Margalith C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margalith C., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1928. She recounts her parents' move to Scheveningen, Netherlands (her father was Dutch); German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; having to move to Utrecht with her mother; her father joining them; a policeman warning them of round-ups; her mother receiving a deportation notice in summer 1942; feigning appendicitis so her mother would not go; moving to Amsterdam; receiving another deportation notice in 1943; finding a hiding place for them with her aunt's landlady in the Hague; the landlady's daughter finding another place for her through the underground; staying in two homes as a domestic; discovering her aunt and uncle hiding in one (they were found and deported after she left); returning to her parents (they were hiding near Utrecht); living in a hut in the marshes; extreme hunger during winter 1944/45; moving to another hut when theirs was to be flooded; liberation; living in Utrecht; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1959. Ms. C. discusses constant fear during the war; appreciation for the non-Jews who saved them; having one family recognized by Yad Vashem; and physical and emotional problems resulting from her experiences.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- C., Margalith, -- 1928-
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Postwar effects.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Family.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Fathers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Utrecht (Netherlands)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- DuĚsseldorf (Germany)
- Scheveningen (Netherlands)
- Germany.
- Hague (Netherlands)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat