VOLUME 1 No.9 SEPTEMBER 2001 journal Association of Jewish Refugees Trotsky recycled

Though the 'great' revolutionary has mutually contradictory, but the revolution see the disadvantaged '^een dead these sixty years, his ghost twisted logic of the true Trot believers Asian inhabitants ofthe mill towns as a •"efuses to lie down. This is shown by can accommodate both. The recent proletarian mass potentially capable of Various current developments which riots in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford being mobilised for class war. range from the sublime to the have breathed new life into the The mayhem that occurred - ridiculous. To start with the latter, Trotskyite anti-Nazi League (ANL), especially in Bradford, where rioters '^'Hema-goers will soon see Trotsky, an organisation which superficially badly damaged the economic '"e sexagenarian lover, on screen. A appears to be fighting the good fight. infrastructure of their own locality - Hollywood film, currently in dovetails neatly with Leon Trotsky's production, features him and the notorious Elendstheorie. The theory of Painter couple Frieda Kahlo and Diego immiseration stated, in a nutshell, that ^'Vera in an 'eternal triangle' in order to goad workers into manning Situation. Trotsky is Geoffrey Rush, the barricades. Socialists should not ^hose role as the pianist in Shine ameliorate their conditions, for ^^tablished him as a first-rate instance by trade union action but, on "iterpreter of brilliant Jewish the contrary, expose them to the full 'Monomaniacs. force of capitalist exploitation. A Of Trotsky's brilliance there can be variation on this perverse high risk '"^tle doubt. In the early days of the prescription - didn't the KPD argue Communist International he would that the Nazi take-over would finally ^^dress gatherings consecutively in open the German workers' eyes to the Russian, German, French and reality of capitalism? - was played out ^'^glish. By the late Twenties in last November's US presidential "owever, this internationalism, as 1 elections. There the Democrat would ^11 as personal rivalry, had pitched undoubtedly have won - irrespective ^^ into a fight to the death with the of the Florida shenanigans - if the ^>issia-centred Stalin. i Green 'consumers' advocate' Ralph Leon Trotsky t)ying in Mexican exile, he Nader had not split the anti-Bush vote. ^lueathed to the world the less than However, odd as it may seem, in a Having helped to put the man who tore f^'iign legacy of Trotskyism. This still peculiar way the ANL feeds on racism up the Kyoto protocol into the White ps adherents in Western countries. to provide itself with a raison d'etre. We House, the Greens attempted to ^ f^rance. Prime Minister Jospin only have the Birmingham Labour MP Sion justify their wrecking tactics by ^nsmuted into a Social Democrat Simon's account of how the anti-Nazis arguing that under Bush, America's '^^r a spell as a Trotskyite militant, deliberately exacerbate race relations consumers will embark on a steep ^^ their presidential candidate in his constituency for their own learning curve about corporate greed - ^vine polled two million votes some political advantage. and, anyway, Gore was hardly an anti- '^sago. Last month's mayhem in the capitalist friend ofthe earth. ^ Britain, Trotskyism is only a Northern textile towns was Yet again 'the best is the enemy of ^idual force that intermittently orchestrated by a bizarre coalition of the good'. In their bizarre way the ^'"acts the spotlight by mobilising BNP skinheads, Taliban-inspired advocates of recycling the earth's Pposition either to neo-Nazis or to young Muslims and Trots. The finite resources are currently '^ael. These two targets may be Trotskyite would-be fomenters of recycling Trotsky. Loathsome Berlin's Jewish Refugee mementos needed Museum re-opens for new exhibition Among the comments on Michael Portillo's demise, one described him as a Closed for nearly a year to prepare the Photographs, artefacts and documents "self-loathing Tory." Echoes here of 'Jewish permanent exhibition, Berlin's Jewish relating to refugee experiences and self-hatred' - yet the difference is vast. Museum opens this month with a number refugee organisations are sought for an Portillo could, conceivably, abjure of special events. The inauguration exhibition currently being created to Toryism, whereas Jewishness is ceremony on 9 September will take place record and illustrate the experiences of genetically (as well as in many cases, in the presence of German President German-speaking Jewish refugees in culturally) transmitted. Johannes Rau and Chancellor Schroder Britain. Sponsored by the AJR, ^^ In the nineteenth century, self-loathing and will be attended by prominent association with the Jewish Museum and Jews would convert to Christianity and international guests from the worlds of the Wiener Library, the exhibition is due to embrace reaction. In the last century they politics, business and the arts. After a often abjured religion and veered open at the Jewish Museum, Camden, m leftwards. Hirsch Apfelbaum became concert given by Daniel Barenboim and the spring of next year, a major event in Gregory Zinoviev, not merely to evade the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a celebration ofthe AJR's 60th Anniversary. Tsarist police scrutiny, but also to slough gala dinner, the Museum will be opened by Among subjects of special interest are off his Jewish identity. Yevsektia (Jewish President Rau. During the week which refugee hostels, refugee businesses, section of the Soviet Communist Party) follows, special events will celebrate the enemy alien tribunals, internment (on the militants enthusiastically closed down opening, including a Day of Remembrance Isle of Man and elsewhere), refugees synagogues and hounded Zionists. in honour of donors and lenders of work experiences, shipment to Canada Anglo-Jewish Communists did not exhibition artefacts, a 'Students' Day' and a and AustraUa, and experiences in the want to lag behind their comrades. day geared towards families. Pioneer Corps and in other regiments oi Imbued with the 'faith', they transmitted The exhibition has been planned with a the British Army. Organisations oi their own anti-Zionism to the next generation. Signatories to the latest 'family' audience in mind. The approach is interest include Belsize Square 'Boycott Israel' appeal include such CPGB chronological and is based on scholarly Synagogue, the Free German League ot progeny as children's books author research. Over twenty historians, Jewish Culture, the Austrian Centre, the Laterndl Michael Rosen, and the comedian studies' specialists and art historians have and Blue Danube Club. Alexei Sayle. been involved in researching the Any material on the Finchley Road areai These boycott-mongers blithely ignore permanent exhibition. The exhibition will as well as refugee life in general, is also oi the fact that Yasser Arafat trod Ehud change in the light of ongoing research and great interest to the curators. This Barak's olive branch - the most the academic debate surrounding the includes information about the Cosmo courageously far-reaching peace offer for history of the Jews in Germany. Cafe (photos of the interior and exteriof half a century - into the dust. Nor do they Between its initial opening in January being especially sought), the Dorice, ano seem perturbed by the existence of 1999 and January 2001, there were nearly other meeting places. Hamas' Gaza training school for pre- teenage suicide bombers, where virtual 350,000 visitors to the empty building. Do not hesitate to contact us if V"^ toddlers are being educated for death, believe that you could either donate o the and promised instant translation to a lend items of relevance to the German- virgin-thronged paradise. Jewish refugee experience in Grea Such an enterprise ought to revolt any Irving'sappealfalls Britain. Please contact Dr Bea LewkoWicZ humanely-inclined person on several The Court of Appeal has endorsed the or Carol Seigel at the Jewish Museum, ^ counts: the rape of the mind of minors, judgement of the High Court in finding East End Road, Finchley, London N3 2SV. the glorification of death, stupefying that no libel had been committed by Prof Tel: 020 83491141. Fax: 020 8343 2162. religious mysticism, and the depiction of Deborah Lipstadt when she described women as chattels. David Irving as a dangerous spokesman When, one wonders, will the boycott for Holocaust denial in her book Denying Tfte Cfiairman, lobby use its leverage among the the Holocaust. One of the Appeal Court Palestinians to arrest the slide into the judges was quoted as saying that Irving Management mind-boggling backwardness and Dark could be described as dangerous by virtue Age savagery which Hamas personifies? of his historiographical methods. The Committee and Staff RG Court of Appeal judgement upholds the wish afCAJR AJR Joumal personnel description of Irving by Mr Justice Gray as Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief a racist Holocaust