Magda K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Magda K., who was born in Miskolc in 1916. She recalls her family's affluence; her brother attending university in France due to Jewish quotas; marriage in 1939; moving to Heves; being warned of impending danger; believing they would not be harmed in Hungary; her husband's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1940; her son's birth in 1942; deportation in May 1944; discarding valuables rather than giving them to the Germans; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a prisoner telling her upon arrival to give her son to an older woman; reluctantly giving him to a woman she knew; constantly seeking her son; discovering her sister in an arriving transport; punishment for fasting on Yom Kippur; their transfer to Ravensbru?ck, Prenzlau, then Genshagen; slave labor in a Mercedes-Benz airplane factory; liberation by United States and Soviet troops; traveling to Budapest; learning her husband, father, and brother had survived; returning to Heves; moving to Budapest to escape painful memories; her daughter's birth in 1946; and emigration to Canada in 1956 due to antisemitism. Ms. K. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her sister; her guilt over giving her son away; and her daughter's problems as a child of survivors.

2 videocassettes