Addition to the Holocaust Center creation

 

November 11, 2022



After submitting his letter to the editor about the beginning of the Holocaust Center, Paul Jeser wanted to add something to his letter. The addition was too late for the Nov. 4 issue. Here is, as Paul Harvey used to say, the “rest of the story”:

Hy Lake, Tess and Abe Wise were against the Federation spending local campaign funds settling Russian Jews in Orlando. They believed that Federation funds should only support their settlement in Israel. When the Federation Board voted to fund local settlement, she and Abe, and Hy, decided to give their support of the Jewish community in other ways. … I set up a meeting for Tess and me with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg (who, at that time, led major efforts to develop Holocaust memory and education programs), and it was that meeting that led to the first conference and the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center. This first conference featured Rabbi Greenberg and Reverend Franklin H. Littell (obm), a father of Holocaust studies who traced his engagement with the subject to the revulsion he felt as a young Methodist minister while witnessing a big Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1939. The conference was staffed by Louise Franklin. 

 

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