 to-one relationships. As a relatively small AJR Charitable Trust organisation we do not aim to process Less: he AJR Charitable Trust provides the people's problems in such a way as to close Overhead Expenses 28,823 26,567 financial support for the welfare work their files as rapidly as possible. We have an Salary Costs 72,728 65,637 Tof the AJR. It also bears the entire cost Ongoing commitment to you, our members AJR Information 25,184 22,688 of funding the Day Centre. Over the years it 3nd to the wider community of 'Jewish refu­ Administration/ has contributed substantially to the Otto Schiff Housing Association. During 1997 we gees from Nazi persecution and their Depreciation 12,691 11,568 families' who, surprisingly enough, may not anticipate making very substantial financial 139,426 126,460 contributions, advancing approximately yet have heard of us. Surplus: 39,137 35,065 We organised joint activities with the Board £850,000 towards rebuilding works. of Deputies - the lecture by Prof. Richard Summary of Balance Sheet The level of legacies received was slightly Overy on Winston Churchill in 1940, and at 31st December 1996 1996 1995 reduced from that in 1995. The continuing with the Wiener Library - a presentation of Fixed Assets high-level has, however, enabled us to provide the film on the Voyage of the St Louis, in the (less depreciation) 17,217 22,717 the financial contributions which the Otto presence of the film's director and some of Current Assets 118,391 72,246 Schiff Housing Association desperately needs the survivors. Less: but also has enabled us to assist other mem­ We have established close relationships with Current Liabilities (12,944) (12,936) bers of our community. The burden following the Association of Jewish ex-Berliners (AJEB), 122,664 82,027 the Care in the Community Programme con­ tinues to increase. the Reunion of Kindertransports (RoK), with Represented by: whom we are participating in the planning of General Fund 71,863 36,798 Summary Income and Expenditure Account a conference in 1999, and various Second Net surplus (dehcit) Year ended 31st December 1995 Generation groups. for Year 39,137 35,065 1996 1995 We have worked in Committees with Jewish Staff retirement reserve 11,664 10,164 Income: Care, World Jewish Relief and Belsize Square 122,664 82,027 Covenants/donations 33,751 39,989 Synagogue, and we continued to be involved Investment income Dav'td Roxhenberg, Hon.Treasurer 'n the affairs of the Otto Schiff Housing Asso­ (including portfolio Paul Balint AJR Day Centre ciation (OSHA). gains) 371,315 400,702 Whether in the field of representation or as­ Sheltered housing 21,131 21,154 A slight reduction in numbers attending the sistance on pensions and compensation 426,197 461,845 Day Centre has, to some extent, been com­ claims, assistance in social and welfare mat­ Legacies 579,642 647,651 ters, lobbying governments and parliaments, pensated by an increase in the number of 1,005,839 1,109,496 We have to raise our profile in order to be meals-on-wheels which we have provided to able to serve our members and our commu- those who are sometimes too frail to attend. Less outgoings: f ity more effectively. The exceptional level of donations received Day Centre 210,368 163,798 The needs of our membership are continu­ during 1995 has not been repeated. The costs Self Aid 35,000 28,000 ally changing because of age and the external of the Day Centre have increased and the rev­ Otto Schiff Housing environment. We must continue to adopt our enue decreased temporarily during rebuilding Association 50,000 33,966 strategies to be responsive to these changing of the sheltered accommodation provided at Other organisations 16,034 21,100 feeds. That is our task for the coming years. the Day Centre. These works are now almost Administration/ Ernest David Andrew Kaufman complete and have resulted in the creation of Depreciation 242,934 235,116 ^'reaor Chairman a better caretaker's flat and the provision of 554,336 481,980 AJR INFORMATION MAY 1997

