Erich Reich
Sir Erich Arieh Reich (1935 – 2 November 2022) was an Austrian-born British entrepreneur based in London, who through his company Classic Tours inspired over 50,000 people to raise £90 million for over 300 UK charities. Early life Reich was born in 1935 in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, he was one of the children of 5,000 families deported by Nazi Germany to Poland. Under the Kindertransport agreement, he arrived in the United Kingdom, aged 4, in August 1939, one of 10,000 children. He never saw his parents again; they were murdered in Auschwitz. Initially placed with a foster family in Dorking, Surrey, he attended Dorking County Grammar School from 1946 to 1948 when he moved to a Jewish school in North London. Aged 13, he emigrated to the new state of Israel in 1949. Career Reich returned to London in 1967, working for Thomson Holidays, where by 1970 he was operations director. He then joined Thomas Cook, where by 1979 he was managing director of tour operations. In 1987, h ...
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