Margo Wolff Collection 1904-1990

Abstract

This collection documents the life and work of journalist Margo Wolff. It contains personal papers, correspondence (including a 1953 letter in the Addenda by writer Walter Meckauer to Wolff), articles, clippings, and diaries.

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Hertha Pauli, Hugo Doeblin, Alfred Doeblin, Hanna Bertholet, Reuben Hecht, Anne Frank, Hedy Hevar, Herald Isenstein, Max Gruenewald, and Walter Meckauer.

This collection documents the life and work of journalist Margo Wolff. It contains personal papers, correspondence (including a 1953 letter in the Addenda by writer Walter Meckauer to Wolff), articles, clippings, and diaries.

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Hertha Pauli, Hugo Doeblin, Alfred Doeblin, Hanna Bertholet, Reuben Hecht, Anne Frank, Hedy Hevar, Herald Isenstein, Max Gruenewald, and Walter Meckauer.

Margo Wolf was born in Stettin in 1909. She worked as a journalist in Berlin. After 1933, she emigrated to France, where she was arrested and sent to Gurs. She managed to escape to Marseilles, where she helped groups of children to escape to Switzerland and Spain. After the war, she worked as a journalist for Maccabi (later Juedische Rundschau) and was sent to the Zionist Congress in Basel in 1946. In 1949 she emigrated to New York. She received an M.A. degree from the New School for a thesis about youth aliyah in 1951. She worked for the German-Jewish newspaper Aufbau and visited Germany frequently to lecture. In 1986 she published her memoirs of her time in Marseilles: "The boys of Mon Repos; the rescue operation 'Sesame' from Vichy France". She also translated David Ben-Gurion's memoirs. She was married to Hugo Doeblin. She died in Miami in 1990.