denier who deliberately members a fiapjf}j> Ronald Channing Executive Editor distorted historical facts. Prof Lipstadt Marion Koebner Staff Reporter expressed herself pleased with the AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, fieaftftij 'B'jjeaeefuf la Frognal, London NW3 6AL judgement but acknowledged that there Tel: 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 would always be those prepared to pervert New Year. e-mail: [email protected] www.ajr.org.uk historical records for their own ends. Exiles to the left of them - exiles to the right of them Richard Grunberger NEWTONS ^'le of the questions which puzzled 1848 Revolution many liberal Germans Leading Hampstead Solicitors observers of the South African scene lost hope and went abroad (mainly to 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, "uring the apartheid years was that the America). They had already been London NW3 SNB Afrikaners, though descended from Dutch preceded into exile by free spirits like • All English legal work stock, were infinitely more bigoted and Heinrich Heine and George Herwegh. undertaken 'backward-looking than their cousins Thus it happened that the ex-'48er Carl "back home'. Schurz became US Secretary of the • Assistance given with German, Swiss & Austrian matters The partial answer to the question is Interior at the time Bismarck made S'lggested by the synonym for Afrikaner, himself 'Iron Chancellor'. • German spoken '•6- Boer. This word, cognate with the Interestingly enough, Britain has, over • Home visits arranged ^^^manBauer (smallholder), indicates that the last thirty years, created its own tiny Tel: 020 7435 5351 ^^ Afrikaners left overcrowded Holland in offshoot, a 'settler' mini state with a Boer Fax: 020 7435 8881 ^lest of land they might appropriate for mindset and near-permanent sunshine. A themselves. They backed up this quarter of a million expatriate Britons live PPropriation with a version of Calvinism in along the various Spanish costas. Most are *nich Blacks were predestined to be the ludicrous xenophobes, calling the "hite man's servants. continental Europeans, among whom they PARTNER ^he obverse process to this live dishonest and worse. They likewise in long established English "^^distribution of the population of the harbour hardline views on asylum seekers Solicitors (bi-lingual German) '^therlands - whereby (some) bigots in the UK - while they themselves have would be happy to assist clients ^''^igrated and more liberal elements found asylum from the British climate (not with English, German and Villained at home - occurred in mid-19th only in its meteorological, but also in its Austrian problems. *^entury Germany. After the failure of the political and cultural manifestations). Contact Henry Ebner Myers Ebner & Deaner Name association games 103 Shepherds Bush Road London W6 7LP Richard Grunberger Telephone 020 7602 4631 •^ng the American presidential election from his Shakespeare-reading critics. At a ALL LEGAL WORK ^mpaign, 'shrinks' reported that the long less elevated level Britain has had a close- UNDERTAKEN *3Wn-out election battle caused some of shaving Chancellor of the Exchequer "^ir clients to have dreams revolving called Barber and a Foreign Office •^und images suggested by the names of Minister named Butler, who really acted ^^ presidential candidates. Some dreamt out the role of Jeeves vis-a-vis Joachim the burning bush out of which God spoke von Ribbentrop (who, of course, was a far AUSTRIAN and GERMAN "^ Moses - others of blood and mayhem. A cry from Lord Peter Wimsey). To continue PENSIONS ^^sidential candidate, almost as the Ribbentrop theme: Nazi luminaries 'fortunately named as Al Gore, was Bob bore telltale names like Todt (death) PROPERTY D e; his name must, at least Knochen (bone) Axmann (axe-man) Speer RESTITUTION CLAIMS ^^consciously. have suggested (spear) List (cunning) and Daluege (Lie). EAST GERMANY - BERLIN "Employment pay to American voters. More recently two outstanding German On instructions our office will •^Wever, name association games can also Chancellors have borne the names of assist to deal with your ,'^ld humorous results. At the time of the Brandt and Kohl, both pregnant with W applications and pursue the matter' meaning. The former translates as ^tergate scandal a lot of innocent with the authorities. "^^sement could be derived from the fact conflagration (e.g. Reichstagsbrand) while ^t two of the main culprits were called the latter has two connotations. Literally, For further information hrlichman and Kleindienst {Ehrlich Kohl means cabbage, but informally it and appointment . ^'^slates as honest, and ein kleiner Dienst denotes rubbish or nonsense. please contact: 'Small service). The current Austrian Chancellor, who ICS CLAIMS English pubUc life has also thrown up conferred respectability on the neo-Nazi 146-154 Kilburn High Road e peculiar misnomers. The excessively Haider, glories in the appellation Schussel London NW6 4JD «lim William Pitt was known as 'the meaning bowl. What the name calls to ttomless pit', while Edward Heath mind, however, is no Jamesian Golden Tel: 020 7328 7251 (Ext. 107) ^•"acted the epithet the "blasted heath' Bowl hut a LeibschOssel, i.e. bed-pan. Fax: 020 7624 5002 V][]EW]P(0)][NT Life and death of a by Ronald Channing Polish shtetl London's newest market Gloria Tessler Most European cities grew from a The life of the doomed Polish village medieval core, their population LubomI, decimated by the Nazis in burgeoning as a consequence of October 1942, has been recreated at agrarian enclosures and Camden's Jewish Museum at the behest industrialisation. Mid-nineteenth of one of its most devoted surviving century railways, which linked sons. Aaron Ziegelman emigrated to the manufacturing towns with their US in 1938 at the age of nine and 60 markets, also brought cheap and efficient travel to the new suburbs. In years later he decided to preserve the London, an army of horse-drawn unforgettable faces of his past in the carts, carriages and buses, upon travelling exhibition Remembering which the whole distributive LubomI - Images of a Jewish economy depended, clogged the Community, in London until October narrow city streets long before an 28. Ziegelman recalls a place without Jewish girls in LubomI, 1930s. age of motorised transport achieved cars, radio or running water, famous Collection of Fruna Golod. a similar impasse. names or even a big mountain or a Opening the exhibition, the Polish- Forty years ago traffic congestion in picturesque river. "But there was a Catholic actress Rula Lenska quoted Central London had reached a crisis thriving community, socially, culturally, from her late mother's memoir in a/fl^ point. Prof Colin Buchanan produced rehgiously and politically." Only 51 out of Polish accent, which spoke his reasoned analysis of Traffic in the population of 4,000 Jews siu-vived. affectionately of local Orthodox Jews in Towns' and the concept of charging a Some 2,000 photographs and artefacts their foxtail hats with shops full oi fee for entry into congested city sweet - smelling soap. Later centres was first mooted. Charges from over 100 families and international were to be based on notional archives, facilitated by the town's own photographs of survivors, stern-faceo 'congestion costs' ie the costs of four professional photographers, tell his and uncomprehending at a monument reduced journey times imposed by story. You don't so much stare at the to their Holocaust dead in 1945, are the the last (marginal) motorist on photographs, you enter them. Like so most poignant. And what about the vehicles already using the system. many small places the world over, woman cuddling her grandson en route This concept (challenged at the time •J vulnerable to massacre by tribe, for America? Was she emigrating alone. by this author in the letter columns of terrorism or political dictat, LubomI is Her face has an unfathomable sorrow, the Financial Times no less) was now a ghost town, haunted by the considered too political a hot potato hope, strength and fatalism. murdered Jews who formed ninety per for its time, even by such a go-head Indeed, the greatest tribute cent of its population. Their faces tell a Minister of Transport as Ernest Ziegelman can pay to his birthplace is lO Marples,. story of optimism as well as poverty: the its people to be remembered not a football team, a group of cyclists and victims but as a community of tru Fast forward to the present, and children queuing for clothes donated by London's first elected mayor, the vitality. "And by doing so," he claims. the Talmud Torah. redoubtable Ken Livingstone, has " we add dignity to their memory." accepted use of the market in road space as a prime source of finance for Jewish artistic talent public transport. In two years' time an There will also be an exhibition o Fav inner London zone, entry into which Jewish Artists Awards 2001, a finalists' work. Details will appear "^ the will cost £5 during working hours on competition to find talented artists, is the Arts & Events guide in th^ Her Mondays to Fridays, will be being promoted jointly by the Ben Uri November issue of AJR Journal. Hell;, demarcated, with defaulters being Gallery and Friends of the Hebrew Mth entrapped on a computerised University. It offers opportunities to camera system and fined. It is hoped Jewish artists aged 17 and over whilst JJ JACKMAN • to reduce traffic by some 15%, but raising money for cancer research at the ^^ SILVERMAN even a planned additional 200 buses Hebrew University and for the COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS hardly begin to offer the needed acquisition fund of the Ben Uri Gallery. Chur carrying capacity. Only a revitalised The awards ceremony will take place on Mth underground railway - whose fate is 18 November 2001 as part of the currently subject to a major political 26 Conduit Street, London W1R 9TA Festival of Jewish Arts and Culture. Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 801 battle-can provide that. Anglo-Jewry and the Refugees from the Continent Final part Dr Anthony Grenville

