Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Pauline Redlich Kohn who personally helped 250 Austrian and German Jewish refugees come to the United States in the late 1930s. She died Sunday at the age of 81. Her humanitarian activities started in 1938 when the then Mrs. Milton Redlich received a letter from an Austrian stranger, Hansi Redlich, appealing for an affidavit of support to enable her to emigrate to the U.S. She complied and after receiving requests from others filled out affidavits for 250 between 1938 and 1940.
Mrs. Kohn was a former national vice-president and member of the board of governors for the Women’s League for Israel. Her husband, Milton, died in 1945. In 1952 she married George Kohn who died in 1967. Mrs. Kohn was born in Poland as Pauline Durst and brought to the United States at the age of seven.
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