About Joseph Wilf
Lived 1925 – 2016 (aged 90–91). Joseph Wilf was an American businessperson.
Joseph Wilf (1925 – August 3, 2016) was a Polish-American businessman, Holocaust survivor, and the co-founder of Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States.
Early life Joseph Wilf was born in Jarosław, Poland in 1925.
In 1950, Wilf, his brother, and their wives, emigrated to the US, and settled in New Jersey.
He was also the first North American chair of the March of the Living, which dedicated the 2017 March of the Living to his memory.
Personal life In 1949, Wilf married Suzie Fisch in Germany, the daughter of Miriam and Markus Fisch from a pre-war Polish city of Lwów, now Lviv.
Wilf died on August 3, 2016, at his home in Hillside, New Jersey.
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Who was Joseph Wilf?
Polish-American businessman
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Joseph Wilf was born in 1925 in Jarosław.
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Joseph Wilf died on 3 August 2016 in Hillside.
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Joseph Wilf was a businessperson.
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Joseph Wilf was American.
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