Businessman and philanthropist Marc Besen – the co-founder of what became the Sussan clothing retail group – has died, aged 99.
Born in 1923 to a Jewish family in Romania, Mr Besen was a Holocaust survivor who fled Europe during World War II and arrived in Australia (via Israel) in 1947.
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