Kehilat
Middlesbrough Newsletter No 18
September 2003 page 2 (of 4)
Letters
My
connection to the Jewish community of Middlesbrough comes through the
book I wrote, in which the Jewish Community in Middlesbrough and
Guisborough play a role during and before the war.
I came and interviewed some of the former Jewish people who lived
in the two towns.
The
name I gave the book is “None of Them Were Heroes”. It is about the
simple people, many of whom were German refugees and how they worked
their lives around the war, with the news coming from home and the
relatives that were still there. The book will be coming out in late
September/early October 2003 and I will be giving a talk about it in
London on the 1st of November.
In
order to promote it, a couple of events are being organized for me in
the UK. On Saturday November 1st 2003 I shall be giving a talk at Rabbi
Jonathan Wittenberg's home at 4pm for the Seuda Shlishit. I shall
also be in Birmingham that same week, but as yet the date hasn't been
confirmed.
I
am looking for one or two more engagements for that week, which don't
have to be for big audiences; it could be for a group of friends. If
anyone would like to arrange something like this, please contact me.
In
the meantime you can find it at www.amazon.com under the name Chaim
Rockman
I am trying to find information regarding my late
father's brother, Ernest Aaron Gompertz. The family, consistimg of
father Samuel, mother Rebecca and children Ernest Aaron, Gabriel (my
father) Rosa and Alexander, lived in Middlesbrough and then moved
to South Shields in 1900.
Ernest was born in Middlesbrough on June 20th 1888. In
1898, he was witness to a fatal accident in Middlesbrough. The court
case was recorded in the local paper and he was complimented on the
erudite way in which he described the events he witnessed.
I am in the process of writing a short biographical
account of this wonderful man, for the Gompertz families of the
future and although I have a great deal of information of his adult
life, I know little about his early years.
Can
anybody help me?
Joy
Winton (formerly Gompertz)
jayrwin1@whsmithnet.co.uk
