Dec. 29, 1951
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times file photo
At the Jewish Home for the Aged, Benjamin Gorelik* lights the candles to illustrate Hanukkah in a photograph published Dec. 29, 1951. Gorelik, who died Feb. 1, 1952, was 90 according to California death records and 92 according to The Times caption. He also appears in a 1948 photo from the Jewish Home for the Aged, 325 S. Boyle Ave., so we can assume he spent his last years there. The rest of his life remains an untold story and I’ll bet it was an interesting one.
*The caption refers to him as Benjamin Gorelick. However California death records and the 1948 photo spell his name Gorelik.
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