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Mandr October Layout 1 AMERICAN & INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR YAD VASHEM Vol. 41-No. 1 ISSN 0892-1571 September/October 2014-Tishri/Cheshvan 5775 The American & International Societies for Yad Vashem Annual Tribute Dinner he American & International Warsaw ghetto. He serves as the in biology. He earned a PhD. in biolo- T Societies for Yad Vashem chairman of the museum’s North gy from the University of Michigan in Annual Tribute Dinner will be held on American Council. His commitments 1988. After working in his field of evo- Sunday, November 16, 2014, at the to Polish Jewry led to his being lutionary biology at Duke University, Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers awarded the Commander Cross of North Carolina State University and This year’s honoree, Sigmund the Order of Polonia Restituta by Utah State University, he joined the Rolat, was born in 1930 in President Bronislaw Komorowski. In faculty of the University of Rochester Czestochowa, Poland. His immediate addition to his work in Poland, in 2000; he is currently associate pro- family was murdered during the Sigmund was a member of the fessor of biology there. He is married Executive Committee and Board of to Silvia Sörensen, a Berlin native; Governors of Ben-Gurion University they have a nine-year-old son, Tobias in Israel. He continues to serve on Sorensen-Fry. numerous advisory boards, including *** those of the Kosciuszko Foundation, ella Meyer born in Paris and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life Braised in Switzerland, was born & Culture, and the President’s immersed in the world of art. She Council of the Graduate Theological always painted while studying art his- Union in Berkeley, California. He is tory and obtaining her PhD in medieval the chairman of the Krakow Jewish Varian Fry. art history from the Sorbonne. Bella Culture Festival, the Isaac Bashevis Foreign Policy Association. In August taught art history, wrote numerous Singer Festival in Warsaw and the of 1940 he was sent by an aid organ- academic papers and delivered Shalom Foundation. He is also ization, the Emergency Rescue involved in the Jan Karski Educational Committee, to France, to save the Foundation in the US and in Poland. lives of 200 intellectuals and Mr. Rolat serves as the president of renowned figures who had managed the World Society of Czestochowa to escape from Germany. Fry was Jews and Their Descendants. faced with the desperate pleas of Sigmund Rolat. Mr. Rolat is a longtime supporter of many more refugees. Without the Shoah, leaving him orphaned and the American Society for Yad backing of the American consulate, alone. He survived by seeking shelter Vashem. He has achieved the status he decided to act on his own and in the Czestochowa ghetto and by of Builder at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, began finding ways to smuggle peo- working in the Hasag Pelcery labor by donating generously and often. ple out of France. In December 1940, camp. Sigmund arrived in the United Rolat donated a drawing by the Polish Fry was arrested for his rescue activ- States in 1948 and earned a BA from writer and artist, Bruno Schulz, titled ities and then expelled from France. the University of Cincinnati and an “Bianca and Her Father in a Coach.” By his estimate, he helped save the MA from NYU. He has been recognized for the gen- lives of about 4,000 people, among Mr. Rolat went on to marry, raise a erous donation of the works of Private whom was Marc Chagall. Marc Chagall. devoted family and build a successful Zinovii Tolkatchev and other artwork The French government awarded informative, firsthand experiences in business. After the collapse of in Yad Vashem’s collection. him the Chevalier of the Legion lecture form, of her grandfather Marc Communism he saw an opportunity *** d’Honneur prior to his death in 1967. Chagall’s work. Invited to take on and began doing business in Poland. he American Society for Yad Yad Vashem awarded him the title of responsibilities for the visual arts at the That re-engagement led Rolat to T Vashem will also pay tribute in Righteous Among the Nations in Cultural Services of the French become the prime financial supporter to Varian Fry, the first American to 1994. Embassy, Bella settled in New York, and ambassador for restoring Polish receive the title of Righteous Among Varian Fry will be represented at the where she held this position for a num- Jewry’s place in Polish history. He is the Nations from Yad Vashem. When event by his son James Fry, and ber of years. Adding to her expanding now focused on the Museum of the WWII was declared in 1939, Varian Chagall by his granddaughter Bella list of accomplishments, she has had History of Polish Jews, scheduled to Fry was a 32-yea- old American work- Meyer. her hand in costume design and mask- fully open on the site of the former ing in New York as an editor for the *** making for a number of theater per- ames Fry (b. 1958) is the formances and also created many Jyoungest of the three children of puppets for her own puppet show pro- IN THIS ISSUE Varian Fry and Annette Riley Fry. He