Margot H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margot H., who was born in Mainz, Germany in 1918. She recalls growing up in Gau-Algesheim where she was the only Jewish child her age; pleasant relations with townspeople until 1933; encounters with Nazi teachers and youth groups; her father conducting business at night to avoid the Gestapo; working near Frankfurt; returning home to escape violent antisemitism; entering a Catholic sewing school; and moving with her family to Wiesbaden where they were not known. Mrs. H. recounts working in a dress shop; her brother-in-law's suicide and her sister's death; her brother's arrest, beating and release; seeing a synagogue vandalized; her brother's arrest in place of her father; his release to emigrate; accepting a job in England in 1939; and working to contribute to the Allied war effort. She describes working as an interpreter for the American forces in Germany after the war; learning of her father's death en route to Terezi?n and her mother's death in Terezi?n; emigration to the United States in 1947; marriage in 1948; and her children's births in 1949 and 1955.
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
- H., Margot, -- 1918-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Refugees, Jewish.
Places
- Wiesbaden (Germany)
- Gau-Algesheim (Germany)
- Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
- Germany.
- England.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat