- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marion O., who was born in Andernach, Germany in 1929. She describes anxiety after Hitler came to power in 1933; her father's disbelief that anti-Jewish laws would affect them; attending Jewish school in Cologne in 1936; Kristallnacht; walking with her mother to Aachen; illegally crossing the Belgian border; fleeing with her parents from Malmédy to Brussels, then Luxembourg; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest; learning in 1941 that he was in Saint Cyprien; traveling with her mother to Marseille; moving to Aix-en-Provence; her father's visits from Les Milles; hiding with her mother after August 4, 1942 until their denouncement; and her escape from Les Milles with assistance from OSE. Mrs. O. recounts her anguish after separation from her parents (she never saw them again); transfer from OSE headquarters in Marseille to an orphanage in Lectoure; living with relatives in Megève; fleeing to Amiens in August 1943; illegally crossing to Switzerland with assistance from OSE; arrest by Swiss guards; moving from a camp in Champéry to Zurich to her foster family in September 1943; and emigration to the United States in May 1946. She notes her reluctance to discuss her experience, and only recently sharing it with her children.
- Author/Creator
- O., Marion, 1929-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
- Interview Date
- August 9, 1995.
- Locale
- France
Malmédy (Belgium)
Germany
Andernach (Germany)
Cologne (Germany)
Aachen (Germany)
Brussels (Belgium)
Aix-en-Provence (France)
Megève (France)
Lectoure (France)
Amiens (France)
Champéry (Switzerland)
Zurich (Switzerland)
Luxembourg
Marseille (France)
- Cite As
- Marion O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3126). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Millen, Susan, interviewer.
