Nate Leipciger was born in Chorzów, Poland, in 1928. He immigrated to Toronto with his father in 1948, where he attended high school and eventually obtained a university degree in engineering. In 1982, Nate chaired the Toronto Holocaust Remembrance Committee, later becoming an executive member of the Canadian Jewish Congress National Holocaust Remembrance Committee. Nate was a member of the International Council to the Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau for fifteen years and has been an educator on March of the Living trips to Poland and Israel for fifteen years.