When Max Webb was interned at 18 different concentration camps during the Holocaust, he made a promise. \”If he survived, he would make sure he would contribute to the advancement of the Jewish people and Judaism in any way he could,\” said his grandson, Greg Podell, the director of the Max Webb Family Foundation.
Webb has made good on that promise, donating to causes in Israel and to local Jewish charities, including The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. And now, as he\’s about to turn 90, his foundation has purchased a plot of land for $3 million for a center to house two socially conscious Jewish organizations.