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Friday 10th August 2007
(Rpt) Sunday 12th August
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Raul Hilberg
Holocaust historian who has died aged 81.
His 1961 book 鈥淭he Destruction of the European Jews鈥 catalogued in painstaking detail the administrative and organisational effort that lay behind the extermination of millions of Jews by the Third Reich. It was controversial because it claimed that some Jews collaborated in the mass evacuations which took victims to the death camps. Hilberg鈥檚 work was initially rejected by scholars at the Israeli holocaust memorial authority Yad Vashem, even though the historian regularly took part in its conferences. In fact the book is only now being prepared for publication in Israel 鈥 nearly forty-five years after it was first published in America.
Hilberg was himself an Austrian Jew whose family fled to the United States after the German annexation of their home country in 1938. Many of his relatives were killed by the Nazis. Raul Hilberg was educated in New York and served with the American army in Germany during the final year of the war.
Matthew Bannister talks to Professor David Cesarani - an English historian who specialises in the holocaust. and Professor Dan Michman 鈥 the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem.
Raul Hilberg was born on June 2nd 1926. He died on August 4th 2007.
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Walter Ludewig
Pioneer of fitted kitchens who has died aged 97.
Walter Ludewig was passionate about kitchens 鈥 and his passion was highly profitable. Ludewig was the pioneer of the fitted kitchen who took his company Poggenpohl from a German provincial town to a globally successful brand. Ludewig joined the firm in 1935 and within five years became Chief Executive and effective owner. Through his leadership, the company became part of Germany鈥檚 post war economic miracle. Inspired by the Bauhaus designs, Ludewig produced the Form 1000 fitted kitchen at the start of the 1950s. Within ten years he was marketing some of the first fully fitted kitchens which combined aesthetic principles with technical innovation 鈥 the foundation of the company鈥檚 success. Although Poggenpohl was bought by a larger conglomerate in 1987, Walter Ludewig remained a presence at the company until just a few months before his death.
Matthew Bannister talks to Patricia Wise who had a Poggenpohl kitchen installed twenty five years ago and to Robert Laurie and Brian Gibbons.
Walter Ludewig was born on February 10th 1910. He died on July 23rd 2007.
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Charles Whiting
Author who has died aged 80.
Writers don鈥檛 get much more prolific than Charles Whiting. He produced more than three hundred and fifty books under at least six different names. Most of the books were novels inspired by Whiting鈥檚 own experiences as a soldier during the second world war. But he was also a keen military historian and added a number of non fiction titles to his list. Despite being largely ignored by the critics, Whiting built up a dedicated fan base around the world and typically sold around ten thousand copies of each title.
Charles Whiting was born in York and educated at Nunthorpe Grammar School. As soon as he left he lied about his age to join the army. After the war, Charles Whiting studied history and held teaching jobs at universities in England, Germany and the United States. He also taught history to the American Army in Germany. He started writing when he was a student 鈥 publishing his first book 鈥淭he Frat Wagon鈥 in 1954. Charles became so prolific that his publishers suggested he needed a number of pseudonyms, which included Leo Kessler, Duncan Harding, John Kerrigan and KN Kostov. Charles Whiting鈥檚 first wife died in 2001.
Matthew Bannister talks to his second wife, Gill Tidmus-Whiting, his son Julian Whiting and his publisher Leo Cooper.
Charles Whiting was born December 18th 1926. He died July 24th 2007.
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Philip James Baloun
Party Planner who has died aged 61.
For George Soros鈥 millennium party Philip Baloun set up tent after tent in the dead of winter, with fabric walls holding massive oil paintings, every dinner table with its own waterfall and twenty four acrobats suspended from the ceiling. For the Washington Opera Ball he created the main square of Lima on the dance floor at the Peruvian Ambassador鈥檚 residence. And for Steve Schwartzman鈥檚 sixtieth birthday he took over the Park Avenue Armoury to build a replica of Mr Schwartzman鈥檚 living room 鈥 fifty times bigger than actual size.
The appropriately named Philip Baloun was the party planner of choice for American hosts and hostesses with grand ideas and bottomless pockets. He was born in Chicago, graduated in English and drama and started his career as a theatrical director in New York City. But in 1979 he set up his own party design firm bringing together the disciplines of floristry, lighting, carpentry, painting and needlework and offering them to well heeled clients who wanted to amaze their friends with a lavish bash.
Matthew Bannister talks to event planner Polly Onet who worked with Phillip Baloun for fifteen years:
Philip James Baloun was born January 22nd 1946. He died 28th June 2007.
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