Magda G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Magda G., who was born in Kos?ice, 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.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive. This testimony cannot be used withour permission of the donor or her heirs until the year 2092.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Magda.
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Death marches.
- Cannibalism.
- Forced labor.
- Sisters.
- Postwar experiences.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- KosĚice (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat