Poverty to Riches

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 45, 24 February 1936, Page 5

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—ho 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, and his will reveals that ho left £15,000. Ho was a director of two largo jewellery firms, had won an international reputation as a craftsman in jewels, and had hundreds of friends in tho 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 ho nover looked back. Every ponny 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."