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Margot S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-800) interviewed by Gitta Fajerstein and Elaine Shepp,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-800

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Margot S., who was born in Berlin, Germany to Polish parents. She recounts attending a Jewish school; losing her job in 1934 due to anti-Jewish measures and in 1938 after Kristallnacht; her parents' return to Poland (her five siblings all emigrated); joining them in Tarnów in 1939; ghettoization; forced factory labor; hiding with her future husband during round-ups; seeing her sister and niece for the last time; incarceration in Płaszów; selection for Schindler's factory; transfer to Auschwitz, then Brněnec; reunion with her future husband; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Poland; and learning no family members had survived. She tells of her emigration to France; her child's birth; and emigration to the United States.
Author/Creator: S., Margot.
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1986
Interview Date: November 11, 1986.
Locale: Poland
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie)
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
France
Cite As: Margot S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-800). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Fajerstein, Gitta, interviewer.
Shepp, Elaine, interviewer.
Notes: Associated material: Chaskel S. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-802), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (49 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie) Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Germany. Berlin (Germany) Kristallnacht, 1938. Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) France. Oral histories (document genres) S., Margot. Schindler, Oskar,--1908-1974. Płaszów (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Brünnlitz (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1110352
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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