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his mother Helen and his brother Eugene were seriously injured, and Harold's beloved dog Sally also died. Harold was 7. Helen remarried in 1931, but died of injuries related to the accident, while giving birth to Harold and Eugene's half-sister Helen Susan
Malachoff (1932–1992). Rejecting an adoption offer from a relative, the boys of 11 and 14 were, in Harold's terms, "left to fend for themselves", but they thrived, remaining alone in the fully paid family home in
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Technical Institute in 1954. In 1955 he joined the
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Valerie were married when he returned to the U.S., in 1945, and they remained happily married for 69 years, until her death in 2014. They had three children, Judith Eisenberg, Randy Ryder, and Chip Reichenthal.
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