New classroom opened
Some 800 pupils (3-15 years old) and their parents attended the opening of the new classroom at Nkiria School on the slopes of Mount Kenya. Construction was funded by Newport Uskmouth Rotary Club and building work was completed by a team led by Squadron Leader Jack Holt RAF. The pupils were dancing and singing as they received books bought by The Scientific Exploration Society and their supporters. Horse Patrol led by David Langlois of Jersey are working with game guards and vet Danielle Jackson has been working with the Mount Kenya Trust treating horses and guard dogs captured from poachers. A medical team under Lieutenant Colonel Kam Khan RAMC has treated over 100 local people, while dentists Dr. João Branco of Portugal and Yolima Cipagauta of Colombia are attending to many patients. All teams have encountered wildlife and a bull elephant tried to break through the electric fence near the main camp.
Ensemble’s first performance
A Saxophone Quartet, “Pedwar Gwynt” (Four Winds) playing above, at a Musical Supper organised by Abergavenny Rotary Club. The performance was at the Chapel, Abergavenny in May which raised over £1,000 for the Bridges Centre Befriending Scheme to combat loneliness and isolation. The Quartet has only been playing together for two months and presented a programme of nine light classical and contemporary pieces as a support act for Synergy, award winning close harmony choir. Pictured left to right: Lionel Elton, President of Abergavenny Rotary on Soprano Saxophone; Robert Parker, Secretary of ARC on Alto; Jack Tait, new member of the club on Baritone; and Richard McCulloch, Tenor Saxophone.
The Auschwitz Goalkeeper still rebuts Holocaust deniers
“The Auschwitz Goalkeeper”, Mr Ron Jones, gave Bridgend Rotary a harrowing insight into his time as a prisoner in Auschwitz and emphatically rejected the current deniers of The Holocaust. “This was not a book I ever intended writing, until I was persuaded to do it as a joint project,” he said. “ I never spoke about my experiences in Auschwitz, and the “Death March” that followed, until I was in my eighties, and would not do so now but for the need to set the record straight, because suspect testimony is seized upon by Holocaust deniers to further their wicked attempts to prove that Hitler’s “Final Solution” never happened – that it is no more than a Jewish myth. “The Nazis’ extermination of millions of people whose only “offence” was their race, did happen, and I was a horrified witness to how it was done. The story has been told before, of course, and I would not want anybody to think I am retelling it with any financial motive. At 96 I have no need of, or
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comfort from the knowledge that we British did as much as we could to help those poor, suffering Jews. This was acknowledged by The Jewish Chronicle in February 2012:
desire for “blood money”.
“I have chosen to speak out 70 years after the event because I am concerned by other accounts which focus on personal heroism and downgrade the conduct of honest, less fanciful prisoners.
“It was a truly terrible time, but I take
As many as 1,400 British prisoners arrived at Auschwitz towards the end of 1943 and hundreds were forced to work at the IG Farben chemical factory. Each one of these men was a witness to The Shoah [the Hebrew name for the Holo- caust]. Their story has never been fully told, nor has the British government paid full tribute to the dignity and humanity these men demonstrated in helping the Jewish inmates in the camp next door. “Over the 68 years since the camps were liberated, there have been many attempts to tell the story of the British prisoners of war at Auschwitz.
“This is my belated attempt to do just that. No exaggerations, no lies. As they say in court, this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.”
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