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Through the eporters who went to Banstead, Surrey, when away country' syndrome - Whitehall lacked the looking glass pi6 84-year-old Szymon Serafimowicz faced pohtical will to do the right and needful thing. Now, R committal proceedings on war crimes charges fifty years later, ghosts that were never laid to rest were told by his indignant neighbours: "Why can't stalk the lanes round leafy Banstead. 'they' leave him alone? He is a nice old man with The Whitehall mandarins' reluctance to do any­ Axis always a smile for the kids". By 'they' the thing about the likes of Serafimowicz and Dr Dering Bansteaders presumably meant the shades of the earlier on is not totally unrelated to the current pu­ partners dead in Belorus, a location which, though it can be sillanimous Western response to Serb aggression. reached by Aeroflot, appears several galaxies distant Ostrich-brained politicians argue that Britain - or oth from Banstead. the West - cannot be expected to carry the burden countries This is the mindset to which Chamberlain had of an increasingly unruly world. They are wrong!! It waged war given voice nearly two generations ago by describing is incumbent upon the West to give leadership; if it B fails to do so the whole human race including West­ Czechoslovakia as a far-away country of which we that brought knew little! ern countries will go to hell. indescribable Alas, no Twentieth Century atlas includes the cat­ And hell is, of course, literally the place to which suffering to their egory 'far-away countries'. Today Srebrenica and Dr Dering (and his ilk) consigned that part of the victims. Both Zepa are in everybody's living-room. And Serb war human race known as European Jewry. saw themselves criminals go about their grizzly business in these kill­ The forthcoming Serafimowicz trial has naturally as a master race. ing fields precisely because they know that many of prompted intense debate - a debate which has their predecessors went unpunished. After the war sometimes, unfortunately, produced rather more Both crashed to the US employed - instead of prosecuting - Nazi heat than light. Critics argue that exposing octoge­ defeat and rose spy chief von Gehlen and rocket designer von Braun; narians to the judicial process is a useless exercise; phoenix-like in Federal Germany an ex-Kommandant of judgment, they claim, should be left to historians. from the ashes. Theresienstadt was allowed to escape detection for (As if historians could be objective - vide the rest of his life; postwar Britain admitted count­ Charmley's Churchill-bashing and Prof Both, denying less anti-Soviet 'refugees' like Auschwitz doctor Hobsbawm's glossing over of Soviet crimes!) guilt, put the end Dering and Szymon Serafimowicz without bothering Hobsbawm's adversarial colleague, Norman Stone, - Dresden, to look into their past. meanwhile contends that it is wrong to punish Nazi Hiroshima - Preoccupied with the Cold War and the postwar atrocities without doing something equivalent about before the labour shortage - but also infected by the 'far Soviet crimes (which is rather like telling doctors: beginning. 'Don't cure cancer unless you can also cure Aids'!) Eventually the The company of anti-trial advocates is surprisingly The Committee of joined by Chaim Bermant, the otherwise cherishable Germans alone Management and Staff scourge of rabid rabbis and Likud bigots. Bermant began to show contends that the doddering dotard Serafimowicz is repentance. The ofthe a different man from the uniformed Nazi auxiliary reason: Hitier AJR of fifty-odd years ago. (Nonsense - as if the 82- notwithstanding year-old Mao Tse-tung, or the 83-year-old General Germany belongs Wish all Members a Franco had been different men from their blood­ to the Western VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR thirsty younger selves!) No, the Serafimowicz trial must go ahead, both for (Judeo-Christian) the sake of the dead of Belorus and of the still-living tradition. in Bosnia.D AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

Profile landfall on the Guinea coast to Lincoln's Act of Emancipation in 1863. More im­ portantly, while the horrors of the Middle Passage and of the plantation system can Bearer of a famous be laid at the White Man's door, the starting point of the whole vicious chain name was Black-on-Black violence in Africa, i.e. inter-tribal warfare. After all, Europeans ertain Jewish surnames - for did not sail to the Guinea coast to capture instance Kissinger, or Feucht slaves, but to buy them from their Black Cwanger - are one word short­ captors (or tribal chiefs). hand for the history of many generations. The figure of 130 million victims is a They indicate that families took the name fiction that bears no relation to the scale of the South West German village in of inter-tribal conflict, contemporary which they had lived, generally as cattle shipping capacity, or West African popu­ or corn dealers, before moving into town. lation estimates for previous centuries. (In The geographical move was often ac­ East Africa the population of Kenya, for instance, increased from 2 million before companied by other changes. Though Edgar Feuchtwanger Edgar Feuchtwanger's grandfather was a the British takeover to 13 million at Inde­ Torah treu disciple of Samson Raphael ing visits to the Californian Villa Aurora pendence.) Hirsch he sent his two ablest sons to Mu­ where Lion's widow Martha guarded the Demographic statistics can, in fact, nich University. The eldest became the famous 30,000 volume library. He also show amazing variations over relatively renowned author Lion Feuchtwanger maintains his long term involvement with short periods. In 1750 the French out­ (whose prestige among Left 1930s intel­ the Leo Baeck Institute on whose Board numbered the Enghsh; by 1850, thanks to lectuals was such that Stalin asked to be he serves. Last, but not least, he is a mem­ the Industrial Revolution, the situation interviewed by him). Edgar's father be­ ber of AJR and an attentive reader of its was reversed. came a publisher of scholarly works by journal. What about Jewish population figures? the likes of Werner Sombart; in addition URG These showed a steady and - later - in­ he edited, from 1930, the Bayrisch - cremental increase from a very low base Israelitische Gemeinde Zeitung. Edgar of just over a million in 1700 (conse­ was thus reared in a cultivated environ­ quence of the Chmelnitzki pogroms). ment, albeit under the lengthening Nazi Over the next two centuries numbers dou­ shadow. In 1939 aged fourteen, he arrived bled and trebled, reaching a global in England to stay with a doctor's family Demagogy and pre-Holocaust total of 18 million. What in Cornwall. (His parents came over sepa­ lay behind this (shortlived) fulfilment of rately.) He attended Winchester Public demography the Biblical prophecy? Some were general School, read history at Cambridge and European, others specifically Jewish, fac­ completed a PhD. Thereafter he worked n Zumbi, currently playing at tors. The former included the in adult education at Southampton and Stratford's Theatre Royal, a character continent-wide abatement of epidemics later joined the university faculty. He I says: 'The Jews lost 6 million in the (such as the plague), as well as a slow, but taught, and published books on Holocaust - we Blacks lost 130 million steady, rise in living standards. Among the Gladstone and Disraeli, as well as on Wei­ through the slave trade.' The inference to latter the Judaic laws on hygiene - mar Germany. be drawn from juxtaposing the two fig­ handwashing before meals, mikva attend­ As an additional string to his bow he ures is not spelt out. I suppose the most ance etc. - and on diet, as well as the initiated research on defence studies at innocuous inference would be that, given low incidence of alcoholism and of sexual Southampton. The latter project brought the Jews' grief over their loss. Blacks are promiscuity deserve mention. him into contact with a WW2 fighting entitled to feel commensurately more ag­ Plentiful progeny, which nowadays Brigadier whose doctor daughter he mar­ grieved. A less innocuous reading is that, marks out the orthodox, was in those pre- ried. They have three children. The seeing the number of Holocaust martyrs birth control days a feature of practically youngest daughter is, like her mother, an dwarfed by the victims of slavery, what all Jewish as well as non-Jewish families accomplished horsewoman; on many Sun­ on earth are the Jews bleating about? (although gentiles probably had a higher days our profilee hitches a horsebox I would not ascribe the latter malevo­ rate of infant mortality for the aforemen­ trailer to his car and drives to a nearby lent view to the playwright - but I do tioned reasons). horseshow. charge him with plucking mindnumbing Today, despite fifty years of post-war Another daughter is a journalist. The figures out of thin air and drawing mean­ prosperity, demographically we are still son teaches German exile literature at a ingless comparisons in his quest for several million below our pre-Holocaust Californian campus. His choice of subject dramatic effect. total. The indications, alas, are that world shows that the past still exerts a pull on The Holocaust was compressed into Jewry will be hard put to maintain even the British-born Feuchtwangers. As for three and a half years - mid-1941 to the current figure - but that's another Edgar, he is a rich repository of family winter 1944 - while White (as distinct less-than-edifying story. lore. He enjoys reminiscing about the from Arab) involvement in slavery lasted good-bad old days in Munich or describ- three centuries, i.e. from Hawkins' 1580 D Richard Grunberger AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

