Marlit Berger

Marlit Berger (F / Poland, 1930-2020), Holocaust survivor

Irmgard Berger (F / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Warsaw Ghetto> <Radom Ghetto> <Auschwitz> <Mauthausen> <Ravensbruck> <Taucha (Buchenwald)> -- <Switzerland> <Sweden> <United States>

Biography

Marlit Berger was born Dec 22, 1930 in Recklinghausen, Poland? to Ephraim Berger (1889-1942) and Pepi Frisch (1902-1999). Had four siblings: Felix (15 Apr 1924), Eduard (1 Aug 1925), Irmgard Judith (9 Nov 1928), Joachim (22 Oct 1933 - 1944).

Father was deported to KZ Sachsenhausen on 13 Sep 1939.

Mother and children lived in the Warsaw Ghetto (Summer 1940) and in the Radom Ghetto (1941). On Apr 15, 1941, brother Felix reached the United Stated on the SS Escambion from Lisbon to New York, paid for by "Childrens Aid".

Father died 28 May 1942 in Sachsenhausen.

In 1943 the family was deported from the Radom Ghetto to Majdanek until March 44. They were transferred to KL Plaschow, then to [[Auschwitz]. In January 1945 they were on a death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, then to Ravensbrück and finally to Taucha (subcamp of Buchenwald) until April 15, 1945, when they escaped and were liberated.

They went to Switzerland with their mother, then to Sweden and from there in 1946 to the United States, where they reunited with Felix.