Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : YOU HAVE TURNED YOUR BACK

 

o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at

office@ikg-wien.at

Dear Mr Deutsch,

It's been 10 long years that I have been supporting a young lady, who came to live in your community having married one of your local boys. Michael Schlesinger. 

I have been trying to support Beth Alexander, whilst you have turned your back.

In 2013, you promised to help Beth, when she and her dear parents Sylvia and Anthony came to see you, but then you turned your back.

Many of our prominent leaders in the UK including your counterparts have tried to convince you to make sense of this awful situation, where twin boys are being deprived of their loving and capable mother for no good reason.

It's time now Mr Deutsch for you to stand up and make sense of this tragic situation. You cannot allow a Jewish boy, a member of the Jewish community in Vienna to behave in such an atrocious way.

This problem is not going away, because enough is enough. It has to be dealt with.

Austria and the Jewish community are getting a bad name. This can be seen by the strength of Beth's support, including the British Government and our own Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Mirvis and countless others.

We all have children, who want to marry but they have all been warned off Austrians.

Mr Deutsch  You have power in your community.

Let the world see that you care about these two boys who are about to be Barmitzvah in May and as Rabbi Mirvis quite rightly said. This event should not go unmarked.

Those of us who are experienced parents and grandparents know how much children especially boys need their mothers in their teenage years. 

Please don't allow two innocent lives. The lives of Sammy and Benji Schlesinger be destroyed. They need to know they have a mother, who loves them.

This needs to happen now. 

Please let the world see that you are an upright honourable man, who does the right thing.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Gillian Kaye