- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Magda G., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia. She recalls her sisters as children; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father being taken for forced labor and his return; studying music in Budapest; German invasion; her devastation on hearing that her grandparents had been deported; deportation with her parents and one younger sister to Auschwitz; separation from their parents upon arrival (they never saw them again); and the importance of remaining with her younger sister. Mrs. G. describes humiliation, crowding, and starvation; transfer with her sister to a factory; an unsuccessful attempt to conceal a friend giving birth (she was taken away); evacuation by train; a death march; starvation and cannibalism; liberation; reunion with their sister who had hidden in Budapest; marriage; her son's birth in 1948; and emigration to the United States. She notes she and her sister were in Mauthausen and discusses her present life.
- Author/Creator
- G., Magda.
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1992
- Interview Date
- June 21, 1992.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Košice (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Magda G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2285). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kandel, Estelle, interviewer.
Siegel, Dorothy G., interviewer.
