Of Men Monsters and Mazel

<p>Marcel Tenenbaum is a child survivor of the Holocaust and lived through the German occupation of Belgium between May 1940 and September 1944.<br /><br />After completing grade 1 he went into hiding in 1942 when the Nazis started deporting Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. His parents were denounced to the Nazis in 1944.<br /><br />He arrived at the Malines gathering camp seventy-two hours after the last train for Auschwitz departed from Belgium.<br /><br />He was a prisoner for one month and was liberated by British and Canadian troops. He and his parents emigrated from Belgium in 1951 and settled in Montréal Canada.</p>