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Kehilat
Middlesbrough Newsletter No 6 April 2000
From the Editor
Since our Newsletter started, many of our readers
have taken an active interest in going back to their M’bro roots.
There are a number of reasons for this: renewed contact with friends
from youth or long-lost family through the Newsletter; the passing
of a dear one which revives reminiscences; the discovery of old
documents and photographs, and the general interest in Jewish
genealogy.
Some of our readers have sent us family material
which is too lengthy for the Newsletter, but which is ideal for our
website. In addition to the six Newsletters, the website has many
more articles and letters, including interesting photos of early
life in M’bro, an article on Rabbi Epstein, the Kindertransport
and Missing Persons lists and Rose Saville’s 90th birthday. In the
pipeline are the 1946 Victory Booklet with the complete service
records of all the M’bro members, and a Poetry Corner with Rita
(Benjamin) Brisk. So, here’s your chance for posterity. Please
send us anecdotes and short articles for the Newsletter and let us
have longer articles for the website.
Named at
last
We feel sure
that the members of our virtual Kehila would like to know of each
other’s existence. It will also help reduce the people in our
Missing Persons List—now down to 50 from 80 six months ago. In
addition, the renewed contacts between you will result in new names
previously unknown to us. Therefore, in our next issue (July 2000)
we propose to set out a list of all 300 readers—just names only,
no addresses—so that if any of you wish to contact old childhood
friends from M’bro you can write to us and we shall give you their
addresses.
Any of you who
do not wish your names to be included in this list, please let us
know before the end of June.
Visitors who
Contacted us
-
Henny Myers.
One of the four Sztrum sisters. She brought us the famous 1939
picture taken at Bank Top Station of the four sisters with Rabbi
Miller, NJ Marks and Philip Simon, waiting for the connecting
train to take them to M’bro.
-
Gillian Hush
MBE (and not OBE – sorry!). She managed also to see her
Silverston cousins and her Israeli M’bro contemporaries.
Window into
the Past
Those of you
who were wondering whatever happened to the artefacts from the Shul
following the closure in November 1998, will be interested to learn
that one of the two 100 year old windows has been presented to Hall
Garth School Acklam.
It was
originally dedicated in memory of Henry Simon who died in 1909. It
was presented to the School by his grandson M’bro solicitor David
Simon in February 2000. A group of pupils studying Judaism visited
the shul shortly before the closure and expressed interest in the
window.
We are
indebted to Dr Jane Sherman and Eve (Bharier) Teiger for enabling us
to share this with our readers.
Boro
Reunions
Tony Glass,
son of Adele and Harold, formerly of Emerson Ave, recently attended
the London wedding of his sister Jennifer’s son, where he met Roma
(Bharier) Brooks, daughter of his parents’ best friends, Nat and
Sophie Bharier, for the first time in 40 years.
Terry
Greenberg and Freda Cannon were both at Marton Road School in the
1930’s. Blanche Roland wrote (see letter, page 2) that Freda’s
brother Myer now lives in Israel. We located Myer and his three
siblings and so enabled Terry and Freda to speak together after 70
years.
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