Frank Z. Atran, prominent textile manufacturer and philanthropist who came to this country ten years ago as a refugee from Nazi terror, this week-end donated a five-story $200,000 building in New York to the Jewish Labor Committee. Mr. Atran, who was born in Russia and spent most of his adult life in Germany and France, last year gave $1,000,000 to Mr. Sinai Hospital here.
In making the donation of the building, Mr. Atran said that he was “fulfilling a dream in presenting this building as a gift to the Jewish Labor Committee. It is a demonstration of my faith in the activities of the Jewish Labor Committee, whose record of helping the victims of religious and political persecution and in waging the fight against bigotry is unmatched.”
Accepting the gift, Adolph Held, national chairman of the J.L.C., said: “The building, to be known as the Atran Jewish Cultural House, will be the focal point for democratic Jewish cultural activity in the United States. It will be the center to which will gravitate the victims of Nazi and Communist persecution, whose literary activities have either been burned or banned by totalitarian nations; who have faced physical torture.”
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