' ne tendency ofthe refugees to remain at with guests in my room, when I felt like it, conflicts, financial deficits and declining ^m's length from Anglo-Jewry, while and absolutely no obligation to work." She membership. In March 1957, fairly embracing many aspects of British life and went to Oxford as a wartime evacuee, and typically, the journal reports in its column society, emerges clearly in the AJR was profoundly impressed by the 'Anglo-Judaica' the failure of the ^^formation. Originally, the founders of tolerance and consideration she Centenary Appeal for Jews' College to 'he Association had expected the refugees encountered in Christian circles there, in meet its target after 4y2 years. Another 'o integrate fully into Anglo-Jewry; this particular the British gift for putting theme is the dearth of culture in Anglo- *as indeed explicitly stated as one of the strangers at their ease by politeness: "One Jewry, as in the comments of the writer 3inis ofthe Association on its foundation in didn't have the feeling one was an exotic Alexander Baron, who is reported as ^941, but it was to remain unfulfilled. foreigner, but rather that one could be saying at a symposium held during Jewish The amount of material on Anglo- oneself.. .Ideological disagreements were Book Week that there was no market for Jewry in the joumal is so huge that overcome by polite behaviour and the Jewish literature in Britain, where Jews can only cover a tiny sample of it kindness of landladies." "grew up in an atmosphere hostile to art". '^ere, taken from the years 1957/58. What interests me here is not so much In April 1957, one ofthe perennial internal "^ March 1958 appeared articles (in the accuracy of Nelly Wolffheim's divisions within Anglo-Jewry emerges in German) by Nelly Wolffheim, an eminent observations of the British, but rather the the report of a statement by the President teacher and educationist. The articles question of perceptions. Perceptions are ofthe Anglo-Jewish Association that there ^Ve the title Judische Beziehungen zu all-important in this area, and the was "absolutely no chance of "^ichtjuden'CJewish relations with non- perceptions here, as so often in the AJR reconciliation" between his organisation Jews') but the catalyst for them was Nelly Information, are twofold. Anglo-Jewry is and the Board of Deputies. •Volffheim's encounter with British Jews, a seen as alien, difficult to approach and as The theme of a breach between the 8roup stranger to her than most non-Jews: guided in its communal life by habits and friends of the refugees and other sections The idea of analysing my relationships values not shared by assimilated German of Anglo-Jewry appears in the reports of a ^th non-Jews arose from conversations Jews. The British, by contrast, are bitter conflict at the West London ^ith several English Jews in whom I generally depicted in a thoroughly Synagogue, where the Senior Minister, Encountered an attitude which was alien to favourable light; their qualities of Rabbi Reinhart, and his deputy were "^e. I had not, in Gennany, come across tolerance, decency, fairness, courtesy, a driven to resign. Rabbi Reinhart, who had 'his fear of assimilation and rejection of gentlemanly consideration for those less run the inter-denominational 33 Club, '^'oser ties with non-Jews. The conscious fortunate and an understated generosity of which welcomed the newly arrived '^ndency to keep to their own kind was spirit are repeatedly emphasised. One refugees and had helped care for refugee totally alien to me." The bafflement of the might speak of a dual mechanism of children at Lingfield House, Isleworth, Assimilated German Jew at the enclosed rejection and attraction at work here, of was known to have taken a special interest ^lib-culture of Anglo-Jewry, defined by the rejection of Anglo-Jewry as one of the in the refugees, and the joumal pointedly '^'istoms and practices designed to factors fuelling an eagerness to embrace published a tribute to him the following "^intain a separate Jewish identity, finds what is plainly a Wunschbild of middle- month, detailing his charitable efforts on "•'ear expression here. class British society. The process of their behalf. assimilation into the professional middle avourable impressions of class, brutally interrupted in Germany and Throughout, a clear divide between the ^*ie British Austria, was to be resumed and attitude of Anglo-Jewry and that of the ^er evident unease with British Jews led accelerated in Britain. Continental Jews from the German- ^elly Wolffheim to review her relations speaking lands can be discerned. The ^th non-Jews in Britain, which she Anglo-Jewry in the cultural and historical factors separating Epicts as highly positive. She hsts the AJR Information them led, in my view, to the refusal in large '^'^nditions under which she lived after her For many years, the AJR Information ran a measure of the Continental Jews to merge ^val in Britain shortly before the war, in column entitled 'Anglo-Judaica', which into Anglo-Jewry and their consequent he home of her guarantor, a devout High aimed to keep its readers informed about willingness to recreate their own hurch Anglican: "An invitation to stay developments in Anglo-Jewry. The image Continental culture within the framework ^th her for 6 weeks (it became months), of Anglo-Jewry in the AJR Information in of a close association with and assimilation ^m with en suite bathroom, meals 1957/58 tends to dwell on its failings, to Britain, to British society and a British '^gether, breakfast in bed, afternoon tea especially the problems of internal style of life. Republik Osterreich which makes it clear that the standard payment to AETTERS^ The Editor reserves the right ex-Austrian refugees will no longer to shorten correspondence TO THE ) submitted for publication apply for reasons, they say, of fluctuations in the exchange rate H EDITOR^ creating inequality between recipients in different countries. From now on, payments - to be made UNFAIR TREATMENT West Bank and on some land east of in the payee's local currency - will be the River Jordan. In 1948 the Sir - As a survivor of a German forced Jordanian army seized the West Bank the equivalent of a fixed sum labour camp and AJR member, I was and held it until 1967. It has always determined in Austrian Schillings. disgusted to learn that 51 American been the custom for victors in war to My latest information is that the lawyers are creaming off more that annex territory of the vanquished to amount receivable in the UK will be US$ 54 million from the money to be keep them away from their borders in AS 105,000, considerably less than paid to us survivors and victims ofthe the event of future conflict. previous payments. forced labour camps, whilst the sums (Examples are Alsace-Lorraine and allocated to us are comparatively HE Reiner the annexation by Russia and Poland paltry - between $2500 and $7500 London NW? of a considerable part of East each. More unsettling is that the Germany). If the Arabs had won one Conference of Jewish Material Claims ONCEAJEW... of the wars they initiated, would they against Germany, World Jewish Sir - No-one can be baptised twice have returned any conquered Congress and other Jewish (July Letters) unless the person territory? organisations are doing nothing to abrogated his Christian faith and effect a more honest, fair and fast In Summer 2000, Ehud Barak then returned to it later. The sense of distribution of the monies. I offered some far-reaching the Nuremberg Laws was purely understand that the legal teams will concessions to achieve peace. Arafat racial and had nothing to do with get all their money in the next few rejected them and chose to increase religion. I was a "Gesetzesjude" born the Intifada before Ariel Sharon weeks, yet many survivors like me will of a Christian-born half Aryan mother walked on the Temple Mount. If have to wait. Does anyone care about and a Jewish father who converted to mortal