He was a longtime Jewish community activist who was associated with the terrorist groups Irgun and Lehi.
Baruch Korff was born on July 4, 1914, in Novohrad-Volynskyi present-day Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire).
Gittel fled her home carrying an infant in her arms, with Korff and two other young children following her.
Korff was the director of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People during World War II.
He was responsible for gathering over 1,000 rabbis to march in Washington, D.C. in order to persuade Britain to allow Jewish immigration to Palestine after the war.
[3] In 1947, in the aftermath of the Exodus incident, and the dismay of many in the nationalist camp that the British government was prohibiting large-scale Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine, Korff led a Lehi (Stern Gang) plot to firebomb the Foreign Office in London in protest.
It was necessary to involve Gilbert due to the fact that neither Korff nor any of the Stern Gang members were themselves pilots.
Gilbert feigned acceptance of Korff's offer, but immediately turned informant, notifying the American Embassy in London, who in turn alerted the Paris police and Scotland Yard to the Stern Gang's planned attack on London.
The authorities convinced Gilbert to go along with the plan, and after a week Korff was arrested and indicted for masterminding the plot.
[7] Held in La Santé Prison, Korff staged a 17-day hunger strike in protest[8] even slipping into a coma, until he was revived.
In 1983, Korff moved to Providence, Rhode Island upon taking a job position as a consultant at Brown University.
[11] The rabbi told Nixon that "You will be sinning against history if you allow the partisan cabal in Congress and the jackals in the media to force you from office.