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until his death in 1973.
Perhaps Ben-Gurion’s most bit
ter disappointment was that so few
Jews emigrated to Israel, particu
larly from the United States. At
first adamantly opposed to the
notion that the Diaspora had a
future after Israeli independence,
he grudgingly accepted the status
quo. whereby Diaspora Jewry saw
its principal role as lending Israel
financial, political and moral sup
port.
In retrospect. Ben-Gurion is often
censored for not having respected
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merchants of high quality goods
were allowed to enter. Afterwards
came buildeVs of government struc
tures and railways. At the start of
this century, the cities of Kiev.
Odessa and Kharkov became Jew
ish centers. Kiev had an institute
for teachers of Yiddish, publishing
houses of Yiddish books and other
publications. The university had a
Yiddish section. Tne city had doz
ens of synagogues and shtiblich
(small buildings for worship). Kiev
now has one synagogue and no
rabbi. It is in the Podol section,
where Jews had concentrated before
the war and most now live. Kiev’s
present Jewish population is esti
mated at about 150,000.
Sept. 28, 1941 marked the be
ginning of the end of Kiev’s Jewish
community. Some of the 175,000
who had lived there when the Nazi
invasion of Russia began had fled
to eastern and central Russia. A
majority of the remainder was
killed.
On that day, some 2,000 notices
were posted by the Germans in and
about Kiev that all Jews were to
appear the following morning at 8
o’clock at a corner near the Jewish
cemetery, which was close to Babi
Yar. They were directed to bring
all documents, money, other valu
ables, warm clothes and linens.
Anyone disobeying the order would
be shot, the notices said. Not sus
pecting violence, almost all Jews
obeyed the orders. Rumors had
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the culture of the Oriental Jews.
T his stems from the fact that he
frequently referred to the hundreds
of thousands of immigrants who
poured into Israel as “dust”. I his
seemingly derogatory term was meant
in a poetic sense, alluding to winds
blowing the exiles back to their
homeland.
“Most important, Israel is not
just an Eastern nation ora Western
one,” he once said. “It is both! In
itself it invites the two great
streams of the Jewish people: the
Ashkenazim whose traditions are
Western and the Sephardim whose
cultural links are with the East.
-Disaster—
circulated that they were to be sent
to labor camps.
One of the few survivors, Dina
(Vera) Mironovna Pornicheva, de
scribed the Babi Yar massacre to
the Russian author, Anatoly Kuz
netzov, and testified in April 1968
at the trial of Babi Yar murderers
held in Darmstadt in West Ger
many, according to Encyclopedia
Judaica.
Jew' were herded into the area
which was closed off by hundreds
of German soldiers and Ukrainian
militia. Jews were ordered to put
down their bundles and strip naked.
They were then led in groups down
the ravine and machine-gunned
from the opposite side. Heaps of
earth were thrown over the bodies,
burying both dead and wounded.
On Sept. 29 and 30, the official
report of the German SS unit in
charge of the mass extermination
Here is another task of Israel: to
marry the East with the West and
thus again to serve as an example
of unity and brotherhood to all
mankind.”
Ben-Gurion envisaged the idyl
lic with apocalyptic overtones, al
though he was not a religious man.
But clearly he was no idle dreamer.
If Herzl conceived Israel, it was
Ben-Gurion, the leader of the labor
movement, who nursed the state
into being with painstaking devo
tion.
No other single individual had
more influence in the formation of
the State of Israel.
reported that 33,771 Jews were
killed. Babi Yar continued to be a
mass extermination area during
the course of the Nazi occupation
with the toll put at 90,000 Jews
killed.
In 1972, while covering Presi
dent Nixon's visit to the Soviet
Union, / went to the Podol Syn
agogue in Kiev. About 60 Jews
were there for the evening services.
Conversation was in Yiddish. Ear
lier, / was taken by a cab driver to
Babi Yar. The driver knew exactly
where I wanted to stop. While gaz
ing down the ravine, a young man
bearing a knapsack came by and
slopped to look. Attempting to
learn his interest there, / asked, in
Yiddish, simple questions about
the area. The young man did not
respond but looked away and, with
head bowed, walked down the road.
Obituaries
Atlantan Henry Brown dies at 77
Henry Brown, who was active in
Atlanta business and civic affairs
for 40 years, died Friday, May 2.
He was 77.
Graveside service was held Sun
day, May 4, at Crest Lawn Memor
ial Park, with Rabbi Alvin Sugar-
man officiating.
A senior vice president at
Momar Inc., Brown was active
until his death and was named
company salesman of the year in
1985.
He was the youngest of six child
ren born to Charles Brown, owner
of a men’s clothing store in
Charleston, S.C., and Clara Rash-
baum Brown. He attended the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and
moved to Atlanta in 1934. He met
Juanita Burnstein Brown during
World War 11 and they were mar
ried in 1946.
Brown received the Bronze Star
in the war while serving as a major
in the U.S. Army. He was a mem
ber of the Fort McPherson Offic
ers Club and the Reserve Officers
Association.
He was a member of The Temple
and a past member of the Standard
Club.
Brown was a charter member of
the Sertoma Club, a service organ
ization, and a member of the board
of directors of the YMCA in At
lanta. He was a national vice presi
dent of the Muscular Dystrophy
Associat ion and a founding member
of M DA’s Atlanta chapter in 1952.
Listed in Who’s Who in Amer
ica, Brown was also a past presi
dent of the Northside Business
Association.
Surviving are his wife, Juanita
Burnstein Brown; two sons, Henry
Stephen Brown of Memphis, Tenn.,
and Charles Roger Brow n of Alpha
retta; and a brother, Charles Brown
of Stratford, Conn.
Rubin Wool
Rubin Wool, 74. of St. Peters- Graveside service was held Fri-
burg, Fla., died Wednesday, May day. May 9, at Cedar Park Ceme
tery in New- York City.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Evelyn Frun Wool of St. Peters
burg; daughter, Mrs. Mary Wool
Leader of Atlanta; son. Dr. Steven
Harris Wool of Shoreham, N.Y.;
and four grandchildren.
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