enemies confront you with us enough to fight for justice on our Catholicism before his marriage to guns and suicide bombers, it is not an behalf? Or are we to die as victims her Until I was 14,1 did not know of without proper compensation for adequate response to throw matzo my Jewish ancestry. In 1941 ' our sufferings? balls at them. converted from RC to Anglican. So Henry Schragenheim Hedi FrankI Fischer "once a Jew" does not apply to me London N15 Con London NW4 because only under Nazi race laws was I ever a "Jew." STATISTICS, STATISTICS ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS EH Kenneth Sir - So a recent survey in Austria Sir - If only the solution to the Israel- Grimsby showed that 24% of Austrians Arab conflict was as simple as Inge believe the country would be better Trott suggests {August Letters). The AWAY FROM IT ALL off without Jews (Newsround July simple truth is that no one on the Sir - If places on next year's trip t" 2001). I would like to know who Palestinian side is prepared to make a Bournemouth prove hard to come by/ commissioned the survey and lasting peace with Israel; whenever the reason will be the kindness and whether it is lawful in Austria even to progress is made (as at Camp David), expertise of Carol and Sylvia who ask such a question. I wonder how I immediate further demands are put made our holiday such a happV would feel coming out of - say - on the table by the Palestinians. event. The Cumberland Hotel offered Chancery Lane underground station Never has Abba Eban's statement us excellent food, a lovely terrace ano and being asked whether this that "Since 1947 the Palestinians a swimming pool. We visited country would be better off without have never missed an opportunity Beaulieu in the New Forest and its Pakistanis? to miss an opportunity" been truer enjoyed a trip by rickety bus as well 3S Henry Bass than today. a ride on the Monorail. Evening London W2 Freddie Ingram entertainment included Bingo and Newcastle/Tyne AUSTRIAN PENSIONS quiz where many members excelle Sir - I have had recent themselves! Sir - In biblical times, the Israelites correspondence from the General Steffi Steiner lived also on what is now called the Secretary of the Nationalfonds der London N^^^ Central Office For Arts and Events Diary Holocaust Claims September Michael Newman to Hilde Boman-Behram on the award to her by the Mon 3 Ralph Blumenau: Wisdom & Cleverness. Club 43. 7.45 pm. Austrian Reconciliation Fund City of Vienna of a gold Sun 9 Cartoon workshop led by Janis "Vith the rejection of two law suits in a US medal in recognition of her Goodman. 3 pm. Jewish Museum, ^°urt, those victims of Nazi persecution contribution to expressionist Finchley. '^sed as slave and forced labourers in dance, choreography Mon 10 Harry Leyrer: Demography - 'Austria can now receive compensation and teaching. the fateful science of population study. Payments. In exchange for providing Club 43. 7.45 pm. ''eparations, the Austrian state and An evening with Rabbi Lionel Blue - "idustry have secured legal peace. 8 pm. £5. Jewish Museum, Finchley. As with the Foundation created in GERMAIN and Mon 24 Mary Shakeshaft: Germany, the Austrian Reconciliation R.L. Stevenson - Jekyll & Hyde? "^^nd makes compensation payments for EMGLISH BOOKS Club 43. 7.45 pm. ^lave labourers - AS 105,000 (approx BOUGHT £4,000) - and forced labourers - AS Until 23 Sep Judaica exhibition at the Antiquarian, secondhand and Jewish Museum, Dorotheergasse 11, ^5,000 (approx £1,500). A third category Vienna. °t labourers who worked exclusively in modern books of quality ^Qriculture and forestry will receive a always wanted. Until 14 October Leo Baeck: Aus dem Stamme von Rabblnern. Payment of AS 20,000 (approx £700). We're long-standing advertisers Frankfurt Jewish Museum. Those interned in Mauthausen or the here and leading buyers of 0049 69 21230705. ^^b-camps of Dachau should apply books from AJR members. Until 28 October Remembering 'hrough the German Foundation. LubomI: Images of a Jewish We pay good prices and It is thought that as many as 20,000 Community. Jewish Museum, Camden 'Ormer labourers are expected to benefit. come to collect. Town. I^he deadline for making application is 27 Until 4 Nov Kladovo - successful & 'November 2002. Completed For immediate response, unsuccessful escapes to Palestine. 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She originated from a family while we do nothing, in our own which epitomised the German-Jewish community, about those celebrated by Bildungsburgertum. Her grandmother Art Notes outsiders. Interestingly, the ghetto this corresponded with Clara Schumann and summer featured a competition among her parents' social circle included the Gloria Tessler composer Busoni and the eminent Czech schoolchildren to paint what surgeon Sauerbruch. As a young This is not the first time, in this column, they felt about Terezin had they been musician Grete herself made the that I have called on Jewish incarcerated there. The work was acquaintance of Schonberg and Bartok. entrepreneurs to help find a home for poignant in subject matter and None of this helped after 1933. The the Ben Uri Art Gallery. The treatment, and you felt the children family was decimated, but Grete reached Lisbon in a sealed carriage in 1941! Some pocketful of artists exhibited this really empathised with their task. summer by the Ben Uri at the Manor time after arriving in New York, she Inevitably, you are drawn to moved into the Westbeth building, House should make those with the comparisons with the work of the Greenwich Village, where her power to transform the position of genuine child inmates. It took me some neighbours were the dance pioneer Jewish art in Britain ashamed of moments to realise the answer that was Merce Cunningham and the modernist composer John Cage. Cage dedicated a themselves. Happy to lend their names always obvious. The real children of work to her which she recorded. to major national events in the art Terezin were, of course, no longer world, they turn their backs on the children. Roll of honour. A June issue of the gifted artists within their own mass circulation weekly Der Spiegel commimity, leaving their works in the There is a definite tactile quality to carried, in addition to an interview with dark. Why does the Ben Uri still have Dorian Levine's drawings and Marcel Reich-Ranitzki, his Kanon der no home? Why is most of its watercolours at Highgate's deutschen Literatur. Of sixty-two listed 19th and 20th century writers, sixteen, considerable collection of acclaimed art Lauderdale House. They represent 80 years of the artist's work, in which i.e. a quarter, were (wholly or partly) in storage? And why is it left to the Jewish: Heinrich Heine, Arthur brave souls who man the Manor House Kenwood and other parks feature Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Society but are unused to the planning prominently - and these, with some of Karl Kraus, Cari Sternheim, Alfred of art shows to hang a paltry few his still-lifes, have a confident, Doblin, Franz Kafka, Kurt Tucholsky, Joseph Roth, Erich Kastner, Anna exhibits unlinked in style or subject energetic yet delicate touch. Seghers, Peter Weiss, Paul Celan, Sarah matter on walls unsuitable for works of Kirsch, Wolf Biermann, Jurek Becker. art because of their classic Jews never exceeded one percent of the embellishments? Aptly named Secrets population of Germany. from the Ben Uri Collection, the Death. The Canadian writer Mordecai history of these few paintings on Richler has died aged 70. His family display, including Jacob Kramer's intended him to become a rabbi, but he discreet pastel portrait of Lord produced work which some considered a Rothschild, remains indeed a secret, slur on the Jewish community. In the filif the lives of its artists a mythology. The of The Apprenticeship of Buddy Kravitz, for instance, the protagonist, exhibition is devoid of wall-texts or commissioned to make a barmitzvan brochures. The lack of communal film, screened footage of initiation rituals sponsorship for Jewish art contrasts among primitive tribes. Latterly with the £150 million spent annually on Richler's work was focused on French arts sponsorship in Britain, even during Quebec's separatism in which he detected an antisemitic undercurrent. two recessions. How horribly ironic it is that I have just returned from a visit to Terezin 'Friends' - George Byam Lynch Annely Juda Fine Art where I was moved, as ever, by the Caribbean art was also celebrated 23 Dering Street works of the imprisoned artists this summer with George Byam- (off New Bond Street) including those by the children. The old Lynch's rhythmic and exciting Tel: 020 7629 7578 ghetto and transit camp has changed paintings at the Sheridan Russell Fax: 020 7491 2139 since I was last there, and the theatre Gallery and an extended exhibition. which housed the budding and full New Horizons in Jamaican Art, at CONTEMPORARY PAINTING AND SCULPTURE flowered talents of some of mankind's the Jamaican High Conunission.

