Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Margot Strauss Freudenberg
Date:
1997
Interviewer:
Grossman, Michael Samuel
Interviewee:
Freudenberg, Margot Strauss, 1907-
Description:
Margot Strauss Freudenberg recalls life in Germany before and after Hitler came to power. She was born in Hanover in 1907 to a family that was proud to be Jewish, but limited religious observance to the High Holidays. Margot describes the debate among Jewish Germans, including her own parents, about the necessity of leaving Nazi Germany, and her struggle to get her family out of the country. They eventually escaped to Charleston, South Carolina, where Margot became a well-known community activist.