Telling the grandchildren refugee who could answer their questions from her own experience. The sixth-form­ abbi Dr Albert Friedlander, ers were very keen to put their questions Minister of Westminster Syna­ too. R gogue, in a well-attended talk to Volunteers' Co-ordinator Debbie South London AJR, had no doubt that Picker spoke about the importance of vol­ Holocaust survivors had a duty to tell unteers to the AJR and members of both their grandchildren about their experi­ audiences kindly offered their services to ences. He suggested they should educate helpD succeeding generations to attend com­ memoration meetings and to erect memorials, such as that recently unveiled in London in honour of Raoul LEO BAECK HOUSE Wallenberg, saviour of many Hungarian Jews. Teaching and studying the Holo­ Annual Open Day caust and visiting places such as the Anne & Bazaar Frank Museum in Amsterdam were, in his view, also extremely important. Sunday 15 June Rabbi Friedland believed that the chil­ 3 - 5pm dren of the victims, "our children," and Entrance £3 including tea & cakes those of the perpetrators, "their chil­ Children free dren," both suffered from the effects of the Shoah. In the Germans' case it was a AJR Catering Manager, Susie Kaufman, appreciates a dish prepared by Yakov Azulay, Assistant Chef, feeling of guilt for the actions of their in the A]R's modern liitchens. grandparents. AJR 'Drop in'Advice Centre at the D Ruth Leggett Paul Balint AJR Day Centre

'Passing on our Heritage'- Theo Marx and Paul AJR MEALS ON WHEELS IS Cleve Road,London NW6 3RL Oppenheimer join Ken Ambrose in a genealogi­ A wide variety of high quality kosher between I Cam and 12 noon on the cal exploration of our origins and analyses of frozen food is available, ready made following dates; and delivered to your door via the AJR memories and discoveries about our own family Tuesday 6 May meals on wheels service. The food Is history.Thursday ISth May, 2pm, South London Wednesday 14 May cooked in our own kitchens In Cleve Uberal Synagogue. Thursday 22 May Road, NW6,by our experienced staff. Tuesday 27 May If you live in North or North West Wednesday 4 June London and wish to take advantage of this service, phone Susie Kaufman on and every Thursday from Midlands Group 0171-328 0208 for details and an 10am to 12 noon at: assessment Interview. AJR, I Hampstead Gate, la programme Frognal, London NW3 6AL committee of the AJR Midlands No appointment is necessary, but please bring Group, comprising Edgar Glaser, along all relevant documents, such as Benefit A Paul Oppenheimer, Henry Aron Refugee experiences Books, letters, bills, etc. and Ken and Sonja Shindler, has drawn up a programme of activities with an JR volunteer Inge Koppel recently event planned every three months. On spoke of her experiences as a 25th May a number of members have A Kindertransportee to students of Making aWill? agreed to recall their personal memories University College, London, and members Please ren)ember the AJR of Berlin at a meeting and buffet lunch to of the Association of Jewish Sixth- be held at Birmingham Progressive formers. A Polish national, Inge left Though we cannot take our worldly Synagogue, Sheepcote Street. Call for Britain as a child of 14 on a possessions with us, we can see Corinne Oppenheimer 0121 705 9529 or Kindertransport from Germany. She was that whatever is left behind goes Sonja Shindler 0121 705 5396 for details joined by her father whose boat arrived where it will be appreciated, and reservations. on the day war broke out! Inge, who do some good and is needed. Future events include a garden party, a could speak no English at the time, was Many former refugees joint meeting with Manchester AJR, and the only refugee at a school in Winchester. have found their association a talk on teaching the Holocaust in The university students, who are mak­ with the AJR a rewarding one. Lithuania to be given by Stephen Smith, ing a special study of Jewish refugees in This Is an opportunity to support Director of Beth Shalom Holocaust Me­ Great Britain, were extremely pleased to the AJR Charitable Trust. morial Centre D discuss the subject face-to-face with a

