Madeline Friedman
Served His Country
Harry enlisted to serve in the Korean War in 1946. He was stationed in Kyoto, Japan as a PFC and served almost three years. He says his stationing in Japan were the best years of his life. In the early 2000s, he traveled back to Kyoto from N.Y.C. He loved Japan. After serving, he then went to Pace College after returning to the U.S. Harry worked for his childhood friend, Alvin J. "Sonny" Bart, as a printing broker for several years, then opened his own successful printing brokerage business in 1971. Prior to that, he had been a milkman in Brooklyn, N.Y., at which he was also very successful. He has a daughter, Madeline, and a son, Mitchell. He has two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was married for 25 years to Sylvia Feder Aronson, one of the duo singing team of Sylvia and Miriam Feder, The Feder Sisters, which achieved great success in the 40s through the 60s and recorded two albums. Harry and Sylvia loved dancing and were great at it. They divorced in 1983 after a four-year separation and his first wife remarried. Harry remarried in September of 1989. His parents were Jacob Aronson, born in Rumania, deceased in 1987, and Bella (Blum) Aronson, born in Poland, deceased in 1994. Jacob and Bella lived for a short time in Canada before emigrating to the U.S. Harry's sister, Lillie, five years older and born in 1923, was born in Canada and of Canadian origin. Lillie died in 2004.
