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Si Frumkin, activist for Soviet Jews, dead at 78

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Si Frumkin, a survivor of the Nazi's Dachau concentration camp and a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who founded the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews in 1968, died Friday of cancer at Providence Tarzana Medical Center. He was 78.

Simas Frumkinas was born on Nov. 5, 1930, in what is now Kaunas, Lithuania, on Nov. 5, 1930, to a family of affluent...

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