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rallies and plays.
Bergson co-founded the Emergent
Committee to Save the Jews in
Europe in 1943. His causes piqued
the interest of eminent actors such a:
Edward G. Robinson, Marlon Brand
and Stella Adler, who toured the
United States performing in the play
and appearing at the rallies.
"If you want to call him a hero of
the Holocaust, he certainly deserves
it." said Henry Feingold, a professor
of American Jewish history at the Ci
University of New York. "He was thJ
ANNE WHITTON, 88, formerly of
first to make that story known. He
Toronto of Southfield, died Aug. 22.
broke through the curtain of silence
She was a bookkeep-
Some credit Bergson's work for
er.
impelling the U.S. government's dec
She is survived by
sion to create the War Refugee Boar
her daughter and
in 1944, the first federal organizatio
son-in-law, Sandra
to deal with the perilous position of
(Ellis) and Edgar
European Jews.
West of Southfield;
"He was a master of public relatio
grandchildren, Dr.
at a very young age," his daughter,
Brandon West and
Rebecca Kook, a political science pr
Dr. Evan West;
fessor at Ben-Gurion University in
Anne Whitton
brother and sisters-
Israel, told the New York Times. "In
in-law, Louis and
many ways, he established what ma
Rose Stone and
consider to be the first example of a
Merle Hama, all of Toronto. Mrs.
real political lobby in Washington."
Whitton was the dear sister of the late
After considerable success in the
George Hamill and the late Ida
United States, Bergson returned to
Himmelstein.
Palestine in 1948 and reverted to hi
Interment at Clover Hill Park
birth name, which he had changed
Cemetery. Contributions may be made
order to shield his family from his
choice.
to a charity of
political activism.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
He was elected to the nascent stat,
assembly as a member of Menacherr
Begin's Herut Party when Israel
declared independence, but later
resigned and left the country in
protest when Prime Minister David
Ben- Gurion's promise of a constitu
tion within one year was not deliver
New York/JTA
Bergson returned to the United
Peter Bergson, who raised awareness
States in 1951 with his wife, Betty,
in the United States of the Holocaust
and worked for nearly 20 years as a
in the 1940s, died at the age of 86.
Wall Street stockbroker. His wife di
He died Aug. 18 at his home in a Tel
in 1964.
Aviv suburb.
Bergson became involved in polit
Known in Israel as Hillel Kook, his
once again in Israel in 1970, when
birth and Hebrew name, Bergson was
fought for a constitution that woul
born in Lithuania in 1915. At the age
draw a clear line between religion a
of 10, he emigrated to Palestine with
government. Israel still has no cons
his family.
tution.
A lifetime of activism began a few
Bergson is survived by Nili Hask'
years later when he joined the Irgun,
whom he married in 1975, two
the armed Jewish underground move-
daughters and three grandchildren.
ment.
In 1937, he went to Poland to help
smuggle Jews into Palestine.
Bergson came to the United States
in 1940. Two years later, his efforts
The obituary for Jerry Simon (Aug
were almost entirely focused on
10) should have indicated that he N
increasing awareness of the genocide
the loving son of the late Martin
— which to that point had received
Simon.
little if no attention in the U.S.
Werber of Oak Park; daughters and
sons-in-law, Marcia Werber and Brian
Kari of Las Vegas, Joanne and Dan
Sanner of California, Mindy and Robert
Polasky of Nevada; grandchildren,
Geoffrey and Michael Werber, Miles and
Maxx Sanner, Steven and Mitchell
Polasky. Mrs. Werber was the beloved
wife of the late Sol Werber.
Interment in Las Vegas. This
announcement was placed at the request
of the family by the Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
Peter Bergson,
Worked For
European Jews
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