"My Life: 1920-1943"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Jansen Chazanof donated this manuscript to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 11, 2004. He found it in the home of his late mother.
Scope and Content
Consists of the one manuscript, entitled "My Life: 1920-1943," by Margot Pogorzelski Hodge, originally of Freystadt, Germany. The eldest of five children, she describes her life in Freystadt, her memories of Nazi persecution, dropping out of school to work to support her family after her father's death in 1933, and her immigration to England in 1939 to work as a nurse.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document