Oral history interview with Magda Spira
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette,
Biographical History
The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Magda Spira for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
Archival History
Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Spira, Magda, 1924-
- Magda Spira
Corporate Bodies
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
- Magdeburg-Polte (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Death march survivors.
- Jewish ghettos--Slovakia--Košice.
- Košice (Slovakia)
- Ladeburg (Brandenburg, Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Forced labor.
- Gdansk (Poland)
- Death marches.
- Hungarians--Slovakia.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- Escapes.
- Jews--Slovakia--Košice.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Riga (Latvia)
- Holocaust survivors--Australia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
Genre
- Oral History
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