Lost freshness in war work MUSIC Britten War Requiem
Renewing an old acquaintance is often an unsettling experience, and so it was with the performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at the Opera House last week…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1993
67 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4
Bad memories of war and shelters VIEWPOINT
MEMORIES are dogging Israel these days — memories from over a decade ago, when the country first began to get bogged down in the Lebanon War of 1982-85…
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Jerusalem: PRIME Minister Yitzhak Rabin hasvoiced concern about a new wave of Arab violence in the wake of…
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THE SIMON Wiesenthal Centre has named three men living in Australia it alleges were members of a Lithuanian Nazi murder squad…
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“Far away, (far away, that is, from St Urbains’ Street where Mordechai Richler spent his boyhood), across the sheltering seas, dive bombers were terrorising cities,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →mazaltov Around the Community Pacific war remembrance
TEN members of the NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (Najex) paid their respects to those who fought and lost their lives during World War II at a war…
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Jerusalem: TWO weeks after Israel’s weeklong shelling of targets in southern Lebanon ended with an apparent “understanding” between Israel and…
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THE SIMON Wiesenthal Centre has named three men living in Australia it alleges were members of a Lithuanian Nazi murder squad which killed…
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Tel Aviv: THE Israeli soldiers killed in southern Lebanon on August 19 were on a mission to retrieve expensive Israeli military…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Remembering and discovering in Poland Earlier this year two young Australian Jews travelled to Poland for the Warsaw Ghetto 50th anniversary commemorations. Fay Goodchild travelled with her mother and father, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Auschwitz and Majdanek camps; Julie Kalman accompanied her mother who survived the war as a child in Brussels. Here is their account
WE HAD always believed the trip to Poland would be an extraordinary experience. But once there we found ourselves…
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IN 1965, Hilda Zinner made the treacherous…
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Se lasseront-ils jamais de se laver les mains du sang des autres? N'y aura-t-il jamais limite à l'occasion où on se sert des morts pour démontrer ce ils se doutaient lorsqu'ils étaient vivants?…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →War crimes trial: stay sought again
DEFENCE lawyers for Heinrich Wagner, 69 — the third person in Australia to be charged with Nazi war crimes In Europe — are again seeking a permanent stay of proceedings…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →this week War of words between Israel and Syria
Jerusalem: ISRAEL and Syria are engaged in tin escalating war of words. Syrian President Hafez Assad, caught off guard by Israel’s secret negotiations with the…
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SYDNEY Legacy president Bryan Cleary will be guest speaker at this year’s Jewish communal Annual Remembrance Day Service to be…
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LAWYERS defending alleged war criminal Heinrich Wagner, 69, failed in an attempt in the High Court in Sydney this week to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Remembering war veteran
FRIENDS and family of the late Oram Cohen, who was Australia’s oldest Jewish returned serviceman, farewelled the old Digger at a ori…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rabbi snubbed at Unknown Soldier ACT entombment
AUSTRALIAN War Memorial officials would not allow a rabbi to join Defence Force chaplains of other faiths in conducting the service for the entombment of the Unknown Soldier last week. At the same time, War Memorial officials arranged for a cross, signifying…
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WAR CRIMES trial witnesses will testify and face cross-examination in a history-making satellite television hearing beginning this week. For the first time in an Australian criminal case,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War is fire, water is peace, says Patt
WITHOUT the efficient supply of water to arid regions of Israel, the Israel-PLO accord is as worthless as the paper on…
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