Interesting fact about Geddy Lee
by Jack 
, Thursday, May 21, 2026, 17:12 (3 days ago) @ hobbs
edited by Jack, Thursday, May 21, 2026, 17:20
His parents were Polish Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, and emigrated to Canada after the war.
“Geddy” comes from how his mother pronounced his given name, Gary.
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