Editing Jack Tramiel (section)

==Later years==
[[Michael Tomczyk]] recalled that when Tramiel asked the German government for financial incentives for Commodore to take over a factory,<ref name="santens20211019">{{Cite interview |last=Tomczyk |first=Michael |interviewer=Tim Santens |title=Michael Tomczyk: Commodore VIC-20 Developer, Computer Pioneer |url=https://talesfromthecollection.com/2021/10/19/michael-tomczyk-commodore/ |date=October 19, 2021}}</ref>

{{blockquote|The Germans said, "Why should we give you concessions?" to which Jack replied, "You owe it to me – I’m an Auschwitz survivor" – then he added – “Besides, it will be great PR for you." They accepted his logic and gave us the plant which was in Braunschweig, West Germany.<br>
I asked Jack if he held resentment toward the Germans to which he replied, "The German people didn’t kill the Jews. The rules killed the Jews. Germans always follow the rules and if the rules are made by madmen, they still follow the rules." Another time I asked him how he dealt with the memories of Auschwitz and he immediately replied, "I live in the future."}}

Tramiel was a co-founder of the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]], which was opened in 1993. He was among many other survivors of the Ahlem labor camp who tracked down U.S. Army veteran [[Vernon Tott]], who was among the [[84th Division (United States)|84th Division]] which rescued survivors from the camp and had taken and stored photographs of at least 16 of the survivors. Tott, who died of cancer in 2003, was personally commemorated by Tramiel with an inscription on one of the Holocaust Museum's walls saying "To Vernon W. Tott, My Liberator and Hero".<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14661020|title = Holocaust Survivors Honor Camp Liberator|date = September 25, 2007|author = Susan Stamberg|publisher = NPR}}</ref>

Tramiel retired in 1996 and moved to [[Monte Sereno, California]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/11/jack-tramiel Jack Tramiel obituary | Technology | The Guardian]. Retrieved December 13, 2016</ref> In 2004, for the last time, he visited his [[Poland|Polish]] [[Place of birth|hometown]], [[Łódź]].<ref name="uml.lodz.pl"/>

Tramiel died of heart failure in [[Stanford, California]] on April 8, 2012, aged 83.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/technology/jack-tramiel-a-pioneer-in-computers-dies-at-83.html|title = Jack Tramiel, a pioneer in computers, dies at 83|newspaper=The New York Times|date = April 10, 2012| author = Douglas Martin}}</ref>