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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: A new chairlift on a Canadian ski hill is being named The Fenster for two Holocaust survivors who founded Belle Neige
Description: More than 60 years ago, in 1961, Saul Fenster and his older brother, Henry—two Jewish siblings from Poland who had survived the Holocaust—bought a swampy plot of land an hour north of Montreal with the dream of opening a ski resort for families. And so, the Belle Neige ski hill in Montreal’s Laurentien mountains was born.
Saul had learned to ski after the war in Switzerland, where he had been sent to try to cure his tuberculosis after the brothers survived a half-dozen death camps—including Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Belle Neige is honouring its founders this weekend with the open...