She Held Me in Her Arms

Friday, October 11, 2024

Featured Guest: Holocaust Survivor & US Veteran, Hebert Marx

Holocaust survivor, Herbert Marx was born on May 12, 1934 to Selma & Berthold in Karlsruhe, Germany. His mother, Selma, was Jewish, and had to wear the star of David identifying the family as such. When Herbert was just 6 years old, Nazis came into his town, rounded up his family & loaded him, his mother, grandmother, and three aunts (Jenny, Toni, & Frieda) into a railroad car used to transport cattle.

While Herb was on the cattle car, he still remembers the stench, as they traveled for approximately two days prior to being taken to concentration camp in Gurs, in Vichy France, near Toulouse. Meanwhile, the man he thought was his father, was not Jewish, and therefore not sent to the concentration camp with them. While at de Gurs, Herbert can remember the inhumanity, as he witnessed atrocities committed, daily.