Alex Dafner Yiddish Report 18.11.2018

A new Australian Jewish War Memorial, bearing the names of 341 Jewish ANZAC’s killed in both World Wars, was ceremoniously opened in Canberra by the Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove, in the presence of chiefs of the ADF, politicians, diplomats, representatives of veterans’ organisations and members of the Jewish and broader community. The Jewish community in Australia commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the terrible Nazi, anti-Jewish Krystalnacht pogrom in Germany and Austria of the 9th and 10th November 1938 and its members and members of the Aboriginal community will remember and honour the noble act, by the Aboriginal leader William Cooper, who tried to deliver a letter and petition protesting the attacks and racist Nurenberg laws to the German consulate in Melbourne, by re-staging the march on the 6th of December, at 6.30PM from the Flagstaff to the Alexandra Gardens, in Melbourne. A 94 year old former Nazi SS guard at the Stutthof Concentration Camp, Johann Rehbogen, is standing trial in Germany for being complicit in the murder of several hundred of the more than 60 thousand inmates killed in the camp during Word War Two. A former Jewish Hungarian migrant and long time member of the Melbourne Jewish community, Leo Buchler, who turned 108 recently and who’s lived through two revolutions, two world wars, and a Nazi labour camp, is believed to be the oldest Jew in Australia and the third oldest Australian overall.

Source: SBS