Marione Ingram

Marione Ingram (né Marione Oestreicher; born November 19, 1935) is a German-born civil rights activist, Holocaust survivor, author and artist. In recent years, she has been a vocal critic of Israel's assault on Gaza. Early life Marione and Daniel Ingram at a Protest in Front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC in 2024. Ingram was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany. Her mother was Jewish, while her father, Emil Oestreicher was not; they married in 1934, prior to the outlawing of such marriages under the Nuremberg Laws. This allowed Ingram and her two sisters to avoid initial deportations of German Jews, This ultimately led Ingram to join the American Civil Rights Movement, and open a Freedom School in Mississippi. In response to her calls for a ceasefire, Ingram claimed that her talks in Hamburg, Germany had been cancelled. In 2023, she publicly called for President Joe Biden to stop supporting the genocide in Gaza.

Ingram has also been a vocal critic of Donald Trump and his administration. During Trump's second term she highlighted the parallels she sees between 1930s Germany and contemporary America under Trump's administration. She was a participant in the 2025 People's March on Washington, where she and others protested Trump.

Publications

Marione Ingram has authored two books based on her life experience. The first book, The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust, recounts her experience as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Her second book, The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor's Fight for Civil Rights in the American South, recounts her experiences during the American Civil Rights Movement, including working on campaigns in Mississippi.

Personal life Ingram is married to Daniel Ingram. The play premiered in late 2025 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and was directed by Karin Henkel. Ingram recounts that Operation Gomorrah saved her life by preventing the Nazis from deporting her to Theresienstadt. Ingram's performance was praised by critics.