Jack Tramiel
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| Born |
Idek Trzmiel December 13, 1928 Łódź, Poland |
| Died | April 8, 2012 (aged 83) Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California, USA |
| Known for |
Commodore founder; Atari Corporation founder and CEO |
| Spouse(s) | Helen (m. 1947) |
| Children | 3 |
Jack Tramiel (/trəˈmɛl/ trə-MEL; Polish: Jacek Trzmiel; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012) was a Polish American businessman, best known for founding Commodore International. The Commodore PET, Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 are some home computers produced while he was running the company. Tramiel later formed Atari Corporation after he purchased the remnants of the original Atari, Inc. from its parent company.
Tramiel was born as Idek Trzmiel (some sources also list Juda Trzmiel, Jacek Trzmiel, or Idek Tramielski) into a Jewish family, the son of Abram Josef Trzmiel and Rifka Bentkowska.
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 his family was transported by German occupiers to the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, where he worked in a garment factory. When the ghettos were liquidated his family was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was examined by Josef Mengele and selected for a work party, after which he and his father were sent to the labor camp Ahlem near Hanover, while his mother remained at Auschwitz. Like many other inmates, his father was reported to have died of typhus in the work camp; however, Tramiel believed he was killed by an injection of gasoline. Tramiel was rescued from the labor camp in April 1945 by the 84th Infantry Division of the US army.
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