[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1183-E1184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TRIBUTE TO HERBERT AND MILDRED TANZMAN

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                        HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR.

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 26, 1996

  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, July 9th, a reception will be 
held at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, NJ, in honor of two 
of Middlesex County's most esteemed citizens, Herbert and Mildred 
Tanzman of Highland Park, NJ.
  Beginning with the time he served his country in World War II, 
Herbert Tanzman has maintained a distinguished legacy of community 
service. For his service in WWII's Naval Aviation unit, Mr. Tanzman was 
awarded the Navy Air Medal by the President. A veteran of the Battle of 
Iwo Jima, he has served as commander of the Veterans Alliance, 
commander of Jewish War Veterans Post No. 133, New Brunswick, member of 
the National Executive Committee of the JWV, national representative 
and national foreign affairs chair of JWV of the

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USA, and executive board member of the Navy League. Currently, Mr. 
Tanzman serves as JWV national foreign affairs chairman.
  Mr. Tanzman has demonstrated his leadership through every facet of 
his life. He has enjoyed a distinguished career as director for the 
real estate firm of Jacobson, Goldfarb and Tanzman Associates. He rose 
to the ranks of leadership in his profession as president of the New 
Jersey Real Estate Commission. He also demonstrated his commitment to 
his community as a councilman and mayor of Highland Park. He served on 
the State of New jersey County and Municipal Government Study 
Commission, and the board of directors of the New Jersey State League 
of Municipalities.
  In his tireless efforts to further the cause of human rights and 
intergroup relations, Mr. Tanzman served as the national liaison 
officer to the Catholic War Veterans, national civil rights chairman 
and national legislative chairman and national chairman of American 
Indian Affairs. He as helped to build the civic life of his community 
and his country as a member of the executive committee and board of 
directors of United Community Services, trustee of the Middlesex-
Somerset Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Association, board member of 
Job Corps, member of the board of directors of YMHA, chairman of the 
Building Fund Campaign, and member of the board of directors of the 
Central New Jersey Home for the Aged.
  Mr. Tanzman's hard work has been driven by the quintessential Jewish 
goal of rebuilding and improving the world around him. He currently 
serves as national vice chairman and national campaign cabinet member 
of Israel Bonds, and has served as general chairman of the Raritan 
Valley UJA Federation, as an executive board member of the Greater 
Monmouth Jewish Federation, a chair of Monmouth County's UJA, and 
regional chairman for Israel Bonds.
  For Mildred S. Tanzman, Tikun Olam--rebuilding the world--has been 
the guideline by which she has lived her life. Her devotion to the 
Highland Park Conservative Temple has been a commitment for over 50 
years. It includes active sisterhood and service on the Sisterhood 
Board. Mrs. Tanzman has been a life member of Hadassah and has served 
on the Hadassah Board. She has also served on the National Council of 
Jewish Women, Deborah Hospital, Roosevelt Hospital, Brandeis 
University, the Central New Jersey Jewish Home for the Aged, the Jewish 
War Veterans Post No. 133 Auxiliary, and as president of the Lions Club 
Auxiliary of Highland Park. She has been involved for a long time with 
the Borough of Highland Park Juvenile Court Commissions.
  Several years ago, Mr. Tanzman met the internationally known Nazi 
hunter Beate Klarsfeld, and the two women became friends and colleagues 
in the effort to be vigilant against Nazi and neo-Nazi groups still 
operating throughout the world.
  She has also been involved with an organization known as ``Chamah,'' 
originally begun as an underground movement in the pre-Glasnost Soviet 
Union, which now works to start schools for Jewish children in Russia, 
as well as helping to provide Passover Seders for families in Russia, 
and assistance for Russian immigrants beginning new lives here in the 
United States.
  Mr. Speaker, Mildred and Herbert Tanzman have dedicated much of their 
lives to serving others. Their dedication to their family, their 
community, the United States, the Jewish people and the State of Israel 
has been exemplary, an inspiration to us all. It is an honor for me to 
pay tribute to these two outstanding leaders and to wish them continued 
happiness and success.

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