Magda Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3568)

Videotape testimony of Magda Z., a twin, who was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1915. She recounts living in Mukacheve; attending a Hungarian school; marriage in 1936; her son's birth; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her husband's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents, siblings, and son (she never saw her parents or son again); her twin brother identifying her as a twin; placement with other female twins for “medical experiments” by Josef Mengele; being assigned to clean Mengele's quarters; a fellow prisoner preventing her from committing suicide; a brief encounter with her twin; a death march to Wrocław; train transport to Ravensbrück; transfer to Malchow; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home with three women from Mukacheve; learning her twin was alive in Romania; joining him; reunion with her husband; joining another brother in Budapest; another brother's return; recovery in a sanatorium; moving to Karlovy Vary; her son's birth; emigration to Israel in 1949; her daughter's birth; and the recent deaths of her husband and twin brother. Ms. Z. notes not sharing her experiences with her children.