Michael Newman has always had an interest in the Second World War. The son of Holocaust survivors, he has received first-hand accounts of what happened during WWII in the concentration camps, particularly Mauthausen, where his father was imprisoned. Newman had the opportunity to travel, surreptitiously, to Israel during the Second Lebanon War, an experience that was written about in the National Post and the Toronto Star.

​Michael lives on Toronto’s waterfront with his wife, Dixie, and their cocker spaniel, Sandy. They have five kids and eleven grandchildren.