Magda S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Trebišov, Slovakia in 1924. She recounts her family's move to Bratislava; joining a Zionist group; Slovak independence; anti-Jewish measures; an antisemitic attack; moving to Michalovce in winter 1941/1942; hiding during round-ups; her family's decision to enter Hungary illegally; obtaining money from an aunt in Humenné to pay a smuggler; traveling to Uz︠h︡horod, then Budapest; visiting a cousin in Sevljus (Vynohradiv) in 1943; joining the underground; obtaining false papers with her boyfriend; German occupation in March 1944; arrest in October; imprisonment with her sister; meeting their mother in prison; giving a false younger age; placement in a children's home in Rakospalota (XV. Kerület); release with her mother and sister with assistance from the director of the children's home; moving to a Swedish safe house; allied bombings; frequent moves; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; returning to Slovakia with her family; searching for relatives in Novosad; and returning to Bratislava. Mrs. S. discusses the importance of many people's help to her family's survival; her children's marriages to non-Jews; continuing fear of Germans; teaching the grandson of a Slovak war criminal; and not emigrating to stay with her parents. She shows photographs.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Magda, -- 1924-
Subjects
- Safe houses.
- Resistance.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- False papers.
- Postwar effects.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Zionist organizations.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Orphanages -- Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian.
- Sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Hungary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Humenné (Slovakia)
- Michalovce (Slovakia)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Trebišov (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Novosad (Slovakia)
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Vynohradiv (Ukraine)
- XV. Kerület (Budapest, Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat