- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Magda K., who was born in Miskolc in 1916. She recalls her family's affluence; her brother attending university in France due to Jewish quotas; marriage in 1939; moving to Heves; being warned of impending danger; believing they would not be harmed in Hungary; her husband's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1940; her son's birth in 1942; deportation in May 1944; discarding valuables rather than giving them to the Germans; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a prisoner telling her upon arrival to give her son to an older woman; reluctantly giving him to a woman she knew; constantly seeking her son; discovering her sister in an arriving transport; punishment for fasting on Yom Kippur; their transfer to Ravensbrück, Prenzlau, then Genshagen; slave labor in a Mercedes-Benz airplane factory; liberation by United States and Soviet troops; traveling to Budapest; learning her husband, father, and brother had survived; returning to Heves; moving to Budapest to escape painful memories; her daughter's birth in 1946; and emigration to Canada in 1956 due to antisemitism. Ms. K. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her sister; her guilt over giving her son away; and her daughter's problems as a child of survivors.
- Author/Creator
- K., Magda, 1916-
- Published
- Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1983
- Interview Date
- October 5, 1983.
- Locale
- Hungary
Miskolc (Hungary)
Heves (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Magda K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3048). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Krell, Robert, interviewer.
