Magda F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Magda F., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia, in 1918. Mrs. F. recalls her happy prewar life as the youngest of seven in a middle-class family; increasing antisemitic restrictions after 1939; her family's rejection of hiding, since it involved separation; marriage and her mother's death in 1941; her husband and brother being drafted for a Hungarian labor battalion soon after (she never saw either of them again); deportation with her family to Kos?ice in May 1941; and deportation to Auschwitz. She details camp routine; transport to P?aszo?w, where she did pointless and degrading tasks in several satellite camps; return to Auschwitz in August 1944; transport to an aircraft factory at Leipzig; suffering from cold, hunger and disease; a sixteen-day death march to Theresienstadt in April 1945; and liberation by Soviet forces. She tells of returning to her hometown; learning that only five out of fifty in her family survived; marrying her brother-in-law (whose wife had also perished) in Kos?ice; emigrating to the United States in 1948; and the lingering memories which tormented them for years.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)