Chaim Samuel Schreiber (18 May 1918 – May 1984) was a Polish-born British furniture manufacturer, who founded Schreiber Furniture in 1957.
Schreiber was the only one in his family who survived the Holocaust.[1]
In 1963-64, he commissioned Scottish architect James Gowan to build a house (now known as Schreiber House) on West Heath Road, overlooking Hampstead Heath.[2] The house is Grade II listed and was for sale in March 2025 for £11 million.[3] Almost two decades later, in 1982, Gowan designed a second house for Schreiber, in Chester.[4]
In 1942, he married Sara Weinstock in London.[5] She was the daughter of Rabbi Dovid Weinstock, who was killed by the Nazis in Buchenwald concentration camp on 16 October 1939.[6] Sara had arrived in London from Vienna with her two older sisters, on a Kindertransport in December 1938.[5] In 2024, she celebrated her 100th birthday.[5] They had three children.[7]
He is buried at the Adath Yisroel Cemetery, Enfield.
References
- Jerusalem College of Technology dedicates entrepreneurship center in memory of industry pioneer Chaim Schreiber JNS.org, retrieved 2025-03-17^
- House Schreiber Architectuul, retrieved 2025-03-17^
- West Heath Road, London, NW3 7UX