Eisen, Max

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Name (Latin)
Eisen, Max
Date of birth
1929-03-15
Date of death
2022-07-07
Associated country
Canada
Slovakia
Place of residence/headquarters
Toronto (Ont.)
Field of activity
Human rights workers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q28967623
Library of congress: no2016058694
Sources of Information

Wikipedia description:

Max T. Eisen (15 March 1929 – 7 July 2022) was a Slovak-Canadian author, public speaker, and Holocaust educator. He travelled throughout Canada giving talks about his experiences as a concentration camp survivor, to students, teachers, universities, law enforcement personnel, and the community at large. He had worked with the March of the Living, the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and the Canadian Centre for Diversity. With the encouragement of German lawyer Thomas Walther, Eisen testified in Germany at the trial of two former SS guards at Auschwitz: Reinhold Hanning (in 2016) and Oskar Gröning (2015). Both were convicted at their trials. He had been an active participant in March of the Living having made the journey back to Auschwitz-Birkenau, with thousands of students, 18 times.

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