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Ari Daniel Norman is a British designer and manufacturer of traditional and modern Sterling Silver jewellery and gifts. Norman is the founder and director of Ari D Norman Ltd, international supplier of sterling silver designs to the trade and consumer market, and creator of the Ari D Norman brand. Norman was the first and only silversmith to win the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement in 1989 and was awarded Freedom of the City of London in 1992 for services rendered to the British Silver industry.〔 He currently lives and works in North West London with his two sons Lee and Adam ==Early life== Ari Norman’s paternal grandfather, Leibish Nussbaum, a Polish diamond cleaver was arrested in Marmande in the Southern French region of Lot-et-Garonne in 1942, where he and his wife were in hiding during WWII and taken via Drancy to the concentration camp Auschwitz where he was killed as part of the Holocaust.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=9544000&language=en )〕〔 Some of his other family went into hiding in Lot-et-Garonne, including his grandmother Perla, his aunt Laura and her husband Nathan. They were hidden by a Resistance member, called Lucienne Deguilhem, who had a large house in Monbahus. Norman’s cousin Jacques was born during this time in hiding. Norman’s father, Shabse Nussbaum (later Sydney Norman), escaped the Holocaust by boarding a ship he thought was headed for the South of France only to discover he was headed for England. There he stayed, married Phillys Larkham who had originally taken him in as a Belgian refugee, and continued to work in the diamond industry for many years. In 1956, with his mother and four older sisters, Ari Norman went to live in Liberia, aged nine, with two pet chimps, a pygmy deer and a couple of pygmy hippos, whilst his father pursued his passion for discovering diamonds in West Africa. His father had an eventual breakthrough and was one of the very first people to help discover diamonds in the rivers and jungles of Liberia. He was honoured by the Liberian President Tubman in the 1960s.〔 Having studied to become a Civil Engineer, Norman returned to Liberia in his 20’s to help build roads and bridges for his father’s expanding diamond mine but chose not to focus on Civil Engineering as a career path. Instead he travelled across North and South America through his 20's and 30's.〔 His father's diamond mine became unworkable due to its location in such an unstable region and he sold it on, only to be given it back for free a few years later. In May 2014, Lucienne Deguilhem was posthumously awarded ‘Just Amongst Nations’ by Yad Vashem, World centre for Holocaust research, to coincide with the first National Day of Resistance in France.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/righteousName.html?language=en&itemId=9435083 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ari Norman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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