Jun 05, 2021

Ruby Family History Project

Margot Dränger's survival story

Helga's second cousin suffered unimaginable traumas in and around Krakow from 1939 to 1945. She survived and gave testimony later in life

Margot's account of her Holocaust ordeal is richly detailed

Margot Dränger was 75 in Antwerp, Belgium, when she gave detailed spoken testimony in German to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Project. These summaries are the first full rendering of her account in English.

military service

Hermann may have been wounded in battle on the WWI Eastern Front

One line in a daily casualty report helps to pinpoint the context of a grandfather's military service. Hermann Ringel's infantry division was part of the German Eleventh Army in the 1915 Galicia campaign
German casualty list for August 12, 1915

historical context

Wikipedia is key for validating historical accounts

Besides the fallibility of memory, there are many reasons that an eyewitness account might not be precisely accurate. Use Wikipedia to vet historical testimony.

documentary film

Theodor Herzl School memory project

A 2006 reunion of former students of the Theodor Herzl School in Berlin produced a trove of content about the influential Zionist institution
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