Jewish = Religion OK?
Any question about Jews is perforce a question about a religious identity.
Anyhow my old Rabbi was very tolerant of other religions. I do not remember him, I'm not that old. I am not Jewish - but I love Judaic mysticism. To adherents of psuedo-scientific racial theories I am a goner and not too trustworthy as a long long time ago one of my ancesters married a Jewess........ oooooh!
I do not understand why, other than Ruy, nobody else can help you in your mysterious mission to establish how many 'Jews' served with the various WW2 airforces. There is information on the web - but as most of it is compiled by sloppy Jewish researchers who are more anti-Polish than they are should be - all that I can quickly offer is in a similar vein.
I have no influence on Israeli unwillingness to extradite murderers to Poland.
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....meet Harry...
"Among those whose Heroes Return awards are announced today is veteran Harry Levy from Leeds in West Yorkshire, who will be making an emotional journey back to Lansdorf prisoner of war camp where he spent three wartime years. Harry, an RAF wireless operator and air gunner on Wellington bombers, was shot down by a Messerschmitt fighter over Belgium as he and his crew were returning from a raid over Dusseldorf. He remembers: "I was up in my turret when the fighter suddenly came upon us; he was very close, I could see the markings quite clearly. Suddenly he opened fire and I was hit in the chest and leg. I managed to crawl back into the fuselage but the rest of the crew were dead. I remember the navigator slumped over his charts and the pilot hanging limp from his straps. The plane was on fire and there was nothing I could do."
Harry realised his only chance was to bale out, and after kicking through a panel in the tail end he jumped clear between the tail fin and the rear gunner's turret, which was now swinging wildly from side to side. He recalls hurtling down in the pitch black. "It was about 2 o'clock in the morning, and I hadn't a clue where the ground was. So when I landed it was a complete shock, and my knees went straight up into my stomach. At first I couldn't get up; then, in the dark I made out a cottage and dragged myself over to knock on the door. After a few moments the lights came on and an old man opened the door and shook my hand enthusiastically. He pulled me inside, rushed out of the room and came back wearing a First World War helmet."
Sheltered by the local community, Harry was smuggled to a house with seven children where he hid in an attic for four days before being taken to Brussels, where he was eventually caught by the Germans and thrown in prison. After ten weeks of solitary confinement he was transferred to Landsdorf prison for the duration of the war.
Warmly welcoming the Heroes Return scheme, Harry, now 82, plans to pass on a personal piece of history through his book 'The Dark Side of the Sky', which he will donate to the Landsdorf Museum along with a series of cartoons depicting prison life sketched by a fellow inmate. "
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http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communi...eech110504.htm
http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au/s...p?war=W1&id=26
http://www.ajex.org.uk/ (sloppy)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...w2/Arnhem.html (sloppy)
http://www.yorku.ca/cjv/db/directory.php
http://www.marchoftheliving.org/mol2...tt05speech.pdf
http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/...issenthal.html
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Why are you curious about such objectionable people? I'm still waiting for this information - as you can hardly be regarded as a 'friendly researcher' from what you have revealed in your various postings
TTFN
Graham