A former assistant national campaign director for the United Jewish Appeal, Elliot Zolin has handled campaign activities in a number of regions throughout the U.S. for this nationa...ver másA former assistant national campaign director for the United Jewish Appeal, Elliot Zolin has handled campaign activities in a number of regions throughout the U.S. for this national philanthropic organization now known as the Federated Jewish Communities of North America. While responsible for the U.S. Eastern region, Mr. Zolin worked to arrange UJA member trips to Israel, organized community fund raisers, and oversaw the supervision of local campaign representative staff. Elliot Zolin also helped to coordinate regional conferences throughout the U.S. and promote national events held in New York and Washington, D.C.
Over the years, Elliot Zolin has worked diligently to honor the memories of those individuals lost during the Holocaust. In an effort to raise awareness of the lives that might have been saved, Mr. Zolin donates time to working with the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, organizing several events designed to explore and analyze the U.S. involvement during World War II. In 2008, Mr. Zolin initiated and lead the campaign to erect a commemorative stone at Brooklyn Holocaust Park that honors the activities of the Bergson Group, who were formally known as the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe. Organized by Hillel Kook, who assumed the alias Peter Bergson, members of this activist group lobbied the U.S. government to provide rescue to refugees during World War II.
The following year, Elliot Zolin helped to mark the 65th anniversary of the Allied bombing near the Auschwitz concentration camp by highlighting a little-known memorial sculpture that adorns the New York State Appellate Courthouse. The sculpture, entitled "Indifference to Injustice," clearly suggests that the United States was capable of bombing the death machinery at Auschwitz as they were, in fact, bombing industrial facilities a scant five miles away. The 27-foot-tall sculpture depicts an aerial view of the death camp taken by Allied planes in reconnaissance photos; this work of art holds the distinction of being the only Holocaust memorial to adorn a public building in the U.S. The commemoration event, which took place inside the courthouse, featured keynote speeches from former New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch and from the Honorable Francis T. Murphy, who originally devised the idea for the memorial during the late 1980s.ver menos