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PAUL BALINT AJR It occurs to me... Thursday 15 ITALIAN MUSIC DUO s democracy the equivalent of an DAY CENTRE - Angela Amato absolute morality? In his book The Tel. 0171 328 0208 (Violin) accompanied by I Politics of Hope, the Chief Rabbi, Dr Panama Reed (Piano) Jonathan Sacks, argues that liberalism Open Tuesday and Thursday 9.30am -6.30pm, Sunday 18 DAY CENTRE OPEN - has, in the West, given way to Monday and Wednesday 9.30am - 3.30pm, NO ENTERTAINMENT Sunday 2 pm - 6.30pm. libertarianism and that there is a need to Monday 19 MUSIC TO SOOTHE return to Judeo-Christian morality and THE SOUL - Morning Activities - Bridge, kaiookie, scrabble, Guyatherie Peiris values to prevent the contiriuation of chess, etc., keep fit, discussion group, choir society's moral decay. (Soprano) accompanied [Mondays), art class [Tuesdays and Thursdays). by William Patrick Journalist Siirion Jenkins, writing in The (Piano) Times, maintains that morality derived Afternoon entertainment • Tuesday 20 SONGS FOR from religion leads to bigotry and au­ EVERYONE - Shirley thoritarianism, quoting in his support Gurevitz accompanied Arthur Miller's play. The Crucible. MAY 1997 by Sylvia Cohen (Piano) Jenkins believes that morality is irrel­ Wednesday 21 DAY CENTRE OPEN evant. The problem, he argues, is the -LUNCHEON CLUB degeneracy in Britain of democratic insti­ Thursday 1 MAY DAY CONCERT Thursday 22 THE SWEET SONGS OF tutions. He states that "democratic - Fiona Tanner SOPHIE ROGOVSKY - institutions must convert moral disputes (Soprano) accompanied YIDDISH FOLK SONGS 'nto political ones and seek to resolve by Geoffrey Whitworth & AN AMUSING & them without bloodshed." (Piano) EMOTIONAL But there's the rub. What is democ­ Sunday 4 MUSICAL SOIREE- ACCOUNT OF JEWISH racy? Didn't Hitler come to power by a Arranged by Deborah LIFE IN RUSSIA democratic process? Britain claims to Fink (Soprano) with DURING THE nave had a democratic government for Piano Accompaniment POGROMS - Margaret hundreds of years and yet women did not Monday 5 CLOSED- Bank Dent accompanied by Philippa Groman (Piano) get the vote until 1918. Was the Trade Holiday DAY CENTRE OPEN - Llnion block vote, which directed Labour Tuesday 6 BITTER JOYS - Edel Sunday 25 NO ENTERTAINMENT party policies, an example of democracy? O'Brien (Mezzo) accompanied by Kay Monday 26 CLOSED- Bank At what age are people to be considered Holiday mature enough to participate in the Dennis (Piano) ACT I-SCENE II- Tuesday 27 THE GEOFFREY democratic process? It may be democratic Wednesday 7 Sharon Burnett STRUM & HELEN for the majority to impose its will on the (Soprano) &: Juwon BLAKE DUO minority, but if this is done without refer­ Ogungbe (Bass) Wednesday 28 SONGS FOR EARLY ence to rules or a constitution, is it right? accompanied by SUMMER-Prize- That is the point. We have been brought Margaret Eaves (Piano) Winning Students from up in a tradition of either family or com­ Thursday 8 ST VINCENT the Royal Academy of munity, wzhich generally believes there are SINGERS - Conducted Music - Flmma Bell principles of right and wrong, transcending by Sylvia F^aves - (Soprano) & Rahel Our time and geographic boundaries. Swit­ Accompanied by Wagner (Mezzo) zerland is a country which practises the Margaret Eaves (Piano) accompanied by Clara democratic conventions most admirably, Sunday 11 DAY CENTRE OPEN - Taylor (Piano) with referenda at local and cantonal levels NO ENTERTAINMENT Thursday 29 3's COMPANY - On all kinds of topics, but was it or is it a Monday 12 A CONCERT FOR SUMMER CABARET moral country in the light of what we have ISRAEL'S - Francoise Geller - been hearing recently? INDEPENDENCE DAY Kara Wilson & Gordon Countless examples can be adduced - Ophra Goetz (Piano) Griffin accompanied by & Miriam Kramer Margaret Eaves (Piano) where democratic institutions produce (Violin) policies and outcomes that we, with our JUNE Tuesday 13 THE DABROWSKI Sunday 1 DAY C:ENTRE OPEN - background, would consider as inconsist­ QUARTET - Tracie NO ENTERTAINMENT ent with morality. Penwarden (Soprano) - Monday 2 SUMMER Religion has much to answer for in the Andrew Farris GREETINGS - Rona Way of persecution and warfare, and while (Baritone) - Nigel Israel (Soprano) ' believe it possible for a secular commu­ Cassidy (Tenor) accompanied by Ian nity to adhere to principles of morality, the accompanied by Market Pace (Piano) probability is that these principles will be Dabrowski (Piano) Tuesday 3 SUMMER MUSIC & based on the Judeo-Christian tradition. Wednesday 14 THE ORFORD DUO SONG-Sue Kennett Democracy itself may collapse without a -Julie Patridge (Soprano) accompanied belief in higher values. Society would do (Soprano) with Elspeth by Gordon Weaver Well to rediscover these values. Wilks at the Piano (Piano) — - - • n Ernest David

