Editing Jack Tramiel (section)

==Early years==
Tramiel was born as ''Idek Trzmiel'', but some sources also list names: Juda Trzmiel, Jacek Trzmiel, or Idek Tramielski<ref name="BirthDetails">{{cite web | url = http://jackandthemachine.com/jack-tramiel/#jack-tramiel-birth | title = Jack Tramiel: Birth Details | last = Schmüdde | first = D. | date = April 26, 2016 | website = Jack and the Machine: An Interactive Documentary | access-date = June 13, 2016}}</ref><ref name="tramiel">{{cite web|url=http://tramiel.org/poland/poland6.html|title=Poland 2004 Page 6|website=tramiel.org}}</ref> (word ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trzmiel trzmiel]'' in [[Polish language|Polish]] means [[bumblebee|a bumblebee]]) into a [[Jews|Jewish]] family, the son of Abram Josef Trzmiel and Rifka Bentkowska.<ref name="BirthDetails"/> Whole family lived on [[Aleksander Napiórkowski|A. Napiórkowskiego]] Street (today [[Stanisław Przybyszewski|S. Przybyszewskiego]] Street) in Górniak district in [[Łódź]].<ref name="uml.lodz.pl">https://uml.lodz.pl/aktualnosci/artykul/tworca-commodore-urodzil-sie-w-lodzi-poznaj-historie-jacka-tramiela-id46769/2022/01/13/</ref>

After the [[Nazi Germany|German]] invasion of Poland in 1939 his family was transported by German occupiers to [[Łódź Ghetto|the Jewish ghetto in Łódź]], where he worked in a garment factory. When the ghettos were liquidated, his family was sent to the [[Auschwitz]] [[concentration camp]]. He was examined by [[Josef Mengele]] and selected for a work party, after which he and his father were sent to the labor camp Ahlem near [[Hanover]],<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/9205839/Jack-Tramiel.html|title=Jack Tramiel|date=April 15, 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London}}</ref> while his mother remained at Auschwitz. Like many other inmates, his father was reported to have died of [[typhus]] in the work camp; however, Tramiel believed he was killed by an injection of gasoline. Tramiel was rescued from the labor camp in April 1945 by the [[84th Division (United States)|84th Infantry Division]] of the U.S. Army.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Takahashi |first=Dean |date=2012-04-09 |title=Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83 |url=https://venturebeat.com/games/commodore-founder-jack-tramiel-dies-at-83/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>

On November 10, 1947,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://jackandthemachine.com/jack-tramiel/#jack-tramiel-immigration | title = Jack Tramiel: American Immigration | last = Schmüdde | first = D. | date = June 13, 2016 | website = Jack and the Machine: An Interactive Documentary | access-date = June 13, 2016}}</ref> Tramiel immigrated to the United States. He soon joined the U.S. Army, where he learned how to repair office equipment, including [[typewriter]]s.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/>