West Virginia – The death of a quiet menswear merchant in Appalachian coal country Max Lewin, a Holocaust survivor who made his way to southern West Virginia after World War II, is reverberating in Israel as two leading Israeli hospitals wage a legal battle in an American court over the man’s estate of more than $5 million.
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Lewin, who died in August 2002 at age 83, willed roughly half his life’s savings to “Hadasa Hospital” in Tel Aviv. The problem: wrong spelling, wrong city.
The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and the parent organization of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital are both staking claims to the money, and claiming in court that Lewin meant them. And a West Virginia judge’s ruling is expected soon.