OPEN LETTER TO INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS

From: Help Beth Supporter
Date: April 2022
Subject: Russian money in Austria
To: Investigative Journalists


Dear journalists,

Thirteen years ago a young Jewish woman, Beth Alexander, from the UK met a young Jewish doctor, Michael Schlesinger, from Vienna. After a whirlwind romance, they married and moved to Vienna. She soon realised that her new husband was violently abusive but she became pregnant so she stayed and tried to make things work. When twin boys were born things only got worse. She filed for divorce and the husband decided to punish her by taking her boys away from their mother. Ten years ago the boys were taken from her home by armed police and social workers - none of whom could understand why such aggressive force should be necessary to take two babies from their obviously loving mother.

Schlesinger had convinced the family courts that Beth was mentally unstable (she wasn't) and unable to cope as a mother. A family friend and member of the Jewish community, Judge Konstanze Thau, took it upon herself to call the presiding Judge and urge her to give full custody to Schlesinger. The Jewish community turned their backs on Beth. Even erstwhile friends were instructed by their husbands not to get involved. As time went on Beth was allowed less and less contact with her sons.  Eventually she returned to the UK where she retrained as a family lawyer. Her appeals to the Austrian court have been denied and she is currently barred from all contact with the boys. Over the years she has engaged a number of eminent Austrian lawyers to represent her, and all have mysteriously pulled out for no apparent reason.

Rabbi Jacob Biderman of the Lauder Chabad Campus went out of his way to support Schlesinger by barring Beth from all school events. He testified to the court that the boys were thriving with their father, despite obvious regression in both boys and one of them continuously smashing himself into a concrete wall to try and numb his pain. Biderman forwarded all Beth's pleading emails to Schlesinger and his lawyers and to Judge Konstanze Thau. You have to understand that Biderman is 100% reliant on donations from the community to finance his projects and his lifestyle. Prominent Rabbis from around the world tried to intervene and received assurances from Biderman which were promptly ignored.

So what is the hold that a not rich doctor has over the Vienna Jewish Community (The IKG, headed by Oskar Deutsch)? Schlesinger's sister, Tina, is amicably divorced from the Ukrainian-Austrian Oligarch, Maxim Slutski. Judge Konstanze Thau is a family friend of both the Schlesingers and the Slutskis. Slutski basically funds the Jewish community along with the Austrian Government who pay an unaudited amount of guilt money.

Slutski, a Russian speaker, is now overseeing the absorption and care of 500 Jewish Ukrainian refugees hosted by the IKG. Ironically, he could be donating money to the refugees that he embezzled from their own tax money in Ukraine.

If you want to know more about Beth's story, go to the Facebook group: Reuniting Beth with her Boys. We are 6.3 thousand supporters who only want to see these innocent boys back with their mother. We do not want to expose the corruption in the Austrian Family Court, or in the IKG, or the Jewish community of Vienna. However, we will do whatever it (legally and non-violently) takes to get justice for two little boys caught up in a web of corruption originating with Russian money in Vienna.

Yours Sincerely

Help Beth Supporter