in Intelligence. But these promises had no The name of Richborough deserves to Remembering substance. High qualification did not ex­ be remembered for it represented not just empt from the grinding boredom of a a haven of refuge, but a generating station Richborough Labour Battalion. Once these men donned of valuable service to the cause of free­ uniform they were subjected to all the rig­ dom. s we approach the Days of Awe ours of army discipline and the basic n Rev. Dr. Isaac Levy our thoughts invariably turn to the training demanded of any recruit - Apast. We recall events and experi­ 'square bashing' in military parlance. ences which have made an indelible Ultimately Richborough was divided impact on us - especially in this 50th an­ into two distinct areas - a military, and niversary year. for those who remained so, a civilian OPEN DAY My memories form a strangely vari­ camp. The former was commanded by egated pattern. I recall my own meagre Lord Reading with the rank of Lt. Colo­ Heinrich Stahi House efforts to combat Fascism in this country nel, and the latter largely controlled by Sunday 10 September when Moseley and his mob paraded the Central British Fund and the Refugee 3.00 p.m. though the streets of London. Committee. As for religious ministration, Soon the dark clouds of war were gath­ the civilians enjoyed the services of Rabbi Entrance £3.00 (Children £1) ering over Europe and the plight of Dr. Van der Zyl, whereas I was appointed German and Austrian Jews received Army Chaplain to the military camp. Ali entrance prices include prominence. Britain offered a haven on This was my first assignment on being refreshments condition that they did not become a bur­ commissioned in the Royal Army Chap­ den on the state. Children, not included in lains' Department. It was a strange and this provision, arrived with the Kinder- unique appointment. I was the first minis­ transport. A third element were those ter of a synagogue to be commissioned as wishing to come to Britain in transit for a chaplain and was posted to German pensions other countries, notably USA and Canada. Richborough largely due to the interven­ For them a vast camp was established - tion of Sir Robert Waley Cohen. I well update or rather an old World War I camp which recall - with much amusement - that had become dilapidated was refurbished interview with Sir Robert who asked me li Ered has informed us that a recent and its large huts made habitable. This whether I "spoke German with conse­ examination of several pension was the famous Richborough Camp situ­ quence", as though this language was an E awards from the BfA, Berlin, has ated near Sandwich, Kent. essential qualification for ministration in shown a pattern of possibly erroneous The outbreak of war created a dilemma an army unit where only English was to computation of credits, leading, in some for the camp inmates. Technically 'enemy be spoken. I later realised that Sir Robert cases, to pension applicants receiving a aliens' they could have been interned for was justified in his approach. It did in fact very small pension award. the duration of the war. Fortunately the transpire that German was a prime neces­ The calculation of the amount of a pen­ spokesmen of Anglo-Jewry pleaded their sity, as I learnt to my cost. It led to my sion depends both on credits granted by cause. Wisdom dictated that they be of­ being severely reprimanded by Lord Read­ the BfA in respect of the persecution pe­ fered the opportunity to display their ing for "encouraging the men to speak riod from 1939-1949, and on animosity to Hitler as well as gratitude German and not English" in spite of the contributions made to the UK National for the shelter provided for them. To this fact that I was giving English lessons to Insurance Scheme during and after that end a recruiting campaign was inaug'i- the men during their off duty periods. In period. It is possible that the BfA may rated designed to obtain volunteers for the my response to His Lordship I explained have misinterpreted the information pro­ British Army (it being understood that as that when the men came to me to give ex­ vided by the UK Department of Social aliens they could only serve in a non-com­ pression to their anxieties they could only Security. batant capacity, which meant the Pioneer do so adequately in their mother tongue. In order to ascertain whether an error Corps). How else could they, many of whom still has, in fact, taken place, the DSS has now As it transpired the method of recruit­ had families in Europe, unburden them­ agreed to supply pension applicants with ment left much to be desired. A Major selves of their worries? Little did we a copy of form E205 (the record of contri­ Davidson who led the campaign, no reaUse then that the German language as butions sent to Germany). Anyone who doubt well meaning and with every honest used by these aliens in uniform would be believes that a low German pension offer intention, though hopelessly misinformed, put to good use. As the war progressed may have been based on a mistaken cal­ realised that the camp's inhabitants were former members of the Pioneer Corps culation of their credits and contributions, men of no mean standing. There were were transferred to Intelligence where should request a copy of their form E205 qualified doctors and dentists, former they rendered invaluable service. from the DSS, Pensions and Overseas bankers, linguists and academics; to all Nor should the contribution made by Benefits (Awards), Tyneview Park, these he promised an opportunity to serve some of the civilian camp occupants be Benton, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE98 in a capacity which fitted their qualifica­ minimised. Manning the local station IBA. Remember to quote your N.I. or UK tions - doctors in the Medical Corps, which monitored German broadcasts, pension number. dentists in the Dental Corps, bankers in their work led to the de-coding of mes­ When you receive your E205, you may the Pay Corps and academics and linguists sages which came over the air. call Eli Ered for advice (0171 628 2921)0 AJR INFORMATION SO>TEMBER 1995

four-letter words. Above all, in his Belsen- The words intimate grammar do not ap­ Reviews fuelled disgust with Nazism and its pear until page 303. By that time you will putative beneficiaries, the Major doesn't have absorbed the life and times of Aron scruple to doctor the evidence against his Kleinfeld in a Jerusalem still divided and quarry. His determination to nail the hag­ awaiting the outbreak of a new war. Baton charge gard and disoriented Furtwangler But all that quasi-historical matter is (magnficently played by Daniel Massey) is nothing but background, scarcely taken Ronald Harwood, TAKING SIDES, Criterion countered by a threesome of truth-seekers: seriously by the said Aron who crosses the Theatre, Piccadilly Circus. a US lieutenant of refugee origins, the barmitzvah barrier while living in an aura had a friend who could not be German widow of a Jewish pianist (Susan of self-created daydreams and nightmares persuaded that Stalin's Politburo Bertish, rather miscast) and the daughter described as "aroning". He and his family I consisted of dyed-in-the-wool villains. of an executed July 1944 plotter. - Papa Moshe, Mama Hinda, sister Pressed for proof of the contrary he The play ends with none of the Major's Yochi, and Grandma - inhabit a flat in a would say, "After all, Molotov is a cousin graver charges against Furtwangler housing project for less-than-well-off of the composer Scriabin". proven. The audience are simply left with Ashkenazim. Similar delusions blinded many people the impression of a somewhat flawed indi­ Papa is a giant of a man who has fought in the West to Nazi reality. What right vidual who fathered a series of illegitimate the Germans and than escaped from in­ had the emigres, they sometimes puzzled, children, denigrated all his conductor col­ ternment in Siberia carrying an injured to call the Nazis barbarians if Richard leagues - from Toscanini to Beecham - fellow escaper, a Ukrainian criminal with Strauss carried on composing and and was so jealous of the fast-rising cannibal tendencies, on his back. Mama Furtwangler conducting under the swas­ Karajan that he conducted a birthday brought up her orphaned sisters in be­ tika? Not to mention the Bayreuth concert for Hitler simply to stymie his sieged Jewish Jerusalem. Grandma was a Festival and Griindgens' Thespian tours younger rival. bit of a lass in her youth ... Papa, whom de force. One charge against Furtwangler - she calls Moritzy to Mama's annoyance, Readers may know that Mephisto, an whose gravity some dispute - however, is her out-of-wedlock son, probably by expose of Griindgens' receptivity to Nazi sticks. By staying on in Nazi Germany he one of her Polish "cavaliers" ... and now blandishment, was pulped after a German provided a cultural figleaf for a monstrous she is prematurely senile. libel case in the late Forties, prompting its tyranny whose nature was plain for all to If this is not your idea of the average Is­ author to commit suicide; what they may see from the onset; after all, concentration raeli family you are on the same not know is that Griindgens had been camps were set up even ahead of the wavelength as Aron who loves, fears and leftwing in pre-Nazi times. UnUke the ac­ Reich Chamber of Music. I can't help despises them like a good son, only more tor, Furtwangler had been a man of the feeling that Harwood extends undue leni­ so. He is much better educated than they Right under the Weimar regime. This did ency to his protagonist. When the US (with the exception of sister Yocheved). not make him an overt Stahlhelm sup­ Major asks Furtwangler why he didn't But he is puny, a great disappointment to porter - not least because art mattered leave Germany alongside Bruno Walter those living legends, his parents. His play­ infinitely more to him than politics. and Klemperer, the playwright makes him mates accept him as a leader in their spy For all that, Furtwangler was imbued exclaim with heat, "But they had to leave, games because he is a far more way-out with a German-patriotic, illiberal Weltan­ being Jews". It is a disingenuous reply. fantasist than they are, and a Houdini-like schauung. He confided to his diary in late Aryan conductors like Erich Kleiber and escapology trickster, but on the physical 1939 that the democracies could not win Fritz Busch (of Glyndbourne fame) left at level they regard him as a runt. the war because their political system the same time as their aforementioned Even when he finally falls in love, with sapped authority and put quantity in Jewish colleagues. Does Harwood think class-mate Yaeli, it is an affaire a trois. place of quality. Ten years later, having theatregoers so well-informed that they He himself prefers to share her with best been cold-shouldered by the returning will see through Furtwangler's ruse, or friend Gideon. The sharing does not Thomas Mann he wrote: "Some of us has he created a symmetrical dramatic amount to more than companionship; don't change their nationality as often as construct in which all minuses and plusses Yaeli plays it strictly within the limits of their shirts". neatly cancel each other out? paldom, certainly with Aron. Meanwhile Ronald Harwood mentions neither DRG he detests the average Israeh male juve­ quote in his text (or programme notes). niles with their derring-do, broken voices Otherwise, though, he deserves high and incipient moustaches... and, hilari­ marks as a researcher. This enabled him ously, he envies them their Adam's to present Taking Sides as a taut court­ apples. They talk dirty; he is a Puritan. He room drama (in the form of preliminary even abhors the jokes Papa and some un­ hearings for a postwar Allied Denazifica­ cles exchange. He is also painfully tion Tribunal) where prosecution and Aron's rod constipated, which adds to his reclusive defence in turn reveal hitherto unknown tendencies. facets of Furtwangler's life. The US mili­ David Grossman, THE BOOK OF INTIMATE These are the bricks with which tary prosecutor conforms to the worst GRAMMAR,Jor)adian Cape. 1994, £14.99. Grossman builds his edifice. And for the European stereotypes of Yankee et no reader be misled by the title. way he does it he has been taken to task philistinism; he falls asleep over a Far from being a book about by some critics after being called Israel's Beethoven record, calls Furtwangler a Lgrammar, it is a novel about how a greatest living writer for See Under Love, band leader and turns the air blue with boy tries to absorb the world around him. his previous work. Intimate Grammar has flgsig^^j;^ mt AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

