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The journalist Margo Wolff was born in Stettin in 1909. She worked in Berlin until 1933, when she emigrated to France. After imprisonment in Gurs, she helped groups of children in Marseilles to escape to Switzerland and Spain. After the war, Wolff worked as a journalist for Maccabi (later Juedische Rundschau) and was a delegate at the Zionist Congress in Basel in 1946. In 1949 she emigrated to New York and two years later graduated from the New School with an M.A. thesis about youth Aliyah. She worked for the German-Jewish newspaper Aufbau and lectured in Germany frequently. In 1986 Wolff published her memoirs about her work in Marseilles, "The boys of Mon Repos; the rescue operation 'Sesame' from Vichy France". She also translated David Ben-Gurion's memoirs. Margo Wolff, who was married to Hugo Doeblin died in Miami in 1990.

The photographer Fred Stein was born in Dresden in 1909; he died in New York in 1967.

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Margo Wolff / Portrait photograph by Fred Stein, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2577J.