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After walking around the historic streets during the War. He wrote beautifully illustrated
surrounding us, we trooped back into the Nelson stories about space-travel as well as describing
Room at 5.30pm for an illustrated talk by his family life in Prague. Tragically, he went to
Cambridge researcher, Mike Levy on ‘The life Auschwitz on the last transport, where he died in
and works of W. S. Gilbert, an irascible late 1945.
Victorian genius’. Besides the excellent visual After breakfast on Sunday morning we were
presentation, the speaker quoted substantial treated to a second talk by Avi Shivtiel entitled
tracts from the famous G&S comic operas. ‘Touch Wood. Superstitions in Judaism’.
Amazingly, several individuals stood up and Whoever said that Jews weren’t superstitious,
completed the quotations from memory, giving have a lot to answer for. At 11.30am, Nick
better than they got. We should have had a talent Collins gave a short talk and answered questions
competition after all!
about the Movement in Britain. After completing
Saturday night dinner concluded by 8.30pm. Our A.O.B., we took lots of photos, said our
last event of the evening was a film introduced goodbyes and departed from the hotel. Ruth,
by Phil Moleman. This was about Petre Ginz, a Helen and I were massively relieved. Things had
very moving story of a gifted half-Jewish child worked out well despite everything. “If you will
living in Theresienstadt (concentration camp) it, it is no dream.”
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