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Henry Morgenthaler

HENRY MORGENTHALER (1932-) was born in Poland. Being of Jewish descent, he was deported to Auschwitz and Dachau, which he survived. After medical studies in Brussels, he emigrated to Canada and settled as a general practitioner in Montreal. In 1968, he became the founding president of the Humanist Association of Canada, which immediately became a member of IHEU, with Morgenthaler representing it on the IHEU Board. Morgenthaler became well-known for his struggle for legalization of abortion in Canada, spending 10 months in prison: his letters from prison were published in the Canadian Humanist. 1n 1988, he received the Humanist of the Year Award at the Buffalo IHEU Congress for upholding his Humanist principles at great personal cost.