Talk of civil war in Israel becomes commonplace
JERUSALEM: Ominous talk of a “rift in the nation” and even “civil war” is becoming commonplace as political tensions reach a new high…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1995
57 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3
War criminal charged
August 28, WEISBADEN: SS LieutenantGeneral Jurgen Stroop, under whose direction the Warsaw ghetto was liquidated in the spring of 1943, will be tried here as a…
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IT HAS been a particularly memorable year for Harry Leslie. A former PoW in Taiwan, the secretary of the NSW Association of Jewish…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →On Town Memories are made of this In recent weeks, Australians have been reminded of the horrors and triumphs of World War II during the 50th anniversary commemorations; but for Dr David Rosenwax, the war is a consuming passion. Shoshana Lenthen found out why
DAVID Rosenwax tricked me. He was showing me a rare transistor radio, dating from the war years, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Japanese World War II Holocaust Survivor versus Japanese Government by Ruud Doornbos
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Continued on Trove, page 21 →Memories of war There are few still alive who witnessed both the actual Japanese surrender in Manila (VJDay) and the formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri 50 years ago this week. Bill Kadison was one, and he spoke to Shoshana Lenthrn
FORMER WORLD War II correspondent Bill Kadison recalled that on his birthday on August 5, 50 years ago, he was ushered into a room with…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Jews can also be war criminals on the Other Hand
WILL those who have been clamouring for the trial of war criminals, wherever they may be found, on the perfectly reasonable…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Our Town Journey into past and present Sydney writer Justine Armstrong recently accompanied her mother on a tour of eastern Europe, where her family had lived before the war
LETTY COTTIN Pogrebin, the Jewish feminist author said “the antisemites remind you of who you are”. The truth of that statement became clear to…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →War criminals: ECAJ bid to amend law
EXECUTIVE Council of Australian Jewry president Isi Leibler has appealed to Prime Minister Paul Keating to change Australia’s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Town Dunera refugee's music discovered A University of Sydney archivist has unearthed some Jewish liturgical music composed in an Australian internment camp during World War Ii. Anne Sarzin reports
THANKS to her painstaking research, Archivist Sister Marianne Dacy has discovered a hitherto unknown gem amid the many treasures of the University of Sydney’s Archive of Australian Judaica — music composed in the Hay…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →War heroes recognised
SAM Spitzer and Ziggy Gregor are true military heroes. In 1944 they took part in the successful Slovak Uprising — a meticulous operation which…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →War crimes trials
WASHINGTON, October 18: The first public session of the International War Crimes Tribunal opened in Berlin today with the presentation by the Allied prosecutors of a…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →News Tension rises in South Lebanon after attacks on soldiers
TENSION remained high in Southern Lebanon this week following the deaths of nine Israeli soldiers in two separate attacks in Israel’s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From soldier to statesman
IN THE final words of his final public speech, a call for peace was on the lips of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin…
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THREE wooden Magen David emblems were recovered before a ceremonial burning of…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Chanukah War
The Syrian Greeks ruled Jerusalem. They stopped the Jewish people from practising their religion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Old Soldier Who Couldn’t Sing RUSSIAN poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko contributed the following poem exclusively to the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle which has given permission for the AJN to reprint it. To the memory of Yitzhak Rabin
Bullets have no nationality. Where is the end of assassinations in the world? The way of an old soldier is finished…
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