VOLUME 3 NO. 4
SEPTEMBER 2015
Introduction Introduction 1 Claims Conference Update 1 Child Survivors Forum 2 World Federation News Update 3
The lessons I have learned 5 “JHC Calendar of Events 6
Dear Child Survivors, Thank you so much for supporting the first forum in our Child Survivor series Children Surviving Hurt. On the coldest winter day in 25 years child survivors and their family and friends streamed into the auditorium at the Jewish Holocaust Centre and filled the room to capacity. Our panelists, Dr Paul Valent, Richard Rozen OAM, Bernadette Gore and Floris Kalman, stood before the microphone and shared their thoughts, personal experience and feelings 70 years on. The audience responded telling us all of their experience, adding comments and personal details as they confirmed how similar in many ways their life’s journey had evolved.
We are preparing the next forum in this important series Children Remembering Hurt scheduled to take place March 2016, we hope you will once again come together to share and contribute for all our benefit. There is a DVD of the Forum available from Philip Maisel at the JHC. If you would like to order a copy, please contact Phillip on 9528 1985. We are advised by the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors that it is not too late to register for the CSH Conference in Houston, 9-11 October, 2015. To register online, go to the website www. holocaustchild.org. . On behalf of the Child Survivors Group we wish you all a Shanah Tova! May the New Year bring peace, good health and happiness to you and yours. Viv Parry, Chairperson, CSH
Claims Conference Update Jewishcare confirm there has not been a final cut-off date advised as yet for submitting your application for the one-off Child Survivor Compensation. For those still thinking about filling in the application form, Jewishcare ask that you contact them for assistance and they are ready to help you. Please phone 8517 5999 and ask for the ‘Child Survivor Compensation’ support team. Jewishcare also confirms “Officially some child survivors worldwide have received their payment but they are not aware of any Jewishcare clients being paid at this time. “
Jewish Children in the Drancy internment camp, France 1942. Photo: Memorial de la Shoah