Early Life, Bergen Belsen
She was born in Bremen as the daughter of a German captain and an American actress. Her mother was accused of helping forced laborers in Bremen escape, and Marita and her mother were incarcerated in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Freed after the war, she spent some time traveling with her father on his passenger liner.
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