Magda G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2285) [videorecording] / interviewed by Estelle Kandel and Dorothy G. Siegel, June 21, 1992.

Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 32 min.) : col.

English

This testimony cannot be used withour permission of the donor or her heirs until the year 2092.

Videotape testimony of Magda G., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia. She recalls her sisters as children; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father being taken for forced labor and his return; studying music in Budapest; German invasion; her devastation on hearing that her grandparents had been deported; deportation with her parents and one younger sister to Auschwitz; separation from their parents upon arrival (they never saw them again); and the importance of remaining with her younger sister. Mrs. G. describes humiliation, crowding, and starvation; transfer with her sister to a factory; an unsuccessful attempt to conceal a friend giving birth (she was taken away); evacuation by train; a death march; starvation and cannibalism; liberation; reunion with their sister who had hidden in Budapest; marriage; her son's birth in 1948; and emigration to the United States. She notes she and her sister were in Mauthausen and discusses her present life.

June 01, 2002

Magda G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2285). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Magda G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2285). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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