Si Frumkin

Si Frumkin (born Simas Frumkinas) (November 5, 1930 – May 15, 2009)^[1] was a Lithuanian-born Jew who survived imprisonment at the Dachau Nazi concentration camps, and emigrated to the United States, where he became a prominent textile manufacturer and activist involved in issues relating Soviet Jewry. He arrived in New York in 1949 and graduated from New York University in 1953.^[1] Shortly after graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and took over Universal Drapery Fabrics, a downtown textile company. At night, he earned a master's degree in history at Cal State Northridge. Once the plight of Soviet Jews caught his attention he focused on activism.

In 2008 he wrote an article in Russian entitled "Neither shame, nor conscience", in which he argued that African-Americans in general lack shame and conscience, celebrate their evildoers, unlike Jews and other ethnic or racial groups.

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