been described as too involved, difficult to penetrate. I do not think it is, but he has BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE complicated matters by, in my view, lis­ 51 Belsize Square, London N.W.S tening to some siren voices. Our communal hall is available for In his conceits there appears to be a cultural and social functions. hankering after what is known as "magi­ cal realism" ... not the Hispano-American Tel: 0171-794 3949 kind, but I detected an empathy with the BELSIZE SQUARE ideas of Salman Rushdie. SYNAGOGUE The other literary influence is Kafka. In French collaboration my view Aron sees himself as another 51 BELSIZE SQUARE, NW3 Gregor Samsa, a misshapen "insect" his he newly installed President of We offer a traditional style of parents would like to "sweep away" as France, Jacques Chirac, has admitted religious service with Cantor, they have tried to do with Grandma. This country's collaboration in the Choir and organ There is a slight doubt that a thirteen- arrest and deportion of Parisian Jews to year-old lad could have such ideas; the Nazi death camps in World War II at a Furtfier details can be obtained effectiveness of the novel therefore de­ ceremony marking the 53rd anniversary from our synagogue secivtary pends entirely on the authorial voice. of the event. Does the book provide a good read? I On the morning of 16th July 1942 found that big chunks of it do, except that French police, acting in the name of the Telephone 0171-794 3949 the translation from the Hebrew has too Vichy Government and on the initiative of many Yiddishisms in it. I wonder what a its Prime Minister, Pierre Laval, ham­ Minister: Rabbi Rodney J. Mariner Gentile reader outside of New York mered on the doors of Parisian Jewish Cantor: Rev Lawrence H. Fine would make of it. But the general impetus families, giving them just five minutes to Regular services: Friday evenings at 6.30 pm, of the novel carried me over these pitfalls. pack before being herded on to buses. Saturday mornings at 10 am D John Rossall They were taken to the Velodrome Religion school: Sundays at 10 am to 1 pm d'Hiver sports stadium where, in two Space donated by Pafra Umited days, 13,000 mainly women and children were stripped of their valuables and im­ prisoned without water, food or sanitation in the oppressive summer heat. Five days later, virtually starving and in Danish liberator a state of degradation, they were taken to JACS The fate of Harry Pistol, an Austrian the French concentration camp at Drancy, at Belsize Square Synagogue Jew serving in the British Army as re­ northeast of Paris, where mothers and 2.00 - 4.00 pm ported in an AJR Information search children were separated before they were in the Hall notice of February 1995, who was the herded onto cattle trains en route to first British soldier to enter Denmark on Auschwitz and other death camps. 4th May 1945, has been revealed. He died Of the 76,000 Jews rounded up by the Programme 12 years ago. While serving in the Royal French for deportation, a task which they SEPTEMBER Army Service Corps as a driver in North carried out with alacrity, a mere three per­ Germany, he was ordered to take the Ger­ cent survived to tell of their tragedy; none Tuesday 5 man generals, who had surrendered to of the 4,051 children returned. Not one A Joumey Through Jewish Music with Geraidine Auerbach - Direc­ Field-Marshall Montgomery, into Den­ German soldier took part in the raids. tor ofthe Jewish Music Festival- and mark. DRDC naturally with music. Tuesday 12 Mail(a Bal(er will take A Look at If you are considering selling works by artists such as: Joyce Grenfeli and some of her W. BAUMEISTER, E. BARLACH, M. BECKMANN, L. CORINTH, monologues including 'George - don't O. DEX, M. ERNST, L. FEININGER, G. GROSZ, E. HECKEL, do that'. K. HOFER, K. HUBBUCH, A.v. JAWLENSKY, E.L. KIRCHNER, P. KLEE, G. KLIMT, M. KLINGER, O. KOKOSCHKA, Tuesday 19 K. KOLLWITZ, M. LIEBERMANN, EL LISSITZKY, A. MACKE, An afternoon with Bettine La Beau, F. MARC, H. MEID, L. MEIDNER, E. NOLDE, E. ORLIK, raconteur and star of television, films H.M. PECHSTEIN, K SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, G. TAPPERT, L. URY, and radio. please contact VILLA GRISEBACH AUKTIONEN the world's top specialists for 20th century art from Germany, sop for members, 70p for visitors. for further information - confidential and free-of-charge. Membership £4.00 per annum. UK representative: Vivien Reuter • The Keir, Westside Common Application forms for membership London SW19 4UG • Tel. 0181-944 1858 • Fax 0181-879 0862 will be available at each meeting. AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

I have received copies of a booklet de­ scribing the work and aims of the Museum, founded in 1987, and also a leaflet describing examples of the 50 hid­ ing places so far known in the district, in T^^te^j^^ which Jews have survived, and will be pleased to send copies to interested mem­ bers on request. 89, Alleyn Road Ludwig Meyer London SE21 8AD DER NEUE PESTER LLOYD relations) of my paternal grandmother's family Windmueller in the Catskills, N.Y. Sir - From 1854 till 1944, for many of Spurned on by the Nazi racial pohcy, a these years under very difficult circum­ family member in 1938 compiled an ex­ AUSTRIAN JEW-HATRED stances, the daily Pester Lloyd written in tensive family tree, stretching back, German and published in Budapest meant unbroken, to the 1680s with good evi­ Sir - A.W. Freud's article on his great- culture, intelligence and humanity in Hun­ dence of earlier ancestry in the uncle Edward Bernays and America's gary. Westphalian region. It was published in entry into the First World War was as in­ Many of the paper's editors were Jew­ book form. teresting as his previous contributions, but ish (Weisz, Rothfeld, Falk, Singer, After the war, my cousin and her his comparison between Britain/India and Veszi...) and even in the thirties of daughter, now in Richmond Virginia, an­ Austria/Czechoslovakia /eally will not do. Judengesetz Hungary, most of the staff glicized the work and traced a large Until about the end of the war there was were Jews. My mother joined the paper in number of members throughout the no Czechoslovakia. The Western half had 1936 and stayed with it until March world. The labour resulted in a tome of for centuries been an integral part of the 1944. 268 pages. It includes many poignant German/Holy-Roman and Austrian em­ March 1944 saw the end of the publica­ documents, photographs and accounts of pires, with ethnically and religiously tion as we knew it; a totally victims and survivors. (Many relevant li­ intermingled populations. Slovakia and gleichgeschaltet version which bore no re­ braries have a copy, including the Wiener Carpatho-Russia had been part of Hun­ semblance to the paper we knew carried Library). gary, indeed during the 150 years of on during the murderous German occupa­ Many participants in the reunion came Turkish occupation almost the main part tion. Then there was a gap of fifty years from the USA, with others from Australia, of rump Hungary, for an equally long until its resurrection, as a weekly, in No­ Europe and S. America time. Both parts were contiguous lands, vember 1994. It was a unique occasion which linked not a distant overseas possession popu­ Now entitled Der neue Pester Lloyd, the the commemoration of the 172 family lated by non-Europeans. journal calls itself "independent, plurahs- members who perished (including my par­ The comparison relevant to this country tic and rich in tradition", and the issues ents) with the triumph of survival and lies with Ireland, which until the 1840s published so far certainly do justice to this renewal. accounted for one third of the population slogan. Some of my contributions are Vallaf)ce Road M. Maynard of the United Kingdom, which lay 'next based on recollections of the period of Londor), N22 door' and where there were no major persecution; other editions, too, have ethnic differences. Its eventual independ­ given details of the Jewish past and ence did not damage Britain in the way present of Budapest. One of my next arti­ that the collapse of the Dual Monarchy cles will deal with the activities of the BERLIN PAST hit Austria. But we may well hope that AJR. Sir - The Director Bernd Hildebrandt the eventual reintegration within the E.U. The paper caters for German speakers of the Heimatmuseum Berlin-Tiergarten, of Britian and Ireland will one day be fol­ visiting, or resident in, Budapest. It also Turmstr. 75, D-10551, Berlin, Germany, lowed by similar developments between gives a weekly review of events in Hun­ would be grateful for any reports and Austria and the Czech Replublic. gary of interest to German speakers records from former Jewish inhabitants Deddington, Oxfordshire Francis Steiner abroad. Subscriptions can be taken out and their families that will help to trace for a whole year at DM126 (including and document past Jewish life, cultural postage) by writing to the paper at 1054 and economic activities in connection Budapest V. Szemere utca 23, Hungary. In with the district since the eighteenth cen­ my experience the issue appearing on REFUGEE ? tury. It stretches from the Spandauer Wednesday usually arrives by Friday. Verbindungskanal in the north to the Sir - To be or not to be - a Refugee Thomas Edmund Konrad KurfiJrstenstrasse in the south, from that is the question. London correspondent Gleisdreieck in the east to the rail station Whether 'tis nobler in the mind "Der Neue Pester Uoyd" Zoo in the west and contains the former to suffer the slings and arrows Jewish centres of Moabit and of outrageous fortune UNIQUE FAMILY REUNION Hansaviertel, as well as homes south of or perchance to dream the Tiergarten and Landwehrkanal. Any of being as British as the Queen? Sir - Recently, I attended the reunion original contributions or copies will be Sutton Coldfield Werner Abraham of over 100 members (plus their spouses/ gratefully acknowledged. West Midlands AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

