Lorna Fitzsimons, Chief Executive of BICOM (British Israel Communications & Research Centre), addressed a joint meeting of Yitzchak Rabin and Shlomo Argov Unity Lodges on 4th February.

This month was a very eventful one and included three excellent and varied lectures. The first was by Helen Bamber OBE who began working initially with survivors from Bergen Belsen and later with victims of Torture worldwide. She also endeavored to influence the public with regard to Human Rights.

One of the outstanding events of this year of Lodge Henry Jones took place on 11th June in the European Parliament in Brussels under the patronage of Mr Andras Gyurk, the Hungarian MEP. The occasion was a tribute to Captain Laszlo Ocskay who almost single-handed rescued some 2000 Jews in the critical summer months of 1944 when the Germans had occupied Hungary and were collaborating with the notorious Arrow Cross party to destroy Hungarian Jewry; in those few months 600,000 Hungarian Jews perished.