On Hand For History: For the New York-area members of UJA-Federation's Israel at 50 Mission, tears and tributes. From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright The Jewish Week May 1, 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

On Hand For History: For the New York-area members of UJA-Federation's Israel at 50 Mission, tears and tributes.

STEWART AIN

Staff Writer

Jerusalem -- On the day the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Jacob Waisbord left his home in Warsaw and fled east before finally being rescued two years later by the Jewish Labor Committee and taken to the United States. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.

"The people of Israel became for me the family that was lost," said Waisbord's daughter, Myra Treitel, referring to her father's passion for Israel through his volunteer work. "I ...

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