'Sacariah' arrived. It must have spent The 'Sacariah' eventually set sail in One man's war many years in a ship's scrapyard as it mid-February and at the last moment a Prague to Haifa was covered with rust. There was also an special contingent of new travellers ar­ inch of fine coal dust wherever you rived on board. Young males in black touched. While a lot of preparation, plan­ shirts and black riding boots, they were n the last days of October 1939, things ning and money must have been involved, led by Eric Jabotinsky, the son of the finally started happening. We left in not everything had been foreseen. The founder of the Revisionist (rightwing Zi­ I heavily guarded wagons for the town of coal-freighter could only provide stand­ onist) Party. Bratislava with its riverport on the Dan­ ing-room on deck for a limited number of It would be difficult to ascertain if the ube. There the travellers were shepherded persons and the four holds had to be German Government used its influence into a large gymnasium and sports centre, transformed into living quarters for the by with the then independent Romanians to ironically called 'Slobodarna' which now greatly increased number of refugees, plant such a controversial political figure means Freedom. Here we were locked up over three thousand. on the illegal transport to Palestine, so as for about ten days, until about a thousand Loads of wood were brought on board to stoke up the Arab uprising against the persons were assembled. Later we trans­ and floors, compartments, bunks, stair­ British. One can, however, assume that ferred to a paddle-steamer of the Danube cases, toilets, etc., had to be constructed. the British Secret Service monitored all Steam Ship Company. Our ship, the Work went on round the clock, mostly by transport operations in Europe and must 'Saturnus', was a beautiful steamer used paraffin hurricane lamps as the ship's have known of Eric Jabotinsky's arrival for luxury cruises which could accommo­ generator hardly provided enough elec­ on board the 'Sacariah' minutes before date some four hundred passengers. tricity for a few bulbs. The first death departure. And they were certainly doing Shortly before departure another large occurred when two workers fell in dark­ something about it. group of about 1,000 people arrived di­ ness into the hold from the ship's deck. After sailing from the Romanian port rect from Vienna, doubling the total Before the journey on the 'Sacariah' the ship made a detour to the Turkish har­ complement. In spite of the fact that the started one knew that if, God forbid, you bour of Zonguldak to stock up with coal ship's mast was flying the swastika flag fell ill, you had no need to worry about and also a substantial number of bags of and the future was very uncertain, we diagnosis of your ailment. There were cement. were in high spirits, finally moving out of many doctors, surgeons, specialists and Out of the Bosphorus the boat sailed Nazi land. consultants on hand, but their healing full steam ahead for the Dardenelles, but The trip from Bratislava took about ten powers were restricted to the few medical shortly after Gallipoli it came to a sudden days. The ship came to a halt at the small remedies they could carry in their bags. halt: amid a great bang and lots of hissing port of Sulina on the Black Sea. Another One would, however, never have realised steam the rusty old boiler in the engine- ocean-going vessel was to take us through how many craftsmen, engineers and car­ room had exploded. But the captain and the straits of the Bosphorus and Istanbul penters were among the refugees and in a his crew of Turks and Greeks (certainly all to the shores of Palestine. But there was short time everybody could settle down to ex-convicts) knew exactly what they were no other ship waiting and the river had a bunk for sleep at least. doing. They mixed the previously loaded frozen up completely. The only heating that existed on board cement with water and packed the None of the travellers was allowed to was by your many neighbours' body cracked boiler in concrete and soon the set foot on Romanian soil, but there was heat. Life must have been not dissimilar to journey continued, but only for a day or some contact with the local authorities the inside of a beehive. Queueing was es­ two. and the Jewish community in Bucharest. sential for everything like drinking water, A cannon-shot across her bow stopped Fresh water and coal for the ship were and I woke up in the middle of one night the 'Sacariah' in her path. The shot was provided plus some bread and supplies for cold and wet, but the source of discomfort an order by a British naval vessel for the a never-changing bean soup. There was was next to my head. I had somehow got captain to stop and await a boarding also the possibility of sending letters; you hold of a discarded glass bottle which I party. could write to your family and receive an filled with drinking water. This water Soon a company of the Royal Lanca­ answer within a short time, together with froze to ice which in turn broke the bottle shire regiment boarded the ship, installed some international postal coupons which during the night. several machine guns and handcuffed the you could change into local currency. This Toilet facilities were constructed with captain. The passengers were informed was quite essential because if a letter ar­ wooden planks over the side of the ship so amid smiles of relief that the order was to rived for you the postman would stand on that you could sit down facing the centre escort the ship straight to Haifa. a little plank between ship and shore, of the ship without falling backwards It was now February 1940, six months wave your letter, but would not hand it overboard. There existed some partitions after the outbreak of war, and the British over, unless you bribed him. in these rows of about twenty to thirty (Palestine) Government were not permit­ We were stuck there in the ice for about toilets, but there was not enough material ting an influx of several thousand two months, during which time (mostly) left to construct doors and one had to sit immigrants whose identity they wanted to American refugee organisations worked in full view of a long queue of people in check. There could be German agents try­ frantically to provide funds to secure an the same predicament. There was, by ing to infiltrate into the Middle East. ocean-going vessel with a crew who were now, very irregular and very little food Previously, other illegal transports had prepared to ferry human cargo, not know­ available, which resulted in much suffer­ been diverted to other parts of the British ing where or when they could disembark. ing from constipation or diarrhoea. You Empire, but this ship, intercepted on the By the middle of February 1940 an an­ would have found out at your peril if you high seas, was escorted into Haifa har­ cient-looking Turkish coal-freighter of mistakenly joined a constipated line while bour, about five thousand tons named suffering from the opposite. (to be continued) D HP Weiner AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

South London AJR Open day Living history 50 YEARS AGO he Paul Balint AJR Day Centre held ow does training as a mechanic After VE Day its annual Open Day in the midst of and butler qualify you for work as Tasks Ahead a heatwave that was breaking all Together with men and wonnen all over the T records. Undeterred by the surfeit of sun­ H a tram conductor? And how does world, we Jewish Refugees greeted with a sense a visa to China get you to the UK via of deep joy the day when the end of the war in shine, members and visitors enjoyed a Switzerland and France? How homesick Europe was announced in public. An end has very happy afternoon together. come now to the wholesale murder of do you have to be before you ask some­ defenceless men, women and children on the Sitting in the well-shaded garden and one to bring soil from Berlin to put under Continent of Europe, and Jews who have chatting with friends was one popular your bed? And as a magistrate and coun­ survived need no longer be in constant fear But, pastime; perusing and purchasing from whilst we pause a moment to rejoice, we brace cillor, what do you say to your son when our shoulders for the burden which the future the well-stocked variety of stalls was an­ he tells you, "Dad, I have a summons for holds in store for us;- Worries amd troubles are other. On offer were jewelry, toiletries, awaiting us which will have to be overcome stationery, gifts, handicrafts as well as bis­ parking and you signed it!" before we can set out to build a new and securer These were some of the fascinating re­ life. It is not ourselves in the first place that we cuits and chocolates for the less collections of four members at South have to consider, but we must think constantly, weight-conscious. daily, hourly, of our brothers and sisters on the A most generous and plentiful tea was London AJR's last meeting. Their stories Continent, men and women without a physical demonstrated their resourcefulness and and spiritual home, uprooted and helpless, who prepared by the Centre's own excellent the exceptional contribution they made to have just escaped from the grip of death. catering staff which went down extremely their adopted country. Both the concept At the moment when the war in Europe well. As ever, the afternoon's organisa­ ended, the AjR appeals to its members, pointing tion progressed like clockwork, and and the organisation were Walter to the immense task ahead, asking them to unite Woyda's and, due to its great success, and stand together, as only a great joint effort thanks are due not only to the Centre's further similar sessions are being planned. will be able to pave the way for a better future. staff, but also to its wonderful volunteers AJR Information, June 1945 For your diary: South London's next who worked extremely hard to ensure the meetings will be on Thursday 21st Sep­ afternoon's success. tember, to learn of the ivork of the Takings once again exceeded £1,000, Institute of Jetvish Affairs, and on Thurs­ while a further generous and substantial day 16th November, ivith Fred Tuckman Summer tea party donation for Open day was received from ex-MEP (Member of the European Parlia­ Mrs H. Angelus. The proceeds from Open ment) and currently President of the Residents of Balint House, and their Day will be used to improve amenities Anglo-Jewish Association. We look for­ relatives, enjoyed a mid-summer tea party and facilities at the Day Centre.D ward to welcoming you. given by the ladies of the House Commit­ tee who prepared a selection of D Ken Ambrose mouth-watering sandwiches, cakes and AJR Bridge Section refreshments. The wonderfully warm weather allowed As a result of popular demand, we have many people to sit and relax on the ter­ decided to start a regular Bridge Section AJR 'Drop in'Advice Centre race, while musical entertainment was at the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre, 1-5 Paul BalintAJR Day Centre provided by Ronnie, a member of the Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL, on Mon­ Kletzmer Festival Band. Residents and day afternoons at 4.00pm till 6.30pm 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 (excluding Bank Holidays and Yomtov) between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on the friends alike said how much they had en­ starting 11 September 1995. following dates: joyed the occasion. Sessions will be supervised by Mrs- Thursday 7th September Bella Glasner and will be open to playefS Monday I Ith September of all levels. Tuesday 19th September Please phone Mrs. Glasner on 0181 346 Wednesday 27th September 0552 to inform her that you will be com' Thursday Sth October AJR INFORMATION ing. and every Thursday from is available on tape 10 a.m. to 12 noon at: If anyone would like to take AJR, I Hampstead Gate, advantage of this service AJR I a Frognal, London NW3 Our address is: Please contact 1 HAMPSTEAD GATE, No appointment is necessary, but please bring 1A FROGNAL, LONDON NWS 6AL abng all relevant documents, such as Benefit Mrs Irene White 0181-203 2733 before 9am or after 6pm Our phone number is: Our fax number is: Books, letters, bilk, etc. 0171-431 6161 0171-431 8454 AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

