Margaret Thatcher Saves Teenage Girl From Clutches of Hitler’s Grasp.
We are sending a shout out to Shady Zadye for sending us this article on Margaret Thatcher who passed away last week. She said that saving a Jewish teenager in Austria from the grasp of Hitler’s terror was her proudest moment.In 1938, Edith Muhlbauer, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, wrote to Muriel Roberts, Edith’s pen pal and the future prime minister’s [Margaret Thatcher] older sister, asking if the Roberts family might help her escape Hitler’s Austria. The Nazis had begun rounding up the first of Vienna’s Jews after the Anschluss, and Edith and her family worried she might be next. Alfred Roberts, Margaret and Muriel’s father, was a small-town grocer; the family had neither the time nor the money to take Edith in. So Margaret, then 12, and Muriel, 17, set about raising funds and persuading the local Rotary club to help.
