Margo B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Jewish friend; moving to Marseille; apprenticing as a dressmaker; the Gestapo establishing their office across the street from their home; moving to Lyon; witnessing random shootings of men on the street as a reprisal against the underground; liberation; cousins who survived Auschwitz living with them for three months; emigration with her family to the United States in 1948; and marriage to a Berlin refugee. Ms. B. discussing feeling French, not German, and a visit to Berlin hosted by the German government.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
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
- B., Margo, -- 1925-
Subjects
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Families.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Jewish refugees.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
Places
- Schkeuditz (Germany)
- Germany.
- Paris (France)
- Halle an der Saale (Germany)
- Marseille (France)
- Villeneuve-sur-Lot (France)
- Lyon (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat