Glasgow Jewish Representative Council

Saturday, May 19, 2012

The Council was founded in 1914 to speak on behalf of the Jewish community of Glasgow and West of Scotland. It fosters good relations between the community and other local religious and civic bodies, sending delegates to these as appropriate. The Council provides a democratic forum for synagogues and welfare, educational, social and cultural organisations, while liaising with them to ensure that the community operates effectively.

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The Council was founded in 1914 to speak on behalf of the Jewish community of Glasgow and West of Scotland. It fosters good relations between the community and other local religious and civic bodies, sending delegates to these as appropriate. The Council provides a democratic forum for synagogues and welfare, educational, social and cultural organisations, while liaising with them to ensure that the community operates effectively.



Text/HTML Yom Hashoah 2012 Every year Jewish people throughout the world come together to commemorate the loss of six million Jews who were murdered in the Shoah. The Glasgow Jewish Community’s annual Holocaust Memorial Event, Yom HaShoah, takes place this year on Wednesday 18^th April 2012 at 8.00pm in the Banqueting Suite of Giffnock & Newlands Hebrew Congregation. As always, we will have strong representation from young members of our community who will be participating in the event. The programme theme this year is The Other Schindlers which will highlight many unsung and previously unknown heroes and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. We are honoured to be joined by author and survivor Agnes Grunwald-Spier who, in her book The Other Schindlers, collected together 30 personal accounts of fortunate individuals who were rescued by non-Jews in 10 different countries occupied by the Germans. Her own rescue is included in the book. Agnes was a babe in arms when she was saved from deportation to Auschwitz by an unknown official. We will be privileged to learn of these often unsung heroes and rescuers who may have been forgotten or remained unknown were it not for Agnes sharing their stories in her book. More information can be found at http://agnesgrunwaldspier.com/ We will also remember Isi Metzstein, who passed away in January 2012 age 83. Together with his mother and four siblings he was rescued as a boy from Berlin by the Kindertransport in 1939. Add Content...

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