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Henry Orenstein, the Transformers toys inventor, Holocaust survivor and poker star, is dead at 98

JL;DR SUMMARY Henry Orenstein, a remarkable figure of Jewish resilience and innovation, died at the age of 98. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorPhilanthropyInnovationJewish CausesToysHenry OrensteinTransformersPokerInventionsHasbro

Places mentioned

Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
"At that time, wed heard that days before they killed off all 17,000 Jewish inmates in Majdanek, so I thought our turn is coming, Orenstein told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 2005, referring to one of the main Nazi death camps in Poland."
New York, United States
"Already a millionaire by the early 1960s, Orenstein was a longtime donor to Jewish causes, including the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty in New York and the Orenstein Project, an Israeli nonprofit he founded in 2017 that focused on food insecurity with special attention to Holocaust survivors."
Greater Poland, Poland
"While imprisoned at Budzyn, a German labor camp in Poland, in 1944, the Nazis running the camp ordered all scientists and mathematicians to register with the camp administration."
United States
"After the war, Orenstein came to the United States and found work in a factory."

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