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Initially he worked in a steel mill supplying the U.S. Army. At the outbreak of the war, he volunteered, although he was exempt from military service. But before Norbert could go with his comrades to North Africa to fight Nazi Germany, he injured himself so badly during military training that he lost an eye and was discharged from the Army.
In the early 1940s, Norbert married Charlotte Cohan. The marriage produced Victor, born in 1944, and Anna, born in 1946.
In the postwar period, he worked as a manager for an Italian importer and for a sweater manufacturer. Throughout his life he always kept in touch with his family, who emigrated to the USA after him.
Norbert Grünhut died on April 17, 2004 at the age of 90 and is buried in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut.