JGSGB Chilterns Regional Group – Tue 5 October 2021 7.30 pm– with Martin Sugarman – “Jews of Bletchley Park: Intelligence & code-breaking and their contribution to the downfall of Nazi-occupied Europe”

Our next weekday meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk from the Chilterns Regional Group by Zoom.

• Date: Tuesday 5 October 2021
• Time: 19.30 London, 14:30 New York, 11:30 San Francisco, 21:30 Jerusalem
• Title: Jews of Bletchley Park: intelligence & code-breaking and their contribution to the downfall of Nazi-occupied Europe.
• Speaker: Martin Sugarman
• Description: Martin Sugarman, co-author with Michael Kushner, will talk about their book which pieced together a fascinating but little-known period of hidden Anglo-Jewish history. It tells the astonishing story of some of the Jewish staff, mathematicians, linguists and intellectuals at Bletchley Park, the British wartime code-breaking centre, who helped shorten the Second World War by months and perhaps years.

About Martin Sugarman
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Born in Hackney, educated at Shacklewell Lane and Upton House schools, and Barmitzvah at Dalston Talmud Torah, Martin was then at Bristol University (BA Hons Geography and Cert Ed., 1965–9) and was President of Churchill Hall in his last student year. He has been a senior teacher for many years in secondary schools in Bristol and East London. Married to Jane in 1969, Martin has 3 children, and was active as founder and Chair of the Bristol Campaign for Soviet Jews. He then lived for three years with his family on kibbutz Mizra, Israel (1974–7), as a dairy farmer, after the Yom Kippur war. He served in 1976 in the Israeli Army (Gunner), and was involved back in the UK with Holocaust education via the team who brought the Auschwitz and Anne Frank Exhibition to London in the 1980s. 

He remains active in advocacy for Israel and has been chair since the early 1980s of the Hackney–Haifa Twinning Association, organising medical team exchanges between the Rambam Hospital Haifa and Homerton Hospital Hackney. He has been heavily involved with, and continues to work at, the AJEX Jewish Military Museum since its inception, was its deputy curator alongside curator and friend Henry Morris but is now Archivist of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) and treasurer of its Stamford Hill and Hackney Branch. Author of five books on the Jewish contribution to the British war effort in WW2, and many other published research papers, his pre-retirement job was Examinations Officer at Westminster Kingsway College. Martin is often asked to give talks and to contribute to media items on Jewish military history, and advises on how to find out about your Jewish military ancestors.

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk. The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts.
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Leigh Dworkin is inviting you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: JGSGB Chilterns Regional Group: “Jews of Bletchley Park: Intelligence & code-breaking and their contribution to the downfall of Nazi-occupied Europe” with Martin Sugarman
When: October 5, 2021 07.30 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtd-yvqjoqGdEtyBj3T49x_nGt4q3WFy5j


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Stay safe and keep well!

Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB