The Story of Marion Ehrlich
Reconstructing the life of the teenager whose name appears on our December cover
Marion Ehrlich turned 5 on January 27, 1933, a few days before Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. If she was too young to fully appreciate the significance of his elevation, she was surely old enough to sense the fear it must have caused in her family—she lived with her parents, Hugo and Gertrud, and an older brother, , who was 10—and among other German
