Daily Archives: September 23, 2016
DAVID MITZNER PASSES AWAY
DAVID MITZNER PASSES AWAY
It is with deep regret and great sadness that we inform you of the passing of David Mitzner, the founder and long-time President of the Board and CEO of Rida Development Corporation and Apollo-Rida Poland, on September 23, 2016.
David Mitzner was born in 1915 in Warsaw where he lived with his family until the outbreak of World War Two. The following occupation of Poland was the most challenging and tragic period for David. Risking his life, he supported his loved ones who were imprisoned in Warsaw Ghetto. He bravely crossed the borders between the zones occupied by the Germans and the Russians. During one of his expeditions, he was arrested by a Soviet patrol and sentenced to eight years’ labor in a gulag in Siberia. After his release in 1948, he returned to Poland but found no trace of his family and community and decided to start a new life for himself in the United States of America. He arrived in America, his new homeland, on April 11th, 1949, on his 34th birthday with 17 dollars in his pocket as his only possession. In the USA, he went on to found Rida Development Corporation, a renowned American…