Chaim Samuel Schreiber (18 May 1918 – May 1984) was a Polish-born British furniture manufacturer, who founded

Schreiber Furniture Schreiber was a brand of fitted kitchen and furniture operating in the United Kingdom. Started in 1957 by Chaim Schreiber to make furniture, Schreiber became an extremely successful brand in furniture from the 1960s to the early 1970s, challe ...

in 1957. Schreiber was the only one in his family who survived the Holocaust. In 1963-64, he commissioned Scottish architect

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to build a house (now known as Schreiber House) on West Heath Road, overlooking

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. The house is Grade II listed and was for sale in March 2025 for £11 million. In 1942, he married Sara Weinstock in London. She was the daughter of Rabbi Dovid Weinstock, who was killed by the Nazis in

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on 16 October 1939. Sara had arrived in London from Vienna with her two older sisters, on a

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in December 1938. In 2024, she celebrated her 100th birthday. They had three children. He is buried at the Adath Yisroel Cemetery, Enfield.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schreiber, Chaim 1918 births 1984 deaths British furniture makers British company founders