The papers of Si Frumkin, founder of the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews (SCCSJ), have recently been processed and are now open for research. Frumkin was born in Kaunas/Kovno, Lithuania on November 5, 1930. He survived the Dachau concentration camp and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. In 1968 he founded the SCCSJ to bring attention to the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union. He frequently spoke on Holocaust issues at the Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance and founded the Association of Holocaust Survivors from the former Soviet Union. The collection spans 28 linear feet and consists mostly of newsletters, press releases and photographs highlighting the activities of the SCCSJ and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews for more than 40 years. The collection was processed in the Center for Primary Research and Training by Bill Katin, a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. The project was supported by a generous donation from Zev Yaroslavsky. To read more about Frumkin's life and work see http://www.sifrumkin.com/