The prominent businessman and philanthropist has left a strong mark on Australian business and cultural life.
Business legend and noted philanthropist Marc Besen died on Tuesday in Melbourne. Below is an extract of a eulogy delivered on Wednesday by lawyer Mark Leibler.for everyone here today, and also for our nation and humanity as a whole.
In 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, the western part of the country was occupied by the Russians. But two years later, Germany hit back and the province in which the Besen family lived was re-occupied by German-supporting Romania.More than a quarter of the population of Czernowitz was Jewish, and it wasn’t long beforeMarc and his family decided to leave at all costs and, in 1942, they purchased a small, rickety fishing boat they named Viitorul, meaning “the future”.
While Marc always felt that the foundation for his extraordinarily rich life was established in his early years, he knew that it was realised through his deep union with Eva.In Eva, Marc found his touchstone, the heart of their close family and a partner in all important undertakings. Her loss, in August 2021, was a terrible blow to Marc. So many aspects of their interests, passions and accomplishments had been shared.
On Australia Day in 2015, he was named a Companion of the Order of Australia. The citation reflected the breadth of Marc’s contribution across social welfare, health, education and the arts. With the establishment of TarraWarra Museum of Art in 2000, Australia’s first privately funded public museum, they gifted much of it to the nation.that he and Eva would quietly visit the museum at weekends to observe visitors sharing their “enchantment of art”.
, which springs immediately to mind. It says: “If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?”
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