Margot Heuman
German-born American Holocaust survivor
Died when: 94 years 83 days (1130 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Margot Heuman (February 17, 1928 – May 11, 2022) was a German-born American Holocaust survivor.As a lesbian, she was the first queer Jewish woman known to have survived Nazi concentration camps.
When Heuman was ten years old, she and her younger sister were expelled from public school for being Jewish.In 1942, the Heumanns were sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto.
In her youth home in the ghetto, Heuman met an Austrian girl named , and the two began a secret intimate relationship.
In 1943 or 1944, both the Heumann family and Neumann were taken to Auschwitz.Heuman chose to participate in the selection for forced labor in order to stay with Neumann.
As a result, she did not see her parents or sister again; they are believed to have been murdered at Auschwitz.
The group of women selected for forced labor were taken to Neuengamme concentration camp, where Heuman and Neumann slept together in the barracks and engaged in sexual barter with men to obtain food.
In April 1945, the Schutzstaffel shut down Neuengamme and the Jewish women were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.On April 15, 1945, Heuman was freed from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British soldiers.
After spending two years in Sweden and attending school, she moved to the United States, where she chose to stay because she was able to live openly as a lesbian.
She worked for an advertising agency in New York City, and in the early 1950s was in a relationship with New Yorker editor .
She later married a male colleague from another advertising agency in order to have children.After having an affair with another married woman, she left her husband in the 1970s.
She later moved to the Southwestern United States and came out to her family as a lesbian.
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