UManfred Steinfeld, 95, umsunguli weShelby Williams Industries, i-philanthropist yamaJuda kanye nephayona leContract Furniture Industry, ushone ngoJuni 30, 2019 eFlorida.
Wazalwa ngo-April 29, 1924 eJosbach, eJalimane. Ngenxa ye-Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society yaseChicago, uMnu. Steinfeld waphunyuka ekushushisweni kwamaNazi futhi wafika eChicago eneminyaka engu-14 ezohlala nomamncane. Ngemva kokuphothula eHyde Park High School, wajoyina amasosha.
Wazalwa ngo-April 29, 1924 eJosbach, eJalimane. Ngenxa ye-Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society yaseChicago, uMnu. Steinfeld waphunyuka ekushushisweni kwamaNazi futhi wafika eChicago eneminyaka engu-14 ezohlala nomamncane. Ngemva kokuphothula eHyde Park High School, wajoyina amasosha.
UMnu. Steinfeld wafunda esikoleni sobunhloli bezempi lapho ulwazi lwakhe lwesiJalimane lwamsiza ukuba abe uchwepheshe webutho laseJalimane. Wayexhumene ne-82nd I-Airborne Division futhi wazihlukanisa njenge-paratrooper ethola i-Purple Heart kanye nezindondo ze-Bronze Star. Ubuye wabandakanyeka ekuhumusheni idokhumenti yokuzinikela okungenamibandela ngesiJalimane lapho ama-21st Iqembu lamasosha aseJalimane lazinikela kwabangu-82nd Indiza ngoMeyi 2, 1945.
Ngemva kwempi, wezwa ukuthi unina nodadewabo, abasala eJalimane bashonela ekamu lokuhlushwa ngo-1945. Umfowabo omncane, uNaftali, owayethunyelwe ePalestine, wafa elwela ukwakhiwa kwezwe lamaJuda.
UMnu. Steinfeld wathweswa iziqu eRooseveltUniversity ngo-1948 ngeziqu zebhizinisi. Kwathi ngo-1954 uMnu. Steinfeld kanye nozakwabo bathenga inkampani yefenisha eyayiphelelwe imali eChicago futhi bayiqamba kabusha ngokuthi iShelby Williams Industries. Le nkampani yazakhela udumo ngokukhiqiza ifenisha ehlangabezana nezidingo ezithile namashejuli abaklami abasebenzela imboni yamahhotela nezindawo zokudlela.
Njengoba ukuthengisa kukhula kancane kancane, ngo-1962 uMnu. Steinfeld wandisa izindawo zokukhiqiza eMorristown, TN. Eminyakeni emithathu kamuva inkampani yaphumela obala. Kamuva yathengwa yi-RCA futhi ngo-1976 uMnu. Steinfeld wayithenga kabusha inkampani. Ngo-1983, wathatha u-Shelby Williams emphakathini futhi waba enye yezinkampani ezimbalwa ezisuka ezizimele ziye emphakathini ziye kozimele bese zisesidlangalaleni futhi.
U-Shelby Williams uhlonishwe ngokwenza isihlalo sokuqala sokupakisha esineshubhu esabe indinganiso ezindaweni zedili nasezindaweni zomphakathi emhlabeni jikelele. Le nkampani yakhula ngokuthengwa okuhlanganisa i-Thonet Industries, inkampani yase-Austrian eyasungulwa nguMichael Thonet, umthuthukisi wenqubo yefenisha ye-bentwood. Ukuthengwa kuhlanganisa izingcezu zakudala ze-Thonet ezingama-40. UMnu. Steinfeld wengeze izingcezu ezengeziwe, wakha elinye lamaqoqo amakhulu kakhulu efenisha yokuqala ye-Thonet.
UMnu. Steinfeld wasungula ngokuhlanganyela Inhlangano Yabakhiqizi Bezinkontileka eyabeka isisekelo Semboni Yefenisha Yezinkontileka. Eminyakeni embalwa kamuva ngo-1968 ngokwesekwa yi-Merchise Mart, wasiza ukuhlela umbukiso wokuqala wezohwebo. Lo mbukiso kamuva waba yi-NEOCON®, Ukuvezwa Kazwelonke Kwempahla Yenkontileka kanye nokuvezwa okukhulu kwezangaphakathi zezentengiselwano eNyakatho Melika.
