- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marguerite M., who was born in France in approximately 1932 to Polish émigrés. She recalls living in Paris; her father's enlistment in 1939; German invasion in 1940; her father's return in October; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's deportation to Beaune-la-Rolande in May 1941; visiting him there; the local police chief warning them of an imminent round-up in 1942; briefly hiding with Jewish and non-Jewish friends; entrusting valuables to a non-Jewish friend; being smuggled to Limoges in the unoccupied zone; living in Oradour-sur-Vayres, using false papers; attending school; traveling to Paris with a non-Jewish friend to retrieve their valuables for living expenses; returning to Paris after liberation in August 1944; becoming depressed with the realization that most of their relatives, including her father, were killed; emigration to the United States in 1950; and marriage in 1952. Ms. M. discusses the importance of non-Jews to their survival and to her faith in humanity. She notes her father's name in Serge Klarsfeld's book.
- Author/Creator
- M., Marguerite, 1932?-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- November 14, 1984.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
Limoges (France)
Oradour-sur-Vayres (France)
- Cite As
- Marguerite M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-387). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Related publication: Memorial to the Jews deported from France, 1942-1944 : documentation of the deportation of the victims of the Final Solution in France / Serge Klarsfeld , -- New York, N.Y. (515 Madison Ave., New York 10022) : B. Klarsfeld Foundation, c1983.
