Magda S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Nemšová, Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls growing up in Nová Baňa; pleasant relations with non-Jews; attending school in Levice; returning home when Hungary occupied Levice; anti-Jewish regulations after Slovakia became independent; marriage; a Hlinka Guard leader attempting to deport them with unmarried people; escaping to Budapest via Kálna with help from a Slovak farmer; living with relatives and in parks; obtaining false papers; moving frequently to avoid discovery; her parents coming to Budapest; receiving packages from school friends; living in a basement for two months during the siege; mass shootings of Jews at the Danube; liberation in January 1945; finding her parents; traveling to Bratislava in May; her husband's communist affiliation leading to his good position; his imprisonment in 1948 during the political trials; losing her job and expulsion from their apartment; her husband's return two years later; and his death at age sixty-five. Mrs. S. discusses her loneliness (she never had children); her brother's deportation (he did not return); the importance of luck to their survival; and the survival of only one Jewish classmate.

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