Ngo-1999 lapho uMnu. Steinfeld edayisa uShelby Williams, wabika ukuthi le nkampani yayingenisa inzuzo njalo eminyakeni engama-46 isebhizinisini, yafinyelela ku-$165 million ngokudayisa futhi yenza ibhizinisi emazweni angu-87.
UMnu. Steinfeld uhlonishwe ngobuholi bakhe, ubuhlakani bakhe kwezamabhizinisi kanye nokuphana kwakhe. Phakathi kokuhlonishwa kwakhe kukhona: iHoratio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans ngo-1981; I-American Jewish Committee Humanitarian Award of the Year ngo-1986; I-Holocaust Foundation yase-Illinois 8th Umklomelo Wonyaka Wobuntu ngo-1993; i-Lifetime Achievement Award, ebizwa ngokuthi “the Manny,” evela I-Hospitality Design Magazine ngo-1999; kanye ne-Julius Rosenwald Memorial Award evela ku-Jewish Federation of Chicago ngo-2000. Ngo-2014 abakwaSteinfeld bathola Indondo Yobuholi Kazwelonke evela e-US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Enomkakhe, uFern, izikhungo eziningi zemfundo, amasiko, ezenkolo, zezenhlalakahle nezokwelapha ziye zazuza ekuphaneni kwazo. Yena -
- Ihlinzeke ngezimali zemifundaze engaphezu kuka-500 yabafundi abafunda eNyuvesi yaseTennessee, eKnoxville, TN;
- Wanikezwa abangu-20th I-Century Decorative American Arts Gallery e-Art Institute of Chicago futhi yasekelwa uMbukiso Wefenisha yase-Bentwood e-Art Institute equkethe ifenisha evela eqoqweni lakhe;
- Usungule Igalari Yesitezi Sesihlanu e-Orchestra Hall, e-Chicago;
- Isungulwe USihlalo Wobuprofesa e-Weitzman Institute of Science, e-Rehovot, kwa-Israel;
- Umsunguli nomkakhe we-United States Holocaust Museum, eWashington DC;
- Wasungula futhi wanikeza iManfred Steinfeld School of Hospitality Management eRoosevelt University of Chicago;
- Kusungulwe i-Danny Cunniff Leukemia Research Laboratory esibhedlela sase-Hadassah, e-Jerusalem, kwa-Israel ekhumbula umzukulu wakhe.
Impilo emangalisayo kaMnu. Steinfeld kanye namagalelo akhe siqu kanye nobungcweti kubhalwe phansi emibhalweni, kumabonakude kanye nakwividiyo. Ngo-1992, i-Art Institute e-Chicago yashicilela incwadi ebizwa ngokuthi Ngokumelene Nokusanhlamvu: Ifenisha yaseBentwood evela Eqoqweni likaFern noManfred Steinfeld. Ngemva kweminyaka eminingana, Ifa Lesitayela yashicilelwa ilandisa ngomlando weShelby Williams Industries. Wavezwa kudokhumentari ku-CNN kubaphathi bebhizinisi abaphumelelayo; umbukiso we-TV we-PBS, “Amaphrofayili Empumelelo;” kanye nohlelo lweDiscovery Channel, “Ukuphela Kwephupho Elibi” mayelana nokukhululwa kwamakamu okuhlushwa ngemva kweMpi Yezwe II. Idokhumentari yango-2000 ethi "Victim & Victor," iwumlando wevidiyo kaMnu. Steinfeld. Ibhuku, Impilo Iqedile Uhambo LukaManfred Steinfeld, eyanyatheliswa ngo-2013, ilandisa ngendaba yokuphila kwakhe okumangalisayo. Usanda kuvezwa encwadini Amadodana Namasosha nguBruce Henderson mayelana namaJuda abalekela amaNazi futhi alwa neButho lase-US ngokumelene noHitler.
