Alfy
An Incredible Life Journey
By Alfy Nathan with Joshua M. Sklare
Published 2010
Born April 30, 1923, in London, England Died July 23, 2014, in Chicago, IL
Industry: Piping and Valves
Alfy Nathan joined the British army in 1942 where he took part of the first wave of the Normandy invasion, fighting all the way to Germany. After the war, he helped smuggle many Holocaust survivors into what would become Israel where he co-founded a kibbutz near the dangerous Syrian border. For nearly 30 years, he helped to build the kibbutz and the Jewish state before immigrating to America in 1976, where he worked in the piping and valve business before founding, building, and selling his own highly successful business.