Josephine Wertheim Pomerance

Overview

Josephine Wertheim Pomerance born Manhattan, NY October 25, 1910 (d. 1980). Leader of WILPF; co-founder of SANE, 1957; served on American Association for the UN, 1959; leader of Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban, 1962.

Quotations

"I thought it all right if a mother had to get up nights with measles or chicken pox, but to have to comfort her children because of fear of nuclear bombing was a little too much. . . It was time a mother did something." (New York Times, July 17, 1980)