Henryk’s father was a baker by trade and had soon found a job in New York, where immigrant Poles specialised in baking black rye bread and running small restaurants for their countrymen. His parents were from Warsaw and had emigrated from Poland at the turn of the century. He grew up through the Depression, believing in God and one meal a day. Henryk Metelski was born on the Lower East Side of New York on May 17th, 1909, in a small room that already slept four children. Even if the million he had made legally came after the million he had made illegally, Metelski was still a yard ahead of the others: he had managed to keep it all. Henryk Metelski was one of those rare men who had managed all three. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. M AKING A MILLION legally has always been difficult.
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