Kwa wale wasio mfahamu Founder wa
Barrick Gold,ni huyu hapa pata habari zake
Peter Munk,
CC (born November 8, 1927) is a Canadian businessman. He is the
chairman and founder of the mining company
Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining corporation
Munk was born in
Budapest, Hungary into a well-off Jewish family. Hungary was invaded by
Nazi Germany in March 1944 when Munk was a teenager. His family escaped the Nazis by obtaining seats on the
Kastner train, a train carrying 1,684 Jews to safety in Switzerland, arranged by
Rudolf Kastner of the Zionist
Aid and Rescue Committee as a result of negotiations with senior SS officer
Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann allowed some Jews to leave for Switzerland in exchange for money, gold, and diamonds, that was obtained from the wealthy among them. as part of a series of so-called "blood for goods" deals.
Munk graduated from the
University of Toronto with a degree in
electrical engineering in 1952