Margot Stern Strom Death – President of Facing History and Ourselves Margot Stern Strom has sadly passed away. She died on Tuesday 28th March 2023 after a courageous battle with cancer at the age of 81. She was confirmed dead through a post made on Facebook that reads “With great sadness and heavy hearts, we share the news that Facing History & Ourselves founder and our friend, the inimitable Margot Stern Strom, has passed away”. No cause of death has been known.
Margot Stern Strom Early Life and Career
She was one of the co-founders of Facing History & Ourselves in 1976, and she did so from a classroom in Brookline, Massachusetts. She served as Executive Director of the organization for 38 years, until she retired in 2014. The passing of Margot is a defining moment for the entire Facing History staff, both in the past and in the present. Not only are we saying goodbye to a dear friend, but we are also rededicating ourselves to the pursuit of justice and compassion that was the driving force in both her personal and professional life.
Margot Stern’s parents, Fan and Lloyd Stern, brought her into the world on November 10th, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. The Sterns uprooted their family and made the journey to Memphis, Tennessee, when she was five years old. Margot’s lifelong ambition was to work in education, and in 1964 she moved to Skokie, Illinois, to begin her professional life in that field.
Six years later, she relocated to Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband Terry and their young family. They landed in the Boston suburb that would serve as her home for the next six decades. She began her teaching career at the John D. Runkle School, where she was assigned to teach social studies and language arts to eighth grade students. On the advice of the Superintendent of Brookline Public Schools, Dr. Robert Sperber, and the Director of Social Studies at Brookline High School, Dr. Hank Zabierek, Margot and another teacher, Bill Parsons, went to a workshop on the Holocaust in the spring of 1975.
Margot Stern Strom Survived By
Margot is survived by her children, Adam and Rachel, their spouses, Sandy Smith-Garc?s and Rinze van Brug, four grandsons Max, Sam, Ries, and Liev as well as her brother Gerald, sister Paula, their children, and their grandchildren. Margot’s husband, Terry Barton Strom, passed away in 2017. Funeral services will be held at Temple Israel in Boston on March 30 at 11.
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