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS Lily Freeman DIN DELIS HOUSE SHELTERED FLATS Residential Care Home invites all her friends TO LET Birthday to the opening for Senior Citizens Spiro. The AJR wishes Ludwig of her exhibition Religion highly honoured Attractive warden-controlled Spiro a very happy 85th Pleasant relaxed atmosphere flats are available birthday and many active years TIAPPY PAINTINfiS' All single rooms with TV from time to time to come. at Hampstead Museum, & telephone at Deaths Burgh House, New End For information contact: Eleanor Rathbone House Harrington. Use Barrington Square NW3 Mrs HR Fearon Pennant Highgate N6 (Stiebel nee Bernstein, born Tel:OI7l 431 0144 Phone 0181 903 7592 Aachen 22.5.1908, died Ems- Fax 0181 903 4195 Details from: onWednesday 14th May Mrs. K.Gould, AJR, on worth, Hants. 21.3.1997. from 6.30-8.30pm Formerly living in St John's 0171-431 6161 Wood and attending the Paul Exhibition continues until Tuesday and Thursday SAKU JEWELLERY Balint AJR Day Centre, Use 26th May, 12-5 pm mornings. was a larger-than-life personal­ Wednesdays to Sundays established 1979 inclusive Viewing by appointment only ity. Her daughter Erica and Specialise in repairing family John, Duncan and Carl, Monday 26th from 3-5pm jewellery, watches & clocks, give thanks for a life lived to the full. pearls & beads restrung insurance & probate BELSIZE SQUARE Goldschmidt. Margaret Gold­ valuations APARTMENTS schmidt, a former Matron of SPENCER 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, NWS Heinrich Stahl House and for EXECUTIVE CARS 139A Park Road, St Johns Wood Tel: 0171-794 4307 or 27 years a much respected Tel:OI7l 586 8167 0171-435 2557 tenant of Eleanor Rathbone A Reliable Car Service House, Highgate, died at Short or long distances •MODERN SELF-CATERING HOLIDAY Whittington Hospital, aged 92. ALTERATIONS ROOMS, RESIDENT HOUSEKEEPER Airports & theatres a speciality MODERATETERMS Frankenberg. Gertrud Frank- OF ANY KIND TO NEAR SWISS COTTAGE STATION enberg, nee Simonsohn, our service includes LADIES' FASHIONS formerly of Hamburg. Born assistance with luggage I also design and make August 24th 1903, died March children's clothes TORRINGTON HOMES 16th 1997 in New York. Much 46 Ravensdale Avenue West Hampstead area MRS. PRINGSHEIM, S.R.N. NI29HT 0171-328 6571 MATRON missed by her sister Emma For Elderly, Retired and Convalescent Simonsohn and her family in Tel: 0181 445 1839 fLicensed by Borough ol Barnel) Namibia. Mobile: 0374 177 807 C.H.WILSON • Single and Double Rooms. Carpenter • H/C Basins and CH in all rooms. In Memoriam Painter and Decorator • Gardens, TV and reading rooms. Heyman. Manon Heyman died French Polisher • Nurse on duty 24 hours. 26th May 1997. Fondly Antique Furniture Repaired • Long and short term, including Dr H Alan Shields Tel: 0181-452 8324 trial period il required. remembered by her daughter Car: 0831 103707 MB ChB BDS LDS RCS From C275 per week Madeleine and son-in-law 0181-445 1171 Office hours Ricardo. 0181-455 1335 other times DENTAL SURGEON CLASSIFIED SWITCH ON NORTH FINCHLEY Miscellaneous Full Dental Service ELECTRICS Rewires and all household Electrician. City & Guilds Home visits, Emergencies Residential Home electrical work. qualified. All domestic work Clara Nehab House undertaken. Y. Steinreich. Tel: 46. BRAMPTON GROVE PHONE PAUL: 0181-200 3518 (Leo Baeck Housing Associalon Ltd.) 13-19 Leeside Crescent NW11 0181455 5262. HENDON, NW4 All rooms with Shower W.C. and Manicure & Pedicure in the TEL: 0181 203 0405 ADVERTISEMENT RATES H/C Basins en-suite comfort of your own home. FAMILY EVENTS Spacious Garden - Lounge & Telephone 0181 455 7582. First 15 words free o( charge, Dining Room - Lift World Wars. I collect cards and C2.00 per 5 words thereafter Near Shops and Public Transport NEW CLOTHES CLASSIFIED 24 Hour Care - Physiotherapy envelopes from the camps. E2.00 per five words. Long & short Term - Respite Care • Please send with price asked to FOR SALE BOX NUMBERS Trial Periods £3.00 extra. Peter Rickenbach, 14 Rosslyn dresses, underwear, Enquiries: Josephine Woolf Hill, London NW3 IPR DISPLAY, SEARCH NOTICES Ono Schlft Housing Association cardigans etc. per single column inch The Bishops Avenue N2 OBG 65 mm (3 column page) CI2.00 Phone: 0181-209 0022 AJR GROUP CONTACTS Shirley Lever at the 48mm (4 column page) E10.00 COPYDATE 5 weeks prior to S. London: Ken Ambrose Paul Balint AJR Day Centre publication 0181 852 0262 The AJR does not accept Midlands: Edgar Glazer Monday 19 May responsibility for the 0121 777 6537 Thursday 5 June North: Werner Lachs AJR standard of service 0161 773 4091 9.45- 11.45am Tel:OI7l-43l 616! rendered by advertisers

