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Kehilat
Middlesbrough Newsletter No 23
May 2007 page 3 (of 5)
How we helped to uncover records
THANKS to the Jewish Telegraph, important documents belonging to
the Middlesbrough Hebrew Congregation have been discovered.
Trustee David Simon used Roots Directory to try to locate a Mr
Steiner from Manchester, who is believed to have salvaged important
material. Mr Simon said: "Mr Steiner had moved to Gateshead. But a
friend phoned him to tell him about my request.
"He phoned me and was very helpful. He is coming to see me with the
documents."
In 1998, soon after the synagogue's closure, Mr Steiner was passing
the building in which he saw workmen. Having always wanted to visit the
synagogue, he went in and asked the workmen what they were doing with
documents.
They said they had been told to chuck everything. Realising that
there could be things of importance, Mr Steiner took a sack and salvaged
documents from a skip.
The Mancunian took the contents to the synagogue president, who was
ill at the time. He instructed him to place the Chevra Kadisha register
with Middlesbrough Museum and "did not seem interested in the other
material".
Mr Simon said: "Mr Steiner was still worried about the documents and
did not want to throw them away. He will bring them all to me so we can
deposit them in the Town Hall archives."
Jewish Telegraph,
24 November 2006
David Simon writes:
To date, [May 2007] I have received nothing from Steiner.
He has papers and also has failed to consent to the Register of
Burials being moved from the Museum to the Archives . Incidentally I
understand some papers got to Israel as well.
In a skip
THE last active trustee of Middlesbrough Hebrew Congregation is
seeking a Mr Steiner who is believed to have "rescued" documents
belonging to the synagogue.
Public notary David Simon said: "Rumours have reached me that a
Mancunian told some members of our synagogue that he found synagogue
documents in a skip and rescued them.
"We have now placed synagogue memorabilia in a Middlesbrough Room at the
Gateshead Boarding School, in Middlesbrough Museum and in the Town Hall
archives."
He would like Mr Steiner to contact him on 01642 710799, by email at
david.simon3a@virgin.net or write to Leven Ford, 3A Levenside,
Stokesley, Middlesbrough TS9 5AR. He will arrange collection and
preservation of the documents.
Jewish Telegraph,
15 September 2006
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