Born: Margolith de Liema
's-Gravenhage, Netherlands
September 9, 1919
Died: October 19, 2013
Margo Rappaport was the youngest of three children born at her family’s home in The Hague where her father worked in the kosher dairy business. In 1940, Margo moved to Amsterdam and worked as a nurse for a German family. She remembered the night in August 1941 when the doorbell rang and she and the family were sent to the Westerbork concentration camp. Upon arrival, Rappaport told a camp official she was a nurse. She was released and survived in hiding for the remainder of the war. In hiding, Margo worked for the underground Dutch resistance, smuggling weapons and using her German skills to escape many potentially dangerous situations. Meanwhile, she learned that the rest of her family had been deported to Westerbork. They did not survive the Holocaust. After the war, Rappaport moved to Israel where she met her husband. They lived in Penang, Malaysia for four years before immigrating to Houston in 1955.
Parents:
Marcus Salomon de Liema, d. in Holocaust
Mother, maiden name Cohen, d. in Holocaust
Siblings:
Judith, d. in Holocaust
Elias, d. in Holocaust