Frank Atran, noted Jewish philanthropist, who recently donated $1,000,000 to the Mount Sinai Hospital here and presented the Jewish Labor Committee with a $200,000 five-story building to be named the Atran Jewish Cultural House, died here today. He was 67 years old.
Born in Russia, he fled the Bolsheviks in 1925 and later fled the Nazis in 1940. Although his fortune was made in Europe where he was the owner of a chain of 50 retail women’s apparel stores in France and Belgium, his philanthropies were mainly in the United States. Among other things, he endowed for 30 years a chair for Yiddish language and literature at Columbia University.
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