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Alice Schwab till the 26 May Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914 (shown with Lucie Rie and SB's Column Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel). The National Gallery exhibition Dis­ pper Austria. In the course of a covering the Italian Baroque: The Denis Jewish Film week at Linz 15 Mahon Collection continues at the U productions were shown. Several Sainsbury Wing until 8 May. of them focused on the subject of he Royal Academy is showing The At the Goethe Institute Gallery until the emigration; however, the highlight of the Berlin of George Grosz drawings, 7 June Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photogra­ week was a completely new version of the Twatercolours and prints 1912-1930 pher. Lucia Moholy, was the first wife of Diary of Anne Frank, containing until 8 June 1997. George Grosz (1893- Hungarian artist Laszio Moholy-Nagy. contributions by persons who had 1959) is one of the greatest graphic artists contacts with the Frank family at the of the 20th century. Although he time. The Steven Spielberg documentary produced important work after he left Survivors of the Holocaust featured Germany for the USA in 1933, he is best alongside a French movie about known for the biting cartoons, caricatures deportations and concentration camps. and social satires that he created in Berlin The small town of Wels will stage two between the two world wars. This performances of Wagner's Tristan and exhibition is exclusively concerned with Isolde at the end of May when the inter­ the drawings, watercolours and prints of nationally renowned Theo Adam and that troubled but brilliantly creative Bernd Weikl will be singing with the Linz epoch. Bruckner orchestra. The Concourse Gallery, Barbican Cen­ London. The Goethe Institute recently tre, has an exhibition Janet Nathan - presented a series of crime films which Constructions 1979-1997 until 8 June mirrored the development of German film showing over 30 constructed wall pieces techniques during this century. Testament made in the last 18 years. Janet Nathan's of Dr Mabuse (1932) was directed by assemblages are made from found and cut Fritz Lang, a Sherlock Holmes picture Wooden shapes which are embellished (1937) starred Hans Albers and Heinz with paint and often bound together with Riihmann, and the last of the series lakes of translucent resin. These works (1942) featured the prominent screen ac­ are full of recurrent themes, motifs and tor OE Hasse. symbolic forms. Nathan manipulates her Morbisch (Burgenland). This year's op­ materials to make statements - with eretta at the annual lakeside festival on many of the pieces there is a strong, per­ Lake Neusiedl is to be Offenbach's Vie haps unconscious sense of spirituality. Her Parisienne. With a seating capacity of Work has been described by art historian 4500, Morbisch has one of the largest and critic Bryan Robertson, as somewhere Diamond Profiteers in the Cafe Kaiserhof, George open-air stages in Europe. between painting and sculpture, featuring Grosz, 1920. A book for opera fans is The Joy of a rich use of colour, and being "..extraor­ Opera by British tenor Nigel Douglas dinarily beautiful and original... existing During the years they spent together at (publisher Andre Deutsch). It contains serenely in their own space and light, be­ the Bauhaus in Weimar (1923-28) she be­ highlights of operatic performances from yond any obvious category". came the foremost photographer of all over the world, garnished by amusing Janet Nathan was born in London in Bauhaus products and designs. She was anecdotes as well as numerous illustra­ 1938, and studied at St Martin's School also a first-rate architectural and portrait tions. The author, a member of Welsh of Art. She lives and works in London. photographer. National Opera, sang for