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Margot Schild

Cologne Mülheim, Germany · Later United States

Wider Schild Story

Presented as wider Schild surname history connected to a documented German family, not a confirmed direct ancestor.

Family
Younger sister of Erwin Schild; daughter of Hermann and Hetti Schild
Years
Deported to Riga in 1941; survived and later settled in the United States

Margot Schild was Erwin Schild’s younger sister. In 1941 she was deported, along with her parents Hermann and Hetti, to the Riga ghetto.

Unlike her parents, Margot survived, enduring further camps and a death march before her liberation. She later settled in the United States. No confirmed photograph of Margot Schild has been located for this archive, so this page uses a plain initials portrait rather than an invented image.

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