Marguerite M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marguerite M., who was born in France in approximately 1932 to Polish e?migre?s. She recalls living in Paris; her father's enlistment in 1939; German invasion in 1940; her father's return in October; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's deportation to Beaune-la-Rolande in May 1941; visiting him there; the local police chief warning them of an imminent round-up in 1942; briefly hiding with Jewish and non-Jewish friends; entrusting valuables to a non-Jewish friend; being smuggled to Limoges in the unoccupied zone; living in Oradour-sur-Vayres, using false papers; attending school; traveling to Paris with a non-Jewish friend to retrieve their valuables for living expenses; returning to Paris after liberation in August 1944; becoming depressed with the realization that most of their relatives, including her father, were killed; emigration to the United States in 1950; and marriage in 1952. Ms. M. discusses the importance of non-Jews to their survival and to her faith in humanity. She notes her father's name in Serge Klarsfeld's book.
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
- M., Marguerite, -- 1932?-
Corporate Bodies
- Beaune-la-Rolande (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Mothers and daughters.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Paris (France)
- France.
- Oradour-sur-Vayres (France)
- Limoges (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat