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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.
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This lesson examines the life and art of Max Stern, touching upon the themes of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the resettlement of Jewish immigrants in Canada following the Second World War.
MONTREAL At 99-years-old, Cote St. Luc’s Saul Bruck still loves to show off to his grandchildren by dancing, and he still goes to work almost every day. “To sit in the house and look at the walls and watch TV is not the best thing,” he says. Bruck, who his granddaughter says isn’t exactly tech-savvy, likes to point to his head, saying his computer is sharp. “This computer is the best,” he says But that computer stores some of the most horrific stories in history. In 1940, while living in Poland, the Nazis imprisoned him and his six siblings in concentration camps. Between 1940 and 1945, Bruck says he was sent to nine different camps where he endured slave labour and lived in fear of being the next subject of the deadly experiments of Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, also known as the Angel Of Death.