Magda G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Magda G., who was born in Nizhniye Vorota, Czechoslovakia in 1930. She recalls moving to Pres?ov and Solova; attending Czech and Hebrew schools; her family's observant life and participation in Zionist organizations; her father's death in 1935 and her mother's in 1939; Hungarian occupation in 1939; antisemitic measures; marriage in 1942; deportation to Munkacs in 1944 with her husband, sister, two brothers, and their families; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her husband and siblings; finding her husband's nieces and remaining with them; working in Canada Kommando; finding food and jewelry; sabotaging clothing intended for use in Germany; learning about the crematoria; train transport to Ravensbru?ck in January 1945; extreme overcrowding; transfer to Malchow; a death march; abandonment by the guards; staying in a house near Grimma with others from her town, then in a Red Cross camp; traveling to Prague; reunion with her husband who was in the Czech Army (her siblings and their families did not survive); and emigration to the United States in 1946. Mrs. G. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her nieces; the burden of her pervasive memories; and a recent, painful hometown visit with her children. She shows photographs.

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