8 Reviews puppeteer Their own weight is to do away with that minority. Often recorded in their own niche of this the 'science' part of it runs counter to compendium, and thus is their place the anti-Jewish nonsense - e.g. Gypsy A Weighty work in crime fixed. Mischlinge were sometimes treated ^HE HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPAEDIA, The encyclopaedia is signified by worse than their Jewish equivalents. ®d. Walter Laqueur, the word 'Holocaust'; yet But, tragically, the fatal results were University Press, 2000 astonishingly the accuracy of the often the same. It shook me that their word in this context is doubted. It fate did not quite stir me as much as Whoever uses this splendid work of denotes a burning sacrifice, yet it was that of the Jews. "^sference may think they have in reality an extermination made Obviously, high up in the Com­ Acquired knowledge of the fateful possible by WWII, its means pendium is the word 'Antisemitism' - events from other sources; perhaps adjusted to changing situations. another poisoned dart, horribly '"sy are survivors themselves. But By the time of the vaunted Wannsee imprecise and yet tragically fateful. It ^ney can scarcely know the Conference, the killings were well was invented in 1879 by the German "Sckground, the steps whereby the under way and it was an attempt journalist Wilhelm Marr In his article, 'hurderous plans were put together to bring 'order' into chaos. The Peter Pulzer holds the sentiment ^r muddled up and thus made more Conference is notable for responsible for "post-Christian" Jew- ^^rrible. Of course, this is an systematising the euphemisms for hatred. I think this hatred pre-dates ^'^cyclopaedia; so one looks up, often mass killing and/or temporary Christianity - say the Egyptian "^ot in sequence, what the moment exploitation. Perhaps the words diaspora and its end in the famous '^^ingsup. Shoah, or ethnic extermination, Exodus which gave rise to anti-Jewish The main work is preceded by a would be more telling. But tales resounding into our time. '•'^''onology beginning with 1933 and 'Holocaust' has by now been The encyclopaedia deals with the ^'^ding at 1945. The main articles are universally accepted. The question is Nazi atrocities in the various ^'9ned, often with illustrious names. raised whether the Final Solution European countries in their ^*ie chief villain, Adolf Hitler himself, (another sickening euphemism) was alphabetical places. Researchers will Spreads over almost eight pages. And only the spearhead for actions such find unexpected events recording ^^ rnatter how often one has read as the decimation of the Slavs and heroic support for the persecuted, ^'^out this character, one must be others to make room for a German some memorialised as Righteous ^^tonished anew at how such poison empire, primarily in Eastern Europe. Gentiles. Names include those of a ^^n have accumulated in one human There is one example of this: the Japanese consul in Berlin and a 19- '^ibd. The article is written with cool Gypsies. It is astonishing, perhaps year-old girl in Holland. Consideration, allowing no David shameful, how little one knows This is a weighty book in every •^ing-like speculations - AH is the about that attempted extermination. sense of the adjective (it weighs "^ventor and initiator of the True, even after reading Raul Hilberg's almost 5 lbs). Rarely can such terrible ^'ifnination of the Jews in Europe, excellent entry, it is still difficult to happenings have been spelled out so ^ot Goebbels, not Goring, not even understand the so-called race concisely, so scientifically. H"timle r They were puppets of the experts' theories about why and how John Rossall

Collaboration or self-help? its enforced dissolution and the a means of propaganda to combat implementation ofthe Final Solution. growing international criticism of ^HE INEXTINGUISHABLE The Kulturbund is one of the more Germany's treatment of the Jews, has ^VMPHONY, Martin Goldsmith, controversial features of the story of been interpreted by some as a form ''^hn Wiley & Sons Inc, NY, 2000 anti-Jewish attrition in Germany after of Jewish/Nazi collaboration. Martin ''e Inextinguishable Symphony is 1933. Historians and commentators Goldsmith quite rightly dismisses this '^e popular name given to Symphony on the Holocaust seem divided in reductionist analysis and illustrates, ^0. 4 by the Danish composer Carl their view of it. Originally conceived in considerable detail, the enormous 'Nielsen. Written in 1914 it is a by Kurt Singer, the former director of value the organisation had as a vitally Snscendent work conceived as a the Berlin Opera, he saw it as a way in important morale booster for an b^aco, n of hope for the forces of which Jewish artists who had been increasingly harassed and desperate '^fiewal that he hoped would follow removed from their jobs, could be population. As he says, the ^e carnage of the Great War It was given employment and provide a suggestion that anyone, in the ^ have an unanticipated and ironic much needed source of cultural aftermath of Kristallnacht, would •^ture, when in 1942 it became the enhancement to the increasingly have been lulled into a sense of false ^st work to be performed by the isolated community. The fact that the security and neglected to emigrate ^dische Kulturbund of Berlin prior to Kulturbund was used by Goebbels as because of Kulturbund performances, is basically devoid of Whilst this tends to create a certain conviction. As it happens, his own irritating sense of mawkishness, one Record Keview parents'escape to the USA via Lisbon, should not let it obscure the very real only weeks before American entry depth of research that underpins this into the War, amply makes the point rendition of an extraordinary episode that virtually anyone who could, did in 20th Century history. There is an In general, I am not a great fan of get out. The problem was the element of'Hollywood'storytelling in sampler discs on the grounds that it is seemingly insurmountable difficulty the author's tendency to obscure the far more desirable to experience of so doing, from an economic and demarcations between fact and complete pieces of music than bite- sized chunks. But it could be argued bureaucratic point of view, for all but fictional recreation. Yet, it ultimately that this format offers an opportunity to a fortunate minority. prevails as a book worth reading introduce listeners to repertory not With such a powerful and deeply because of the sheer power of its normally top of theu* shopping list For personal story to tell, it is hardly subject matter and the care with surprising that the author has this reason,. Deutsche Grammophon's which it has been researched. succumbed to the temptation to sink two-disc set TJie Romance of Korngold into sentimentality and hyperbole. John Adler (461 834-2) is extremely welcome as a necessary corrective for a composer who is often dismissed as merely a Land of promis(cuity) Night Falls and the play Mouth purveyor of sentimental Hollywood to Mouth. film music. BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, In the film, an exiled Cuban writer is In fact, Korngold's achievement was far Julian Schnabel, shown dying squalidly in New York more wide-ranging. Hailed as a on general release. after half a lifetime of 'gay abandon'. precocious genius by Mahler, In other words he appears to have Korngold's prodigious talents took MOUTH TO MOUTH, had as many sexual partners as a Central Europe by storm, his opera Dte Kevin Elyot, voracious bachelor would consume Royal Court Theatre tote Stadt enjoying enormous success restaurant meals. This endless chain m the early 1920s. But by the time he of promiscuity is somehow presented Time was when Jews and emigrated to Hollywood as a refuge^ as a glorious exercise of personal homosexuals were airbrushed off from Nazism, his opulent romantic freedom. Freedom - both in its screen and stage. The starcrossed style was no longer fashionable, and he political and sexual manifestations - lovers in Marty, originally conceived was unable to resuscitate his concert is in fact the major theme running as Jewish, reached the screen as and operatic career in the austere through the film. I loved the director's American-Italians, Rock Hudson's postwar era. take on Cuba's poverty under Batista, marriage gave a new meaning to the and lack of freedom under Castro, This generously-filled survey of h'® phrase 'shotgun wedding' and but simply hated the sex. output offers some of his best-known Terence Rattigan transposed his works including the gloriously heroes' same-sex love objects into the When it came to Mouth to Mouth, I nostalgic Violin Concerto, wonderfully female gender Since the Sixties, hated just about everything about it. performed by Gil Shaham, and the Hollywood and Shaftesbury Avenue In the Royal Court-premiered play, famous operatic arias Gliick, das tn^^ have outed Jews and gays. Barbra the catalyst is an incident where a verblieb (fi-om Die tote Stadt) and Ic^ Streisand kept her name (and her fortyish aids sufferer, who had, ging zu ihm (fi-om Das Wunder de nose); on the West End stage the love sometime previously, saved a that once 'dared not speak its name' drowning schoolboy by giving him Heliane). But there are also some rare has become so vociferous that the kiss of life, goes 'mouth to mouth' items such as the 1940s Passover sensitive theatre-goers require with him on dry land. In addition to Psakn and an intrigumg excerpt from ear-plugs. unrequited paedophiliac yearnings, Der Schneeman which demonstrate the play featured a philandering and the remarkable compositional fluency The tragic fact that the Jews (in simultaneously clueless father, and a of the eight-year old. Predictably. Lewis Namier's words) have 'no mother who, having conceived her Korngold's film music is well- history - only a martyrology' has son out of wedlock, now harbours represented, but it is rather fi-ustratinS throughout the last half century 'Oedipal' feelings towards him. that we get a paltry sbc minutes froP^ inspired stage and film classics from the slow movement of the Symphony- Anne Frank's Diary to Schindler's List. It appears that the dearth of especially since many experts regard It sometimes seems that gay tourists resulting from the Foot-and- as the composer's masterpiece. An scriptwriters, anxious to create an Mouth epidemic caused the listemng to just the first movement o equivalent martyrology of their own, premature closure of Mouth to the delightful Symphonic Serenade for are mining the aids epidemic for Mouth. Verily, it's an ill wind that String Orchestra made me impatient t similar nuggets of drama. Two recent blows nobody any good I hear the rest ofthe work. examples of this are the film Before Richard Grunberger

