MARIANNE’S FATHER WAS A PHYSICIAN WHO WANTED TO LEAVE GERMANY AFTER HITLER CAME TO POWER IN 1933, HER MOTHER DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE HER PARENTS BEHIND.

ONE YEAR LATER IT BECAME OBVIOUS THAT JEWISH DOCTORS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE AND HER FATHER COULD NO LONGER WORK.

HER PARENTS FLED TO THE U.S.

LEAVING MARIANNE WITH HER MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS FOR TWO YEARS.

IN 1936 THE GRANDPARENTS WERE ABLE TO BRING MARIANNE TO THE U.S. TO HER PARENTS.