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"You just survived because you had to" : Margot Heuman, February 21, 2013 :

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: DS134.42.H485 A3 2013

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Overview

Summary: In 1943 Margot Heuman left the German town of Bielefeld on a passenger train to Theresienstadt. Along with her parents and her sister, she spent a year living in the ghetto before they were all sent to Auschwitz in 1944. Margot only spent about six weeks in Auschwitz before she was sent to a German labor camp, along with her friend Dita. When Margot left Auschwitz, that was the last time she saw her family. She spent the rest of the war with Dita, determined to survive. About a month before she was liberated, Margot and Dita were marched from Hamburg to Bergen-Belsen. Margot got sick and nearly died in Bergen-Belsen, but was liberated by the British and sent to Sweden to rehabilitate. She was taken in by a Swedish woman who helped her go to school and get better. In 1948 Margot came to the US because she had family in New York, and she began taking English classes and making a life for herself in America.
Variant Title: M. Heuman memoir
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Heuman, Margot, 1928-
Published: 2013
Locale: Germany
Bielefeld
Sweden
United States
Other Authors/Editors: Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by Internet Archive
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available online.
Physical Description: 1 leaf (summary), 13 unnumbered pages ; 28 cm
1 online resource
1 computer disc ; 4 3/4 in.

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Jews--Germany--Bielefeld--Biography. Internment camp inmates--Biography. Nazi concentration camp inmates--Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--Sweden--Biography. Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Heuman, Margot,--1928- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Funding Note: Access to this digital memoir made possible by USHMM on behalf of and with the support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Special Collection: Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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