POVERTY TO RICHES.
BOY'S REMARKABLE RISE When Abraham Feldman arrived in London at the. age of 15 from Vilna, Lithuania—then part of Russia he was penniless and alone. A kindly policeman gave him a few coppers for a bed and something to eat. Mr Feldman died in Torquay, recently End his will reveals that he left £15,000. He was a director of two large jewellery firms, had won an international reputation as a craftsman in jewels, and had hundreds of friends in the East End and the City of London. His son, Mr Emanuel Feldman, said to an interviewer: "After two friendless days in London my father got a job as a jeweller's apprentice. From that moment he never looked back. Everv, penny he could save at first went" toward the cost of taking out naturalisation papers to become a British citizen. "When he married he had saved enough to start a small business. He and my mother worked 18 to 20 hours a day."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 122, 5 March 1936, Page 10
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