Miriam (Musia) Schwartz
Our extraordinary mother took flight on the second day of Rosh Hashanah – on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 – in her ninety-third year, to re-join her husband, Leon (Lowa), so that they can continue their adventures together. Beloved wife of Leon for sixty-four years. Adored mother and mother-in-law of Susan and Markus, Robert and Maribeth. Daughter of the late Kopel and the late Sonia, who perished in the Holocaust, and niece of the late Leja Perelmuter (and her late husband Wolf), her only close family who survived. Brilliant, beautiful, indomitable and inspiring, she never let the dark past sully her always positive outlook on life and expectation of the best in people. She completed the equivalent of four years of high school in a year and a half, while in a displaced persons camp in Germany; her B.A at night, while raising her family and enabling our father to build his business; her M.A, then Ph.D, at McGill in comparative literature (Isaac Babel and Nathaniel West). She was an inspiring professor/teacher and muse to poets and writers, who left indelible marks on students who until this day tell us of the profound influence she had on their lives and her memory lives on in poems and stories that celebrate her beauty and beautiful spirit. And above all else, she gave us and our dad boundless love and support and the same confidence in our ability to achieve anything that she felt for us. She was one of a kind and the thought of her not being here is unfathomable. Funeral service from Paperman & Sons, 3888 Jean Talon St. W., on Sunday, September 12. Burial at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, 1250 chemin de la Forêt. Shiva private. We are profoundly grateful to our mum’s caregivers, Aurelie, Cecile, Eralyn, Jackie, Maria and Nadia. Contributions in our mother’s memory may be made to the Montreal Holocaust Museum (in whose growth and development she was actively involved), (514) 345-2605, or visit museeholocauste.ca/en/.
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Miriam Musia Schwartz 2021..
Death notice for the town of: Montreal, Province: Quebec