Olga Maier’s experiences and those of her family are exemplary of the ostracism, disappropriation, and depriuation of rights during the Nazi era. The same experiences were shared by as Jewish persecuted peop/e all ouer Germany and in the occupied territories under the Nazi regime. What they had to say about these euents can be heard here:
Inge Deutschkron
Inge Deutschkron was born in 1922 in Finsterwalde (Brandenburg) and liued in Berlin from 1927 onward. Her father managed to escape to Great Britain in 1939, but Deutschkron and her mother did not. They had to work as forced faborers and suruiued in il/egality from 1943 to 1945.
Text from: Deutschkron, lnge: Ich trug den gelben Stern, München 198S. S.30f.; Translation: Christopher Wynne
Speaker: Maria Rabl; Production: Soundgarden audioguidance
Margot Kleinberger
Margot Kleinberger was born in 1931 in Hanouer. She was deported to Theresienstadt in July 1942 together with her mother, father, and sister. They suruiued and returned to Hanouer in 1945.
Text from: Kleinberger, Margot: Transportnummer Vll/1387 hat überlebt. Als Kind in Theresienstadt, Düsseldorf 2009, S. 49ff.; Translation: Christopher Wynne
Speaker: Maria Rabl; Production: Soundgarden audioguidance
Toni Lessler
Toni Lessler, nee Heine, was born in 1874 in Bückeburg. She worked as a teacher and founded a priuate school in Berlin in 1912. She emigrated to the USA in 1939 and died in New York in 1952.
Text from: Rodeck, Fritz: Lessler, Toni: Manuskript 81 (133), in: Nie mehr zurück in dieses Land. Augenzeugen berichten über die Novemberpogrome 1938, hg. Gerhardt Uta; Karlauf, Thomas, Berlin 2009, S. 98-107.; Translation: Christopher Wynne
Speaker: Maria Rabl; Production: Soundgarden audioguidance