Message from Ernest David Why have I recounted this anecdote at dated back to Roman times. Reputed to this time of the year, when we take stock be the northernmost working vineyard in ith our New Year almost upon of the past and present and wonder about Europe, a unique combination of climate, us, I was reflecting recently on the future? Some may say that life is a lot­ soil and irrigation made viniculture possi­ W the quirks of national calen­ tery, while according to the New Year's ble. A good harvest could produce as dars, all of which include a New Year, prayer, one's own good actions can avert much as 25 tons of grapes, though this which for various reasons falls at different the severe decree. year's early frosts had reduced that to seasons from other New Years. I believe we are all responsible for our some five tons. A few years ago I was showing an or­ actions and that each one of us can, by A tasting of the variety of wines pro­ thodox Israeli lawyer the wonderful our actions or inaction, influence the duced was preceded by the 'Wrekin' architecture and interior of St Albans Ab­ course of events to some extent. toast of welcome, the Wrekin being the lo­ bey, where there happens to be a display With that thought I should like to wish cal mountain which dominates the area. explaining that some festivals in the you all a healthy, happy and peaceful The buffet lunch had a charming musical Christian calendar are based on the Jew­ Shanah Tovah.O accompaniment given by a flute and clari­ ish calendar. However, in a number of net duet playing Purcell and Handel. ways the explanation was wrong. My Is­ Roman vintage Before returning by coach, local Roman raeli friend wrote to the Dean of the embers of AJR's Birmingham ruins and excavations were toured, Abbey giving the correct explanation of Group enjoyed a day's outing to though the warmth and generosity of the the Jewish calendar and requested the dis­ M the historic town of Wroxeter, welcome the group received proved the play should be altered. It was. near Shrewsbury, to visit a vineyard which day's highlight. D AIL

PAUL BALINT AJR Thursday 7 50 YEARS ON-a 1940s Davies (Soprano) DAY CENTRE VARIETY SHOW - W accompanied by Anita Elias w Christopher Rouse (Piano) Sunday 10 CONCERT - CABARET Thursday 21 BUDAPEST CAFE - Tel. 071 328 0208 - Primrose Powell Dave Kelbie & Steve (Soprano) accompanied Elsworth Open Tuesday and Thursday 9.30 a.m. - by Andrew Wells (Piano) Sunday 24 CLOSED- EREV 6.30 p.m., Monday and Wednesday 9.30 Monday 11 SHADES OF PALM ROSH HASHANAH a.m. - 3.30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. - 6.30 COURT - Patrick Monday 25 CLOSED- ROSH p.m. Kilbride (Violin) HASHANAH accompanied by Jennifer Tuesday 26 CLOSED- ROSH Hunt (Piano) HASHANAH Morning Activities - Bridge, kalookie, Tuesday 12 AUTUMNTIME Wednesday 27 MUSICAL scrabble, chess, etc., keep fit, discussion SERENADE-Alisa ENTERTAINMENT ON group, choir {Mondays), art class {Tuesdays Spivack (Soprano) A SEPTEMBER and Thursdays). accompanied by Geoffrey AFTERNOON - Lara Whitworth (Piano) Moyler (Soprano) Wednesday 13 A LITTLE LIGHT MUSIC accompanied by Marek - Sarah Cooper Dabrowsky (Piano) Afternoon entertainment - (Soprano) accompanied Thursday 28 ENTERTAINMENT ON by Stuart Wild (Piano) CLARINET & SEPTEMBER Thursday 14 SONGS WITH KEYBOARD-Jerry MEMORIES - Amanda Wray, Member of the Sunday 3 DAY CENTRE OPEN - Palmer (Soprano) Metropolitan Police Band NO ENTERTAINMENT accompanied by Marek Monday 4 A MUSICAL Dabrowsky (Piano) AFTERNOON WITH Sunday 17 DAY CENTRE OPEN - THE 'DUO VIVO' - NO ENTERTAINMENT OCTOBER Armen Boldy (Tenor) Monday 18 SONGS WE SANG Sunday 1 DAY CENTRE OPEN - accompanied by Marek WHEN WE WERE NO ENTERTAINMENT Debrowsky (Piano) YOUNG - David Lee Monday 2 THE BERKELEY TRIO Tuesday 5 MUSICAL (Voice & own Tuesday 3 DAY CENTRE CLOSED ENTERTAINMENT FOR Accompaniment) AFTER LUNCH - Yom THE AUTUMN-Judi, Tuesday 19 TRINITY TRIO - Kippur Bimbi & Rufus Merri- Amanda Palmer Wednesday 4 CLOSED- Yom Frowde accompanied by (Soprano), Devon Kippur June Moore (Piano) Harrison (Bass) Thursday 5 THE ORCHARD TRIO Wednesday 6 MUSICAL GREETINGS accompanied by Gilmour (Piano - Flute & Oboe) FOR YOM TOV - Rona (Piano) Sunday 8 CLOSED- EREV Israel (Soprano) Wednesday 20 AUTUMN MISCELLANY SUCCOTH accompanied by Charlotte - POPULAR SONGS & Mathews (Piano) ARIAS - Michaela AJR INFORMATION SEPTEMBER 1995

FAMILY Strauss. Hedwig Strauss, who ISRAELTOUR died on 31 July, is deeply Residential Home mourned by her daughter Clara Nehab House A tour of Israel is being Birth (Lao Baeck Housing Asaoclaton Ltd.) Ellen, son Walter and grandson 13-1t LeeslcM Cresceni NWll planned, suitable for members, inclusive of accommodation, Henderson. Frank and Thea Maxwell. All rooms with Shower W.C. and Henderson of Manchester are H/C Basins en-suite mostly half-board & tour guide. delighted to announce the birth Spacious Garden - Lounge & Approx. dates: CLASSIFIED Dining Room - Lift I Sth October of their fourth great­ Near Shops and Public Transport to 6th November 95 grandchild, Daniel Scott, born Companion/Carer. Highly ex­ 24 Hour Care - Physiotherapy to Susan and Neil Jager. perienced, good natured and Long & short Term - Respite Care For further details send SAE to: responsible Woman offers her - Trial Periods S. Kesten Enquiries: Mrs Gloria Randaii 68 Langland Crescent, Birthday services. Please ring 0181 203 otto Schiff Housing Association The Bishops Avenue N2 OBG Stanmore, Middx. HA7 I NG Katzburg. Sarah Rosa Katz­ 5376. Phone: 0181-209 0022 burg, mazeltov on your 90th Electrician. City & Guilds birthday, with all good wishes from your friends at AJR. qualified. All domestic work ADVERTISEMENT RATES undertaken. Y. Steinreich. Tel: BELSIZE SQUARE FAMILY EVENTS 0181455 5262. First 15 words free of charge, Deaths APARTMENTS £2.00 per 5 words thereafter. 24 BELSIZE SQUARE, N.W.S Spencer. Dr. Robert Spencer, Manicure and Pedicure in the CLASSIFIED Tel: 0171-794 4307 or £2.00 per five words. Viennese-born cardiologist comfort of your own home. 0171-435 2557 BOX NUMBERS who emigrated to England in Telephone 0181 455 7582. £3.00 extra.

1938, died 9th July 1995 in IMODERN SELF-CATERING HOLIDAY DISPLAY, SEARCH NOTICES London at the age of 91. His ROOMS, RESIDENT HOUSEKEEPER per single column inch Miscellaneous MODERATE TERMS 65 mm (3 column page) £10.00 wife Hanna predeceased him NEAR SWISS COTTAGE STATION 48mm (4 column page) £9.00 by five years. German Translation & Corre­ Layton. Robert Layton spondence. Good standard of (formerly Helmut Loewenberg), written German required for ALTERATIONS born 1914, died 2nd July AJR INFORMATION translation and correspond­ OF ANY KIND TO 1995. Ex Kitchener Camp, ence. Please telephone 01923 Is available on tape LADIES' FASHIONS Sandwich, Pioneer Corps and 85 5313. If anyone would like to take I also design and make Royal Army Service Corps. children's clothes advantage of this service Dearly beloved husband of Jo, World Wars. I collect cards and West Hampstead area envelopes from the camps. father to Vernon and Lorraine. Please contact 0171-328 6571 Please send with price asked to A truly wonderful man. Mrs Irene White Peter C. Rickenback, 14, Bach. Susan Bach, widow of 0181-203 2733 Rosslyn Hill, London NW3 Hans, died peacefully on 21st before 9am or after 6pm IPR RETIREMENT FLAT July 1995, aged 93. Missed by Newly decorated, her many friends. one-bedroom flat Schmitthoff. Twinkle (Ilse) AJR Large lounge with balcony Schmitthoff, widow of The AJR Residents lounge, car park Our address is: Professor Clive Schmitthoff, does not accept 1 HAMPSTEAD GATE, 24 hour warden availability died on 16th July 1995. Sadly 1A FROGNAL, LONDON NW3 6AL Well situated for shops responsibility for and Golders Green Station missed by her friends. The Our phone number is; Our fax number is: funeral was held on 19th July the standard of 0171-431 6161 0171-431 8454 Details from: Elaine Hallgarten, 0171 722 1077 at the Liberal Jewish Cemetery, service rendered Willesden, London. Roberts. Jetti Roberts (nee by advertisers Volunteers needed at Paul Balint AJR Day Centre Edelstein) died Sth July 1995, aged 87. Sadly missed by her 15 Cleve Road, NW6 3RL sons and daughter, Charlie, 1. General helpers, prepared to work as members of a Ronny and Renee, family and WANTED! team for a variety of duties. friends. She will always be in Hours 9.45am - 3.45pm Monday to Thursday our hearts and part of us. Driver for AJR car Busse. Mina (Micky) Busse, also 3.30 - 6.30 Tuesday and Thursday. to drive members my beloved wife for 54 years, 2. A nurse/first-aider sought for Tuesdays passed away on 29th July. She to and from the 9.45 -3.45. will be greatly missed by her Paul Balint 3. 'Relief people to come in when others are sick or two sons, their families and her AJR Day Centre treasured grandchildren, both on holiday. here and in Canada. Never Contact: Renee Lee Enquiries to Sylvia Matus, Day Centre Organiser forgotten by her husband, Tel: 0171 328 0208, Monday to Thursday 9.00ani - 3.45pm 0181-328 0208 Guenter.

