Magda S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Pavlovo, Slovakia in 1928, one of six children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; moving to Svali?a?va; a close and large extended family; two brothers dying from illnesses; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including rejection from high school; German occupation in spring 1944; forced relocation to a brick factory in Mukacheve; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her immediate family; slave labor with several cousins in Canada Kommando; smuggling clothing and food they found to friends; the Sonderkommando uprising; a death march in January 1945; transport to Ravensbru?ck, Malchow, then Leipzig; slave labor in a munitions factory; a death march in April; abandonment by guards in Grimma; arrival of Soviet troops; repatriation by the Red Cross to Prague with her friends and cousins; reunion with a brother; returning home; traveling illegally to Germany with her brother and friends; living in Weissenberg and Regensberg displaced persons camps; emigration to the United States in January 1948; marriage to a survivor; and the births of three children. Ms. S. discusses the importance to her survival of belonging to a mutually supportive group in concentration camps; not sharing her experiences for many years; and recently visiting Svali?a?va with her husband and daughter. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Magda, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Malchow (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Concentration camps -- Revolts.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Forced labor.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Svali︠a︡va (Ukraine)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Pavlovo (Slovakia)
- Leipzig (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Regensburg (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Grimma (Germany)
- Weissenburg (Germany : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat