Jona Goldrich
| Jona Goldrich | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jona Goldreich September 11, 1927 Lwow, Poland |
| Died | June 26, 2016 (aged 88) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Businessman, philanthropist |
| Spouse(s) | Doretta Goldrich |
| Children | Melinda Goldrich Andrea Goldrich Cayton |
| Relatives | Avram Goldrich (brother) Barry Cayton (son-in-law) |
Jona Goldrich (born Jona Goldreich; September 11, 1927 – June 26, 2016) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist. Born in Lviv, in the late 1920s, he emigrated to Israel in the midst of World War II, where he served in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and worked for a labor union. By the 1950s, he emigrated to the United States, and he became a real estate developer and investor in Los Angeles County. A Holocaust survivor, he supported Jewish causes in Israel and the United States.
Jona Goldreich was born in 1927 in Lviv (formerly Poland, present-day Ukraine). He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
In 1942, in the midst of World War II, he escaped from the Nazi invaders by trekking across Europe to Israel with his brother, Avram Goldrich. However, their parents and another brother were murdered by the Nazis in concentration camps. Goldrich was thus a Holocaust survivor.
Goldrich served in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He also worked for the labor union Histadrut in Haifa. He then immigrated to the United States, travelling to Los Angeles, California by bus in 1952.
Changing his surname to Goldrich, he started his career as a window screen installer in Los Angeles. In 1954, he founded Active Cleaning & Maintenance, a company focusing on cleaning up construction sites. By 1957, he developed an apartment building in North Hollywood. In 1978, his company "was fined $5,000 [...] for filing false payroll forms with the Department of Housing and Urban Development." It went bankrupt a few years later.
Goldrich co-founded a real estate development and management company known as Goldrich & Kest Industries with Sol B. Kest, a Holocaust survivor. In 1964, they developed Eldorado, a residential building located at 4425 Ventura Canyon Avenue in Sherman Oaks. They also developed Sutton Terrance, another residential building located at 6251 Coldwater Canyon Avenue in North Hollywood. Another apartment complex they developed, Sepulveda Village in Mission Hills, comprised 18 buildings, with the reception located at 10023 Sepulveda Boulevard. A year later, in 1965, they developed Northridge Village Townhouses, an apartment complex in Northridge, California. In 1981, they purchased hotels in Tenderloin, San Francisco.
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