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There is a photograph of Jacob Rosenfeld http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jacob_Rosenfeld.jpg standing between Chen Yi and Liu Shaoqi who died a political prisoner, from medical neglect, in Kaifeng in 1969. Rosenfeld had exported cotton from Kaifeng to Rosenfeld textile mills in Berdychiv and Lodz, where his family had had mills since 1797, as well as owning the Astor House Hotel across the street from the Russian Embassy in Shanghai. After moving to Russian Hill in San Francisco, a Rosenfeld daughter married into the Levi-Strauss dynasty, which probably produced the first "Levis" jeans from Rosenfeld milled cotton denim produced from Kaifeng cotton.
Rosenfeld textiles in Lodz were confiscated by the Third Reich during World War Two, when the Lodz Ghetto was sealed off in the Holocaust. One Rosenfeld niece escaped (Barbara Padowicz: Flight to Freedom) and was married to the French consul, Pierre Gabard (a French Freedom fighter) in Philadelphia in the post-war era.
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