Jerry Klinger

By Jerry Klinger LONDON — The simple blue and white rectangular historical plaque for Sir Arnold Wesker located at a Hackney (London) school evokes a familiar identity in London. The plaque, though different in design, is easily associated with the famous (and mostly circular) Blue and White Plaque program run by English Heritage found throughout […]

By Jerry Klinger Bigotry, hate, antisemitism, and ignorance are not owned by any one group, nor by any one culture or nationality. There is a universality to it. Antisemites repeat, with vicious relish, the false canard that Galut Jews are disloyal, cowards. They never volunteer as soldiers, fight for their country, and if called to

The dead body of a British officer found floating in April 1943 in the waters off the coast of Southern Spain, near Huelva, may have been a key reason Hitler was unable to finish murdering the last Jews of Europe.
A valise, chained to the body’s wrist, contained top-secret military documents with plans to invade Greece by British and Allied forces.  Nazi spies working with Spanish police copied the documents and sent them to Berlin. [Jerry Klinger]

Though the weather threatened, and Covid leered increasingly, menacingly about us, an Anne Frank Children’s Human Rights Memorial was dedicated in Antigua, Guatemala, September 3. [Jerry Klinger]

An email came a week ago from Australia.  It was not a question so much as the sender wanted us to know about Tibor Herz.  Tibor was the writer’s father.  Tibor had passed away a few years earlier, quietly. For the most part, Tibor is forgotten by all except his family. [Jerry Klinger]

On Saturday, May 22, 2021, an interpretive supplemental footstone was added to the Admiral Max Horton memorial at the Rhosneigr seaside community in Anglesey, Wales. The successful placement grew from the unique friendship between Martin Sugarman, a Brit, and myself.  Together we are pushing back, at least a little, the dark clouds of forgetfulness and antisemitism. [Jerry Klinger]