Margot Kasper (nee Blumenthal) was born in Nordhausen, Germany on March 18, 1902. Before the war, she finished basic schooling in Germany. After the war she worked as a kitchen helper. Of her immediate family, a daughter survived. Her father and mother were killed.
She came to St. Louis in May 1948 because her daughter, Ellen Kesslinger, had come here in 1938 with a children’s transport group. Her daughter was placed with a foster family. Margot has fled to England in February 1939, but her daughter remained safely in the US.
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“I was glad [my daughter] was safe; it was good she didn't come to me in England - that was terrible. Every night the Germans started bombing. There was no sleep, there was not much to eat.”
- Margot Kasper
