Ttestimony part 2 — uprooted in Krakow
Margot describes her experiences as a new Polish immigrant in 1939 and '40
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Testimony part 1 — the Berlin years
Margot describes her family history and privileged upbringing in Berlin
Images from the Dränger testimony
Images from the Margot Dränger interview on the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive web site include this striking portrait of the resistance figures Shimon Draenger and Gusta Davidson.
Dränger testimony metadata
Following is the USC Shoah Foundation database metadata for the Margot Dränger testimony, accessed on the USHMM website.
MARGOT DRÄNGER
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 12 Oct 1922
Place of Birth: Berlin (Prussia / Germany), Germany
Religion:
- traditional Judaism (Prewar) [Jew]
- liberal Judaism (Wartime) [Jew]
Resistance Group(s): Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa
Persecution Category: Jew
Interpreting a spoken foreign-language interview
I didn't have high hopes that I would be able to understand a spoken three-hour interview that an ancestor had given as Holocaust testimony. Even though my German language skills are improving with written text, interpreting spontaneous speech is much more challenging.
First read of the Margot Dränger Holocaust testimony
Margot was a Ringel cousin from Berlin whose family fled east when ours went west—a big mistake. Following September 1939, she endured ghetto life, Gestapo encounters, clandestine involvements, imprisonment and forced labor, concealment in bunkers, and more. But for fortune, this might have been our mother's life.
April 2020
Maybe some body text.
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