Margot Heuman, Lesbian Holocaust Survivor, Dies At 94
starobserver.com.auMargot Heuman, the first lesbian Jewish holocaust survivor to testify about her experience in the concentration camps, died on May 11 at age 94.
Born in 1928 Germany, Heuman grew up in Bielefeld and was the eldest of two daughters. In 1943, her family were arrested and deported to Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia.
While in the ghetto, she and her younger sister, Lore, lived in a children’s home and would see their parents after work every day.
In the youth home, she met a Viennese girl named Dita Neumann and the two began an intimate relationship in secret. According to the NY Times, though the Theresienstadt ghetto had restricted Jewish traditions, there was still a community, school and culture to the town that enabled Margot to see her first opera, “La Bohème,”.
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