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Alice Schwab Signs, Traces and Calligraphy, an exhi­ year and to mark the occasion the bition featuring religious and poetic texts, Hayward Gallery is showing (until 30 Oc­ geometric and pagan symbols, paintings, tober) a grand collection of photographs, tapestries and sculptures by artists from mainly of movie stars, Marilyn Monroe, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, the Su­ Rita Hayworth, James Dean, Marlene dan and Tunisia. At the same time the Dietrich; Audry Hepburn, etc. About 200 Barbican Art Gallery is showing photographs are included in the exhibi­ 945 - The end of the War Carrington: the Exhibition, celebrating tion and they were all taken by Magnum exhibition (at Annely Juda's until the unique talent and extraordinary life of photographers. 116 September) is well worth visiting. the artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932), Art and Power: Europe under the dicta­ There is a magnificent Josef Albers, a generally known for her links with the tors 1930-1945 is the 23rd Council of cherrywood relief by Jean Arp, an oil and Bloomsbury Group. Europe exhibition, at the Hayward Gal­ a watercolour by Milton Avery, an excit­ From Manet to Gauguin, the exhibition lery (26 October - 21 January 1996). ing water-colour. Murder 1945, by Max at the Royal Academy, of masterpieces The exhibition is devised around four cit­ Beckmann, oils by Lucien Freud and from Swiss private collections, continues ies, Paris, Rome, Moscow and Berlin and Naum Gabo, a marble by Barbara until 8 October. It contains some really shows how art, architecture and film were Hepworth, and fine works by Josef superb pictures ! subverted and used as propaganda to fur­ Herman, Ivor Hitchens, Rene Magritte, On 12 July the British Museum opened ther the ideals of totalitarian regimes. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henry Moore, a new permanent gallery: The Hellenistic The Heat of Vision, a Hans Feibusch Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters and Victor World: Art and Culture. The relatively retrospective' is a major travelling exhibi­ Vasarely. short historical period extends from the tion organised by Pallant Gallery, Holger Braasch, 44 Acacia Road, NWS death of Alexander in 323 BCE. to the Chichester. is holding a mixed summer exhibition Battle of Actium in 31 BCE. It was an age It will be shown at the Ben Uri Art Gal­ which includes works by many of our old of ^'culture sans frontieres' according to lery from 5 November to 10 December. friends: Georg Tappert, Richard Ziegler, Ian Jenkins, the curator of the new gal­ Margaret Marks, Henryk Gotlib, Pamina lery, and is probably the first gallery in Mahrenholz, Leonard Baskin, as well as any museum dedicated to this important many others (prices £l50-£20,000). It is part of Greek history and culture. worth telephoning (0171 722 9766) be­ The Summer exhibition at Marlborough SB is on holiday. fore going there. Fine Arts is a mixed bag of paintings and His next column As part of Africa '95, the season cel­ sculpture by many leading artists, includ­ will appear in ebrating the arts of Africa, The Barbican ing, amongst others. Bacon, Auerbach, Concourse Gallery is showing (until 14 Hepworth, Kokoschka and Pasmore. the October issue. October) It is the centenary of the cinema this

Girl with Dogs, 1889, Paul Gauguin. Holocaust memorial Germans cannot agree on how best to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. Judges selected two possible designs from the 528 sketches submitted, but a dispute has developed about the names to be in­ scribed. Should the names be added over time, or a fee paid? Should non-Jews be excluded? The German Government is re­ ported as having agreed to pay for the memorial, when its form is finally agreed.

Pension concern The charity Age Concern is campaign­ ing for the state retirement pension to be increased to a third of average earnings for a single person and half the average for a couple. Many of today's pensioners contributed to the Second World War ef­ fort and were promised sufficient income to enjoy a problem-free retirement; in re­ ality, many struggle to survive on state benefits insufficient even to provide neces­ sities.

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CLUB 1943 The Kittsee 'project'

Anglo-German Cultural Forum have never been able to document an Meetings on Mondays at 8 p.m. oral family tradition that my father's at the Communal Hall family originally came from Kittsee in Belsize Square Synagogue I post-1918 Austrian Burgenland. My first SI Belsize Square.London NW3 visit to Kittsee, in 1957, proved fruitless. Oioirmon; Mr. Hans Seelig, 27 Wood Lane End. Hemel Hempstead. HP2 4RA 01442 254 360 No one knew anything about the Jewish Public Relations and Archives: Mr. C. Krysler, cemetery beyond the fact that it was very 97 Hodford Road. NWl I SEH 0181 455 8321 old and had been completely neglected Treasurer: Mr E. Flesch. 14 Howitt Close. Howitt Road. Relatives and friends at tiie Osmond House Open since 1939, nor were any records known NW3 4LX0I7I 483 2145 Day on 2nd July, eagerly awaiting the Raffle draw, in the village, barely two miles from the Committee Members: Mrs. H Friedmann. Mr O. Egert which this year raised a record figure of over £1,000 for the Residents Amenity Fund. Hungarian frontier. Secretory: Mrs. Julia Schwartz A second visit nearly 40 years later re­ Autumn Programme 1995 Presidential ambition vealed a different picture. Kittsee, as I now know, was one of the Sieben Sept 11 Mr. Herbert Malinow, M.A., FR.G.S. SL Helena: Napoleon's last Exile. Right-wing columnist and darling of Gemeinden (Sheva Kehiloth) in which America's Christian fundamentalists, Jewish settlement has been documented Sept 18 Prof. Dr. Anni Gutman, B.A., Ph.D. Patrick J. Buchanan, is preparing for a (Yale). Chairperson of the German back to the 15th century; Kittsee cemetery Dept. at Hunter College (City Univ. of second run at the Republican nomination is reportedly the third oldest in Europe. It New York). Goethe - Schiller: Evolution for US President. In the campaign for the is also the only cemetery in the whole of a Friendship. Prof. Gutman has 1992 vote he challenged the then Presi­ published and lectured extensively, esp. country to have been placed as a whole on Schiller dent George Bush and, while failing to under Denkmalschutz (state supervision win the party's nomination, has signifi­ of architectural and archaeological pres­ Sept 25 No lecture (Hall not available) cantly influenced its policies since then. ervation). Oct 2 Mr. David Jacobs, writer and one-time The headmistress of the local secondary broadcaster for "\toice of Israel" school has launched her pupils on a major Propaganda Warfare. Mr Jacobs is at Institute of Contemporary History present working on a book on this project of study and commemoration of subject. and Wiener Library the Jewish tradition in the area; she has also, I think, put her flock to work in A half-day seminar to mark Oct 9 No lecture (Hall not available) keeping the cemetery in its present orderly the passing of the Nuremberg Laws Oct 16 No lecture (Hall not available) and cared-for state. Whatever remains of THE NUREMBERG LAWS it is being catalogued and, where legible, Oct 23 Mr Harald Leyrer, How the Sudan - transcribed: and I was handed a volume underpopulated and irrigated by the at the Harkness Hall, Birkbeck College, two Niles - fell apart of carefully painted reproductions of the Malet Street, London WCI tombstones which remain legible, with a Oct 30 Mr. Harry Smolins, B.Sc, M. Inst, of German translation of the inscriptions Physics, formerly Slough College of On Sunday, 17 September 1995 Higher Education: Einstein up-to-date. 2,00 to 6.00pm copied. The headmistress told me that her pupils were benefiting from the educa­ Nov 6 Dr. Jonathan Kau, M.A., D.Phil., teacher Dr. Daniel M. Pick tional point of view in that 'projects' as of Classics at Westminster School, The idea of race in European thought known in British schools, were not com­ Consultant to the Indian Institute and in the nineteenth and Bodleian Library at Oxford. Gujarat to mon in Central Europe with its strict Vienna to Oxford: men and early twentieth centuries national syllabuses. However, she did not manuscripts. Dr. Kaa has been responsible for unearthing several Dr. Peter Longerich regard all this only as a matter of educa­ manuscripts. The immediate origin and tional experimentation. She was teaching implementation of the Nuremberg Laws her children what Kittsee owed to its Jew­ Nov 13 Mr. Brian Power M.A.The Anglo- ish community, its history and it* German presence in China 1860-1940. Dr. Edgar Feuchtwanger Mr Power grew up in Tientsin in the 20s memory. To this end she had contacts The construction of the racial state and 30s and is the author of a with an Israeli professor of history and childhood autobiography The Ford of in Nazi Germany Heaven", 1984. assembled all her pupils once a year in a Discussion and Conclusion commemorative ceremony at the cemetery Nov 20 Arno Reinfrank: "Das lachende Gebiss". itself. Arno Reinfrank liest satirische Verse aus Registration fee: £10.00; concession for seinen ijber 20 Buchpubllkationen. friends of the Wiener Library, students, D Francis Steine''

Nov 27 Mr. Ernst Flesch. B.A. our indefatigable senior citizens and the unwaged £5.00 travelling member: Travelling in Light refreshments will be provided Germany (with slides). For details and registration form write Annely Juda Fine Art Members £ 10 per annum to the Conference Secretary 23 Dering Street (off New Bond Street) Guests always welcome (£1 per lecture) Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, Tel: 0171-629 7578 Fax: 0171-491 2139 For information please call London WIN 2BH CONTEMPORARY PAINTING Mr Hans Seelig, Chairman, AND SCULPTURE Tel: 0+42 254 360 or call 0171-636 7247

