David Mitzner dies aged 101

Founder and chairman of Apollo-Rida Poland David Mitzner, seen by many as the doyen of the Polish real estate market, has died aged 101. Mitzner was born in Warsaw. He managed to escape the Holocaust but was arrested by the Soviets and spent eight years in a Siberian Gulag. After his release, he emigrated to the United States, where he founded the real estate company Rida Development. After 1989, he became one of the pioneers of the real estate market in Poland. His company Apollo-Rida Poland is the owner of the Warsaw Trade Tower and nine commercial centers in the biggest Poland's cities.