many years Her work has been shown in numerous From 1 May Anneiey Juda is showing with the Vienna Volksoper. A specialist in group exhibitions and solo shows includ­ David Hockney's Flotvers, Faces and operetta, he translated works by Kalman ing the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1982), Spaces. By choosing flowers as the main and Lehar into English and produced The Warwick Arts Trust, London (1988) subject of his new London exhibition, them at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in the and Reed's Wharf Gallery, London David Hockney, who remains Britain's mid-Eighties D (1995) and is also held in many collec­ best-known contemporary artist, is imp­ tions including the Walker Art Gallery, ishly aware that he offers us a challenge. l^iverpool and most recently the Chelsea At the British Museum until 20 July you Annely Juda 'ind Westminster Hospital. Tour details: can see Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits Following its London showing, the exhi­ from Roman Egypt. Mummy portraits Fine Art bition will tour to: 14 June - 3 August bring us face to face with people from classical antiquity with an extraordinary 23 Dering Street (off Nevi^ Bond Street) •^ The Metropole Art Centre, Folkestone; Tel: 0171-629 7578 Fax: 0171-491 2139 l6 August - 27 September - Graves Art vividness and poignancy. Around one Gallery, Sheffield; 6 October - 1 Novem- thousand of these moving images, made CONTEMPORARY PAINTING ''er - Gardner Art Centre, University of between the first and third centuries CE, AND SCULPTURE ^itssex. Also at the Barbican Art Gallery have survived •

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Fred Dunston 80 An invitation to the Hilary's Care Agency The AJR extends heartiest congratulations Annual General Meeting to Fred Dunston on the occasion of his HIGH QUALITY HOMECARE FORTHE ELDERLY AND DISABLED eightieth birthday. Practically a foundation This year's guest speaker, Stephen member, he has devoted himself to AJR Smith, Founder and Director of the • CARERS • COMPANIONS concerns for half a century - turning up, Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial • HOUSEKEEPERS come rain or shine, for his weekly stint of Centre in Nottinghamshire, has made • DOMESTICS voluntary service at Hampstead Gate even an outstanding contribution to the Flexible service tailored to your needs nowadays. Fred, described in our 1992 study and propagation of knowledge Daily & Live-in - 1-24 hours - 7 days a week profile as a 'model member', brought up of the Holocaust in European history COVERING NORTH & NORTHWEST LONDON, his offspring in the same ethos: both sons in a very short time span and at a EAST LONDON & ESSEX serve on the AJR executive D comparatively young age. 0181 559 I I 10 Beth Shalom celebrated its first an­ Austrian pensions niversary only last September, yet is already regarded as a model educa­ The Metropolitan Police have confirmed tional institution housing a memorial SPRING that the issuing of 'Certificates for Life' exhibition, conference hall, library, is still part of a police officer's standing restaurant and residential accommo­ instructions. The Alien Registration Of­ GROVE dation, all set in landscaped gardens fice of the Metyropolitan Police (Tel: 14 Finchley Road in the countryside. Beth Shalom is the 0171 230 1208) will be able to help with London NW3 work of one inspired man and his im­ any further enquiries. London's Most Luxurious mediate family who committed their RETIREMENT HOME own resources and their lives to its Globalisation * Entertainment-Activities establishment and success. The Vienna office administering the NS * Stress Free Living A charismatic figure, he has Opferfond has published the following * 24 Hour Staffing brought many Jews together in com­ statistics: There are 26,559 Austrian-Jew­ * Excellent Cuisine mon purpose. Stephen Smith's * Full En-Suite Facilities ish applicants scattered across 30 countries. 4737 applications from the address to the Annual General Meet­ Call for more information USA have already been processed, fol­ ing of the AJR on Sunday 8th June at or a personal tour lowed by 1945 from Austria, 1400 from 3pm is an opportunity few would 0181-446 2117 wish to miss D the UK and 1308 from Israel. The oldest or 0171-794 4455 applicant is 106, the youngest 52 D

