Abraham Foxman (M / Poland, 1940), Holocaust survivor

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Abraham Foxman (M / Poland, 1940), Holocaust survivor

Biography

Foxman, an only son, was born in Baranovichi, just months after the Soviet Union took the town from Poland in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and incorporated it into the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. The town is now in Belarus. Foxman had Polish Jewish parents: Helen and Joseph Foxman.

Foxman's parents left him with his Polish Catholic nanny Bronislawa Kurpi in 1941 when they were ordered by Germans to enter a ghetto. Foxman was baptized into Christianity by the Catholic Church. And given the Christian name of Henryk Stanislaw Kurpi, and raised as a Catholic in Vilnius between 1941 and 1944 when he was returned to his parents.

Foxman immigrated to the United States in 1950 with his parents. As an American lawyer and activist, he served as the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League from 1987 to 2015.

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