Margaret Collin papers
Excerpts from Margaret Collin's "The Senior Citizen," "Side-Effects," and "Shabbath Shalom" 2004, 2006 and undated (Box 1 Folder 16-18).
Collection area: Literature
Collection dates: 1929 to 2007
This collection includes materials pertaining to the life and work of Margaret Collin. The majority of the collection is Collin’s fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, in addition to, poetry and various personal reflections. The collection also includes Collin’s
Margaret H. Collin was born May 10, 1915 in Berlin, Germany. She was aware of the discrimination against the Jewish people in Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, but it was not until November 9, 1938, known as Kristallnacht or “Crystal Night” that she decided to flee Germany. The following February 1939, with a visitors visa in hand, she left for England, leaving her family behind. Unfortunately, her mother and father died in the Holocaust.
She lived and worked in England for a few years, before traveling to the United States in 1946. She lived in various U.S. cities, such as Boston, Los Angeles, and finally in Tucson.
Margaret spent most of her live helping Holocaust survivors acquire various benefits from the German government. She was able to record the survivor’s stories as well as her own personal reflections on the Holocaust in her manuscript,
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