Wasn’t his mother a holocaust survivor??
I was not a fan of these two presenters but this was hysterical:
rock and roll hall of fame 2013 Rush´s induction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTz2TDr79eI
BOTH his parents were:
Geddy Lee
He was born Gary Lee Weinrib on July 29, 1953, in Willowdale, Toronto, to Morris Weinrib (born Moshe Meir Weinrib; 1920–1965) from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland; and Mary "Manya" Rubinstein (born Malka Rubinstein; 1925–2021), who was also from Poland: born in Warsaw and later raised in Wierzbnik.
His parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who had survived the ghetto in Starachowice (where they met), followed by their imprisonments at Auschwitz and later Dachau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during the Holocaust and World War II. They were in their teens when they were initially imprisoned at Auschwitz.
"It was kind of surreal pre-teen shit", says Lee, describing how his father bribed guards to bring shoes to his mother. After a period, his mother was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and his father to Dachau. When the war ended four years later, and the Allies liberated the camps, Morris set out in search of Manya and found her at a Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. They married there and eventually emigrated to Canada.
Wasn’t his mother a holocaust survivor??
Both his parents. Geddy goes in depth on the subject in his autobiography.
I won’t travel far, but have never seen them live, and kinda want to now. Some major acts begin their tours in Grand Rapids because they know no one who’s widely studied will be there to write a review. 😎
NOTHING beats Alex Lifeson’s “Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah” acceptance speech.