10 A sprightly 74 - year - old, Helen lived with her mother and brother in ^onson is perplexed but clearly Wm Lodz until emigrating to England in ''^lighted to receive one of the Marion Koebner September 1946, thanks to an uncle in Greenwich Women of the Year 2001 London providing the necessary ^^ards. Hearing her story leaves documents. The hope that her mother '^ne in no doubt that the award is Helen Aronson and brother would follow was richly deserved. unfulfilled, her mother joining her Helen was born in Pabjanice, a textile sister in Palestine and her brother, ^own in Poland then known as 'little thanks to fiiends, going to live in "Manchester.' TTie youngest of three Australia. Helen's desire to make up for children of a Zionist father, she her lost education by going to school in remembers a happy childhood London was thwarted by her uncle who attending a Jewish primary school, wanted her to do his domestic work. Protected from the antisemitism to Very soon after arrival in Britain, *hich her older siblings were Helen had been introduced to the son Objected at the Gymnasium. Her sister of one of her fellow travellers on the ^inigrated to Palestine in 1937. boat. They married. Originating from Tile Germans entered Pabjanice a Warsaw, her husband had studied in '^^ days after the outbreak of war. Britain and was employed by the "'ithin weeks, wearing the yellow star Ministry of Defence as an electrical lad become compulsory and the engineer, a post involving some foreign ^gregation of Pabjanice's Jews was postings. During the 1950s, Helen and ^tablished with their move into the her husband lived in Nigeria. Helen "^^^ly formed ghetto. With rationing in worked at the Israeli Embassy and was 'Orce, Helen's father found a way of thrilled to be able to meet Golda Meir Setting ration cards for many who were spirits up. A year later, all the children who, as Israel's Foreign Minister, '''lable to obtain them. As a result, were deported. Her next job was the visited Nigeria in 1958. ''^gether with two of the town's 'privileged' one of working in a After a short stint in Shropshire, the Prominent inhabitants, he was confectionery factory. During that family moved to Blackheath. As well as ^rested and imprisoned for several time, she miraculously survived a bringing up two daughters, Helen "Months, leaving his family to fend for 'round up' by hiding for hours in a bed worked as a secretary for the same ^emselves. Helen recalls the day he in a house already cleared by the Nazis, company for 23 years. Since retirement ^^s released, carried home on the returning home to her fi-antic mother Helen has devoted herself to voluntary shoulders of his fellow townspeople. It and brother long after dark. work, her special project being the ^^^uld not be the first time her father After the liquidation of the ghetto in Reminiscence Centre in Blackheath. "^monstrated his courage and 1944, she was among the 750 Jews As well as housing an exhibition about "^dication to help others, which Helen chosen to stay behind to clear the refugees fi-omdifferen t eras (including *els destined to continue. ghetto of property. This became the a short section on Helen's story), the The Jews of Pabjanice were the first concentration camp known as Jakuba Centre provides "reminiscence ^ the region to be moved to Lodz 18. Helen's job was cleaning the boxes", a scheme devised by the Ghetto in May 1942. Helen and her Gauleiter Biebov's offices. Discovering charity Age Exchange. Helen helps to ^Jiiily were able to stay together but that her mother was listed for prepare the boxes - a collection of '^e father volunteered to accompany deportation, she threatened to go with objects redolent of the past - which are ^ose young children immediately her. In this way, she was able to save then loaned to schools, residential ^Parated from their parents and sent her mother. Her unexpected friendship homes and other institutions, as a ^ Chelmo where they, and he, were with Biebov's German secretary - who means of educating children about a ^iirdered. Hearing that they were hid food for her at grave danger to bygone age or stimulating older people Jl^ostush Chmura's family, Chaim herself - led to Helen being the chief into remembering their own stories. "^mkowski - the now notorious witness in her postwar rehabilitation Helen has provided information and '^endlteste - assured Helen's mother proceedings. Helen was one of those documents both to the Holocaust ^at he would look after them; it is to liberated by the Russians in January Education Centre, Beth Shalom, and to ^s that Helen attributes her siu-vival. 1945, having hidden in a bunker - in the historian Martin Gilbert for his ^tially she worked in an orphanage, freezing conditions and with little food - book The Holocaust. She is an active '^ompanying the children to work to avoid the last appel in the camp. member of South London AJR, being ^d doing what she could to keep their Immediately after the war, Helen their finance officer.

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INSIDE South London KINDERTRANSPORT NEWS Susannah Alexander's interesting talk about 'TheJews in England', started with the arrival David Jedwab the AJR of the first Jews who came with William the Conqueror in 1066 and followed their expulsion by Edward I and their return The two nominees proposed by the under Oliver Cromwell in 1650, after Kinder, Sigi Faith and Erich Reich, were which they slowly acquired civil rights and duly elected to the AJR Management counted a Jewish mayor and a Jewish MP Committee at the AGM. We are among their number. Moneylending, blood confident that both will represent the libel and ritual murder allegations all played their part in the historical sweep interests of all AJR and Kinder members. which concluded with the 20th century The Kinder will be well represented at waves of immigration from Russia, Poland the AJR 60th Anniversary Tea on 9 and Nazi Germany. September We hope you have ordered Members at Liverpool AJR launch with Marcia Goodman (centre front) and Anne Poloway your tickets as the Tea is sold out. Susanne Green (centre back) Next meeting: 13 September - AM Alfred; Sue Read, director of The Children "Democracy, voting systems & referenda." Liverpool AJR group's first meeting Who Cheated the Nazis, is to donate all 45 videotaped inten/iews Twenty refugees and Holocaust survivors, Pinner many travelling long distances, gathered at from the film to the Wiener Library- Liverpool's Harold House for the inaugural Selecting from his vast collection of jazz Funds are required to convert this digi' meeting of Liverpool AJR, the latest addition works, member and jazz aficionado Alf Keiles beta material into viewer-friendly traced his own progress in South Africa from to the family of AJR's regional groups. A form - the Kinder have made a further nineteen people from North Wales and the time he arrived from Germany in 1936. During his engineering apprenticeship he met contribution towards meeting this cost- the North West pledged their support for There are also ongoing discussions witn future meetings. Peter Lotis {Suddenly a song is bom) and then the Wiener Library regarding the deposi A warm welcome from Susanne Green, his future wife Esther, recalling wedding of Kindertransport archives with them, AJR's North Region Groups Co-ordinator, was memories with Frank Sinatra (/// never smile followed by a talk by Marcia Goodman, AJR's again). Together they met many world- as promised by the RoK. Head of Social Services, on the services famous artistes such as Sarah Vaughan {The available to members, including those of the more I see you) and set up Dorkay House to Kinderlunches new Central Office for Holocaust Claims teach the Blues to the underprivileged 3 September: speakers will be Lis headed by Michael Newman. talented blacks with phenomenal success. Schaefer, who organized Bertha's toufS Alf made the moulds for the firstSout h African Each of those present was invited to give a in Germany and Flor Kent, the design^'' LPs with Mr Harris of Trutone, whose short autobiography, a