Victor Elmaleh was a Moroccan-born American businessman and real estate developer.
10 Facts About Victor Elmaleh
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Victor Elmaleh was born in Mogador, now Essaouira, Morocco, the eldest of six siblings.
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Victor Elmaleh was among the first to import Volkswagens to the United States.
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Victor Elmaleh's surname was an Arabic-Moroccan name that his Sephardic Jewish forebears had adopted after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition to Morocco.
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Victor Elmaleh came to the United States in 1925, and grew up in Bensonhurst and Borough Park in Brooklyn.
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Victor Elmaleh won the one-wall handball national doubles championship in 1951.
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At 49, he and Victor Elmaleh Niederhoffer won the national doubles championship.
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Victor Elmaleh continued to play squash and win tournaments at an advanced age.
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Victor Elmaleh enjoyed watercolor painting, creating 4,000 in his lifetime, some of which were exhibited in galleries.
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Victor Elmaleh died on November 17,2014, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York City.