Toronto electronics retailer Louis Tannenbaum had 'zest for life'

Following the hellish scenes Louis Tannenbaum had witnessed at the Auschwitz death camp, he summed up succinctly how he felt upon receiving approval to come to Canada: "I was free as a bird." He could just as easily have dwelled on the negative, but the devoted family man and canny entrepreneur, who built up one of Canada's leading consumer electronics businesses, was typically upbeat.