Margrit Rosenberg Stenge was born in Cologne, Germany, on December 27, 1928. In early 1943, she and her family reached safety in Alingsås, Sweden. Margrit moved back to Oslo in 1945, married in 1949 and immigrated to Canada, settling in Montreal in 1951. Margrit worked in administration for forty years, after which she translated six books from Norwegian to English, including Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust by Moritz Nachtstern (2008). Margrit and her husband, Stefan, live in Montreal.