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In memoriam: On a visit to a school, five of us faced a class of about 30 boys and girls (aged 12 GERMAN BOOKS Norbert Futterweit to 14) who wanted to hear our stories, lis­ tened very attentively and asked many BOUGHT Mit einer Bombe seinerzeit questions about our school-days, the Ermordet ward Herr Futterweit. A. W. MYTZE Kindertransport, etc. They seemed to be Begangen hat das Bubenstiick genuinely interested and receptive. 1 The Riding, London NWll Ein Nazi namens Globocnik. School literature gave us an insight into Zwar nahm man ihn zunachst in Haft the awareness of the present generation of Wegen erwies'ner Taterschaft, the happenings during the 'Kristallnacht' Doch wurde - da er doch ein Held - Sternberg Centre for Judaism and the Holocaust - facts which ap­ Bald das Verfahren eingestellt, 80 East End Road, London N3 2SY peared to have been suppressed and Denn schon im Marz war ja, hurrah! forgotten during earlier post-war years. MANOR HOUSE SOCIETY Der sogenannte Anschluss da. On the last day, Shabbat, we were in­ Forthcoming events Wen kiimmert da vergoss'nes Blut vited to the service in the (to us) new Sally Levin Bar: Mixed Media Works, an Der Futterweit war doch ein Jud! synagogue. A tasteful and dignified mod­ exhibiton from 20th September to 22nd Und Globocnik war immerhin October. ern building, it was built some 30 years Bereits der Gauleiter von Wien... Are Scientists Playing God? A High Holy ago, replacing the old one destroyed in Und nach dem Krieg - Sie wissen schon Day Discussion on Sunday 1st October at Kristallnacht. After the service a commu­ Ging er in Karnten in Pension 8.00pm. nal kiddush gave us the chance to get to Wie andre Nazigrossen auch; Lunchtime Recitals. The autumn know members of the present-day Jewish Das war in der Provinz ja Branch. programme, running from 26th October to community, many from Eastern Europe 14th December. Thursdays at 1.15pm. Der Judenmord? - Wen wundert das, and Russia. Dass man den Fall diskret vergass. LONDON MUSEUM OF JEWISH LIFE It was indeed a most memorable week Monday-Thursday 10.30am-5.00pm in which we were made very much aware So ging's in unsrer Republik Sunday 10.30am-4.30pm of the wish of the townspeople to atone Mit Futterweit und Globocnik. The Last Goodbye - The rescue of chil­ for the deeds of their parents and grand­ n Harald Brainin dren from Nazi Europe. An exhibition parents. A remarkable experience, giving about the Kindertransport. us hope for the future. A Tapestry of Many Threads - The herit­ Hanseatic reunion D Lotbe Levy age of Sephardi Jews in Britain. The Jewish Experience in the Second World e, twenty Jews formerly War - a timely reminder of the contribution made by British Jewry to the war effort. resident in Bremen, were AJR VALUES YOUR TIME Winvited for a week's visit as guests of the Senate. We had mixed feel­ Austerlitz aka Slavkov ings, not knowing what to expect, but from the first meeting with one of our uth Matiovska, at 64 the last hostesses and her husband, we felt that known survivor of the ancient the visit would be much more relaxed and R Jewish community of Austerlitz, easier than anticipated. has visited Nottingham's Progressive A lot of thought had gone into the plan­ Congregation which is committed to ning for our stay. On day one, after a keeping the Kehilla's memory alive. The moving welcome speech by Senatorin visitor had been one of only 93 children Frau Uhl, we had a reception and a splen­ to survive Theresienstadt. did (kosher) meal at the Rathaus. There • USE YOUR TIME TO BEFRIEND AN ELDERLY MEMBER Austerlitz, now called Slavkov in Czech, followed a visit to the premises of the •DRIVE PEOPLE TO/FROM THE DAY CENTRE was the burial ground of 15,000 Jews. Its • HELP IN THE DAY CENTRE Christian-Jewish working group and the historic fame, though, stems from another Bremen Friends of Israel. We also visited Association of Jewish Refugees massive bloodletting: the Battle of the Jewish cemetery, much of which had 1 Hampstead Gate Austerlitz which gave Napoleon his great­ 1 a Frognal almost miraculously escaped serious dam­ London NW3 6AL est victory (and the Parisians a station on age. Some of us discovered the graves of Tel: 0171 431 61«1 AIR the Metro). relatives. The Rabbi, who joined us on Jewish surnames are often derived from, several occasions, said Kaddish at the me­ and sometimes identical with, place morial to the Jews of Bremen who Ajex Service of Remembrance names. A certain Friedrich Austerlitz ed­ perished in the Holocaust, especially a We are holding our Interdenominational ited the Arbeiterzeitung, organ of the large contingent sent to Minsk. This was Service of Remembrance to be held at the Austrian Social Democrats, when that particularly emotive for me as my parents Prisoners' Memorial, Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane, N.W.2. on Sunday, 3rd September party was at the peak of its influence. An­ were among them. 1995 at 2.45pm. The Service is in memory of other man with the same surname was an Other visits included a cruise in the Sen­ those who died in Prisoner of War Camps Austrian emigrant to America; there he ate's motor-launch on the River Weser and Concentration Camps. begat a son whom the world knows as The Service will be followed by a Reception and an outing to the artists' village of at Willesden Synagogue. Fred Astaire. Fischerhude. DRG

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ally beat in the milk or cream and the written request can be made to the De­ Cooking with Gretel Beer flour. Whisk eggwhites until stiff, then partment of Social Security using the fold into the butter mixture, together with coupon with the Attendance Allowance the grated lemonrind and vanilla sugar. Leaflet, obtainable from Post Offices or Pile the mixture on top of the fruit which Citizens' Advice Bureaux. should be heated through by now. Bake If an application has been made in the for fifteen minutes at Gas Mark 2, 300F, past, and refused, it should not prevent 150C, then increase heat to Gas Mark 4, anyone from applying again. If a lower 350F, 180C and bake for another thirty to rate is being obtained, it may be possible forty minutes. The juice at the bottom of to apply for the higher rate if health has the dish may at first suggest that the pud­ subsequently deteriorated. ding has not quite baked through, but it is If private residential accommodation is in fact a deHcious sauce produced by the entered, the Attendance Allowance can be pudding. Serve hot, cold or just warm. taken with you (carried on). AJR's Social Services Department will Pudding made with fresh fruit Brogdale Horticultural Trust, Brogdale be pleased to advise and assist in consider­ Road, Faversham, Kent ME13 8XZ Tel. ing and making a claim for Attendance I have just returned from a visit to the 01795 535286 is open seven days a week, Allowance. We can help with the filling Brogdale Horticultural Trust at between Easter and December and they out of forms. Faversham in Kent where they have over sell fruit as well as plants. There are also Should it prove necessary, we can help 2,000 different kinds of apple trees and a number ofspecial events - the next one in an appeal against refusal and may ask nearly 400 different plums - there are being held during the weekend of 15th- for review procedure to be implemented. even five different varieties of pink cur­ 17th September - is the Apple and Cider Recent experience has indicated that ben­ rants. An almost embarrassing choice Festival when about 40 different kinds of efit previously denied, was granted after when it comes to select fruit for one of ciders may be sampled. a review. D my favourite puddings - though I think it is best made with morello cherries or small blue plums.

Serves 4 Erratum For the pudding The gentleman pictured on the front 750g (11/2 lbs) morello cherries or plums Attendance Allowance page of the July edition was Mr. Ron 3 tablespoons caster or icing sugar Penzias and not Mr. Henry Brook as 1/2 teaspoon each vanilla sugar, n Attendance Allowance is a tax- was given. cinnamon and allspice free Social Security benefit, for 30g (a good ounce) ground almonds Apeople aged 65 or above, who are 1 tablespoon double cream in need of help due to disability, whether dash of rum physical or mental. The entitlement is un­ butter for the dish affected by any savings and is not usually Am Yisrael Chai! affected by other income. For the topping (Das Volk Israel lebt!) To qualify, the recipient has to be so se­ 3 eggs verely disabled, physically or mentally, 60g (2 oz) butter Zweitausend Jahre that either: 70g (2 1/2 oz) caster or icing sugar ohne Land DURING THE DAY frequent or 140ml (5 fl.oz) milk or single cream unterm Schwert continual attention is required lOOg (3 1/2 oz) plain flour hielten sie ihre OR, AT NIGHT prolonged or repeated Erntefesttage; grated lemonrind attention, or continual supervision, is vanilla sugar required from another person. ohne Weinberg Lightly butter a souffle or deep gratin Attendance Allowance is paid either at im Brand dish. Stone the fruit and - if using plums a lower rate of £31.20 per week (if day or feierten sie - halve them. Put fruit into the prepared night help is required), or at the higher die Traubenlese; rate of £46.70 per week if both day and dish, sprinkle with sugar, vanilla sugar, in lichtlosen Stuben night help are accepted as being necessary. spices and ground almonds. Add the lehrten sie ihre Kinder It is the sick or disabled persons them­ cream and the rum and stir lightly, then das Fest der jungen Baume selves who are given the Attendance cover the dish with foil and leave to stand zu begehen. for at least half an hour. Allowance. They can qualify even though Preheat oven to Gas mark 2, 300F, they may be living alone and have no at­ Sie werden bestehen. tendant. 150C and put the dish - still covered D Stella Rotenb"^ with foil - into the oven whilst preparing Attendance Allowance can be claimed the topping. Separate the eggs. Cream using a 'DS2' claim form which can be butter and sugar until light and fluffy, obtained by telephoning the Benefits En­ Verlag fiir Gesellschaftskritik then beat in the yolks one by one. Gradu­ quiry Line on 800 88 220. Alternatively, a Wien 1992

