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MARGOT COLVILLE:
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AGE: 60
OCCUPATION: Community volunteer
with more than 11,000 volunteer hours
at Children's Hospital and director of
the Colville-Triest Family Foundation
and the I Have a Dream Foundation.
RESIDENCE: Bloomfield Hills
FAMILY: Married to Warren J. Colville, a
retired executive; three children: Lynn,
a social worker in Connecticut; Betsy, a
veterinarian in Florida; Claudia, a
mother and homemaker in California.
Brother, Howard Triest resides in Delray
Beach, Fla.
EDUCATION: She was graduated from
Cooley High School in 1947.
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ORGANIZATIONS: Trustee of Children's
Hospital of Michigan, member of Sinai
Hospital Guild, City of Hope, Founder's
Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts,
Brandeis University National Women's
Committee, Hadassah, Cranbrook and
Modern Studio Glass Group.
FAVORITE BOOK: "I enjoyed Spring Moon
by Bette Bao Lord."
HOBBIES: Collecting glass, swimming,
cooking and needlepoint
LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: "The latest
award we received was the Heart Award
from the Variety Club of Detroit. Also,
turning 60."
PHILOSOPHY: "To respect all people and
to try not to judge them."
BACKGROUND: Margot Triest Colville
was born in. Munich, Germany. Her
father, Berthold, imported and exported
men's custom shirts, while her mother,
Ly, was a homemaker. She remembers
family life in Germany before the war
years, attending Sunday outings with
her grandparents.
As a young child, Colville took
ballet and ice skating lessons. When she
began formal education, she was unable
to attend public school because she was
Jewish. Colville remembers
Kristallnacht and how her father was
almost arrested, but her mother
persuaded the Germans not to take him
since he was recovering from surgery.
In 1939, her father was forced to sell
the business, and the family went to
Luxembourg. When the family managed
to get two tickets to the United States,
only her brother went. The father
wanted to stay with the family, with the
plan that they would leave together in
two weeks. On the morning of the
departure, the Germans invaded the
port. Her brother took the last boat that
left Belgium.
Colville and her parents went to
Holland and were arrested. They were
put before a Dutch tribunal and
eventually were freed. Her father then
bought a pushcart, and the family
walked to Belgium, where the Belgian
army arrested them. The army freed
Colville and her mother but detained
her father. She and her mom went to
live with an aunt in Brussels.
When the aunt received a letter that
the father was in a French camp near
Marseilles, Colville and her mother
went there. In 1940, they were arrested
by the French and stayed in Amrens
prison for about three months.
"We were in the same predicament.
We weren't allowed to stay, and we
weren't allowed to leave," Colville
recalls. They eventually got to "free"
France and managed to stay in a
boarding house for a year, cooking on an
inverted iron. In August 1942, they were
awakened and told they had one hour to
pack.
"My parents wanted me to leave.
They knew what was coming." Colville
was sent to a children's camp at age 13
and never saw her parents again. She
eventually went to Couret, an old castle,
with many other children. On the eve of
her 14th birthday, the Red Cross gave
her directions to lead 10 children to
freedom through the woods to
Switzerland.
In 1946, she arrived in the United
States and stayed with her aunt and