Abe Foxman's Father and Jabotinsky

Back in June 2014, I posted a blog attesting to the fact that Abe  Foxman, the now recently deceased former head of ADL was a member of Betar in New York.

Only today I read his NYTimes' obituary and saw this:

Abraham Foxman was born Avraham Chanoch Hanach Fuksman on May 1, 1940. His father, Joseph Fuksman, had been the editor of a Zionist publication in Warsaw; his mother, Helen (Radoshitzki) managed the home. When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, the Fuksmans fled east, giving birth to Avraham in Baranovichi, a small city in what is today Belarus, and winding up in Vilnius in what is today Lithuania but was then under Soviet occupation.

I googled his father's name and this appeared:

Fuksman, Yoysef

December 28, 1905–January 16, 1977 71 years

The brother of Shloyme Fuksman, he was in Baranovitsh, Russia. He studied in yeshivas and on his own. Until WWII he lived in Warsaw where he served as chairman of Brit Hatsahar (Zionist Revisionists). During the Nazi occupation, he was confined in the Vilna ghetto, organizer of the underground movement. He was deported to concentrations camps in Austria. He contributed to the Jewish documentation center in Austria...

That makes it very clear the Betar connection. 

And by the way, the father's brother, Shloyme was

the secretary general of the “Poele Agudat Yisrael” (Workers for [ultra-Orthodox] Agudat Yisrael) in Poland and the author of its anthem. From 1931 he was contributing to: Dos Yudishe Togblat (The Jewish Daily Newspaper) in Warsaw...He was later confined in the Baranovitsh ghetto. He was shot by the Germans and went to his death singing “Am yisroel ḥai” (The people of Israel lives!), together with a group of religious Jews, during the execution of Shushan Purim in 1942.

And from another obituary:

“My father was a journalist,” Mr. Foxman said. “He did it for fun — he didn’t have to work. He went from yeshiva to gymnasium to university. He was the editor of a newspaper, a revisionist Zionist paper.” His hero was Jabotinsky.

His father's book: 

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