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Obituaries General Mordechai Gur CAMPS ordechai Gur had a long and INTERNMENT - P.O.W. - distinguished military career in FORCED LABOUR - KZ Jonas Salk the Israel Defence Forces, culmi­ M I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded nating in 1978 as Chief of Staff. But it is postmarked letters from all camps of both onas Salk, who died at the age of 80, as the commander of the paratroops who w/orld wars. Please send, registered mail, produced the first successful vaccine captured the Old City of Jerusalem and stating price, to: against poliomyelitis, a paralytic dis­ the Western Wall in the Six-Day War of 14 Rosslyn Hill, London NWS Jease particularly prevalent among 1967 that he will go down in Jewish his­ PETER C. RICKENBACK children. tory, returning sovereignty over the Dr. Salk's anti-polio vaccine was first Temple Mount to the People of Israel af­ introduced in 1955 and, despite a major ter nearly 2,000 years of exile. North of England Group setback in which some 200 people devel­ Like many of his generation, he joined It may be that most of our members in the oped the disease as a result of a faulty the Haganah, Israel's nascent army, at North of England are on holiday, since sur­ batch of vaccine, hundreds of millions of the end of World War II aged just 15, and prisingly, we have had a distinct lack of people were saved from one of the then went on to fight with distinction in the interest from people wanting to establish and scourges of mankind. 1948 War of Independence. After study­ be part of a North of England group, based in Manchester. Born in New York, of Polish-Jewish im­ ing at the Hebrew University, he Given the success of the groups in South migrant parents (his father was in the volunteered to return to active service, London and Birmingham, which each have schmutter trade), Jonas went to Talmud eventually being given command of the between 30-50 members, and have regular Torah in the Bronx where he was reported crack Golani Infantry Brigade. In 1966 meetings, it should be possible to launch a re­ to have been a good Hebrew scholar. Gur took command of a reserve para­ ally strong group covering Manchester, Leeds, Working his way through college, Salk chute brigade and in the following year Bradford and surrounding areas. qualified in 1939 and joined the staff of led them in close combat against Jordan's Those of you, who are interested in estab­ New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. He Arab Legion, through Jerusalem's Lion lishing relationships and finding tioved to the University of Michigan Gate to the Western Wall. companionship with people from a common background, please contact Werner Lachs on three years later to work on influenza 'Motta' (as he was affectionally 0161-773 4091, if you have not already done vaccines, rising rapidly through the re­ known) Gur was appointed Military At­ so. Perhaps you know of others who might search ranks to the Directorship of the tache in Washington where he had to like to come along, who are not, as yet, mem­ ^irus Research Laboratory in 1947 and fight for urgent supplies of equipment as bers of the AJR. Please tell them of our plans. its Professor in 1954. Israel faced the combined invasions of Once we have a reasonable core, we shall The first trials of the anti-polio vaccine Egypt and Syria which began the Yom set up the first meeting and will publish de­ Were begun in 1952, first on monkeys, Kippur War of 1973; the following year tails of it. then on children who were protected as he was made Chief of Staff. ^hey had recovered from polio, then on Entering the Knesset in 1978, he served OTTO SCHIFF HOUSING himself and his own family. as Minister of Health from 1984 to 1986, ASSOCIATION Clinical trials were begun in 1955. and for the last three years as Deputy De­ Dedicated to the care of Jewish refugees Albert Sabin, who produced an oral fence Minister under Prime Minister from Nazi persecution anti-polio vaccine only a short while after Yitzhak Rabin, who retained the senior Salk, became a life-long rival. While the ministerial portfolio. The Otto Schiff Housing Association Salk vaccine uses a dead virus and has to A man of great humanity, widely ad­ (OSHA) which maintains a group of be injected, the Sabin vaccine uses a live mired and respected across the political residential and nursing homes for frail, virus in a weakened form which can be spectrum, he actively sought positive elderly residents, are seeking an additional swallowed from teaspoon or sugar cube peace initiatives with former foes, but part-time Care Assistant to work from and is in more general use today. Sabin was never prepared to compromise Isra­ 9.30am to 4.30pm on two to three days died in 1993 at the age of 86. el's security. He ended his own life at the per week at a salary of £80 per week for Salk was never fully accepted by the US age of 65 to avoid the pain and the an­ 16/2 hours (including L.W.). Applications medical establishment, was never elected guish to his family brought by the onset from care workers with experience in the to the National Academy of Sciences and of incurable cancer. care of the elderly would be especially never awarded the Nobel prize, although DRDC welcomed. he received countless awards around the world, not least from Israel. If any AJR members know of someone The Salk Institute in California is where who might be able to fill the OSHA he continued his researches into cancer, vacancy for a part-time Care Assistant, muhiple sclerosis and organ transplants AJR please draw it to their attention. For and, more latterly, into an Aids vaccine. further details and an application form Our address is: telephone Judy Marks or Rina Durkin, His place in history as one of man- 1 HAMPSTEAD GATE, OSHA, Osmond House, The Bishops kind's greatest benefactors is firmly 1A FROGNAL, LONDON NWS 6AL assured. Our phone number is: Our fax number is: Avenue, London N2 OBG. Tel: 0181 209 0171-431 6161 0171-431 8454 0022. DRDC

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In a mirror image of the Trotskyite Through the looking Young Socialists of the Seventies the SEARCH NOTICES Young Conservatives of the Nineties are Lily Bial, or her relatives, who emi­ grated to England in 1939. Last known glass already anti-Europe xenophobes to a address: Aichholzgasse 5,Wien XII. Please man. write to: Annette Eisenberg, c/o Jewish The Major-Redwood split raised a wor­ Museum of Vienna, Trattnerhof 2 A-1010. rying spectre which has by no means been Wien, Austria. icture this in the 1970s: HM laid entirely to rest. It is the spectre of the Dr. Walter Gerstle, born in Government (Labour) destabilised emergence of a continental-style Nation­ Ludwigshafen am Rhein on 3rd April P by extremist supporters demanding alist party in the UK. Such a party would 1910, who emigrated to Great Britain in public sector pay increases and a unilater­ attract votes by xenophobic and populist 1939, is being sought urgently. Anyone alist defence poUcy. And this in the 1990s: clamour ('bring back hanging'!) and the who knows anything about Dr. Gerstle or HM Government (Tory) destabilised by promise of tax cuts through reducing the his life, please write to Mrs. Wagner- Zuern, Burgweg 29, D-53123 Bonn, extremist supporters demanding tax cuts role of government. We can only hope Germany, or telephone 0228-647 141. and an anti-European foreign policy. that the same sobering up process that Studentenhistoriker (Autor der 4- While Labour extremists demonised has made Labour newly electable will bandigen Arbeit "Zirke! und Zionsstern:. Washington, Tory extremists excoriate wean the Tories from such rightwing ab­ Bilder, Dokumente aus der versunkenen Brussels - with Israel serving as subsidi­ errations in the coming years. Welt des jiidischnationalen Korporations- ary whipping boy in both instances. URG wesens. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Labour had its Gaddafi-loving Ron Zionismus auf akademischem Boden" Brown and PLO flag-waving George Gal­ sucht Unterlagen jeglicher Art von zion. loway. The Tories have the egregious Hochschul- u. Mittelschulverbindungen. Israel-baiter Tony Marlowe. There is also Weiters fiJr Ausstellung: Couleur- the little-known fact that the currently gegenstande wie Kappen, Bander, embattled Jonathan Aitken attracted the Bierzipfe usw. favourable attention of Saudi King Feisal Kontaktaufnahme mit Angehorigen (Witwen) erbittet hoflichst: Harald during the Six-Day War by attacking the Seewann, A-8020 Graz, Resselgasse 26. 'pro-Israel bias' of the rest of the British Hoflichen Dank im voraus. press in the Evening Standard. (The rest, Bernat and Elisabeth Kohn (born as they say, is history.) in Vienna c. 1880) setded in Palestine/Is­ While the intellectual top dressing of rael 1939. Moved to Chiswick, England in Labour radicalism was provided by play­ 1949, later to Edgware - may have been wrights like Howard Brenton, David members Stanmore Synagogue - and Mrs. Hare, Edward Bond and Harold Pinter, Kohn to Tottenham's Jewish Home. A Tory radicalism draws its ideology from number of documents relating to this two groups: politicians with history de­ couple have been found in unusual cir­ cumstances. Anyone who could add any grees - John Redwood, Michael Portillo, Information please contact Carol Seigel, Alan Clark - and politically motivated London Museum of Jewish Life, Sternberg historians like Dr. John Charmley. Centre, N3 2SYTel:OI8l 346 2288. Charmley's 'modest' aim is to reverse Suzanne Schaffer, who spent the fifty years of British history writing, mak­ war years at Alloway, Ayr, Scodand. Mar­ ing Churchill the villain and Chamberlain garet Newton (nee Hamilton) who was the hero of the Dunkirk years. By coinci­ a friend and the daughter of the local dence the chief Oxbridge apologist for Minister, would love to hear from her or Chamberlain is Maurice Cowling, Master learn of her whereabouts. Please write to of Peterhouse and teacher of Michael Por­ Ilse Sinclair, 19 Whadey Court, Whadey tillo. Road, Bristol BS8 2PS. Portillo, who happens to be the son of Vienna 1939-45? Were you in Vienna or any other part of Austria in the second an emigre Spanish academic, notoriously half of 1939 or during the war Itself? • asserted that on the Continent people are would like your help on specific details in the habit of buying their academic de­ for a serious novel. Please contact grees. (Interestingly enough, Jewish New intelligence chief Charles Harris, 17 Langland Gardens, immigrant-descended Tories like Michael Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has London NW3 6QE.Tel:OI7l 435 1330. Howard and Ivor Lawrence are also appointed an expert on far-right Jewish Der Judische Frauenbund in Koln. Eurosceptics, though they emit less stri­ movements to head the Shin Bet intelli­ FiJr meine Examensarbeit 'Der Judische dent noises). gence agency in what is being seen as a Frauenbund in Koln 1926-1938' suche ich But to revert to the key issue: what do shift of emphasis in internal Israeli secu­ Zeltzeuginnen und Zeitzeugen, die mir the recent shenanigans among the Tory rity concerns. The new intelligence chief ihre Erinnerungen sowie Material (Briefe, MPs portend for us? John Major's vic­ has commanded operations against Jewish Berichte, etc.) zur Verfijgung stellen konnen. Yvonne KiJsters, Ritterstr. 5, tory has certainly averted Eurosepsis right-wing extremists and settlers sus­ 50668 Koln, Germany Tel: 00221 133 spreading through HM Government. pected of organising attacks on Arabs, it 764. What about the rising generation, though? is reported.

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