Born in Montreal in 1934, Lou attended Baron Byng High School and then Concordia University.   He moved to Toronto the night Rene Levesque was elected Premiere of Quebec, having seen the writing on the wall. He established a laminating business here, the first of its kind.  In Montreal Lou was active as the Director of the Jewish Defence League where he worked closely with the various Police Departments of Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments, where he was able to protect Jewish Organizations from anti-Semitic hoodlum attacks under the direction of the famous late Rabbi Meir Kahane.

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Lou fell in love with Jewish communal service and was appointed to be the Executive Director of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem where he was responsible for the ideation and construction of the Holocaust Memorial in Earl Bales Park.  After several years of hearing survivor stories he was burnt out, devastated by the horrors people lived through. From that position he moved to Victors' stories at the Jewish War Veterans of Canada (JWVC), where he gave new life to the aging heroes of the military.   It was at the JWVC he learned about Partisans and what they accomplished during the war. Lou was amazed that they even existed and believed that if he didn’t know about them, then nobody did, and it was his life’s work to bring the incredible story of how and what the  Jewish Partisan contribution to end World War 2  to the attention of everybody.

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He convinced and helped some Partisans to write books about their incredible and heroic experiences. One of which, "From Victims to Victors" won the best book  of Holocaust Literature for that year.

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In 1997, the Partisans took him to Poland, Belarus and Lithuania to show him firsthand what, where and how they lived as fighters against the worst enemy in the history of civilization. It was for this trip that Lou organized and arranged with the Government of Canada, Foreign Affairs Ministry to have every Minister of the Polish Government to present themselves and their wives and children at a commemoration at the Wall of Death in Auschwitz, where each minister placed a wreath in the name of their ministry and publicly thanked Jews for helping to liberate Poland from the nazis.  It was this experience and all the others working jointly with other governments that shaped the rest of his working years.

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Lou is married to Anna Gold for 66 years.  They have 2 children and 2 grandchildren.   Lou was active as a volunteer at Beth Tikvah as Gabbi Rishon, Torah study  presenter and lecturer to visiting high school students studying comparative religions.   He is also a volunteer at Baycrest Centre and sits on the Heritage Museum committee.  Lou was also awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal and was made an Honorary Detective of the Toronto Police Service by the former Police Chief Julian Fantino.