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Dr. Nehemiah Robinson, Director of W.j.c. Institute, Dead; Funeral Today

January 13, 1964
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Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for the late Dr. Nehemiah Robinson, director of the World Jewish Congress Institute for Jewish Affairs, and one of the foremost authorities on the Nazi holocaust, who died yesterday at the age of 65.

Born in Lithuania, Dr. Robinson came to the United States in 1940, joined the staff of the World Jewish Congress in 1941, and later became an American citizen. He worked closely with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany since that organization was founded in 1952. He is survived by five brothers: Jacob and Aaron, of New York; Nathan and Avram, of Israel; and Pinhas, of New Delhi.

(In Geneva, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress and chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, issued a statement lauding Dr. Robinson’s “unexcelled” contributions to the aims of both organizations through his “devotion, knowledge and understanding of our problems.”

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