Question: Who died in 1956 and was a founder of the Netherland-America Foundation?

Monira Rahman (born 1966) worked as secretary/PA to Dr John Morrison OBE who consulted for the Canadian International Development Agency in Dhaka, Bangladesh prior to becoming the founder of the Acid Survivors Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and preventing acid attacks.  She later became Executive Director of ASF and was granted the Human Rights Award of the German section of Amnesty International in 2005, as ASF was able to reduce number of acid attacks in Bangladesh about 40%.  Dr John Morrison developed the Acid Survivors Foundation in Bangladesh.  The Acid Survivors Foundation was officially established on 12 May 1999 under a Trust Deed by Mr Kazi Fazlur Rahman.  Dr John Morrison was the Founder Executive Director of the Foundation and Monira Rahman was the Deputy Director.  Since August 2002, Monira Rahman become its Chief Executive Officer.  When Monira Rahman took over the CEO position, the number of acid attack was increasing at the rate of 38% each year.  But under her leadership a social movement is continuing which resulted 75% reduction of acid attack by the year 2010.  Monira Rahman won Amnesty International's Human Rights Defenders Award 2006, Americans for UNFPA award 2009 and World's Children's Prize 2010. <SEP> Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman.  He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.  Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR.  He turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines.  A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956. <SEP> The Samuel Friedman Foundation was established in 1956 by Samuel Friedman, in Buffalo, New York.  A later branch of the foundation was set up in Los Angeles at UCLA.  Friedman, who was born in Romania on January 1, 1919, was a survivor of concentration camps at both Dachau and Auschwitz, and was eventually liberated by United States forces.  After some time as a displaced person, he emigrated to the United States, eventually owned several restaurants in Niagara Falls, and became known as a successful New York businessman.  In 1956, he established the Samuel Friedman Foundation to support and strengthen Jewish educational initiatives and programs.  These projects have involved the local community in Buffalo, New York, and have continued after Samuel Friedman's death from a cardiac arrest.  The foundation maintains his original intention through the establishment of projects such as The Samuel Friedman Library in the Institute for Jewish Thought and Heritage at the University of Buffalo.  It also contributed significantly to the establishment of the Hineni Endowment Campaign at the Kadimah School in Buffalo.  The Samuel Friedman Foundation was termed a "medium"-sized grant giver in a report entitled "Profile of Foundation Giving in Western New York" prepared for the Western New York Grantmakers Association by the University at Buffalo Regional Institute.  It remains a non-profit organization, noted for its contributions to the general Buffalo community, and for its Rescue Award, given annually. <SEP>  It was founded in 1921.  Two of the founders were Franklin D. Roosevelt, later the U.S. president, and Thomas Watson, founder of IBM. The Netherland-America Foundation supports bilateral exchange between the United States of America and the Netherlands.