Letters
Your book arrived today, and I had a six-hour nostalgia
binge with it!
Many thanks for your hard work. Although I regard myself
as thoroughly computer compatible it is so much nicer to have hard
copy and real pages to turn over. I kvell every time someone
refers to the gravestone project, but you must be in continuous
kvell with your massive efforts. [Ed note: I believe that
your gravestone project has become the centre-piece of the website.
Most of the Google enquiries I receive these days are from people
who have found family names in the burial lists. The fact that it
occupies 40 pages in the book emphasises just how much work you put
into it - .the credit is all yours, Bernard]
You have two contributions coming. Firstly I noticed in
your opus that David Simon has a video of the shul, so I rang
him up to suggest he send a DVD of it to you, and he is doing so.
The second contribution is, hopefully, from me. My son-in-law
Neville did a video of the closing ceremony and gave me a copy. I
assumed in my aged way that I had sent it to you, but when I looked
I could not find it on the site. The reason for my resumption of
interest was that I had transferred my important VCRs to DVD before
binning them and the machine. Finding that you probably hadn't got a
copy I prepared to copy my DVD for you, and, horror of horror, I
hadn't transferred it. Neville no longer has a copy, but I dug down
in our dustbin and retrieved it. Once I can borrow a VCR player I
will transfer it for you.
Bernard Bookey
I have now uploaded the video I took of the closing
ceremony onto You Tube. I have converted it into 4 x MP4 files. Here
is the link;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4PZQG1dNLw
Neville
Levy
[Ed note: I have managed
to capture some stills from the video. Click
here (Photo Gallery Pages 50 and
51) to see 18 images from the video. Some are rather blurry, but
well worth viewing.]
[Ed note:
Full details of the book are available on the lulu website:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1148334 ]
