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THEN       &      NOW

Name:

Ed Adamek (used to be Eddy but wife

 changed it)

Married to:

Estelle (since February 1970)

Children:

Marion, Brett and Jason

Dhani, Doron,Domino, Pratigya,Tahlia,Myah,

 Elijah and

Where I live

In Elizabeth Bay and the Blue Mountains

What I did for a living

That long ago it’s difficult to remember but I

 do recall I had a factory manufacturing bits

 and pieces.

Education:

Life

Years in Betar:

1959-1964

Camps attended

Lake Macquarie '59, Narrabeen '60,

 Macquarie Fields'61, Stanwell Tops'62

Positions Held:

Poker/manila game convenor, co- leader of

 camp resistance movement

Some of my Leaders:

Moshe Aarons, Sol Yezerski, Henry Briggs,

 Larry Levin, Henry Bishopverder

Those I see now:

Zvi Berkovic, Tommy Fischer, George

 Berkovits, Geoff Williamson, Eddie Price,

 Burnie Kresner, Leo Rogovin, Peter Cohen,

 Moshe Aarons

Interests:

Now only motor biking, collecting cars and

 boating - used to volunteer as a refugee

 advocate, as a telephone mentor for the

 Welfare Rights network , as a business

 mentor for the Eastern Suburbs Enterprise

 Centre and was chairman of the Kings

 Cross Community Drug Action Team. I was

 a foundation Member of the consultative

 committee of the Kings Cross Medically

 Supervised Injecting Centre which opened in

 2000 and am still on that committee. I was

 also a foundation board member of Family

 Drug Support which advocates on behalf of

 and counsels families and friends of illicit

 drug users. I served as a Flag Officer and

 Board member of the Royal Motor Yacht

 Club for eight years.

Anecdotes

The most significant moments in my life

 include, meeting my wife, having our

 children, then being around when our

 children had their children. Apart from that

 they were volunteering to go to Israel with

 Peter Cohen and Geoff Williamson in 1967

 and being arrested in the Domain in 1968 for

 assaulting a fully uniformed member of the

 Nazi Party at their rally and together with

 about another 100 “shtarker” Jews giving all

 the other Nazis a hiding and ensuring they

 would never hold a rally again in the Domain.

 After I was released from jail some hours

 later I went to a function and it was at that

 function that I met my wife Estelle. But that’s

 another story.