Margot Swicarcik and her husband, David, immigrated from Germany to Canada, in 1951, where they settled in Montreal Quebec until the death of David, since when, Margot, has been li...view moreMargot Swicarcik and her husband, David, immigrated from Germany to Canada, in 1951, where they settled in Montreal Quebec until the death of David, since when, Margot, has been living in Toronto.
This woman, who speaks four languages, and has lost none of her bustling drive, is now in her nineties, and although she enjoys speaking, and has the ability to hold an audiences captive with her riveting presence, she is reluctant to speak of that tragic time, when she lived under the terror of a Europe, at the mercy of the maniac Hitler intent upon the destruction of the Jewish people. And later, in Russia, lived under another maniac, Stalin, who reportedly put more people to death than Hitler, Jews being amongst them.
Margot spends the winter in Miami Florida where she was asked to tell of her life during the war. Apart from this biography, it is the only occasion when she has spoken, to an audience, of the shocking horrors that took place at a time in history like no other.view less