Max Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia in 1929.  In 1939 Hungarians occupied Slovakia.  Max's immediate  family;   parents, two younger brothers and baby sister;  were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau .  

Max survived slave labour in Auschwitz, Mauthausen,  Melk and Ebensee concentration camps and was forced to

go on a death march in January, 1945 where thousands

died from exposure to severe weather conditions and malnutrition. 

He was liberated at Ebensee by the 761st Black Panther

Tank Battalion of the United States Army in May 1945.  

Max went back to Czechoslovakia hoping to find family members who had survived.  Sadly, there was no one. 

At the age of sixteen he was homeless and alone in the

world. He remained in an orphanage for surviving teenagers for three years before coming to Canada as a displaced person in 1949. 

A retired businessman and much-sought-after speaker,

Max is the recipient of the 2004 Humanitarian Award from the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies and the 2007 Tikkun Olam Education Award for helping   to heal the world through education from Ve'Ahavta, an organization that distributes food and clothing to impoverished  people in Toronto and gathers

and ships medicines to needy people in Africa.