Simon Simonovitch, a Jewish refugee in Liberia.

Simon Simonovitch was the son of a wealthy Russian coal miner, whose family fled their homeland after the Soviet Revolution of 1917 and settled as a refugee in Liberia in 1940.

He established a flourishing business and married a Danish woman in Monrovia.
He became advisor to ex-president Charles D. B. King, the two were good friends(the 2 are together in the photo above).
He also became a close friend of President Tubman . President Tubman made him president of the Chamber of Commerce.
While serving as president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1953, he erected a monument to president Tubman in the middle of Monrovia's main street, the first of many monuments to follow.

In 1954, Simonovitch had "Tubman medals" minted that bore the head of the president on one side and the name "Chamber of Commerce" on the other. He presented these medals to the Chiefs of the Eastern Province, who had gathered for a meeting with the president, with the admonition that they "spend more strength in the future" for the administration.

That year, the government appointed him to represent Liberia at the International Labor Organization conference, which prompted the opposition to raise questions about his role in government.

Mr. Simonovitch died in 1958 in Monrovia at the age of sixty-four(64). Both the President of Liberia and the ambassador of Israel sat up all night at his deathbed.
President Tubman ordered all flags in Liberia be flown at half mast, while the funeral was in progress.

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