Margot, after the war |
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The comb that Margot made in
Reichenbach Camp |
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Margot Fink
"I had a chance to take some leftover wire and
made myself a comb. I also made two rollers. If they’d caught me, I’d have been
severely punished."
Margot was born in 1925 in Cologne. She and her younger brother, Max (Adolf),
were sent in 1938 to their uncles in the Netherlands. Her parents were deported
to Zbaszyn, on the Polish border; her sister was sent to England in the
Kindertransport; and her older brother left for Palestine on obtaining a
“Certificate”. Margot and Max went into hiding with other relatives in the home
of her uncles in Amsterdam. In 1943, the entire family was captured. Margot was
placed in a group that worked in a factory of the Philips Company. In June 1944,
her group was sent to Auschwitz and thence to Reichenbach Camp, where they
worked for Telefunken. In February 1945, the women were taken on a death march
toward Czechoslovakia. Liberated on May 1, 1945, in Denmark, they were
transferred to Sweden. Margot returned to the Netherlands to rejoin her uncle
and his young daughter who had survived; there she learned that her parents,
younger brother, and aunt were murdered.
One year later Margot immigrated to Palestine.
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