Dr. Hanns Heinz Wachtel

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1988; Interview with Hans Wachtell, 18 & 25 May, 8 June 1988 (Call No.: CY MLOH 437/174-175)

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The prewar refugees were also prominent in the work of the Board, particularly on some committees which almost became their prerogative during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the Communal Integration and Overseas Jewry Committee. Dr Hanns Wachtell organised the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Service, later known as Holocaust Memorial Service, as one of his responsibilities in the Communal Integration and Overseas Jewry Committee, later renamed the Foreign Affairs Committee, and later still, the Overseas Jewry and then the Oppressed Jewry Committee, when he became chairman in 1968 and until 1976. Others who served on that committee for a time were John Hudak, Charles Oser, Severyn Pejsachowicz, Dr Simon Mahler and Herbert Wertheimer.

In 1968 the Board’s first by-election to fill vacancies among ‘general franchise’ deputies, resulted in the six available vacancies being filled by new deputies, Robert Kandy, Felix Gladwin, Victor Newbrun, Hilary Pryer, Fred Reiss and Zigo Weber,all prewar refugees and all of them leaders in B’nai B’rith. Two other prewar refugees, Dr Hanns Heinz Wachtell and Zygmunt Nebenzahl had already become active on the executive of the Board earlier.

Hanns Wachtell was born in Vienna in 1908 and studied Law at Vienna University and practised there as a lawyer. He emigrated to Australia in 1939 and went into business since he would have had to study again in order to practise here. He was a stalwart of the Kingsford Maroubra synagogue, serving on its board for many years, and being instrumental in the choice and appointment of its rabbis for the first twenty years. On the board he served for several years as the Chairman of the Communal Integration and Overseas Jewry committee, organising the yearly Warsaw Ghetto commemoration each April with a Yiddish language and an English speaker who would attract a large attendance, and also providing stimulating snippets each month on overseas Jewish communities for the monthly Information Bulletin of the Board. This meant reading a variety of journals and translating the interesting news from German language periodicals.

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Hanns Heinz Ion Wachtel

• Austria, Vienna, Jewish Vital Records, 1835-1938
• Record type: Birth
• Birth: Mar 29 1908 - Vienna, Austria (Wien, Österreich)
• Father: Isidor Jakob Wachtel
• Mother: Adelheid Bondi

Hanns Heinz Jon Wachtel

• Austria, Vienna, Jewish Vital Records, 1835-1938
• Record type: Marriage
• Marriage: May 21 1935 - Stadttempel, Vienna, Austria (Stadttempel, Wien, Österreich)
• Bride: Ilse Lucie Pollak