Alexander Easterman

Alexander Levvey Easterman (born December 25, 1890 in Dundee , Scotland , † August 26, 1983 in Brighton ) was a British lawyer and journalist .

Life and activity

After graduating from Glasgow University , Easterman was admitted to the bar. In the early 1920s he turned to journalism.

From 1926 to 1933 he worked as an editor for the Daily Express . In 1933 he left this newspaper because of a difference of opinion between himself and Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, the owner of the Express .

Instead, Easterman joined the editorial team of the Daily Herald . At the time of the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he was the head of the Paris office of that newspaper. On the occasion of the occupation of France by the German armies in 1940, he fled to London.

In the late 1930s Easterman was in addition to his journalistic work for political secretary ( political secretary ) of the World Jewish Congress appointed (World Jewish Congress, WJC). In 1941 he was appointed head of the WJC's international affairs department. He was also Vice President of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland .

In 1943, Easterman, in his position as political director of the World Jewish Congress, played a key role in persuading the Allied governments, after lengthy negotiations, to publicly issue the declaration that they condemn the mass murder of European Jews in the areas of the European continent controlled by the German Reich and at the same time a punishment of "war criminals" to be defined.

After the Second World War, Easterman took part as a judge in the Bergen-Belsen trial in Lüneburg . He was then sent to the Nuremberg Trials as a representative of the World Jewish Congress .

In 1945 Eastman was a member of the delegation of the World Jewish Congress to the founding assembly of the United Nations in San Francisco . In the same year he took part in the emergency conference of the World Congress (was emergency conference) in Atlantic City and in 1946 in the Paris Peace Conference.

Web links

• Alexander Easterman Dead at 92 "in: Jewish Telegraph Agency, September 7, 1983

Fonts

• King Carol, Hitler and Mme. Lupescu , London 1942.