Oral history interview with Magda Herskowitz

Identifier
irn546130
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.230.1
  • RG-50.940.0001
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn546130

Extent and Medium

2 digital files, MP3

Biographical History

Robert Fried donated the oral history interview with Magda Herskowitz to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2016. The interview was conducted in Yiddish on January 22, 1994, and the record includes an English translation of the interview, which was recorded in 2016.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert Fried

Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Robert Fried

People

  • Herskowitz, Magda, 1924-
  • Magda Herskowitz

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Dobricel (Romania)
  • Women concentration camp inmates.
  • Jews--Romania--Transylvania.
  • Riga (Latvia)
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Germany.
  • Dej (Romania)
  • Canada--Emigration and immigration.
  • Israel--Emigration and immigration.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Latvia--Riga.
  • Jewish ghettos--Romania--Dej.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
  • Childbirth.
  • Jewish families--Romania--Transylvania.
  • Forced labor.
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel.
  • Forced standing.
  • Oświęcim (Poland)
  • Romania--History--1914-1944.
  • Frostbite.
  • Transylvania (Romania)
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • Roll calls.
  • Refugee camps--Germany.
  • Antisemitism--Romania.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Romania.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • Jews--Identity.
  • Reteag (Romania)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Personal narratives.
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Amenorrhea.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.

Genre

  • Oral History
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