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.
Follow the unfolding story. Parts 4, 5 and 6 are to come.
Part 1 — the Berlin years
Part 2 — uprooted in Krakow
Part 3 — labor camps and the Bochnia ghetto