Adele Bigajer News Today

Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor who built a major American toy company, later persuaded Hasbro to start its line of Transformers action figures and who in his 70s patented an ingenious way to better televise poker tournaments, died Tuesday at a hospital in Livingston, New Jersey. He was 98.

A Holocaust survivor, he started a successful toy company in the 1950s and later invented a method of showing poker players’ hole cards on televised tournaments.