Margit Wolf

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Margit Wolf (born 1910 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died 1998 in Budapest) was a Hungarian dancer.

Life

Wolf began her ballet training at the Hungarian State Opera when she was four years old . In 1928 she, Karola Szalai and two other trained Hungarian dancers accepted an offer to dance in Italy. Instead of the expected audition for an engagement at La Scala in Milan , they were placed with a traveling theater troupe that performed with music and dance in the Italian province. Wolf met the song composer and conductor Pasquale Frustaci , with whom she had her son Cesare Andrea in 1936.

In October 1938, as a foreign Jew, she was expelled from the country under the racist laws of the Mussolini regime and returned to Budapest with Cesare. Frustaci wrote the love song Tu solamente tu during that time .

Wolf and her son Cesare were imprisoned by the Horthy regime in a Budapest star house in 1944 . Wolf separated from her son, who with his birth certificate as a Catholic had better chances of survival. She was deported to Germany for forced labor by the Eichmann Command and his Hungarian helpers and was initially housed in the camp for the Hungarian Jews and Roma in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . She was sent to the Berlin-Spandau subcamp when she was able to work, where she was liberated in 1945.

Wolf returned to Budapest and, with the support of the Red Cross, went in search of her son, who was missing as a Holocaust orphan. She found him in 1947 on a farm with a foster family.

Wolf and her son fled communist Hungary to Italy in 1961, where they met Pasquale Frustaci. Cesare Frustaci later emigrated to the USA. There he reported on his and his mother's fate in an oral history project at Yale University in 1994 . Cesare Frustaci speaks as a contemporary witness in events at the Florida Holocaust Memorial Museum and wrote a book in 2014.

literature

  • Placard Margit Wolf in the permanent exhibition of the Ravensbrück Memorial (as of 2016)
  • Germaine W. Shames: You, fascinating you: based on the true story of Hungarian ballerina Margit Wolf and Italian composer Pasquale Frustaci, aka "the Italian Cole Porter" . Pale Fire Press, 2011
  • Germaine W. Shames: The Indomitable Jewish Ballerina Who Inspired a Timeless Love Song , at Jewish Women's Archive , January 3, 2013 Link
  • Cesare Andrea Frustaci: Not a Trace of Smoke: Choice, Chance or Miracle . Denver, Colo. : Outskirts Press, 2014 ISBN 978-1478727026

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Szalay Karola dr. , at MEK (hu)
  2. ↑ Cesare Frustaci , born July 4, 1936 in Naples, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Florida
  3. ↑ Holocaust survivor Cesare Frustaci to speak at Coe ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Coe College , March 26, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.coe.edu
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian dancer
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Budapest