Of men, monsters, and mazel

Marcel Tenenbaum is a child survivor of the Holocaust who lived through the German occupation of Belgium between May 1940 and September 1944. ... After completing grade 1, he went into hiding in 1942 with his parents when the Nazis started deporting Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in 1942. ... His family's location was revealed to the Nazis in 1944 by a neighbor. Their luck, or mazel, was that they arrived at the Malines gathering camp 72 hours after the last deportation train for Auschwitz departed from Belgium. Marcel and his parents were imprisoned at Malines for one month and were then liberated by British and Canadian troops on September 4, 1944. The Tenenbaums emigrated from Belgium in 1951 and settled in Montreal, Canada.