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Henry Dorfman checks out a label on a premium brand bologna.
(founders of Payless Shoes).
The Dorfmans were treated
like family by the Pozezes.
His wife, Mala Weintraub,
survived a labor camp; and
Henry escaped the Nazis with
his father by jumping off a
train that carried his mother,
Glicka; brothers, Kalman and
Israel; and sister, Rachel, to
Treblinka death camp.
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For three years, Henry and
his father lived
underground, hiding in
tunnels in Poland or in
farms of sympathetic gen-
tiles. They joined resistance
fighters at night to help res-
cue other Jews who had
escaped death trains.
"My little brother
(Kalman) was only four," he
recalls. "He wanted to jump,
but my mother wouldn't let
him. He was too young."
He never saw them again.
But Mala Dorfman found
her two sisters in Germany.
After the war, Henry and
Mala were married and
moved to Marburg, Ger-
many, where Henry worked
for the U.S. government in
the kosher meat depart-
ment.
For several years, Moshe
Dorfman remained in
Poland, where he remarried.
With his new wife, Moshe
Dorfman moved to Israel.
(They had three children.
Two of them, Rina and Gina,
live in metropolitan Detroit.
Tova remains in Israel.
Moshe Dorfman died four
years ago.)
Henry and Mala Dorfman
had moved to Germany so
Mala could be near her
sisters, Franka and Rosa
Weintraub, each a survivor
of Bergen-Belsen.
Franka married Allen
Charlupski, a man she met
at the camp. Rosa married
Julius Schaumberg. Even-
tually, the whole family
reunited in Detroit and
Henry Dorfman's brothers-
in-law joined him in the
meat business.
Before the war, the Dorf-
man family of Orthodox
Jews ran the local kosher
meat market in Radom,
Poland.
For generations before
Moshe, the Dorfmans cut
and manufactured meat.
Henry wanted to carry on
the tradition. And his game
plan didn't change when he
arrived in Kansas. Although
the Pozez family offered him
a future with their company,
he had no interest in retail.
In fact, for a short while,
he found a job in Kansas for
a meat company called Mor-
rell.
Everything changed with
his first trip to the Eastern
Market, where he saw Mr.
Shendler boning cattle and
cutting up steaks.
"I asked him for a job and
he asked me what I could
do," Mr. Dorfman recalls.
"He gave me a knife and I
cut up a hind."
He worked during the day
and finished high school in
the evening at Central. Five
months later, Mr. Shendler
named him manager. And
shortly after, Henry Dorf-
man bought the business.
In 1952, Henry Dorfman
and Allen Charlupski pur-
chased Frederick Packing
Co., where they slaughtered
10 hogs a day and groomed
the business into the present
day company that ranks na-
tionally as the 14th largest
pork processor. Mr.
Schaumberg also joined the
company.
Mr. Charlupski and Mr.
Schaumberg retired in the
past three years, leaving few
relatives in the company
other than Henry and Joel
Dorfman, and cousin, Eli
Dorfman, a vice president.
Mr. Charlupski, who was a
major shareholder, recently
sold his shares in connection
with his retirement, com-
pany officials say. His son,
Larry Charlupski, is