moving and interesting ofthe Liverpool Street Kinder sculpture- daughter Etta Lazarus was in our audience. process which helped everyone to get to know 15 October: Erich Reich will report on each other. Losing no time at all, a planning Walter Weg the Bedin to Auschwitz Bike Ride whic^^ committee was formed to arrange future raised over £70,000 for Jewish childre'^ events, Norman Fyne and Ruth Eisikovits Next meeting: 6 September - Howard Midgen: being its first members. An early invitation Towns, mountain and tribes of Morocco with in the Ukraine and Russia, and for tn^ was extended to Michael Newman, and a pre- Jewish interest. Liverpool Street Sculpture. The Bike Ri"^^ Yomtov 'get-together' was booked for Harold is to become an annual event drawing' House on Thursday 13 September at 11.30am Leeds schoolchildren from all over Germany a to which all are invited. The members ended Distinguished speaker Dr Stephen Smith well as UK participants. The Kinder gi^^ the meeting by enjoying a delicious buffet. spoke of memory and the obligation to this event their full support For further information about Liverpool remember. Remembering was essential to AJR,tel: Susanne Green on 01512915734. history and memorials were required to give dignity to those who had perished and to Start the week remind future generations. After showing Brighton AJR's Paul Balint AJR Day Centre in slides photographed in Poland where nature In the unavoidable absence of the scheduled Cleve Road, West Hampstead, has brought beauty and tranquillity to places speaker, Myma Glass stood in to give a where there had been brutal murder and invites members to start the week thumbnail sketch report of her recent visit to violence, Dr Smith gave a discourse on with a relaxing Monday. Whether Israel. She had attended a lecture by Prof education and learning from history and your interest is in cards and Gerald Steinberg whose view was that Yasser personal experiences. He described the games, or just relaxing in our Arafat did not wish to go down in history as the man who recognised the State of Israel and recent developments at Beth Shalom. lovely garden after a tasty lunch gave up Palestinian territory. Hence he made Everyone was visibly moved. It was a very and schmoozing with your no positive proposals during the 'Peace special meeting and a great social occasion. friends, you will always find a Negotiations' and did not want a permanent warm welcome from Sylvia Matus Trude Silman settlement. She also reported on a conference andherteam. Next meeting: 9 September Jon Silverman where the efforts to alleviate the acute water The Day Centre is open shortage and other environmental issues (Title to beannounced) were debated. A lively discussion followed. between 9.30 am and 3.30 pm on Mondays. To find out more, Rudi Simmonds West Midlands telephone Sylvia on 020 7328 Next meeting: 10 September - social get- Next meeting: 30 September - Sir Bernard 0208 orjustturn up. together Zissman (Title to be announced)

12 5^o?iE^^7^^ ^^^j^^ The Last #^ Kindertransport % CO m CO Edgar Flacker Co AJR SHABBAT ^ixty-one years ago, a small number of AJR's 60th ANNIVERSARY at Belsize Square Synagogue ^^rman and Austrian Jewish children CELEBRATION TEA AND CABARET Members and friends are invited *^re able to reach safety in Britain from at the Grosvenor House H"' to a service of commemoration ^^rnian-occupied territory. They Park La*' and celebration ^seinbarked at Liverpool harbour on 15 Saturday 10 November 2001 ^3y 1940 after crossing the Channel v/ ., zOOl, Service commences at 10 am to ^^d moving northwards along Britain's eceptton iOV.«> be followed by a Kiddush Western coastline. An attempt to land on for 3pm tea ^he south coast had failed as overzealous Sunners, taking their boat - the SS °odegraven - for an enemy vessel, had Join us AJR 'Drop in' Advice Centre at 'Opened fire. at the Cumberland Hotel the Paul Balint AJR Day Centre When puzzled British officials tried to in Bournemouth ^k to the children on arrival, they found 15 Cleve Road, London NW6 3RL between 10am and 12 noon on 'Communication difficult. The children 21-26 October 2001 the following dates: ^Poke mostly in German, but one word, Tuesday 4 September ^ name which to the officials' ears must £220 per person Thursday 13 September "3ve sounded like Weesemuller, was to include transport, half-board, Tuesday 25 September "^^ntioned again and again, and became outing and entertainment Thursday 4 October ^^ key to understanding their story, No appointment is necessary, but ^he name was that of Gertruida Please contact Carol Rossen or Joan Altman on 020 7431 6161 please bring along all relevant •^iJsmuller-Meijer, a courageous Dutch as soon as possible as documents, such as Benefit 'ady who had devoted her life to numbers are limited Books, letters, bills, etc. ^^nianitarian causes. She was involved ^ Kindertransports from the beginning, Ravelled to Vienna in early December Paul Balint AJR Day Centre 1 5 Cleve Road, West Hampstead, NWS | ^938 to meet with Eichmann and set up Tel: 020 7328 0208 ^"e first transport to the Netherlands ^id Britain for 600 children. Acutely Monday - Thursday 9.30am - 3.30pm, Sunday 2pm - 5.30pm ^^are ofthe implications for Jews ofthe SEPTEMBER Afternoon entertainment: German invasion of her country, she Sun 2 Day Centre Open - No Entertainment "lade a spur of the moment decision on Mon 3 KT Lunch - Kard & Games Klub Tue 4 Amanda Palmer Entertains ^4 May 1940 to attempt, alone, to save Wed 5 Primrose Powell Concert Cabaret ^s many children as she could. She Thur 6 Jenny Kossew 'Organized transport, collected about 40 Sun 9 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - ANNIVERSARY TEA •children from the Amsterdam Municipal Mon 10 Kard & Games Klub Orphanage and drove them to the Tue 11 Stephen Baron & Paul Balmer - Violin & Piano "earby port of Ijmuiden, entrusting Wed 12 Daphne Lewis & Yeta Mendelsohn 'hem to the captain of the Bodegraven, Thur 13 Jack Davidoff & Friend Sun 16 Day Centre Open - No Entertainment ^hich departed for Britain that evening. Mon 17 Kard & Games Klub 'Unfortunately she was unable to obtain Tue 18 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - ROSH HASHANAH •^ore vehicles. A total of almost 2,000 Wed 19 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - ROSH HASHANAH "Children had to stay behind. Thur 20 Katinka Seiner & Laszio Easton Sun 23 Day Centre Open - No Entertainment As very little is known about this last Mon 24 Kard & Games Klub '^indertransport, it would be appreciated Tue 25 Amanda Palmer Entertains V Wijsmuller Kinder came forward to tell Wed 26 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - KOL NIDRE ^^eir story. Dr Flacker can be contacted Thur 27 DAY CENTRE CLOSED - YOM KIPPUR ^^rough the Wiener Library. Sun 30 Day Centre Open - No Entertainment

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14 To baldly go pockmarked face Stalin. Hair loss Search Notices accounted for at least three European Richard Grunberger dictators: Mussolini, Lenin and Mala Zimetbaum. Born in Brzesko, Poland •^ax: I'm only glad that Malcolm Khrushchev. And here comes Duncan 16/01/1918. From March 1928, lived with "^ifkind didn't run. Smith, looking like Samson after his her family in Antwerp, Belgium. Joined ••eo: Why is that? tryst with Delilah!! Hanoar Hatzionl. Later worked as a •^ax: Because I can imagine what the Leo: But he shows no dictatorial seamstress for Maison Lilian and then as a competition would have called his tendency. linguist-secretary in a small diamond backers. Max: I wouldn't take that for granted! business. She was arrested on 22/07/1942 Leo: What? Just look at how readily his name would and deported to Auschwitz on "^ax: Rifkinder lend itself to a certain type of chanting. 15/09/1942. Her number was 19880. She '•^o: What makes you say that? Leo: Such as? escaped with Edward (Edek) Galinski - ^ax: Didn't they dub Michael Portillo Max: Such as "Wir danken unserm number 531 - on 24/06/1944 but both were recaptured and murdered. Would '*^iguel? And call his backers Fuhrer Duncan." anyone who knew her in Poland, Belgium •^ortillistas? And pronounce his name Leo: But this is England! or Auschwitz or has any information about "^ortiyo to make him sound even more Max: Precisely! That's why I'm so her and her family please contact John Paul foreign? astounded by the present-day Tories' Leavey, 42 Saint Brigids Road, Clondalkin, '•eo: But he isn't foreign halachically lack of hair awareness. The English have Dublin 22, Eire. Tel: 0353 1459 2567. ^Peaking. always displayed instinctive political email: [email protected] ^ax: How do you make that out? nous. How did they ensure that the Margarete Pohl-Collln. German refugee '•So: He has an English mother crown didn't fall into the hands of a living in London until 1960s. •^ax: Scots actually bald psychopath or a hairless loony? Corresponded with Kad Wolfskehl in New ••eo: I stand corrected! By making women, who are hardly ever Zealand. Any information about her ^ax: But more importantly, how many bald, eligible for the throne. This sought by researcher for Bayerischer Tories know Halacha? country had Elizabeth as a queen a Rundfunk. Please contact Ulrike '•eo: That's true. whole two hundred years before Russia Voswinckel, Siegfriedstrasse 10, 80803 ''^ax: And because they're not versed in and Austria got round to doing so with Munich, Tel 0049 89348789, email '^daism, they don't know the Catherine the Great and Maria Theresa. voswinckOaol.com To which I would add that the early '"iportance of something else. Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling. Author Tories knew exactly how to trump their '•eo: Which is? seeks anecdotes, lore, memories, leads opponents. To convince the populace ^ax: Hair If the rabbis were short of regarding the Louis-Schmeling fights of ''air they (a) covered the remnant with that the other side were devious and 1936 and 1938 from those who read ^'aborate yarmulkas and (b) grew going to any lengths to disguise their about or listened to them in England, "eards that could have been woven hair loss, they dubbed them perruques. Germany, Austria, or elsewhere. Contact "'to rugs. But what do the Tories do? Leo: Perruques? David Margolick, 315 W. 86th St. #14F, ^fter "lightbulb" Hague, they anoint Max: That's what they called the NewYork, NY 10024. marqolickOaol.com "'milliard ball" lain Duncan Smith. opposition among themselves but in Leopold Altmann. Born 5.5.1876 (?) in '^hey're a collection of alopecia addicts! public they labelled them Whigs - a Schildberg/Poznan.Emigrated from ••eo: But what's wrong with having short, sharp monosyllable that said it Bedin to London ca. 1939. Had a ''aid leaders? all! Whig was such a devastating form daughter Betty. If you have information "^ax: If you study history you'll find of abuse that, within a century, the on them or their descendants, please '•lat leaders usually become maniacs Party disappeared from view just like contact Mananne Hartmann, Pastorsesch ^0 compensate for physical handicaps. the alopecia it was meant to disguise. 10, 48159 Munster, Germany Tel: 0049 ^withered arm drove the Kaiser, a Leo: Clearly a case of "hair today, gone 251 212362, e-mail: H.HartmannOuni- ^'igular testicle Hitler and a tomorrow." muensterde

disease. He also correctly predicted that relevant evidence and then present busy Science Notebook further, often isolated, outbreaks would ministers with a crisp analysis and Prof Michael Spiro occur even after the disease appeared to recommendations on the most appropriate have been vanquished. action to take. Science Bigwigs Of course the Chief Scientific Adviser King's predecessor from 1995 to 2000 ^d you know that the Government has a does not work in isolation, particularly was Sir Robert May who held a research ••hief Scientific Adviser? He normally acts when the problem lies outside his own professorship in zoology jointly between J^hind the scenes so that few people know speciality. Science now covers such vast Oxford University and Imperial College, lli':s name, but the present incumbent, areas of knowledge that no-one can be an London. Both May, an Australian, and h"•ofesso r David King of Cambridge expert on every aspect of it. Professor King, born in South Africa, come from the u•Uversity, , has appeared several times on King is a prominent physical chemist British Commonwealth. Perhaps their * during the foot-and-mouth crisis. In whose research subject is the physics and origins allow them to talk more plainly ^ch he warned the Government that chemistry of solid surfaces and reactions than their English equivalents. May once ^e outbreak was out of control and that it on them. He will therefore have consulted described as 'crap' the science coverage in ^9s essential to cull infected animals scientists working in the fields in question two English tabloid newspapers after their ''^Ws, sheep, pigs) within 24 hours and to (in this case animal diseases and one-sided reporting of the debate on . ^ate disease-free zones around all epidemiology) both in Britain and genetically modified food. He is now an ^ected areas to check the spread of the overseas allowing him to marshall the independent life peer.

15 What this month means Newsround Rev Bernd Koschland Vatican's refusal to cooperate A panel of Catholic and Jewish A year has gone by. It seems like yesterday what you would not have done to yourself." that we said "see you again soon" to our To reach that level is still a difficult task and historians researching the role of the neighbours in shul, soon being anything more so the positive statement of "Love Church in the Holocaust has suspended from a day to another year. Once again, your neighbour as yourself (Leviticus its work after being refused full access Rosh Hashanah is upon us, to close a year 19:18). to Vatican archives. One area of which has been a momentous one The Shofar of Rosh Hashanah should stir research is the extent of Pope Piu* especially for Israel. Hopefully, as 5762 us to positive action, awaken us to our XII's knowledge of the Holocaust begins, there will be peace and tranquillity duties in the three areas of relationship: during WWII. in the land. G-d, other people and ourselves. The Just as we look forward to any major festival has emerged and developed over Berlin site decision event or activity in our lives and count the time from the biblical celebration found in Land which includes Hitler's Berlin days, so we should have prepared for Rosh the Torah and as recorded in the book of bunker may be given by the German Hashanah as the beginning of the year and Nehemiah (chapter 8) when Ezra the Government to the Claims Conference, the subsequent festivals of Yom Kippur and Scribe read the Law to the people and then reports the Jewish Chronicle. I' Sukkot. The previous month of EUul, with instructed them to go home and rejoice. transferred, the bulk of the value will he prayer, Shofar and introspection, has laid Yom Kippur commences with the distributed to the descendants of the the foundations for the High Holydays. We absolute solemnity of Kol Nidrei, reflecting look at ourselves and ask simply: "Over the historical associations, especially of Jews family from whom it was confiscated. past year, what has been our relationship who had abandoned their faith through Barenboim breaks taboo with G-d, with people? What have we force and wished to return to their people. Daniel Barenboim and his Berlin achieved, what have we failed to achieve?" The day is one of spiritual reflection for Staatskapelle played music from Tristan If we have failed somewhere, why have we ourselves. It is a Day of At-one-ment, of failed? What went wrong? How can we being at one with all our fellow Jews, as we und Isolde as an encore to a remedy the situation? At the same time, let stand before the Almighty and plead our programme in the Israel Festival afte"" us look at what we have done well, what we cause, to ask for Divine forgiveness and consulting the audience. Some of t^^ have achieved, and give ourselves a pat on mercy. We recall our dead relatives and pray Jerusalem audience stormed out in the back. In all this, we must be absolutely that they may speak for us before the protest but the majority stayed an" honest with ourselves; we can hide things Divine Throne, also those who have no gave a standing ovation. from others but never from ourselves. grave because ofthe Holocaust. As we approach the High Holydays we As the Shofar announced the beginning Berghof site to become hotel must establish or re-establish a proper of solemnity, it also announces the end; it The Intercontinental chain plans to relationship with our fellows, a thrusts us forward into Sukkot, the festival build a luxury hotel near the Bergho' prerequisite for the festival according to of joy, a festival celebrating the harvest, to retreat which served as one of Hitlet* Rabbinic teaching. Unless we have the sound of the swishing Lulavim. The command centres. The contrac appeased our fellow human beings, we Sukkah recalls that we have Divine prohibits the owners of the site fro'^ cannot approach G-d on Yom Kippur to ask protection. We conclude the season of exploiting its past. for His forgiveness, for His mercy. Judaism festivity with prayers for rain, essential for is not just a religion of ritual; its ethical and our physical sustenance, just as we also Oldham bans Holocaust speaker moral teachings are equally important, if celebrate with the conclusion of the Leon Greenman, a survivor of not more so, as Hillel pointed out to the Reading of the Torah, which is the source of Auschwitz and a regular speaker a heathen who asked to be taught the Torah our spiritual sustenance. while standing on one foot. His approach London's Jewish Museum, ^^ was a negative one: "Do not do to another Shanah Tovah! prevented from speaking at an Anb' Nazi League rally in Oldham. The council was concerned that p^"" AJR web site is live - www.ajr.org.uk order would be compromised. One of the modern faces of the AJR - the Additional pages provide information Provocative campaign /\JR web site - is being discovered by a about our services, and a page of links to Provocative posters forming part ot worldwide audience with 'hits' other relevant sites. If you wish to campaign to raise funds for the Bedi registered so far from surfers in the USA, comment or tell us about other links, we Holocaust Memorial information Europe, Israel and the Far East. The site would be delighted to hear from you. centre and library have bee includes extracts from the AJR Journal The site will be continually developed withdrawn after discussions with tn (past and current issues) as well as and updated. Take a look at Central Council of Jews in Germany. claims information and advice. www.ajrorg.uk

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