Considered "a true personification of the American Dream," Severin Fayerman, a survivor of the Holocaust and founder of Baldwin Hardware, has died. He was 92.
Fayerman was born in Poland in 1922 and later survived the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other Nazi concentration camps after his family's factory was seized by the Germans.
Reunited with his family when the war ended, Fayerman emigrated to the United States in search of a new life.
With his father, he founded Baldwin Hardware in 1946 and relocated to Reading, where he led the company until 1982 and then served as its chairman emeritus until his formal retirement in 2009.
"To think I was a poor immigrant not that many, well maybe, that many years ago, never could I have imagined that," Fayerman told 69 News in 2003 on his successful pursuit of the American Dream. "This is America. This can only happen in America."
Fayerman was always willing to share his story of survival and success at the annual World War II Weekend in Berks County and at schools and community group gatherings around the region.
"I think when you read something or see it on television on in the movies, you think it could be made up. It could be something unreal, but when you see it, someone in the flesh and blood, then it really tells you, yes, it was so," Fayerman told 69 News of his desire to share his story with others.
Fayerman also detailed his experiences in a book, "A Survivor's Story," in 2011.
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