Event highlights Montreal Holocaust Museum's role in educating new generations about the dangers of racism, antisemitism and other forms of intolerance.
In the Second World War, in what today is known as Ukraine, Nataliia Mariichyn’s great-grandparents sheltered a Jewish family in their barn. Now she’s rebuilding her life in Montreal and that Jewish family’s descendants are helping her.
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Montrealer Steven Stenge died of COVID-19 on Jan. 28; nine days later the virus took his wife, Margrit Rosenberg Stenge. They had been married for 71 years.
Each had survived the Holocaust â the systematic extermination of six million European Jews, two out of every three, by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War Two.
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They met after the war, at a Jewish singles dance in Oslo, Norway in 1948 and married the following December. In August of 1951 they immigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal, where they made a good life and raised two children: A son, Marvin, lives in Israel with his family; a daughter, Helen, lives in Toronto with her family.