Marion Pritchard collection

Marion Pritchard (1920-2016) was born Marion Philippina van Binsbergern on November 7, 1920 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her father was a judge in Amsterdam and her mother was English. She was a student at the Amsterdam School for Social Work when Germany invaded and occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. Marion was arrested and briefly imprisoned in 1942 after German police raided a student gathering where they were listening to allied broadcasts. In late 1942 she moved to Huizen, Netherlands and hid a Jewish family, Fred Polak and his three children after his wife, Edwina Louisa Moor, was arrested for her involvement with the Resistance. After the war, Marion moved to Germany to work with UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). She worked in social services at the Föhrenwald and Windsheim displaced persons camps. She met Anton Pritchard (Tony), a former American Army officer who was also volunteering with UNRRA, and they married in Germany in 1947. They moved to the United States and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. They had three sons. She later worked in Boston as a social worker. Marion was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1981 for her work to aid as many as 150 people during and immediately after the Holocaust.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Marion Pritchard donated her photograph albums to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 5, 2007.