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Jean Rogers was born in Northampton, New Brunswick, in 1904. She received her early education in that province, and in 1923 she graduated from Carleton county Vocational School in Home Economics. Later she took her training at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, graduating as a Registered Nurse in 1928. She worked briefly in Ann Arbour, but the Great Depression forced her to return to Montreal. For most of her career she was a private duty nurse in the Royal Victoria Hospital complex. Among her patients in 1956 was Dr. John Williamson. When he was diagnosed with cancer, he returned to his home in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and invited Miss Rogers to come and be his nurse. She stayed with him from October 1957 until his death in January 1958. Jean Rogers retired in 1970.

Joseph (Josef or Ywsep) Rogel was born on August 8, 1911, in Tarnów, Poland.

He was a Jewish Canadian poet, lyricist, and translator. In January 1941, an SS patrol caught him on the streets of Tarnów and sent him to a labour camp in Auschwitz. This experience dominates the theme of his work. He published several collections of poems in English and Yiddish, e.g., "Oyshṿits: lider" (1951), "Confessions of an Auschwitz number: (A-18260)" (1972), "Poems for My Mother" (1975) and "Soliloquy of a shadow: poems" (1979). His poem appears in Gershon Kingsley's “Voices from the Shadow / Jazz Psalms / Shabbat for Today” (2005), a musical setting of poetry written by concentration camp prisoners.

He was married to Clara (Klara, Connie, Konny) Schachter (1911-2002). He died on July 26, 1989, in Montreal, Quebec.