UCLA Receives
Large Bequest

Los Angeles (JTA) — A Polish-
born Jewish woman, who worked
as a librarian for 32 years, has
left an unexpected bequest of
$592,000 to the University of Cal-
ifornia at Los Angeles for Holo-
caust and Jewish studies.
Antonina Babb, who died in
1994 at the age of 75, designated
UCLA's chairman in Holocaust
Studies as the beneficiary of her
estate, consisting largely of her
house in Santa Monica, Calif.
The gift will support not only
UCLA's long-standing Holocaust
studies program, initiated and
endowed by the 1939 Club sur-
vivors' organization, but general
Jewish studies at the university
as well.
The unexpectedness of the be-
quest is compounded by the scant
details available on Babb, a pri-
vate person who apparently had
few friends and no known rela-
tives.
According to UCLA sources,
she was born in Poland in 1919,
fleeing the country with the Nazi
invasion of 1939. Her departure
marked the beginning of an
odyssey that included brief refuge
in a Catholic convent and that
took her through Lithuania, Rus-
sia, Japan, China and finally to
the United States.
After graduate studies, Ms.
Babb joined the staff of the UCLA
library in 1955 and, until her re-
tirement in 1987, devoted most
of her efforts to the Germanic and
Scandinavian book collections. In
addition to Polish, German and
English, she spoke Hebrew,
French and Russian.
Ms. Babb described herself as
a Holocaust survivor, but she ap-
parently never attended lectures
or other activities sponsored by
UCLA's Center for Jewish Stud-
ies or the 1939 Club, said Samuel
Goetz, the club's spokesman.
Arnold Band, director of the
Jewish Studies center, said some
of the bequest would be used to
present a number of free lectures,
and possibly a film series, on
19th- and 20th-century Jewish
life in Vienna, Warsaw and oth-
er European cities.

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