ductions. Bella’s passion for beauty lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut until The ASYV Annual Tribute Dinner.............................................................1,8-9 and aesthetics led her to become a flo- he was six, when his family moved to Ron B. Meier is the new executive director of the ASYV...............................2 ral designer. In a recent publication Manhattan’s Upper West Side. There Bergen-Belsen diary, 1945..............................................................................2 Bella describes her love for flowers: “to he learned to play street stickball and Surviving the Holocaust by hiding their faith................................................4 discover its essence — opening, life, became an ardent Yankees fan, tak- How the Nazis helped German companies get very rich.............................5 death — is to experience an unimagin- ing the subway by himself to games The untold story of Jews who rescued Jews................................................6 able mystery.” Bella founded starting at age 9. He attended P.S. 84 Hollywood’s unknown rescuer.......................................................................6 FleursBELLA, a floral design and (1965–1969), Collegiate School The woman who launched 1,000 Jewish refugees.......................................7 décor company, in 2005, focusing her (1969–1975), and Columbia College Nazis’ “perfect Aryan” baby was actually Jewish.......................................10 talents on creating floral arrangements (1975–1979), graduating with an AB The real Monuments Man..............................................................................16 much in the way an artist paints. Page 2 MARTYRDOM & RESISTANCE September/October 2014 - Tishri/Cheshvan 5775 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM BOARD NAMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR on B. Meier, PhD., was recently appoint- He also served on the faculty of Haifa University (Israel) as a lecturer (assistant Red as the new executive director of the professor) and chair of the Community Development and Planning Track at the American Society for Yad Vashem. Founded in Haifa University School of Social Work. 1981 by a group of Holocaust survivors, and As a leader in the Jewish communal field, he served as the president of the spearheaded and led by Eli Zborowski, of New Jersey Association of Jewish Communal Service and later as president of blessed memory, from 1981 to 2012, the the Jewish Communal Service Association of North America. American Society for Yad Vashem works in Ron is the son of Holocaust survivors, both of whom were in their early teens partnership with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust growing up in the same small town in Germany around the time of Kristallnacht. Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority His maternal grandparents (for whom he and his sister are named) did not in Jerusalem, to support its efforts in the areas escape, but saved his mother and aunt by getting them on the Kindertransport of commemoration, remembrance, education, to England. As Ron puts it: “Preserving the memory of all those who perished research, capital improvement and special and fighting on behalf of the Jewish people are in my DNA.” projects. Born in Baltimore, he received his BA from the University of Maryland and later Ron comes to the American Society for Yad was awarded MSW and PhD. degrees from Washington University. Ron and his Vashem with a distinguished record of profes- wife Joyce Raynor, an accomplished Jewish educator serving as head of school sional leadership in the Jewish community. Most recently, he served as the New of Golda Och Academy, have two daughters and one granddaughter. York regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, leading ADL’s efforts Leonard A. Wilf, chairman of the board of the American Society for Yad statewide to combat anti-Semitism, prejudice and hate. He spent more than 20 Vashem, comments, “We welcome Ron Meier as our professional leader and years working on behalf of North American Jewish communities, first as the have great confidence that his training and experience in Jewish communal chief operating officer of the United Jewish Federation of MetroWest (N.J.), next leadership will inspire and guide the American Society for Yad Vashem to con- as the chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey tinued success in Holocaust education in the United States and support for the and finally as the senior vice president and founding director of the Mandel critical efforts of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. I look forward to a long and success- Center for Leadership Excellence at the Jewish Federations of North America. ful relationship for years to come.” BERGEN-BELSEN DIARY, 1945 ergen-Belsen was liberated by that stretched above his head. I want returning to your body. You are alive. out our thin bodies? Now she is here Bthe British army on April 15, to write: “How beautiful you are, blue Perhaps you too are standing some- and she beckons to us from every 1945.
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