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“Being together with Dita – We did it together. […] Neither of us would have survived without the other, and we both realize that.”

In the Theresienstadt ghetto, teenage Margot Heuman entered a romantic relationship with a girl named Dita. After being deported to Auschwitz, Margot and Dita continued their romance in the camp, and survived together.

When Margot Heuman told us her story in 1994, she censored the nature of her and Dita’s relationship. More than two decades later, Margot was able to come out to her family. Many online resources now cite Margot as being “the first queer Jewish woman known to have survived Nazi concentration camps” (Wikipedia contributors. "Margot Heuman." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 Mar. 2023. Web. 31 May. 2023).

To celebrate the first day of Pride Month, we honor LGBTQ+ survivors of the Holocaust, and recall how difficult living – and speaking – candidly was until recent years. In our Visual History Archive, which contains interviews with over 55,000 interviewees, only ~10 interviewees openly identify as queer in their interviews.

Margot and Dita remained close until Dita’s passing in 2011. Margot passed away in May 2022.

Please view Margot’s full testimony at https://youtu.be/QYiOCT48xwE. Margot was interviewed in 1994.

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