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A scene from Eva Schloss’s play And Then They Came For Me |
Christmas hamper appeal: Why wait till the festive rush? You can start giving now
DESPITE unseasonably warm weather, thoughts are inevitably turning towards the festive season.
For many, it is a time of indulgence, but also a time to think of those less fortunate – and a time to do something about it.
The Camden New Journal has now run a Christmas charity for 29 years.
Clubs, theatres, cinemas, businesses, sports teams, pubs, market traders and individuals all chip in to help us make it a special Christmas for those who need help at this time of year: single-parent families, older folk and those who have no loved ones to celebrate with.
Each year, the generosity of readers has helped us send hampers packed full of Christmas goodies – and overflowing with your good wishes and love – to those who most need to be reminded that the world is not an uncaring and forbidding place.
With the economic climate increasing the pressure on people, we need your help more than ever.
If you and your friends, colleagues, businesses can help to raise funds for our annual appeal, we’ll make sure every penny goes towards bringing smiles to the faces of those less fortunate in Camden.
Stepsister of Anne Frank to help boost our Christmas fund
Theatrical benefit will raise cash for hampers
A HOLOCAUST survivor will help give the New Journal’s annual Christmas hamper appeal the perfect start on Tuesday as generous theatre producers stage a fund-raiser in aid of the annual collection.
Eva Schloss’s play And Then They Came For Me will have a special one night only spot at the Teatro Technis in Crowndale Road, Somers Town.
All of the money raised from ticket sales will go towards our collection
to spread as much Christmas cheer as possible this festive season with the now traditional delivery of hampers to those most in need.
Dr Schloss – the stepsister of Anne Frank, whose harrowing survival at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and autobiography Eva’s Story forms the basis of the play – will be at the theatre for a question and answer session after the show. Only Dr Schloss and her mother survived the camp but other relatives died before they were liberated by the Russian Army.
Organiser Nic Careem said: “I have directed and produced it for the past few years as part of our mission to unite communities against the purveyors of extreme hatred. We have now shown it in schools, prisons, and theatres across the UK.
“The showing of the play at the Scottish Parliament was the main national event on Holocaust Memorial Day.
“Obviously the showing of the play at the Technis will not be on the same scale, but nonetheless just as worthwhile, as it is in aid of the Journal Christmas hamper fund.”
Mr Careem, who lives in Kentish Town and runs the Blue Sky Club which
produces the play, added: “The hamper fund is such a good cause – it helps the people that others don’t think about at Christmas.
“The elderly – people on their own. Sending them a hamper is a great idea.”
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