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This article examines the Israeli initiative in the 1950s to confer postmortem citizenship upon Holocaust victims. This commemoration initiative, which became a clause in the law establishing Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Center, failed. Jewish communities in the diaspora refused to make their dead an endowment to the State of Israel. Tracing the history of this extraordinary idea and the various discussions about it, I show that it was not merely a national Holocaust commemoration initiative, but a transnational legal, political and moral debate between a new nation-state and its diaspora regarding the terms and boundaries of a new national citizenship.

[AVRAHAM HARMAN], former ambassador to the US and president of the Hebrew University who died Sunday at 77, was buried yesterday in Jerusalem. President Chaim Herzog and Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek attended the funeral. After the war, when France withdrew as Israel's main backer and cut off arms supplies, Harman helped lay the foundations of the alliance that turned the US into Israel's chief political and military supporter.

A memorial service for Avraham Harman, who was the chancellor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...

[Avraham Harman], 77, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington who played a major role in establishing the Jewish state's alliance with the United States, died Sunday of pneumonia in Jerusalem. Born in London, he immigrated to Israel in 1938 and entered the diplomatic service when Israel won statehood in 1948. He was Israel's first consul in Montreal, then ambassador to Washington from 1959 to 1968.

[Avraham Harman] was president of the university from 1968-83, and has been chancellor since then.

He did however, refer me to a book called The Secret Alliance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in which the award-winning journalist Tad Szulc chronicles the \"extraordinary story of the rescue of the Jews\" after World War II. Describing the condition of Jews returning from Nazi death camps and from exile in Soviet Asia, Szulc quotes a high JDC official: \"They come in from those boats - boats that start their journey in Odessa, come through Naples and then into Marseilles - and then they find their way into our Paris office. They are literally without anything. They are without clothing, they are without shoes, they have no place to spend the night. They haven't a sou in their pockets. They have nothing to look forward to. . . many of them are swollen with hunger. Many of them cannot walk a step. Many of them need immediate medical attention and care. They cannot be put on their own. . . they come in walking like ghosts, like shadows. . .\" Szulc dedicated his book in part to the men and women who worked for the JDC after World War II, the \"righteous people of rescue.\"