"When I got to Heidelberg I could literally hear the glass shattering...I heard the shattering, I heard the shouting, 'kill the Jew' and all that. Someone (a Jewish man) met me and said 'don't come out, try to get home with the next train,' all the while listening to all that."
Family portrait of the Gunther family
The Gunther home in Hoffenheim, outside Heidelberg, Germany. Here, Karoline and Inge Gunther are pictured.
Hilda Stern aka Chevrefeuille, 1942. Member of the underground which helped to save Jewish children in France.
Portrait of sister Inge (left) and Margot (right).
Portrait of young sister Inge (left) and young Margot (right).
Family portrait of the Gunther mother and children
Margot traveled to the United States on the SS Washington (August 13, 1946)
Portrait of Margot and her school class.
Member of the French Underground, known to have saved Jewish children during the Holocaust.
1935 Chart from Nazi Germany used to explain the Nuremberg Laws.
The Horowitz Synagogue in flames during Kristallnacht, Frankfurt, Germany, November 10, 1938.
Map depicting the cities in Germany where synagogues were destroyed on November 9 and 10, 1938.
Map depicting the route of deportation for Holocaust victims.
Map depicting the location of concentration camps in France in 1942.
Margot's identification papers from 1939.
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