Posted on February 5, 2010
Martin Maxwell, 85 accepts honorary degree.
A Toronto businessman who narrowly escaped the Holocaust as a teenager was awarded an honourary diploma from a Summerhill private school this morning. Orphaned at a young age in Austria, Mr. Maxwell left a Vienna orphange at 14 following Kristallnacht, and never received his high school diploma. He narrowly escaped being sent to a concentration camp, where his two younger sisters lost their lives, on a Kindertransport to England.