Margo B. Holocaust testimony

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.

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