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WITH THANKS Bring your friends to an We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation for the legacies received in 1996 by the AJR and the AjR Charitable Trust from the estates of thefollowing: Italian Evening Otto Adler Edith Gordon Werner Marienthal Vilma Samet , «/ Alice Apt Alex Gumb Vera Meyer Susanne Schiller Good J^ood ^ Music Susan Bach Stephanie Harben Margaret Michaelis Gertrude Schlesinger Vera Bach Frank Hauptmann Frieda Muller Use Schmitthof Sunday 22 June 1997 Gertrude Bernstein Adelheid Heimann Margaret Nebel Dora Segall at 6.45 for 7pm Madeleine Brook Rose Hoenigsberg Maria Noy Walter Sharman Belsize Square Synagogue Hall Gabrielle Cairncross Gerd Jonas Margarete Philipp Ernest Sicher London NWS Ernest Ellinger Margot Kogut Paul Raven Martin Silberman In aid of Fanny Exley Marianne Kuschnitzky Margit Rosenberg Leo Singer Balint House Residents' Fund Greta Frankenberg Rita Lehmann Hedy Rowan Gerhard Weiler Erna Gal William Lewy Peggy Rowan Lotte Woolf 'A most enjoyable evening' Liesel Geismar Minna Margulies Gerda Salinger Tickets at £20 from: Judith Unikower 41 Sunbury Avenue NW7 3SL Tel: 0181 959 2228 FORTHCOMING EVENTS - Tue 20 Enemy Alien in the British and Miriam Cohn, 3 Willow Way N3 2PL MAY 1997 Army: Stephen Dale. Sussex University, 5pm Tel: 0181 346 7086 Tue 27 Sheila Price: Heathrow's Air Tue Arthur Brill JP: Local Traffic Control. JACS, 2pm Authority & Public Service. Jue 27 Sir Hans Singer: Memories GERMAN BOOKS JACS, 2pm & Economic Policies. Sussex We are always buying; Tue Viktor Klemperer's Diaries: University, 5pm Books, Autographs, Judaica Hans Reiss. Sussex and German works of art Thur 29 Daimler-Benz & the Third Antiquariat Metropolis University, 5pm Reich: Dr Neil Gregor, Leerbachstr. 85 Mon 12 Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Southampton University. D-60322 Frankfurt aJM 49th Independence Day: Wiener Library, 6.30, £3 Wembley Conference Centre, Tel: 0049 69 559451 Thur 29 'The Subversive Bible': 1.45-lOpm, £3 cons. REGULAR VISITS TO LONDON Rabbi Jonathan Magonet & 12 Jiirgen Diethe, editor &c Mon interfaith panel discussion broadcaster: Eastern Europe on his new book. Sternberg Seven Years After Centre, 8pm GERMAN and ENGLISH Communism. Club 43, 8pm Prof Michael Crawford: No BOOKS BOUGHT Tue 13 JUNE Nation can rise above the Sun Mischlinge in Nazi Antiquarian, secondhand and modern Health of its Women. JACS, Germany: Wiener Library books of quality always wanted 2pm seminar. Birkbeck College, Most subjects, but especially Tue 13 'Children Must Laugh': Malet Street, WCl, 2-5pm, 1938 Polish film introduced £7 (cons) ARCHITECTURE. ART. PHOTOGRAPHY by Abe Brumberg. Wiener Tue Prof Eric Moonman: The MUSIC Library, 6.45pm (advanced National Health Service. EROTICA booking) JACS, 2pm MOUNTAINS, LANDSCAPES, GARDENS Tue 13 Youth in Nazi Germany: Tue Prof Edward Timms: A EASTERN EUROPE.ASIA, POU^R REGIONS Marianne Elsley. Sussex Gemini in German Studies. FEMINISM, ANARCHISM, ANTI-FASCISM University, 5pm Sussex University, 5pm ECONOMICS & PHILOSOPHY Wed 14 Madeleine Brook Bridge Event: AJR, 15 Cleve Road, ORGANISATION CONTACTS SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE NW6, Supper 6.30pm, £14. JACS at Belsize Square Synagogue, BIBUOGRAPHY & FINE PRINTING Bookings: 0171 328 0208 NW3 4HX. Tel: 0171 794 3949 MANUSCRIPTS & ORIGINAL DRAWINGS Sun Dr Bernard Wasserstein: The Club '43, at Belsize Square Synagogue. Vanishing Diaspora. Hans Seelig 01442 254 360 Immediate response to your letter or phone call. Sternberg Centre, 8pm, £3 Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, We pay good prices and come to collect Mon 19 Richard Grunberger, Editor London Wl. 0171 636 7247 AJR Information: Refugee Sternberg Centre for Judaism, 80 East Please contact: Authors. Club 43, 8pm End Road, Finchley, NW3 2SY Tel: Robert Hornung, MA (Oxon) Tue 20 Harry Blacker, artist, 0181 346 2288 2 Mount View. Ealing, cartoonist & raconteur, talks University of Sussex Centre for LondonW5 IPR about Jewish Humour. German-Jewish Studies. Diana Franklin Telephone 0181-998 0546 JACS, 2pm 0181 455 4785 or 01273 678 495 (5pm to 9pm is best)

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NEWSROUND Personal lifeline A dependable way to call for help and Auschwitz accord assistance when the unexpected occurs An outline agreement reached between the Polish authorities and representative ifeline emergency alarm systems international Jewish organisations calls meet the needs of anyone alone at for the placing of a 500-metre non­ Lhome, or having difficulty calling commercial zone around the for help, by means of a special emergency Auschwitz-Birkenau site, reports the alarm activated by a push-button pendant Jetvish Chronicle. Costs would be shared which has to be worn at all times. The Israel's Finest Wines between Poland, European Union system operates through the telephone governments and private donors. which is easily adapted. from the Discussions were prompted by the threat Though an excellent alarm system for Golan Heights of the development of a shopping mall the protection of the housebound and near the former death camp. elderly, sometimes it fails to do its job Yarden, Golan & Gamla because of incorrect use. Clients all too Hungarian compensation often tell AJR's social workers that they During a visit to Budapest, President don't bother to wear the pendant Write, piione or fax Roman Herzog of Germany promised to around their necks at all times, believing for full information reach an agreement on compensation for they cannot have an accident in their Holocaust survivors. Agreements have own home! Would that were true! House of Hallgarten similarly been reached with the Czech Dallow Road, Luton LU1 1UR Republic, Ukraine, Belarus and Poland. None of us knows what might happen from one minute to the next - a stroke, Tel: 01582 22538 Eastern European pensions a heart attack - who can say? It is of Fax: 01582 23240 The failure of the German Government to the utmost importance for the pendant to pay pensions to the 20,000 Holocaust be worn continuously around either the survivors in Eastern Europe was debated neck or wrist and it soon becomes as at a conference held in Berlin. Since much a habit as wearing a watch. The World War II, Germany has paid some emergency helplines not only provide MICHAEL H SCOTT $60 billion to victims of Nazism. such help as calling an ambulance, but & COMPANY Stopping SS pensions could also summon the police in re­ Some suspected war criminals living sponse to an intruder. Chartered Accountants outside of Germany have had their At night it is best to keep the pendant FREEPHONE 0800 919 907 pensions withdrawn. Nazis still living in close at hand and always put it on when Germany continue to receive the getting out of bed to go to the bathroom. Worried about self assessment? supplementary 'victims' pensions' Don't put it in a bedside drawer, hang it Just give us a call pending reform of the 1950 law which in the bathroom or fail to put it back on FREEPHONE0800 9I9 907 introduced the payments. after washing. Your life may depend on it. D WW Tel: 0181 907 9200 France too? Anyone considering having a helpline alarm sytem Fax: 0181 909 1503 French banks appropriated 57,000 is welcome to contact AjR's Social Service 107 Kenton Road. Kenton. accounts of deportees who failed to return Department for help and advice. Call 0171 431 Harrow, Middx HA3 OAN from Nazi Germany, according to Le 6161 during office hours and explain your needs. Monde newspaper. More than 1 billion francs ($100 million) was acquired from accounts and savings of Jews who died in Auschwitz. 75,000 people were deported from France following the German Bridge Players! occupation in 1940. /\^ Start with excellent food and continue the evening Swiss lists playing rubber bridge by supporting the first . Records uncovered in Swiss cantonal Madeleine Brook Bridge Evening <>* archives show that bank accounts y^ / ft^ containing millions of dollars, at today's Wednesday 14 May Vs 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 V\ values, were closed without the /^^ \J^ knowledge of the account holders in the l^^^Mh Supper 6.30pm - Bridge 7.30-10.30pm \ v^H^^ postwar era, reports The Guardian Bring a partner, or better still, make up a table 1 newspaper. In at least one case, a bank Ts^^j T^l put the contents of an account into its U2___ Tickets (£14) must be purchased in advance own reserves. Call Sylvia, Renee & Susie: 0171 328 0208

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