Baruch Robbins, who pressed the United States to rescue Jews during the Holocaust, died Monday in Jerusalem at 89. Robbins, who at the time was known as Baruch Rabinowitz, was the wartime Washington representative of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe.
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