Dr. Julius Brutzkus, former Minister of Jewish Affairs in the Lithuanian Government and one of the founders of the OSE, World Jewish Health Society, died here today, aged 81.
Dr. Brutzkus, who during World War II, lived in the United States, was a leader of the Zionist movement in pre-Soviet Russia. He was also a well-known historian, having written many articles for Jewish historical publications in Russian and Yiddish. He graduated as a physician from the Moscow University and worked as a physician on the battlefield during World War I.
In 1920 he was arrested by the Bolshevik regime while participating in a Zionist convention in Moscow and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. A year later he fled to Lithuania where he became a member of the Cabinet. Later he emigrated to Germany where he was the head of the World OSE Union. He moved to the United States after the occupation of France by the Nazi armies. Dr. Brutzkus was on adherent of the Revisionist group in Zionism.
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