Margolith R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margolith R., who was born in Hague, Netherlands in 1919. She describes a warm and sheltered Jewish environment and growing up in a large, extended family; teaching Dutch to German children in Amsterdam beginning September 1939; living in Hilversum in 1940; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to Westerbork in August 1941; escaping; working in a Jewish hospital in Hague; her family's deportation; hiding with assistance from her brother's non-Jewish friend; posing as a non-Jew and moving when people became suspicious; delivering arms for the underground; liberation; realizing that her family had been killed; traveling to Marseille in August 1946 to emigrate to Palestine; three months' incarceration on Cyprus; release to Palestine; participating in the Israel-Arab War; returning to the Netherlands; marriage in 1950; and emigration to the United States with her husband in August 1955. Mrs. R. discusses a recent trip to Holland and sharing her experiences with her daughter. She lists family members who perished in the Holocaust and shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- R., Margolith, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Westerbork (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Escapes.
Places
- Cyprus.
- Marseille (France)
- Hague (Netherlands)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Hilversum (Netherlands)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Netherlands.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat